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The "peaceful bosom" and the "bloody crowns": Nationalistic Metaphors of Mother England and the Body Politic in Shakespeare's "Richard II"
(2011)
This thesis will examine the utilization of nationalistic metaphors in Shakespeare’s Richard II, focusing upon the tropes of geo-corporeality, the motherland, and the body politic. Beginning with a close reading of Gaunt’s ...
Even gods do: The construction and presentation of network culture in Neil Gaiman's "American Gods"
(2011)
Neil Gaiman's American Gods is a novel that exemplifies emergent network theory. It is a novel that is many things at the same time, a road novel, an American epic, an immigrant experience, connecting to different genres, ...
Southeast Asian American autobiographies: Aesthetics of testimonial space
(2009)
The project of re(imagining) history in Southeast Asian testimonials remembers and reconstitutes subjects and subjects of history. In this reconstitution of subjectivity and history, such texts necessarily speak of the ...
The logic of earth: Nineteenth-century precursors to the poetics of Robert Duncan
(2009)
"The Logic of Earth: Nineteenth-Century Precursors to the Poetics of Robert Duncan" bridges both disciplines and centuries, focusing on the conceptual framework of Darwin's theory of evolution and its influence on the work ...
"You can't get there from here": Identity, autobiography, and self-reflection in the travel writings of Edith Wharton, Emma Hart Willard, and Ida Tarbell in France
(2009)
From the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, travel writing, particularly when the traveler was visiting Europe, was a popular genre in the United States. This thesis focuses on the role that autobiography ...
Bursting shackles from within: H.D.'s and Marianne Moore's poetic conversations of novelty and institution from "The New Freewoman" to "The Egoist"
(2011)
This thesis investigates expressions of individualism and feminism in one of the most influential little magazines of the modernist period. Originally The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review, this magazine later became The ...
The meaning of Moira: Fate, measure and glory in "The Iliad"
(2011)
This project seeks to examine the complexity of the Ancient Greek concept moira, understood simultaneously as fate and measure, and how the concept of moira is a crucial and central them in Homer's epic poem The Iliad. ...
Nostalgia and the crossroads of fiction and trauma in Delillo's ‘Falling Man’
(2011)
According to Cathy Caruth, trauma can only be accessed through latency. When an event causes such mental or physical anguish that trauma is induced, what occurs is that the victim loses all of the references that shape the ...
Language maintenance and change among the Swiss Mennonites of the Waterloo Region, Ontario
(2011)
The purpose of the research presented in this dissertation is to gain insight into processes of language maintenance and shift and language change by studying the current situation of the Pennsylvania German-speaking Swiss ...
Dar el-Odaba: Afro-Asian Writers Remapping Blackness and Afro-Arab Identities
(2011)
Inspired by the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement's declaration of anti-colonial political and economic unity, the Permanent Bureau of Afro-Asian Writers was formed during the 1958 Conference for Afro-Asian Writers ...