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Louisa May Alcott's performative femininity
(2007)
This is an investigation of Louisa May Alcott's personal interests and experiences in the theater and the ways in which they informed her understanding of the performativity of nineteenth century womanhood. The sentimental ...
The limit of failure: Perversion in psychoanalysis and temporality in ethical philosophy
(2007)
This dissertation aims to ask a question about the philosophy of limits. It does so primarily though investigations into two disciplines: psychoanalysis and ethical philosophy. These two parts are introduced and contextualized ...
Reivindicacion del pasado: Una asignatura pendiente de la espana democratica en la narrativa de Antonio Munoz Molina
(2007)
This dissertation analyzes, from a historical perspective, five of Antonio Munoz Molina's novels: Beatus Ille , El jinete polaco , Plenilunio , Los misterios de Madrid and Sefarad . Since history has a tendency to repeat ...
The promised future: The (un)interrupted dialogue in William Carlos Williams' "Yes, Mrs. Williams"
(2007)
In 1959, four years before his death, William Carlos Williams published Yes, Mrs. Williams , formed with fragments and notes taken from countless conversations over the years with his mother. This book embodies a number ...
Corpses and cogitos and the sympathetic self: Exhuming sovereignty and its sympathetic subjects
(2007)
My first chapter, an outline of the structure of sympathy in Adam Smith, Kant, and Locke, focuses on the philosophical and anthropological relation between sympathy and politics, principally as staged within the early-modern ...
Indians and the national unconscious: Discourses of nationalism and democracy in the United States and Bolivia, 1780--1850
(2007)
In the period of transition from colony to independent nation-state, texts from both the United States and Bolivia used representations of indigenous peoples for the purposes of independence and nationalism. A comparison ...
La felicidad conyugal en la novela espanola del siglo diecinueve: De la obligacion a la libertad
(2007)
In the Spanish Realist Novel, the portrayal of marriage from the female perspective has been one of subordination either through the wife's silence or her sacrificial nature as mother and homemaker. She has been in the ...
The underside of politics: Postmodernism, political mythology and the Cold War
(2007)
This dissertation discusses the political implications of postwar novels from both sides of the infamous Iron Curtain, focusing on the critical engagement of these fictional texts with two of the key mythological structures ...
Becoming American in Sam Shepard's West and Asian American West
(2007)
This dissertation searches for meanings of becoming American through comparative studies of the American West as a psychological locus for establishing American identity in Sam Shepard's plays and films, and several Asian ...
Sites of resistance: A cross-cultural study of late twentieth-century counterhegemonic theatrical and performance strategies
(2007)
In this cross-cultural study, the author focuses on sites that have historically served as staging grounds for concentrating, displaying and/or broadcasting power--the household, the prison, and the detention and interrogation ...