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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...