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A Comparative Exploration of the Depictions of Punjabi Women in Daniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms Other Wonders and Now We Are Monsters
By critically analyzing three short stories (Saleema, Provide Provide and In Other Rooms Other Wonders) from Daniyal Mueenuddin’s collection In Other Rooms Other Wonders this essay aims to explore the parallels and differences ... -
A Dark Ecology of Performance: Mapping the Field of Romantic Literary Celebrity through Gothic Drama
Gothic drama reached a height of popularity in the 1790s, partly due to celebrity actors like Sarah Siddons. Yet we know very little about the relationship between the many writers of gothic dramas and the celebrity ... -
A Manual Study of Incoherence: Five Movements Toward Uncertainty
Displaced from a written text is the body of its creator, whether or not the text acknowledges this origin. Even when the body is the explicit subject of a text, language often fails the task of accurately conveying the ... -
A study in Shelley's "Triumph of life"
(1949)Shelley's last long poem, the "Triumph of Life," was written at Lerici, on the Bay of Spezzia, in the spring and summer of 1822, the last year of Shelley's life. Of those days at Lerici and of the writing of the "Triumph ... -
A study of Rølvaag's idealism
(1947)The place of Ole Edvart Rølvaag among the great realists in American fiction has been generally acknowledged as dependent upon his best known novel, Giants in the Earth, and its sequels, Peder Victorious and Their Fathers' ... -
A study of Shelley's The Cenci in relation to Aristotle's theory of tragedy
(1959)Shelley's drama The Cenci, like the poet himself, has been a controversial subject among literary scholars from the time of its composition in 1819 to the present day. During the intervening years, it has run the gamut of ... -
A study of the hero in Byron's Don Juan
(1953)Much has been written about Byron's masterpiece, Don Juan. Indeed, since it is his longest and best work, it deserves a major portion of the critic's attention. Yet, strangely enough, there hare been few books devoted to ... -
A Transfer Subject: Tracing Boundary-Work and Micro-Transfer in First-Year Composition
This dissertation draws on data from a quarter-long case study implementing a number of social science and humanities research methods. This study was conducted at the University of Washington in two sections of First-Year ... -
The Abstract of the Creative Writing Capstone Project
This Creative Writing Capstone Project investigates themes of place, memory, the body, and their respective relationship(s) to language. The poems range from short lyric pieces to longer, multi-sectioned meditations. ... -
The Abstract of the Creative Writing Capstone Project
An exploration and critique of aleatoric approaches in the creative process, using language experiments as an umbrella term to explore & discuss chance operations, Oulipo techniques, Surrealist exercises and Charles ... -
"The aesthetic of lived life" from Wollstonecraft to Mill
(1998)The six canonical male poets of the Romantic period are usually given credit for the late-eighteenth-century turn toward a new interest in issues of the self in literature. However, I argue that an under-explored counter ... -
Affective Time: American Realism as Resynchronization, 1860-1910
My dissertation, Affective Time: American Realism as Resynchronization, 1860-1910, examines the disciplinary functions of the clock and attendant temporal systems in U.S. literature and culture from the mid-19th to early ... -
The after-life of memory
(1996)The After-Life of Memory registers the widely held perception of a "memory crisis" in the latter half of the twentieth century. It asserts that this crisis is an historical and theoretical construct based on assumptions ... -
Ageing and Imperial Mobility in the British Novel, 1845–1945
This dissertation examines representations of ageing in eight British novels from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. The four chapters and one epilogue explore how the novels’ rewriting of the Bildungsroman gives ... -
Alienating Punishment: Prisons in Science Fiction
This dissertation asserts that science fiction (SF) takes a commonplace, the prison, and estranges it to make it unfamiliar and subject to critical examination. The dissertation explores this claim through two subjects: ... -
American Athena: A Feminist Sophistic Analysis of the Discourses of Women Servicemembers
In classical mythology the goddess Athena is the embodiment of strategic intelligence and prowess in war. She inherited these gifts from her mother, Metis, who carried her to full maturity within the body of her father, ... -
American fables
(1968)I am the official guide here at the site of the fountain. At the appointed hour I am to open the gate, take the tickets, and lead the tourists through the exhibit halls while explaining to them, step by step, the events ... -
American Han
This dissertation approaches arguments that appear in recent discourses on han. Han, an emotion commonly identified as a characteristic of a Korean national and personal ethos, is considered a passive form of Korean grief ... -
An Address to One and Many: Epistolary Experiments with the Public Sphere in England and the United States - 1735, 1796, 1998
This dissertation examines the genre of the author-published familiar letter to consider the ways in which people come to understand themselves as part of a public, and as actors who might affect the shape of that public. ... -
An Applied Vegan Poetics
This dissertation engages poetic contemplations of nonhuman and human animals in order to propose what I call a vegan poetics: that is, an applied reading/writing practice in service of an inclusive liberatory struggle and ...