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Genealogical Analysis of Discourse on Ethnic Minority Protests and Its Manifestation and Reinforcement in News Media and State-Sponsored Art
This dissertation uses three corpora to explore the official discourse that frames ethnic minority protests in China. It begins by exploring the diachronic changes in characterizing such protests and traces the genealogy ... -
Genealogical Analysis of Discourse on Ethnic Minority Protests and Its Manifestation and Reinforcement in News Media and State-Sponsored Art
This dissertation uses three corpora to explore the official discourse that frames ethnic minority protests in China. It begins by exploring the diachronic changes in characterizing such protests and traces the genealogy ... -
The ghost writer: English essay periodicals and the materialization of the public in the eighteenth century
(2002)This dissertation examines eighteenth-century English essay periodicals in the context of Jurgen Habermas' influential work, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. It has become generally accepted that journals ... -
Gildas’ On the Ruin of Britain: A Scribal Edition Based on the Text Preserved in Cambridge, University Library Ff.I.27
This dissertation consists of five parts: in the first, it examines the current state of scholarship concerning the sixth-century Romano-British ecclesiastic, Gildas, and the history, transmission and reception of his only ... -
Glancing Visions: American Literature Beyond the Gaze
This dissertation challenges the longstanding assumption that visuality in American literature of the nineteenth century through early modernism was inherently imperialistic, possessive, and theological. I acknowledge the ... -
Global Fluidity: Coalitional Worldbuilding in the Afterlife of Posthumanism
Global Fluidity argues that contemporary queer of color poetry, fiction, and popular culture theorize the relationships between property, gender, sexuality, and race in the current environmental crisis. Across genre and ... -
Going Toward the Ghost: The Poetics of Haunting in Contemporary Asian American Poetry
This dissertation considers how social, historical, and political contexts “haunt” the work of Asian American poets. How does history (i.e. war, colonialism, and marginalization) impact the work of Asian American poets ... -
Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry
"Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry" argues that English poets writing in the 1730s and 1740s were substantially engaged with the emergent economic system as a result of their ... -
Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry
"Haggling With the Muses: Negotiating Value in 18th Century English Poetry" argues that English poets writing in the 1730s and 1740s were substantially engaged with the emergent economic system as a result of their ... -
Haunting the Present Tense: Crafting Novels of Uncanny Grief
In “Remembrance of Things Present,” David Jauss suggests that present tense is useful because “it is an effective way to convey unfamiliar disoriented states of minds. When we dream, the familiar becomes strange, the strange ... -
"Have you the little chest—to put the alive—in?:” Riddles, Secrets, Spells
Focusing on the minor genre of the riddle, this project analyzes potential intersections between magic, metaphor, and the poetic impulse. Emily Dickinson and Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s works are drawn upon, as are various threads ... -
Hindsight 2050
Hindsight 2050 is an anthology of science fiction stories taking place in a plausible, potentially near future. Misogyny, technological revolution, and an increasingly unstable capitalist world inform the future the book ... -
How Literacy Flows and Comes to Matter: A Participatory Video Study
Using participatory video methods, an intersectional feminist methodology, this dissertation offers a visual portrait of how university students’ literate activity matters and moves. Drawing on the video and audio data 18 ... -
How to Write Illness
When it comes to writing illness, our bodies are contested, questioned, consumed. Our bodies are controlled and maintained. When there is a physical or psychological rupture in a person’s relationship to their body, self, ... -
“I Do Not Intend to be the End Result of Anything”: Notes on a Critically Mindful Poetics
This essay explores the poetry of Lyn Hejinian and Bernadette Mayer through the framework of critical mindfulness. The essay develops this framework through a critique of dominant notions of mindfulness and mindful poetics ... -
"I Know Who I Am: Self-constitution and the Unreliable Narrator"
This essay explores the unreliable narrator in 20th and 21st century American and English literature, the current scholarship surrounding unreliable narration, and theories of self-constitution and self-presentation as a ... -
I See the Dogs Inside You: Reclaiming Monstrosity for a Visionary Poetics
Monsters have been made and used and reanimated in art since antiquity. Monstrosity, in this paper considered first through Ovid, has always been most inflicted upon marginalized people, notably women. Through the poetry ... -
Identity Positioning in Mainstream and Multilingual First-Year Composition Courses
This qualitative study investigates the identity positioning of students and teachers within one mainstream and one multilingual section of English 131 (a first-year composition course) at the University of Washington in ... -
Impersonality and the Cultural Work of Modernist Aesthetics
This dissertation reanimates the multiple cultural and aesthetic debates that converged on the word <italics>impersonality</italics> in the first decades of the twentieth century, arguing that the term far exceeds the ...