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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 ... -
Implementing English Education Policy in Japan: Intersubjectivity at the Micro-, Meso-, and Macrolevels
English education in Japan has been stigmatized by a discourse of failure and desire (Seargeant, 2008). It fails to help students attain sufficient English proficiency despite the six-year secondary school English education. ... -
In Eumaeus' hut
(1967)I was ten years old, that wonderful chronological period when one has finally passed into the double figures. Beneath the elm, behind the trellis, a trading post had appearea among us. The days had become treasure hunts ... -
in search of
While Morrison explicitly looks at the process of how othering is inherent in identity formation in american literature, Puar considers how it happens in legislation, policing, and other dominions of the nation-state. ... -
Indian-hating in American literature, 1682-1857
(1989)The New England Puritans set out to "irradiate an Indian wilderness," but rightly feared they were being "Indianized" as well. Their Indian captivity narratives, ostensibly celebrations of passive submission to the will ... -
The Infant Phenomenon: Shakespeare, the Mimetic Child, and Nineteenth-Century British Literature
(2013-07-25)This dissertation defines the figure of the mimetic child, and traces its progression and development from the works of Shakespeare through the nineteenth century. The power of the mimetic child depends upon the striking ... -
'Inhabiting the Habitus': Identity, Belonging, and Becoming in the Narratives of Mature Women Returners at the University of Washington Tacoma
This dissertation explores the stories of lived experience of mature women returners within the habitus of a single institution of higher education: The University of Washington Tacoma (UWT). This urban-serving university ... -
Instructions May Vary: The Empathetic Appeal of the Parable
This essay explores the form and power of the parable as a storytelling device both in its traditional usage in world religions, as well as its inclusion in 20th and 21st Century literature, specifically fiction.