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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 ... -
An Artist’s Environment: Using Nature to Examine the Self through Writing
This study aims to explore the role of the human self in nature poetry by asking how poets use the natural world as the context for examination of the self. Through close readings of Robert Hass’s poem “On Squaw Peak” and ... -
Analog Fracture, Digital Illusion: Andrew Zawacki’s Videotape and the Poetics of the Human-Technology Relationship
Poetry thrives on wistfulness, absence, tragedy; it loves quirks, irreconcilable tensions, fatal flaws. We, as readers, might harbor tender feelings toward the analog line-glitches of VHS tape or the auditory snow from an ... -
Antiblackness and fundamental accumulation: an aesthetic ontology of prohibition and persistence through black arts
This dissertation elaborates an answer to the question, what is antiblackness? Countering understandings of antiblackness as a fundamentally psychic force, the dissertation develops the concept of fundamental accumulation ... -
Antiheroes in the “Battle of the Sexes”: The Anti-heroic Mode and a Shift in the Meaning of Hegemonic Masculinity in World War I Fiction
This dissertation explores the connection between anti-heroism and an important change in the meaning of hegemonic masculinity in World War I fiction. Its main goal is to illustrate that the anti-heroic mode, which became ... -
Application of the Scientific Method to Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish” and “The Monument”
This essay explores how the principles of the scientific method can be applied when thinking about poetry. Poets and scientists use similar patterns of inquiry, like those reflected in the scientific method, to develop an ... -
Appropriate Appropriation: A White Writer's Attempt to Understand His Own Complicity in the Ongoing Psychological Colonization of Native Americans
Colonization presents itself in psychological parameters both culturally and individually. The way modern, mainstream media represents and manifests Native Americans perpetuates a historic trauma that began with European ... -
The Art of Multiple Plotlines: A Close Examination of Three Generational Novels
In order to answer the craft question of how multiple timelines and plotlines are handled within a single novel, I perform a close reading and analysis of three multi-generational novels: Everything is Illuminated, by ... -
Asian American Forms: From Realism to Modernism
(2012-08-10)The subject of this dissertation, to boldly state it, is the history of Asian American literary formation. The tradition of formalist criticism of literature, reaching down from the Russian formalist school, has been ... -
At home in the city: networked space and urban domesticity in American literature, 1850-1920
(2000)This dissertation explores the changing conceptions and uses of the notion of environment in nineteenth-century America. I argue that in this period of rapid urbanization, the novel became a testing ground for examining ... -
Back to nature: location, identity, and 'naturalization'
(1999)As with other ideological representations, particular cultural constructions of landscape, environment, wild(er)ness, and Nature perform the work of empowering some members of human society while simultaneously disempowering ... -
Baffling Narrators: Barthes’s Neutral in Novels by Szabo, Sebastian, and Sebald
This essay uses Roland Barthes’s concept of the Neutral to explore the narrative styles of three 20th century European novels: The Door by Magda Szabo, For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian, and The Rings of Saturn ... -
Baring the Windigo’s Teeth: Fearsome Figures in Native American Narratives
Whereas non-Native American fictional fearsome figures tend to produce anxiety from their resistance to categorization, their unpredictable movement, and their Otherness, many contemporary Native American writers re-imagine ... -
Becoming With: Writing Ourselves in the Chthulucene
After the passing of her mother, Carrie Fischer’s daughter Billie appeared on The Ellen Show, with headlines advertising the segment claiming Billie Lourd Talks Life after Leia—on camera, however, all Billie has to say on ... -
Believer by Believer
(2012-09-13)Believer by Believer is a collection of lyric poems obsessed with descriptive detail and what it can reveal about the whole, enamored with the materials we use to build our lives, and captivated by sensual pleasure and ... -
"Beste of bon and blod": Embodiment in Middle English Lyric
This dissertation argues that Middle English lyric is uniquely successful at connecting readers and hearers with our own bodies and with the bodies of medieval textual subjects. This effect occurs on the levels of content, ... -
Beyond Show Don’t Tell: Creating Complex Child Narrators in Adult Fiction
There is no one way to create a compelling child narrator, but attempting to write a novel-length piece from the purest “child voice” presents numerous complications. We can think of every word that a child does not know ... -
Beyond the ESL grammar classroom: a descriptive study of transfer of grammatical instruction
(2001)Existing studies of second language acquisition and grammar instruction have taken primarily quantitative approaches to the study of grammar acquisition and its effects on students' writing. To date, there are no qualitative ...