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1848 Beyond the 19th Century: Border Fictions, Peripheral Modernities
This dissertation analyzes 20th and 21st century border fictions that recreate the meaning of 1848 by disrupting the legacies of colonial modernity, in particular the territorial preoccupation of U.S. expansionism. The ... -
19th Century American Literary Naturalism and the Grotesque
This dissertation examines the significance of the grotesque to literary naturalism’s engagement with the scientific discourse of the late 19th and early 20th century. The grotesque is a set of artistic principles surrounding ... -
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 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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...