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Critical Distance: The Postcolonial Novel And The Dilemma Of Exile, David S. Morgan
Critical Distance: The Postcolonial Novel And The Dilemma Of Exile, David S. Morgan
Doctoral Dissertations
In this dissertation, I argue that Edward Said‘s theory of exile offers a stronger version of human agency than do other postcolonial theories of identity which rely on poststructural theory, and therefore, his theory of exile provides a useful model for postcolonial criticism. His theory of exile animates almost all of his work from his earliest literary criticism to his later theoretical texts. By ―exile,‖ Said refers to the experience of peoples displaced from their homes for political reasons and to the experience of intellectual homelessness that a critic must have in order to be free of the constraints of …
Somehow A Word Must Be Found: William Carlos Williams, The Legacies Of Duchamp, And The Troping Of The Found, Brian L. Gempp
Somehow A Word Must Be Found: William Carlos Williams, The Legacies Of Duchamp, And The Troping Of The Found, Brian L. Gempp
Doctoral Dissertations
Since the publication of J. Hillis Miller’s seminal chapter on William Carlos Williams in Poets of Reality (1965), there has been a uniform trend among critics to read the poet’s early experiments in relation to Marcel Duchamp. Miller situates Williams’s poetics within a range of avant-garde neologisms thought to challenge the autonomy of the bourgeois art object. Williams’s poetry rethinks the function and form of language and it is this self-reflexivity, and Miller’s deferral to the ready-made, that provides the foundation for this study. Inspired by a Dadaist-revival that reached its peak in the years leading up to the poet’s …
"I Can't Be Punished Anymore": Exploring Incapacity And Carceral Formations In Samuel Beckett's Endgame, Happy Days, Play, Not I, And Catastrophe, Victoria Helen Swanson
"I Can't Be Punished Anymore": Exploring Incapacity And Carceral Formations In Samuel Beckett's Endgame, Happy Days, Play, Not I, And Catastrophe, Victoria Helen Swanson
Masters Theses
While there has been a great deal of scholarship and a variety of approaches to analysis of the works of Samuel Beckett, there has been surprisingly little excavation of the carceral, restrictive, and debilitating formations vital to the structure of his plays. For example, the carcerality prevalent throughout While there has been a great deal of scholarship and a variety of approaches to analysis of the works of Samuel Beckett, there has been surprisingly little excavation of the carceral, restrictive, and debilitating formations vital to the structure of his plays. For example, the carcerality prevalent throughout Endgame informs the dramatic …
A Disordered Domesticity: Constructions Of Masculinity In The Dramatic Works Of John Gay, Jeremy Brandon Wear
A Disordered Domesticity: Constructions Of Masculinity In The Dramatic Works Of John Gay, Jeremy Brandon Wear
Masters Theses
This thesis examines how John Gay portrays constructions of masculinity in domestic spaces—the households, estates, and royal courts—of three plays: Three Hours After Marriage,Polly, and Achilles. Gay illuminates how constructions of masculinity are ultimately linked to an emergent sex/gender system based upon shifting ideas of masculine authority and patriarchal right in the eighteenth century. Ultimately, Gay‟s drama reveals the concept of a “natural” sex to be little more than a cultural construction. He criticizes the often artificial nature of masculinity, and posits that a masculine gender identity becomes linked to power over the supposedly “natural,” feminine …
The "Ruins Of The Future": Counter-Narratives To Terrorism In The 9/11 Literature Of Don Delillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, And Ian Mcewan, Matthew Francis Carlini
The "Ruins Of The Future": Counter-Narratives To Terrorism In The 9/11 Literature Of Don Delillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, And Ian Mcewan, Matthew Francis Carlini
Masters Theses
In the days after 9/11, Don DeLillo asserted that the narrative of the future ended in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, and "it is left to us to create the counter-narrative" (34). In this thesis project, I illustrate how Jonathan Safran Foer and Ian McEwan take up DeLillo‘s call to construct a counter-narrative to empty futurism and the backwards-oriented narrative of terrorism. Through my comparative analysis of Cosmopolis and Falling Man in Chapter One, I illustrate how DeLillo argues for the renewed importance of the place of memory in the world following the attacks of 9/11. Cosmopolis’ world …
Pedagogy For Millennials: Using New Literacies And New Media To Teach Old Texts, Keli Woodard Weed
Pedagogy For Millennials: Using New Literacies And New Media To Teach Old Texts, Keli Woodard Weed
Masters Theses
When teaching the rhetorical situation, English teachers often emphasize the importance of ―knowing one‘s audience.‖ As we move into a new century, it is important that these teachers consider their own advice. This project aims a critical lens at millennials – those tech-savvy, multi-tasking students who were born after 1994 – and aims to equip teachers with the skills, tools, and confidence needed to step out of the routine of skill-and-drill pedagogy in the language arts classroom and into the interactive, multi-modal world of 21st-century education. The project begins with an analysis of demographic information on millennial students that is …
Hybridity And Postcoloniality: Formal, Social, And Historical Innovations In Salman Rushdie’S Midnight’S Children, Sarah Habib Bounse
Hybridity And Postcoloniality: Formal, Social, And Historical Innovations In Salman Rushdie’S Midnight’S Children, Sarah Habib Bounse
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
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