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Holmes, Alice, And Ezeulu: Western Rationality In The Context Of British Colonialism And Western Modernity, Andrew B. Schultz
Holmes, Alice, And Ezeulu: Western Rationality In The Context Of British Colonialism And Western Modernity, Andrew B. Schultz
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines Western rationality, contextualizing that subject in British colonialism and Western modernity. Using Scott Lash's description of academic characterizations of modernity, I explore the “high" modernity of the social sciences represented in the books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. I then explore the cultural studies critique of that characterization of modernity in the book Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe. Using the theory of Jean Francois Lyotard, Martin Heidegger, and Theodor Adorno, I look at Western rationality through its manifestation in British colonialism. I argue that …
Writing And Circulating Modern America: Journalism And The American Novelist, 1872-1938, Derek John Driedger
Writing And Circulating Modern America: Journalism And The American Novelist, 1872-1938, Derek John Driedger
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
My research began with the question, "How did former journalists depict aspects of the newspaper environment in late-nineteenth, early-twentieth-century fiction?" A historical reading of journalism and fiction places the emphasis on what historical moments or trends these writers documented, and how they presented their worldview. To present findings on how a journalism career proved beneficial for a novelist, I examine arguments debating the shared space between fact and fiction when writers tried to raise their readers' cultural awareness. My study pays particular attention to newspapers such as the New York Herald, the New York World, and the Atchison [Kansas] Globe. …
"Things That Lie On The Surface:" Modernism, Impersonality, And Emotional Inexpressibility, Rochelle Rives
"Things That Lie On The Surface:" Modernism, Impersonality, And Emotional Inexpressibility, Rochelle Rives
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
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Stevens In The 1930s, Alan Filreis
Stevens In The 1930s, Alan Filreis
Alan Filreis
An overview of Wallace Stevens' poetic response to radical poets and ideas in the American 1930s.