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Finding Myself In Fiction, Lori D'Angelo Jan 2012

Finding Myself In Fiction, Lori D'Angelo

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

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The X-Rayed Memory Of A Cancerous Breast, Calalina Florina Florescu Jan 2012

The X-Rayed Memory Of A Cancerous Breast, Calalina Florina Florescu

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

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From "Life Stories", Paul Hetherington Jan 2012

From "Life Stories", Paul Hetherington

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

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Self-Portrait # 3: A Dream, Don Adams Jan 2012

Self-Portrait # 3: A Dream, Don Adams

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

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Telling Stories: Discussions With Sidonie Smith, Keith Knapp, And Terry Castle Jan 2012

Telling Stories: Discussions With Sidonie Smith, Keith Knapp, And Terry Castle

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

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Wild Minds Searching: Early Scholars Groping In The Gap, Joy Denise Scott, Jane Grellier Jan 2012

Wild Minds Searching: Early Scholars Groping In The Gap, Joy Denise Scott, Jane Grellier

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

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Reversing The Trope Of White Paternalism Or Making Mammies?: Black Domestic Servants In The Works Of Faulkner, Crews, And Stockett, Anna Gatewood Jan 2012

Reversing The Trope Of White Paternalism Or Making Mammies?: Black Domestic Servants In The Works Of Faulkner, Crews, And Stockett, Anna Gatewood

Theses and Dissertations--English

William Faulkner in The Sound and the Fury, Harry Crews in A Feast of Snakes, and Kathryn Stockett in The Help each depict African Americans in roles as domestic servants. The differing historical situations of the novels play a large part in the disparity among the depictions. However, each novel clearly holds black domestic laborers in contrast to their white employers. These texts’ depictions of black domestic servants and the whites for whom they care are at different points strikingly similar and tellingly disparate. The overlaps and fissures between black domestic servants portrayed as mammy’s and uncles and …


Glimpses Of Ecstasy: The Public Shaping Of Personal History In Carlos Bulosan's America Is In The Heart, Nicholas A. Henson Jan 2012

Glimpses Of Ecstasy: The Public Shaping Of Personal History In Carlos Bulosan's America Is In The Heart, Nicholas A. Henson

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

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Artificial Intelligence And The Technological Sublime: How Virtual Characters Influence The Landscape Of Modern Sublimity, Kyle Craft-Jenkins Jan 2012

Artificial Intelligence And The Technological Sublime: How Virtual Characters Influence The Landscape Of Modern Sublimity, Kyle Craft-Jenkins

Theses and Dissertations--English

The principle objective of this thesis is to expand the term “technological sublime” to include technologies of artificial intelligence. In defining new realms of the technological sublime, we must not only consider the ecological integration of technology within natural surroundings, but also appreciate modern technological objects that instigate sublime experiences. This work examines science fictional portrayals of interactions with sentient artificial intelligence in I, Robot, 2001: A Space Odyssey and other major works of science fiction. In each of these works, characters who encounter technologies possessing artificial intelligence share sublime experiences. This thesis considers various levels of embodiment associated with …