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A Certain Threatening Picture: Images Of Rape In Eudora Welty's "The Golden Apples", Laura A. Hannett
A Certain Threatening Picture: Images Of Rape In Eudora Welty's "The Golden Apples", Laura A. Hannett
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Recurring In This Body": James Dickey And The Quest For Transcendence, Stephen R. Hawkins
"Recurring In This Body": James Dickey And The Quest For Transcendence, Stephen R. Hawkins
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No abstract provided.
Between "Word-Play And Evasion": Reading And Writing Lily Bart In "The House Of Mirth", Atisaya Vimuktanon
Between "Word-Play And Evasion": Reading And Writing Lily Bart In "The House Of Mirth", Atisaya Vimuktanon
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No abstract provided.
Going Nowhere Fast: The Car, The Highway And American Identity In Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" And Robert Frank's "The Americans", Scott Patrick Moyers
Going Nowhere Fast: The Car, The Highway And American Identity In Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" And Robert Frank's "The Americans", Scott Patrick Moyers
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No abstract provided.
Spiritual Quest As Poetic Sequence: Theodore Roethke's "North American Sequence" And Its Relation To T S Eliot's "Four Quartets", Rebecca Eldridge Hurst Hurst
Spiritual Quest As Poetic Sequence: Theodore Roethke's "North American Sequence" And Its Relation To T S Eliot's "Four Quartets", Rebecca Eldridge Hurst Hurst
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Tar Baby And The Black Feminist Literary Tradition, Priti Chitnis Gress
Tar Baby And The Black Feminist Literary Tradition, Priti Chitnis Gress
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No abstract provided.
Flannery O'Connor And The Reader, Kelly Lynne Haggard Beaty
Flannery O'Connor And The Reader, Kelly Lynne Haggard Beaty
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No abstract provided.
Authenticity And Blackness: Defining The Conflict In "Tar Baby", Kathy Nicole Meadows
Authenticity And Blackness: Defining The Conflict In "Tar Baby", Kathy Nicole Meadows
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No abstract provided.
The Reception Of David Mamet's "Oleanna": The Politics Of Interpretation And Received Opinion, Emily Kathleen White
The Reception Of David Mamet's "Oleanna": The Politics Of Interpretation And Received Opinion, Emily Kathleen White
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Pudd'nhead Wilson", Ambiguity, And Enslavement By Language, John Andrew Lyman
"Pudd'nhead Wilson", Ambiguity, And Enslavement By Language, John Andrew Lyman
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No abstract provided.
Sites Of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies Of Katharine Dupre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, And Pauli Murray, Darlene O'Dell
Sites Of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies Of Katharine Dupre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, And Pauli Murray, Darlene O'Dell
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This study argues that Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray used sites of regional memory in their autobiographies, particularly Confederate burial sites, to discuss how segregation divided not only the southern landscape and the southern people, but southern minds and bodies as well. In the southern graveyard, memory of the Confederate South was stored in tombstones and memorials, in Confederate flags driven into grass plots, and in Memorial Day speeches and rituals associated with the burial of the dead. Cemeteries housed the language of southern memory. Here, identity was spoken in ritualistic form--inscribed on tombs, in texts, and …
The "War Between The Mind And Sky": The Poet, The Soldier, And The Centrality Of The Epilogue To "Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction", James Craig Yard
The "War Between The Mind And Sky": The Poet, The Soldier, And The Centrality Of The Epilogue To "Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction", James Craig Yard
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Schoolhouses Remembered: The Story Behind The Nostalgic Image: An Active Pursuit Of The Truth, Michelle Dawn Cude
Schoolhouses Remembered: The Story Behind The Nostalgic Image: An Active Pursuit Of The Truth, Michelle Dawn Cude
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No abstract provided.
Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American Odyssey, Renee M. Sentilles
Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken's American Odyssey, Renee M. Sentilles
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This dissertation explores notions of self-invention and performance in mid-nineteenth century America by examining the life and writings of actress and poet, Adah Isaacs Menken, from roughly 1835 to 1868. During America's Civil War years, Menken became an international star in the controversial title role of Mazeppa, an equestrian play. at the climax, soldiers forcibly stripped Mazeppa (Menken) to reveal her body in a costume suggestive of nudity. The soldiers tied her to a horse and sent her careening up a steep mountain into the theatre rafters. This provocative "breeches part" allowed Menken to pursue unusual freedoms for a woman …
Born Into Slavery: The American Slave Child Experience, Melissa Ann Mullins
Born Into Slavery: The American Slave Child Experience, Melissa Ann Mullins
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Mistakes Of Yesterday, The Hopes Of Tomorrow: Prison, Pop Music, And The Prisonaires, John M. Dougan
The Mistakes Of Yesterday, The Hopes Of Tomorrow: Prison, Pop Music, And The Prisonaires, John M. Dougan
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.