Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Institution
-
- City University of New York (CUNY) (13)
- Columbia College Chicago (10)
- Bard College (5)
- University of New Orleans (3)
- James Madison University (2)
-
- University of Kentucky (2)
- Binghamton University (1)
- Boise State University (1)
- Cal Poly Humboldt (1)
- California State University, Monterey Bay (1)
- Claremont Colleges (1)
- Dominican University of California (1)
- East Tennessee State University (1)
- Eastern Michigan University (1)
- Fordham University (1)
- Georgia Southern University (1)
- Kennesaw State University (1)
- Messiah University (1)
- Missouri State University (1)
- Rowan University (1)
- Stephen F. Austin State University (1)
- The University of San Francisco (1)
- The University of Southern Mississippi (1)
- University at Albany, State University of New York (1)
- University of Louisville (1)
- University of New Hampshire (1)
- University of New Mexico (1)
- University of South Carolina (1)
- University of Windsor (1)
- Virginia Commonwealth University (1)
- Keyword
-
- Race (4)
- Queer (3)
- American (2)
- American Revolution (2)
- Assimilation (2)
-
- Cold War (2)
- Colonization (2)
- Counterculture (2)
- Culture (2)
- Feminism (2)
- Gender (2)
- Hip-hop (2)
- Immigration (2)
- Native American (2)
- Pentecostalism (2)
- Public History (2)
- Segregation (2)
- Slavery (2)
- United States (2)
- 1914-1918 (1)
- 1950s American History (1)
- 1960s (1)
- Abject theory (1)
- Absurdity (1)
- Acculturation (1)
- Achille Mbembe (1)
- Acting (1)
- Activism (1)
- African American (1)
- African American Cemetery (1)
- Publication
-
- Cultural Studies Capstone Papers (10)
- Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects (10)
- Senior Projects Spring 2018 (5)
- Electronic Theses and Dissertations (4)
- Theses and Dissertations (3)
-
- University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations (3)
- Dissertations and Theses (2)
- Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019 (2)
- Senior Theses (2)
- Theses and Dissertations--English (2)
- American Studies ETDs (1)
- Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations (1)
- Boise State University Theses and Dissertations (1)
- Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects (1)
- Capstone Projects and Master's Theses (1)
- Dissertations (1)
- Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository (1)
- Graduate Dissertations and Theses (1)
- Honors Theses and Capstones (1)
- Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024) (1)
- MSU Graduate Theses (1)
- Major Papers (1)
- Master of Arts in American Studies Capstones (1)
- Master's Theses (1)
- Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations (1)
- Scripps Senior Theses (1)
- Student Scholarship (1)
- Student Theses 2015-Present (1)
- Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies (1)
Articles 61 - 62 of 62
Full-Text Articles in American Studies
Good Game, Greyory Blake
Good Game, Greyory Blake
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis and its corresponding art installation, Lessons from Ziggy, attempts to deconstruct the variables prevalent within several complex systems, analyze their transformations, and propose a methodology for reasserting the soap box within the display pedestal. In this text, there are several key and specific examples of the transformation of various signifiers (i.e. media-bred fear’s transformation into a political tactic of surveillance, contemporary freneticism’s transformation into complacency, and community’s transformation into nationalism as a state weapon). In this essay, all of these concepts are contextualized within the exponential growth of new technologies. That is to say, all of these semiotic …
The Classical Versus The Grotesque Body In Edith Wharton's Fiction, Joshua T. Temples
The Classical Versus The Grotesque Body In Edith Wharton's Fiction, Joshua T. Temples
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In her landmark works The House of Mirth (1905), The Custom of the Country (1913), and The Age of Innocence (1920), Edith Wharton responds to earlier depictions of the classical, pure Victorian and Edwardian woman. Wharton's "inconvenient" women overturn popular stereotypes. Subsequently, they are barred from their social groups, but they are independent, unlike the complicit and obedient women of the classical body, most of whom ascribe to the trope of the "Angel in the House." The grotesque seeks to undercut the unrealistic expectations enforced by the classical through its embodiment of progression and humanity, and Wharton is drawn to …