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Full-Text Articles in American Literature
Car Trouble And Other Stories, Adam Charpentier
Car Trouble And Other Stories, Adam Charpentier
Adam R. Charpentier
A collection of four short stories which examine the connection between awareness and emotional, psychological, and geographical identity. "Car Trouble" is a first person narrative of a hit & run accident and the events that follow. "Ten More Minutes" follows the recollections of a narrator detailing his admittance into and release from a mental hospital. The protagonist of "Islander" recounts his investigations of his lodgings on Tinian, an island far removed from his past life. "Little Black Dress" chronicles the impact the protagonist's lifestyle choices make on his marriage.
Imagining Woman Otherwise, Or Nothing: Sexuation As Discourse In Lacanian Thought, Rahna Carusi
Imagining Woman Otherwise, Or Nothing: Sexuation As Discourse In Lacanian Thought, Rahna Carusi
Rahna M Carusi
My dissertation looks at the connections between Lacan’s four discourses and the sexuation graph in order to claim that sexuation is discursive and that, as Lacan presents it with the phallus as its quilting point, the sexuation graph is a narrative based on patriarchal hegemony, which is one of many possible narratives. I argue that through the hysteric’s discourse and a removal of the phallus as the Symbolic-Imaginary quilting point, we can begin to formulate new narratives of sexuated subjectivities. The textual objects I use for this project are literary and filmic works where women are the central topic or …
Reading "The Indies": Transnational Ventures In Early American Literature, Brian Yothers
Reading "The Indies": Transnational Ventures In Early American Literature, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
No abstract provided.
Colonial Transformations, Zubeda Jalalzai
Colonial Transformations, Zubeda Jalalzai
Zubeda Jalalzai
In Colonial Transformations Rebecca Ann Bach investigates the intriguing relationships between English dramatic literature of the early modern period, English colonial conquests in Ireland, Virginia, and Bermuda, and the consequent literary, ideological, and material changes wrought at home and abroad. She traces these colonial transformations from England's expansion into Wales in 1536, which started a process that she says "redefined the territory and people the English encountered, but also importantly refigured the territory and people of the metropolitan center".
Man Poems: From Beer And Gears To Grills And Girls, Christopher Ward
Man Poems: From Beer And Gears To Grills And Girls, Christopher Ward
Christopher Ward
Man Poems: From Beer and Gears to Grills and Girls is a collection of poetry aimed at males between the ages of 20-40. From casual observation, including the spectacular wonders of alcohol and the female body, to the humorous: re-visiting the classic heavy rock hits of the 1980s, the varied works of Man Poems offer an interesting look into the mind and surroundings of author Christopher Ward.
Metrical Melville: The Career Of An Obscure Poet, Brian Yothers
Metrical Melville: The Career Of An Obscure Poet, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
No abstract provided.
Rev. Of Early Modern Poetics In Melville And Poe: Memory, Melancholy, And The Emblematic Tradition, By William E. Engel In Review 19, Brian Yothers
Rev. Of Early Modern Poetics In Melville And Poe: Memory, Melancholy, And The Emblematic Tradition, By William E. Engel In Review 19, Brian Yothers
Brian Yothers
No abstract provided.