"God, Hieroglyphics" : Extrapolating The Third Dimension In "Go Down, Moses" And "The Crying Of Lot 49",
2012
University at Albany, State University of New York
"God, Hieroglyphics" : Extrapolating The Third Dimension In "Go Down, Moses" And "The Crying Of Lot 49", Jacob Alexander Waddy
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Abstract
Divisions And Mixing In "Go Down, Moses" By William Faulkner,
2012
University at Albany, State University of New York
Divisions And Mixing In "Go Down, Moses" By William Faulkner, Emiko Dodo
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This thesis examines the divisions and boundaries made by the mechanisms of separation that authorize a false perception of land, animals, blacks and women as commodities in William Faulkner's "Go Down, Moses." Asserting that "Go Down, Moses" describes mixing as well as divisions, this study demonstrates that the dichotomous boundaries imposed upon nature and humans repeatedly fail to function. Wilderness and plantation land can never be separated as they exist in mixture. And the racial boundary between whites and blacks is destabilized and blurred by characters like Lucas Beauchamp and Tomey's Turl, who engage in resistance against the society whose …
Midnight In A Perfect World,
2012
University at Albany, State University of New York
Midnight In A Perfect World, Jaron Serven
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
What follows is a collection of short stories dealing with the experience of growing up in America during the Digital Age, written in a creative fictional method. The stories directly deal with the themes of coming to terms with the past, friendship, facing tough choices, maintaining love in an unloving world-overall, expressing the look and feel of what it is like to be young, to see through the eyes of a generation inheriting a world of questionable morals. The collection pulls from numerous resources in the genre of the contemporary American bildungsroman, but also from much literary criticism dealing with …
Mysterious Ways : A Novel,
2012
University at Albany, State University of New York
Mysterious Ways : A Novel, Angela Pneuman
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Mysterious Ways: A Novel
Contriving History : Making Dead Time In Select Works Of William Faulkner,
2012
University at Albany, State University of New York
Contriving History : Making Dead Time In Select Works Of William Faulkner, Anthony Joseph Delgado
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The protagonists of three of William Faulkner's major novels, Absalom, Absalom!, The Sound and the Fury, and Go Down, Moses each suffer from a compromised self that originates out of a past that contains excised elements. This revised history, which redacts past sins of rape, murder, and racial mixing, serves as a foundation for the present, passed down to the Faulknerian protagonists, Quentin, Jason, and Isaac, along lines of paternal inheritance. The three novels each suggest that when an idea of the self in the present is founded upon a past that has been rewritten, a shattering occurs when that …
Theologies Of Pain In American Puritanism : The Human Body And Spiritual Conversion From Anne Bradstreet To Jonathan Edwards,
2012
University at Albany, State University of New York
Theologies Of Pain In American Puritanism : The Human Body And Spiritual Conversion From Anne Bradstreet To Jonathan Edwards, Lucas Hardy
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation studies the many ways in which physical pain produces instances of personal piety in poems, narratives, and theological tracts from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Puritan New England. Specifically, the project revises the idea that spiritual regeneration happened only through Puritan contacts with established liturgical means and precast homiletics; it contends instead that conversion occurred because of bodily pain. Analyzing four canonical Puritan writers--Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Cotton Mather, and Jonathan Edwards--Theologies of Pain demonstrates that texts of even the most historically mainstream Puritans contend with the disruptive force of pain. Anne Bradstreet sees pain as an …
The Cost Of Kinship: Southern Literary Families And The Capitalist Machine,
2012
University of Mississippi
The Cost Of Kinship: Southern Literary Families And The Capitalist Machine, Joshua Sean Lundy
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the thematic role of families and the familial in the literature of the Southern Renaissance. Whereas a number of scholars have come at this matter from a strictly cultural perspective, this analysis utilizes an economic framework. Following the example set by Karl Marx, Freidrich Engels, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari, I attempt to formulate an understanding of the southern family not as an independent and singular social organism, but, rather, as a mechanism for the distribution of capital, firmly embedded within modern capitalism's expansive network of production, consumption, and exchange. My argument …
From Country To Country Club: The Landscapes Of Walker Percy,
2012
University of Mississippi
From Country To Country Club: The Landscapes Of Walker Percy, Joyce Garrett Butterworth
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
When Walker Percy emerged on the literary scene in 1961, the American landscape had begun to transform in new and dramatic ways. As more and more Americans moved from city centers to suburban developments, Percy found that, in more ways than one, the center would not hold. This American cultural transformation was well underway when Percy wrote The Moviegoer, perhaps the first novel from the American South to have as its subject matter a suburban dilemma. Challenging, as Percy does, traditional notions of southern place and community, this thesis seeks to discover in Percy's body of work whether the rise …
Two Trains Running: Capture And Escape In The Racialized Train Cars Of The Jim Crow South, 1893-1930,
2012
University of Mississippi
Two Trains Running: Capture And Escape In The Racialized Train Cars Of The Jim Crow South, 1893-1930, Raleigh Mixon Robinson
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The role of the railroad in the modern American experience—and its role in making that experience modern—cannot be overstated. This thesis proposes to tell one of many possible railroad stories. By focusing on the historical and cultural relevance of a series of bodies in transit, I examine the implementation of railroad segregation law and the response by African-American performers. The thesis begins at the end of the nineteenth century with the Homer Plessy test case and continues across three decades, meeting along the way novelists Charles Chesnutt and James Weldon Johnson and musicians W. C. Handy, Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas, …
The Queen Of The Household: Mothers, Other Mothers, And Female Genealogy On The Plantation In Postslavery Women's Fiction,
2012
University of Mississippi
The Queen Of The Household: Mothers, Other Mothers, And Female Genealogy On The Plantation In Postslavery Women's Fiction, Correna Catlett Merricks
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In many ways, the plantation defined the U.S. South because it was the primary site of production, and therefore income, for prominent southerners. In addition to being a site of production, the plantation created a complex series of connected relationships that was imagined by the plantocracy to be a large family unit. It functioned according to a specific hierarchical model that was primarily based on a patriarchal understanding of genealogy. Yet Kate Chopin's "Désirée's Baby" and "La Belle Zoraïde," Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Julia Peterkin's Scarlet Sister Mary, Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding, …
Front Matter,
2012
University of South Carolina Aiken
Front Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D.
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Contents,
2012
University of South Carolina Aiken
Contents, Tom Mack, Ph.D.
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Anticipative Feminism In F. Scott Fitzgerald’S This Side Of Paradise And Flappers And Philosophers,
2012
Messiah College
Anticipative Feminism In F. Scott Fitzgerald’S This Side Of Paradise And Flappers And Philosophers, Andrew Riccardo
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Back Matter,
2012
University of South Carolina Aiken
Back Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D.
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 14 Fall 2012,
2012
University of South Carolina
The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 14 Fall 2012
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Athenaïse, Calixta, And Creole Constraints: An In Depth Look At Chopin's Portrayal Of Women,
2012
Eastern Illinois University
Athenaïse, Calixta, And Creole Constraints: An In Depth Look At Chopin's Portrayal Of Women, Nicole Reichert
Undergraduate Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Infinite Intrusions: Solipsism And David Foster Wallace's Authorial Objectivity,
2012
Eastern Illinois University
Infinite Intrusions: Solipsism And David Foster Wallace's Authorial Objectivity, Jacob Daniel Smith
Undergraduate Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Disciplining The Body: Societal Controls Of Gender, Race And Sexuality,
2012
University of Mississippi
Disciplining The Body: Societal Controls Of Gender, Race And Sexuality, Michelle Renae Bright
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
"To Bend Without Breaking": American Women's Authorship And The New Woman, 1900–1935,
2012
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"To Bend Without Breaking": American Women's Authorship And The New Woman, 1900–1935, Amber Harris Leichner
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This dissertation focuses on constructions of female authorship in selected prose narratives of four American women writers in the early twentieth century: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zitkala-Ša, and Gertrude Schalk. Specifically, it examines portraits of women in pieces that appeared in national magazines from 1900-1935 that bracket these writers’ careers and that reflect anxieties about their professional authorial identities complicated by gender and, in the case of Native American Zitkala-Ša (Yankton Sioux) and African American Gertrude Schalk, race as well. In a period characterized by fierce debates over the role of women in a dawning modern age, these writers participated …
One Time, One Place? Richard Wright And Eudora Welty's Shared Visual Politics In The Depression Era,
2012
University of Mississippi
One Time, One Place? Richard Wright And Eudora Welty's Shared Visual Politics In The Depression Era, Mallory Blasingame
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis questions the absence of critical comparative studies of Mississippi-born authors Richard Wright and Eudora Welty. It argues that, though the authors' writing has traditionally been understood as residing on opposite sides of the political spectrum, they share a political vision of the rural South and urban North in the Depression era that is established in their documentary works—Wright's 12 Million Black Voices (1941) and Welty's One Time, One Place (1971)—and extends into such fictional works as Wright's "Big Boy Leaves Home" (1936) and Native Son (1941) and Welty's "Moon Lake" (1949) and "Flowers for Marjorie" (1941). In chapter …
