Paths Of Most Resistance: Navigating The Culture Industry In William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Delmore Schwartz, And Eudora Welty,
2010
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Paths Of Most Resistance: Navigating The Culture Industry In William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Delmore Schwartz, And Eudora Welty, Jason Dupuy
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation explores how four modernist writers of the 1930s and 1940s—William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Delmore Schwartz, and Eudora Welty—used their works to present ways to resist and navigate what they present as the frequently reductive worldview offered by the culture industry. Faulkner tends to show the culture industry as selling easy answers that focus on the end result, which allows his characters to approach the culture industry with a sense of fatalism. To resist this, Faulkner stresses a step-by-step, complex dialectical understanding of the culture industry, one that shows the fissures in its seemingly straightforward narratives and allows the …
Invisible Links, Abject Chains: Habit In Nineteenth-Century British Literature,
2010
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Invisible Links, Abject Chains: Habit In Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Daniel R. Mangiavellano
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
“Invisible Links, Abject Chains: Habit in Nineteenth-Century British Literature” argues that habit is a central characteristic of both Romantic and Victorian theories of imagination, originality, literary production, and subjectivity. Certainly, nineteenth-century culture often treats habit with suspicion, invoking language of bondage, slavery, and dangerous unconscious imitation to apply to everything from reading habits to opium use. However, by tracing a discourse of habit from association theory to pragmatism and drawing from philosophical, educational, medical, and psychological texts, I foreground how Romantic and Victorian texts redeploy habit as a paradoxical form of imaginative agency. In nineteenth-century culture, habit makes possible what …
Monstrous Bodies: Femininity And Agency In Young Adult Horror Fiction,
2010
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Monstrous Bodies: Femininity And Agency In Young Adult Horror Fiction, June Pulliam
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Young Adult horror fiction with female protagonists presents sympathetically the untenable situation of adolescent girls within society whereby they are increasingly pressured to embody a doll-like feminine ideal that deprives them of voice and agency. In Young Adult horror fiction, the monstrous Other problematizes what is presented to girls as “normal” and “natural” feminine behavior. As a double with a difference, the monstrous Other is an iteration of femininity whose similarity to the original implies the possibility of resisting restrictive gender roles. Because in Young Adult horror fiction the monstrous Other is nearly always a sympathetic character, it is fairly …
Scouting For A Tomboy: Gender-Bending Behaviors In Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird,
2010
Georgia Southern University
Scouting For A Tomboy: Gender-Bending Behaviors In Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, Laura Hakala
College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations
In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch challenges gender stereotypes in her determination to remain a tomboy. Scout interacts with five parental characters (Atticus, Calpurnia, Aunt Alexandra, Miss Maudie, and Boo Radley), who offer models for Scout's behaviors. Though primarily unconventional in terms of gender, these parental figures fluctuate between ideals, demonstrating that gender is an unstable standard that alters according to each individual. Lee depicts characters who resist conforming to the paradigms of masculinity and femininity and instead fill middle positions between the stereotypes, as Scout's tomboyism exemplifies. After encountering different models, Scout consistently exhibits these genderbending …
That Glorious Fire It Kindled: Extremes Of (Un)Righteous Sexuality In Books I And Iii Of Spenser's Faerie Queene,
2010
Andrews University
That Glorious Fire It Kindled: Extremes Of (Un)Righteous Sexuality In Books I And Iii Of Spenser's Faerie Queene, S. Erin Mclean
Honors Theses
Edmund Spenser's epic romance, The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596), claims to glorify Queen Elizabeth I, but the author hides an underlying critique of the queen throughout the poem. At the same time that Spenser openly praises the English monarch, he also reveals the faults and contradictions present in her image through how he presents the main characters in the story. In Faerie Queene, Spenser establishes a sexuality spectrum that features the lechery of Redcrosse Knight and the hypersensitive purity of Britomart; this demonstrates the various extremes of immoral sexuality. Studying both these characters reveals that the success of each knight's …
Illinois Wesleyan University
Impolitic: Kent Johnson's Radical Hybridity On Doubled Flowering: From The Notebooks Of Araki Yasusada (Roof Books, 1997), Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets (Blazevox, 2004), Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz: Eleven Submissions To The War (Effing Press, 2005), I Once Met (Longhouse, 2007), And Homage To The Last Avant-Garde (Shearsman Books, 2008), Michael Theune
Scholarship
The past twenty years in American poetry have given rise to middle space poetry, poetry—sometimes labeled “Third Way,” “Hybrid,” and/or “Elliptical”—that situates itself in the middle space between mainstream/lyric and avant-garde/experimental aesthetics. While work in the middle space by now should have added up to an important and fruitful development in contemporary poetry—for there is much shared ground for these aesthetics to explore—middle space thinking and poetry for the most part has been very problematic. Paradoxically, the problems of the middle space—especially as it is presented in its three key anthologies: Reginald Shepherd’s The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries …
Review Of Cousins, A. D. And Alison V. Scott, Eds. "Ben Jonson And The Politics Of Genre," Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.,
2010
Winthrop University
Review Of Cousins, A. D. And Alison V. Scott, Eds. "Ben Jonson And The Politics Of Genre," Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009., Andrew Vorder Bruegge
College of Visual and Performing Arts Faculty Publications
Review of a collection of essays about Ben Jonson's choices of genre based on intended audience and political argument.
Review Of Deats, Sarah M Et Al. "Placing The Plays Of Christopher Marlowe." Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008,
2010
Winthrop University
Review Of Deats, Sarah M Et Al. "Placing The Plays Of Christopher Marlowe." Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, Andrew Vorder Bruegge
College of Visual and Performing Arts Faculty Publications
Review of a collection of essays published by the Marlowe Society of America. Most of the articles use feminist theoretical methods of analysis.
Contrast And Didacticism In The Novels Of Jane Austen,
2010
Edith Cowan University
Contrast And Didacticism In The Novels Of Jane Austen, Brittany Morgan Woodhams
Theses : Honours
The first aim of this thesis is to explore Jane Austen's use of contrast in terms of characterisation. The second is to look at how contrast becomes a tool of didacticism, both for the characters within the novels and for readers of the novels. This study encompasses Austen's six completed novels and traces the development of the techniques she used to evoke contrast. Austen used contrast in a variety of ways. Primarily it was used to construct and illuminate characters, but Austen also used it to introduce characters into the narrative, to compare two or more characters, and to structure …
Repressive Bodies, Transgressive Bodies : Dracula And The Feminine,
2010
Edith Cowan University
Repressive Bodies, Transgressive Bodies : Dracula And The Feminine, Sharon Kostopoulos
Theses : Honours
Dracula has long been associated with the repressive qualities of Victorian society and the oppression of the emerging New Woman. However, taking into account that the novel is part of the gothic genre, a genre which endeavours to infringe the social boundaries in any given era, this thesis will demonstrate an equally visible and potent transgressive feminine element playing out in Dracula. Using Michel Foucault's idea of discourse to show how subjects are generated, the novel can be seen as facilitating both productive and repressive ideas of femininity. Power, as it operates through discourse, tends to produce its own resistance, …
Notes On Contributors,
2010
University of Northern Iowa
Nowhere When It Burns,
2010
University of Northern Iowa
Notes On Contributors,
2010
University of Northern Iowa
Transgressive Tendencies Or The Case For "The Wrong Man": Narrative Strategies And Scenes Of Passing In Nella Larsen's Allen Semi Short Fiction,
2010
University of Alabama
Transgressive Tendencies Or The Case For "The Wrong Man": Narrative Strategies And Scenes Of Passing In Nella Larsen's Allen Semi Short Fiction, Yolanda M. Manora
Short Story
No abstract provided.
Ecology & Ideology: An Introduction,
2010
Marquette University
Ecology & Ideology: An Introduction, Gerry Canavan, Lisa Klarr, Ryan Vu
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Person Of The Year: Barack Obama, The Joker, Capitalism, And Schizophrenia,
2010
Marquette University
Person Of The Year: Barack Obama, The Joker, Capitalism, And Schizophrenia, Gerry Canavan
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Bathsheba's Dilemma: Defining, Discovering, And Defending Anglo-American Feminist Theories Of Rhetoric(S),
2010
Marquette University
Bathsheba's Dilemma: Defining, Discovering, And Defending Anglo-American Feminist Theories Of Rhetoric(S), Krista Ratcliffe
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
The Twentieth And Twenty-First Centuries,
2010
Marquette University
The Twentieth And Twenty-First Centuries, Krista Ratcliffe
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Introduction. Actions Un/Becoming A Feminist Administrator: Troubled Intersections Of Feminist Principles And Administrative Practices,
2010
Marquette University
Introduction. Actions Un/Becoming A Feminist Administrator: Troubled Intersections Of Feminist Principles And Administrative Practices, Krista Ratcliffe, Rebecca Rickly
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Longfellow's Ghost: Writing "Popular" Poetry,
2010
Marquette University
Longfellow's Ghost: Writing "Popular" Poetry, Angela Sorby
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
