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Feminist Modernist Dance, Melissa Bradshaw, Jessica Ray Herzogenrath
Feminist Modernist Dance, Melissa Bradshaw, Jessica Ray Herzogenrath
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This is the first of two special issues of Feminist Modernist Studies dedicated to feminist modernist dance (the second will be Summer, 2022). We have wrestled in our joint editorial work here, as well as in our own work, over the disjunctions embodied in these three terms conjoined. Though feminist scholars have been doing important work in modernist studies for half a century, the term modernism remains mired in gatekeeping canon formations that center white male artists, primarily writers, with few exceptions. The continued need to specify “feminist modernism” signals an exasperating truism that modernism persists in its reliable male-orientation. …
Sister Carrie---Theodore Dreiser, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900, Elliot Gorn
Sister Carrie---Theodore Dreiser, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900, Elliot Gorn
History: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Facing the naturalistic, nonjudgmental rendering in Sister Carrie of the stresses of survival in Chicago and New York was seen by some as scandalous. Nonetheless, Theodore Dreiser’s first novel eventually became an American classic and has been published in countless editions. The Heritage edition (1937) includes illustrations by Reginald Marsh (1898– 1954), including one in which the main character, a country girl on a train bound for Chicago, is approached by a salesman whose mistress she will eventually become.
Public Relations: Diaspora, Media, And The State(S) Of American Literature, Nathan Allen Jung
Public Relations: Diaspora, Media, And The State(S) Of American Literature, Nathan Allen Jung
Dissertations
Like any good public relations campaign, this dissertation aims to offer a persuasive interpretation of certain key facts. The facts, as I see them, are as follows: first, a great number of contemporary novels and poems explore the personal and social consequences of diasporic migration. Second, these texts, along with their print and electronic paratexts, share a pervasive interest in media. And third, these works are rarely read in conversation with one another, despite their mutual concern for migration and media. Owing to this last point in particular, scholarship has failed to fully address the broader media theories developed in …
On The Move: Games And Gaming Figures In Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature, Douglas Anthony Guerra
On The Move: Games And Gaming Figures In Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature, Douglas Anthony Guerra
Dissertations (1 year embargo)
In this dissertation, I analyze the way that gameplay, considered broadly, both facilitated and informed representations of agency in the nineteenth century. In effect, games were archives of possibility made procedurally discrete, rendering modes of action and agency legible in ways that are suggested, although differently engaged, in their somewhat less ephemeral cousins: books. Understanding that both games and books emerged from within similar fields of cultural production and often marketed themselves to the same audiences, I argue that taking a technical and materially historical approach to games helps us to explore major literary works of the period to startlingly …
Pax Ecclesia: Globalization And Catholic Literary Modernism, Christopher Wachal
Pax Ecclesia: Globalization And Catholic Literary Modernism, Christopher Wachal
Dissertations
The transnational turn in literary studies has brought new rubrics and critical vocabularies to the study of cultures experiencing the destabilizing effects of globalization. It gives special attention to the ways cultural forms, including literature, must be reformulated in the absence of the coherence of the nation-state. Often unremarked upon, however, is the role of religion in providing other channels of affinity around which to cohere. Many writers in the 20th century respond to the shocks of globalizing modernity by writing in light of particular faith traditions, especially the aesthetic strategies and thematic concerns that characterize the Catholic literary tradition. …
In The Margins: Thresholds Of Text And Identity In U.S.-Mexico Border Literature, Allison E. Fagan
In The Margins: Thresholds Of Text And Identity In U.S.-Mexico Border Literature, Allison E. Fagan
Dissertations
My project links discussions of U.S.-Mexico border literature's emphasis on marginalized identity with the growing textual studies interest in the marginal, often-invisible processes which aid the production and shape the reception of books. The dissertation not only calls attention to textual instability, or the places where the differing and even opposing intentions of authors, publishers, and editors often become strikingly clear, but also focuses on the political, racial, ethnic, and social instabilities inherent in publishing the work of borderlands writers. It advocates and advances a sustained attentiveness to the conditions under which border literature can and does get produced. Authors …
Infectious Agents: Race And Environment In Nineteenth-Century America, Kristen Renee Egan
Infectious Agents: Race And Environment In Nineteenth-Century America, Kristen Renee Egan
Dissertations
This dissertation critically examines the relationship between race and nature in nineteenth-century America by analyzing texts that attempt to discover, create, or preserve a pure national identity. Historical events in the nineteenth-century U.S. - such as mass immigration, Native American displacement, industrialization, westward expansion, and the rise of science - frustrated the quest for a unified American identity. While these events seem various, each one exacerbated a nation already bewildered by one central question. What is the traffic between body and space? Nineteenth-century American literature frequently portrays the American environment as an ideal space in need of preservation and at …
The Queer Work Of Fantasy: The Romance In Antebellum America, Zachary Neil Lamm
The Queer Work Of Fantasy: The Romance In Antebellum America, Zachary Neil Lamm
Dissertations
This project examines the ways in which antebellum writers of romances theorized the relationship between fantasy and queer desire. These writers produced vision of alternative forms of sociality that serve to criticize the heteronormativity of antebellum sexual culture and to promote fantasy as both a mode of critique and a strategy for cultural subversion. Antebellum romances thus represent both a deep dissatisfaction with their author's contemporary culture and a means of envisioning subversive socialities and intimacies that promote freedom of the expression of desire and allow for the queerness that might characterize such expressions if subjects were able to speak …
Recent Polish-American Fiction, John A. Merchant
Recent Polish-American Fiction, John A. Merchant
Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article examines the development of a Polish American voice in American literature through an analysis of works by Stuart Dybek, Anthony Bukoski, Susan Strempek Shea, and Denise Dee.
Theodore Parker's Man-Making Strategy: A Study Of His Professional Ministry In Selected Sermons, John Patrick Fitzgibbons
Theodore Parker's Man-Making Strategy: A Study Of His Professional Ministry In Selected Sermons, John Patrick Fitzgibbons
Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Fragmented World Of Djuna Barnes: A Kohutian And Bakhtinian Perspective, Rita M. Thomson
The Fragmented World Of Djuna Barnes: A Kohutian And Bakhtinian Perspective, Rita M. Thomson
Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Irish-American Experience In The Novels Of William Kennedy: Ethnicity And Narrative Method, James B. Denigan
The Irish-American Experience In The Novels Of William Kennedy: Ethnicity And Narrative Method, James B. Denigan
Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Unspeakable Rich Mercy: Text And Audience In Three Puritan Sermons : John Cotton's The Covenant Of God's Free Grace, Thomas Hooker's The Christian's Two Chiefe Lessons, And Thomas Shepard's The Saint's Jewel, Parley Ann Boswell
Dissertations
No abstract provided.
An Investigation Of The "Fragile Escape" In The Work Of Elinor Wylie, Claribel A. Moroney
An Investigation Of The "Fragile Escape" In The Work Of Elinor Wylie, Claribel A. Moroney
Master's Theses
No abstract provided.
A Study Of The Influence Affecting Hart Crane, Dorothy Jayne Mcnulty
A Study Of The Influence Affecting Hart Crane, Dorothy Jayne Mcnulty
Master's Theses
No abstract provided.
Expression Of The Modern World In The Works Of W.H. Auden, Margaret Mary. Mcnulty
Expression Of The Modern World In The Works Of W.H. Auden, Margaret Mary. Mcnulty
Master's Theses
No abstract provided.
The New Poetry Of The American South, M. Carmel Meyer
The New Poetry Of The American South, M. Carmel Meyer
Master's Theses
No abstract provided.
Whitman And Sandburg, Irene Kuzminski
Henry James's Principles And Practice As A Craftsman Of Fiction, Wesley Francis Amar
Henry James's Principles And Practice As A Craftsman Of Fiction, Wesley Francis Amar
Master's Theses
No abstract provided.
Satirical Tendencies In Modern American Drama, Marie H. Kelly
Satirical Tendencies In Modern American Drama, Marie H. Kelly
Master's Theses
No abstract provided.
The Metrical Theories Of Poe And Lanier, Mary Aloysia Freund
The Metrical Theories Of Poe And Lanier, Mary Aloysia Freund
Master's Theses
No abstract provided.