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Gestures Of Dissent: Self-Fashioning Performance From Southern Women Writers During The Fin De Siécle, Elisa Fuhrken
Gestures Of Dissent: Self-Fashioning Performance From Southern Women Writers During The Fin De Siécle, Elisa Fuhrken
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This project explores Southern women writers during the latter half of the nineteenth-century who asserted and crafted a modernized identity by turning to various modes of transgressive performance and performance spaces. For women of the nineteenth-century, this meant extricating themselves from a domestic, sentimental identity and apprehending a more fluid, dynamic type of being. The modes of performance, such as spectatorship, orality, and gesture, allowed these women to express and articulate an alternative feminine identity while also engaging with an embodied epistemology. This thesis looks at three Southern women writers: Sherwood Bonner’s novel Like Unto Like and her travel letters …
The Black Petromodernism Of Zora Neale Hurston: Energy, Race, And Mobility, Stuart Mullet
The Black Petromodernism Of Zora Neale Hurston: Energy, Race, And Mobility, Stuart Mullet
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis situates Zora Neale Hurston and the folk communities in her oeuvre within the context of modernity’s dependencies on fossil fuels. Such a disciplinary context provides an energy footing for our understandings of African American migrations in the twentieth century—which radically transformed the nation on multiple levels—and it illuminates the communal values that undergird Black approaches to petromodern forms of mobility. Furthermore, by engaging the Black spaces of the South, my argument begins filling a gap in the energy humanities. Few scholars in this field engage deeply those populations and regions that disproportionately experience the underbelly of petromodernity and …
Masculinity And Cold War Fairy Tales: Eudora Welty, Vladimir Nabokov, Donald Barthelme, And Ross Macdonald, Susan E. Wood
Masculinity And Cold War Fairy Tales: Eudora Welty, Vladimir Nabokov, Donald Barthelme, And Ross Macdonald, Susan E. Wood
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This dissertation examines the use of fairy-tale allusions to explore masculinity in four novels published during the Cold War period. This notable focus on men and masculinity held in common across these four novels from four different decades is interesting because it suggests that the shift in focus to women and feminist ideals in fairy-tale revisions of the 1970s and after is even more stark a shift than has yet been recognized by scholars. This dissertation finds that Eudora Welty’s novella The Robber Bridegroom (1942), Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita (1955), Donald Barthelme’s novel Snow White (1967), and Ross Macdonald’s novel …
Up In Smoke: Trouble And Tobacco In Yoknapatawpha County, Sharon Desmond Paradiso
Up In Smoke: Trouble And Tobacco In Yoknapatawpha County, Sharon Desmond Paradiso
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Reading for Pleasure (Essay Review)
The Last Iron Gate: Negotiating The Incarceral Spaces Of John Edgar Wideman's Brothers And Keepers, Michael P. Moreno
The Last Iron Gate: Negotiating The Incarceral Spaces Of John Edgar Wideman's Brothers And Keepers, Michael P. Moreno
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Bordering The Subjunctive In Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Adam Lifshey
Bordering The Subjunctive In Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Adam Lifshey
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This Time. Maybe This Time: Asynchronous Faulknerian Narrative, Confederate Elegies, And The American Iconoclastic Tradition, Timothy Sedore
This Time. Maybe This Time: Asynchronous Faulknerian Narrative, Confederate Elegies, And The American Iconoclastic Tradition, Timothy Sedore
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The "Wash'd-Up Drift"Of Poetic Ideals: Disunion As Poetic Failure In Walt Whitman's "As I Ebb'd With The Ocean Of Life", Paul R. Cappucci
The "Wash'd-Up Drift"Of Poetic Ideals: Disunion As Poetic Failure In Walt Whitman's "As I Ebb'd With The Ocean Of Life", Paul R. Cappucci
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The Place Where Your Nature Meets Mine: Diane Di Prima In The West, Timothy Gray
The Place Where Your Nature Meets Mine: Diane Di Prima In The West, Timothy Gray
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Tender Is The Night: Thirteen Propositions On The Nature Of Boredom, Allan Hepburn
Tender Is The Night: Thirteen Propositions On The Nature Of Boredom, Allan Hepburn
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Reading for Pleasure (Essay Review)
Minority Discourses, Foodways, And Aspects Of Gender: Contemporary Writings By Asian-American Women, Wilfried Raussert
Minority Discourses, Foodways, And Aspects Of Gender: Contemporary Writings By Asian-American Women, Wilfried Raussert
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Modernist Ghosts, Transatlantic Apparitions: The Waste Land, Simon Hay
Modernist Ghosts, Transatlantic Apparitions: The Waste Land, Simon Hay
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Intertextual And Inter-Ethnic Relations In William Carlos Williams's "To Elsie": A Poetics Of Contact, José María Rodríguez García
Intertextual And Inter-Ethnic Relations In William Carlos Williams's "To Elsie": A Poetics Of Contact, José María Rodríguez García
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Bright Lights Fade Fast: The Beat Influences Of Thomas Pynchon's V., Daniel Grassian
Bright Lights Fade Fast: The Beat Influences Of Thomas Pynchon's V., Daniel Grassian
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Choosing The Past: Agency And Ethnicity In Sidney Luska / Henry Harland's As It Was Written, Loren Glass
Choosing The Past: Agency And Ethnicity In Sidney Luska / Henry Harland's As It Was Written, Loren Glass
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The Pleasures Of Passing And The Real Of Race, Christopher Hanlon
The Pleasures Of Passing And The Real Of Race, Christopher Hanlon
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Alice Is Not Hysterical Anymore: Revision And History In Joan Schenkar's Signs Of Life, C. E. Atkins
Alice Is Not Hysterical Anymore: Revision And History In Joan Schenkar's Signs Of Life, C. E. Atkins
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"Betwixt And Between": Dismantling Race In My Great, Wide, Beautiful World, Cathryn Halverson
"Betwixt And Between": Dismantling Race In My Great, Wide, Beautiful World, Cathryn Halverson
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Narrative Desire In Ann Petry's The Street, Kari J. Winter
Narrative Desire In Ann Petry's The Street, Kari J. Winter
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The One That Got Away: Elizabeth Bishop's "Damned 'Fish'", Anne Colwell
The One That Got Away: Elizabeth Bishop's "Damned 'Fish'", Anne Colwell
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Notes From Underground, Kevin Kopelson
Billy Budd On A Phallos Ship: Melville's Challenge To The Dominant Order, Darrell G. H. Schramm
Billy Budd On A Phallos Ship: Melville's Challenge To The Dominant Order, Darrell G. H. Schramm
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From The Dream To The Womb: Visionary Impulse And Political Ambivalence In The Great Gatsby, Chris Fitter
From The Dream To The Womb: Visionary Impulse And Political Ambivalence In The Great Gatsby, Chris Fitter
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The Reviser In The Word Forest: Susan Howe And The American Typology Of Wilderness, Erika Nanes
The Reviser In The Word Forest: Susan Howe And The American Typology Of Wilderness, Erika Nanes
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The Whipping Boy Of Love: Atonement And Aggression In Alcott's Fiction, Elizabeth Barnes
The Whipping Boy Of Love: Atonement And Aggression In Alcott's Fiction, Elizabeth Barnes
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Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 1997): Full Issue, Journal Editors
Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 1997): Full Issue, Journal Editors
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Electing A Department: Differences, Fictions, And A Narrative, Terry Caesar
Electing A Department: Differences, Fictions, And A Narrative, Terry Caesar
Journal X
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Cover Pages, Journal Editors
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn 1996): Full Issue, Journal Editors
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn 1996): Full Issue, Journal Editors
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"Living Curiosities" And "The Wonder Of America": The Primitive, The Freakish, And The Construction Of National Identities In Civil-War America, Linda Frost
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