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Railspace: A Geocritical Study Of The Railroad Through American Literature And Culture, Michael A. Smith Dec 2020

Railspace: A Geocritical Study Of The Railroad Through American Literature And Culture, Michael A. Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation uses geocriticism to argue that the American railroad is best understood as a set of discursively constructed railspaces formed through a variety of viewpoints, a polysensorial awareness of space, and stratified social relationships and power struggles. This study takes up four railspaces, the constituent texts of which demonstrate how intertextual discourse shapes and is shaped by the railroad. The observation car, charted through California Zephyr advertisements and Muriel Rukeyser’s “Campaign,” is an apparatus that produces perpetual spectacle. Three novels—Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, Double Indemnity by James M. Cain, and Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith—and …


African American Literary Traditions In Justina Ireland’S Young Adult Novels Dread Nation And Deathless Divide, Gabrielle Sleeper Dec 2020

African American Literary Traditions In Justina Ireland’S Young Adult Novels Dread Nation And Deathless Divide, Gabrielle Sleeper

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Justina Ireland’s young adult novels Dread Nation (2017) and Deathless Divide (2020) tell the story of a Black girl by the name of Jane living in the aftermath of the Civil War, around 1880.


Up In Smoke: Trouble And Tobacco In Yoknapatawpha County, Sharon Desmond Paradiso Dec 2020

Up In Smoke: Trouble And Tobacco In Yoknapatawpha County, Sharon Desmond Paradiso

Journal X

Reading for Pleasure (Essay Review)


The Last Iron Gate: Negotiating The Incarceral Spaces Of John Edgar Wideman's Brothers And Keepers, Michael P. Moreno Dec 2020

The Last Iron Gate: Negotiating The Incarceral Spaces Of John Edgar Wideman's Brothers And Keepers, Michael P. Moreno

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Bordering The Subjunctive In Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Adam Lifshey Dec 2020

Bordering The Subjunctive In Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Adam Lifshey

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No abstract provided.


This Time. Maybe This Time: Asynchronous Faulknerian Narrative, Confederate Elegies, And The American Iconoclastic Tradition, Timothy Sedore Dec 2020

This Time. Maybe This Time: Asynchronous Faulknerian Narrative, Confederate Elegies, And The American Iconoclastic Tradition, Timothy Sedore

Journal X

No abstract provided.


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 Dec 2020

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

Journal X

No abstract provided.


The Place Where Your Nature Meets Mine: Diane Di Prima In The West, Timothy Gray Dec 2020

The Place Where Your Nature Meets Mine: Diane Di Prima In The West, Timothy Gray

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Tender Is The Night: Thirteen Propositions On The Nature Of Boredom, Allan Hepburn Dec 2020

Tender Is The Night: Thirteen Propositions On The Nature Of Boredom, Allan Hepburn

Journal X

Reading for Pleasure (Essay Review)


Minority Discourses, Foodways, And Aspects Of Gender: Contemporary Writings By Asian-American Women, Wilfried Raussert Dec 2020

Minority Discourses, Foodways, And Aspects Of Gender: Contemporary Writings By Asian-American Women, Wilfried Raussert

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Modernist Ghosts, Transatlantic Apparitions: The Waste Land, Simon Hay Dec 2020

Modernist Ghosts, Transatlantic Apparitions: The Waste Land, Simon Hay

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No abstract provided.


Intertextual And Inter-Ethnic Relations In William Carlos Williams's "To Elsie": A Poetics Of Contact, José María Rodríguez García Dec 2020

Intertextual And Inter-Ethnic Relations In William Carlos Williams's "To Elsie": A Poetics Of Contact, José María Rodríguez García

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Bright Lights Fade Fast: The Beat Influences Of Thomas Pynchon's V., Daniel Grassian Dec 2020

Bright Lights Fade Fast: The Beat Influences Of Thomas Pynchon's V., Daniel Grassian

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No abstract provided.


Choosing The Past: Agency And Ethnicity In Sidney Luska / Henry Harland's As It Was Written, Loren Glass Dec 2020

Choosing The Past: Agency And Ethnicity In Sidney Luska / Henry Harland's As It Was Written, Loren Glass

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No abstract provided.


The Pleasures Of Passing And The Real Of Race, Christopher Hanlon Dec 2020

The Pleasures Of Passing And The Real Of Race, Christopher Hanlon

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No abstract provided.


Alice Is Not Hysterical Anymore: Revision And History In Joan Schenkar's Signs Of Life, C. E. Atkins Dec 2020

Alice Is Not Hysterical Anymore: Revision And History In Joan Schenkar's Signs Of Life, C. E. Atkins

Journal X

No abstract provided.


"Betwixt And Between": Dismantling Race In My Great, Wide, Beautiful World, Cathryn Halverson Dec 2020

"Betwixt And Between": Dismantling Race In My Great, Wide, Beautiful World, Cathryn Halverson

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Narrative Desire In Ann Petry's The Street, Kari J. Winter Dec 2020

Narrative Desire In Ann Petry's The Street, Kari J. Winter

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No abstract provided.


The One That Got Away: Elizabeth Bishop's "Damned 'Fish'", Anne Colwell Dec 2020

The One That Got Away: Elizabeth Bishop's "Damned 'Fish'", Anne Colwell

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Notes From Underground, Kevin Kopelson Dec 2020

Notes From Underground, Kevin Kopelson

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No abstract provided.


Billy Budd On A Phallos Ship: Melville's Challenge To The Dominant Order, Darrell G. H. Schramm Dec 2020

Billy Budd On A Phallos Ship: Melville's Challenge To The Dominant Order, Darrell G. H. Schramm

Journal X

No abstract provided.


From The Dream To The Womb: Visionary Impulse And Political Ambivalence In The Great Gatsby, Chris Fitter Dec 2020

From The Dream To The Womb: Visionary Impulse And Political Ambivalence In The Great Gatsby, Chris Fitter

Journal X

No abstract provided.


The Reviser In The Word Forest: Susan Howe And The American Typology Of Wilderness, Erika Nanes Dec 2020

The Reviser In The Word Forest: Susan Howe And The American Typology Of Wilderness, Erika Nanes

Journal X

No abstract provided.


The Whipping Boy Of Love: Atonement And Aggression In Alcott's Fiction, Elizabeth Barnes Dec 2020

The Whipping Boy Of Love: Atonement And Aggression In Alcott's Fiction, Elizabeth Barnes

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 1997): Full Issue, Journal Editors Dec 2020

Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 1997): Full Issue, Journal Editors

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No abstract provided.


Electing A Department: Differences, Fictions, And A Narrative, Terry Caesar Dec 2020

Electing A Department: Differences, Fictions, And A Narrative, Terry Caesar

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Cover Pages, Journal Editors Dec 2020

Cover Pages, Journal Editors

Journal X

Includes table of contents and advisory board.


Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn 1996): Full Issue, Journal Editors Dec 2020

Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn 1996): Full Issue, Journal Editors

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No abstract provided.


"Living Curiosities" And "The Wonder Of America": The Primitive, The Freakish, And The Construction Of National Identities In Civil-War America, Linda Frost Dec 2020

"Living Curiosities" And "The Wonder Of America": The Primitive, The Freakish, And The Construction Of National Identities In Civil-War America, Linda Frost

Journal X

No abstract provided.


Hejinian Meditations: Lives Of The Cell, John Shoptaw Dec 2020

Hejinian Meditations: Lives Of The Cell, John Shoptaw

Journal X

No abstract provided.