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The Gay Of The Land: Queer Ecology And The Literature Of The 1960s, Jill Elizabeth Anderson Jan 2011

The Gay Of The Land: Queer Ecology And The Literature Of The 1960s, Jill Elizabeth Anderson

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In this dissertation I argue not only that queer ecology is a legitimate and important next step for ecocritics and queer theorists but also that its literary application does a great amount of good in exploring and dismantling the natural/unnatural binary and exposing the ecological impact of the choices humans make everyday. I take as my method a combination of queer and environmental theory and literary criticism, as well as the foundational queer ecocritical works and include important historical and political perspectives influencing the emergence of the environmental and gay and lesbian movements. Through this dissertation, I legitimize more recent …


Sentimental Ideology, Women's Pedagogy, And American Indian Women's Writing: 1815-1921, Christine Cavalier Jan 2011

Sentimental Ideology, Women's Pedagogy, And American Indian Women's Writing: 1815-1921, Christine Cavalier

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ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Sentimental Ideology, Women's Pedagogy, and American Indian Women's Writing: 1815-1921 by Christine Renée Cavalier Washington University in St. Louis, 2011 Professor Vivian Pollak, Chairperson This dissertation examines how sentimental notions of respectable womanhood and refined education shaped the polished poetry and prose of four seminal female figures in the history of American Indian literature: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft: 1800-1842), the earliest American Indian female author recovered thus far; E. Pauline Johnson: 1861-1913), the most successful nineteenth-century Native writer who became Canada's iconic poetess and Native national symbol; S. Alice Callahan: 1868-1894), the first American Indian female novelist; …


Cultural Reclamations In Helena Viramontes’ “The Moths”, Ashley Denney Jan 2010

Cultural Reclamations In Helena Viramontes’ “The Moths”, Ashley Denney

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


The Dilemma Of The Italian American Male, Marc Dipaolo Jul 2009

The Dilemma Of The Italian American Male, Marc Dipaolo

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“The Dilemma of the Italian American Male.”

Originally published in Pimps, Wimps, Studs, Thugs and Gentlemen: Essays on Media Images of Masculinity. Ed: Elwood Watson. McFarland, 2009

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Ellen Glasgow: The “'Feminine' Façade” And The “'Masculine' Mind", Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear Jan 2009

Ellen Glasgow: The “'Feminine' Façade” And The “'Masculine' Mind", Ashley Quaye Andrews Lear

Humanities & Communication - Daytona Beach

No abstract provided.


Recontextualizing Guy Endore’S Babouk In The Shadow Of Orientalism, Nathan Sacks Jan 2009

Recontextualizing Guy Endore’S Babouk In The Shadow Of Orientalism, Nathan Sacks

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


In Search Of America: Nature, Spirituality, And The Self In American Transcendentalism And Beat Generation Literature, Caitlin Cater Jan 2008

In Search Of America: Nature, Spirituality, And The Self In American Transcendentalism And Beat Generation Literature, Caitlin Cater

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


"The Perils Of Disembodied Readership", Tim Engles Jan 2001

"The Perils Of Disembodied Readership", Tim Engles

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

Review of American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction since 1960 by Kathryn Hume and Violence in the Contemporary American Novel by James R. Giles.


The Power Of Hoodoo: African Relic Symbolism In Amistad And The Narrative Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Alicia M. Simmons Jan 2000

The Power Of Hoodoo: African Relic Symbolism In Amistad And The Narrative Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Alicia M. Simmons

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


"Sleeping With One Eye Open": · Fear And Ontology In The Poetry Of Mark Strand, James Hoff Jan 2000

"Sleeping With One Eye Open": · Fear And Ontology In The Poetry Of Mark Strand, James Hoff

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


Down And Out With Thoreau: Reversals Of Perspective And Paradox In Walden, Peter J. Capuano Jan 1999

Down And Out With Thoreau: Reversals Of Perspective And Paradox In Walden, Peter J. Capuano

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


Salvation And Rebirth In The Catcher In The Rye And The Bell Jar, Erica Lawrence Jan 1999

Salvation And Rebirth In The Catcher In The Rye And The Bell Jar, Erica Lawrence

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.