Since the beginning of recorded history, women have often been relegated to the roles of wife and mother. As such, the workforce has been largely a male-dominated arena; exceptions given for occupations that men viewed as too feminine, such as nurses and educators. Despite many …
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This dissertation proposes that between World War I and World War II, the relationship between war, politics, and language can be best understood through a political-theological prism. One strain of twentieth-century political philosophy considers sovereignty to be a matter of a…
With an historical context that attempts to delineate the problematic relationship between autobiography as an androcentric discourse and female autobiographers who have traditionally been circumscribed by that discourse (both in matters of identity and authorship), my thesis is…
This dissertation argues that modernists like Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and Alain Resnais construct literary and filmic works that rely on interruptions and elliptical narration to gesture towards an aesthetics of modernity that counters the interest in monoliths concurrently…
In 1882, the year Joyce and Woolf were born, England, yielding to the double pressure of the Irish Problem and the threat of a nationalist uprising in Egypt, occupied Egypt. Reading Egypt as a charged site of sexual and textual subversion in Joyce's and Woolf's last works makes …
This dissertation explores issues in modern and postmodern literature involving culture and the struggle of marginalized voices to find identity. Through their emphasis on change, literal metamorphoses reveal much about modern literary criticism and culture. The substitution of …
This dissertation examines representations of Englishness in Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928), Between the Acts (1941), Doris Lessing's The Grass Is Singing (1950), and Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North (1969), and argues that ideas of home/land are central to Englis…
Magic Realism in the context of literature tends to be considered peculiar to Latin America, but that perception is changing. Much more frequently now, magic realism is discussed both as a tendency within postmodern literature, as Well as a mode unfettered by geographical bounda…
By analyzing language of ritual and memory in novels by George Eliot, Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf and in medical writings concerning the etiology and treatment of shell shock, the dissertation traces the convergence of the nostos narrative and the twentieth-century tale of t…