Standard academic practices of reading, writing, and knowledge production embedded in colonial and exclusionary practices prohibit self-reference as a mode to analyze and understand literature. As diversity in the English discipline continues to grow, universities need to rethin…
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In contemporary American society, serial killers are as recognizable as any Hollywood celebrity. Numerous scholars claim this fascination began in the 1970s and 1980s, however society's responses to serial murder in post-World War Two America prove otherwise. Crime comics and em…
This thesis intends to identify the precise prescriptions for social and economic mobility intended by Horatio Alger Jr. and Russell H. Conwell in their works Ragged Dick and “Acres of Diamonds.” Furthermore, to explain why their prescriptions diverge from one another using the …
Taylor, Amanda A., Transatlantic Triangulations: Genre and Traumatic Memory in the Novels of Alejandro Zambra and Esmeralda Santiago. Master of Arts (MA), May, 2021, 53 pp., 50 references.
In the sixth-century, Gaul was undergoing a prolonged negotiation about how its communities should function, framed in terms of divine materiality, and it survives to us today in the period's most popular stories about itself: the Vitae of its saints. This thesis argues that hag…
Over the expanse of centuries, human society has created monsters in order to give a physical form to their abstract fears. Society has gone from speaking of them in oral traditions to watching them on a screen in more recent decades, but the written works of these monstrosities…
A popular perception persists that the Franciscan friars of Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing bear heavy blame for the results of the play, adversely for Friar Lawrence and positively for Friar Francis. The friars do formulate similar plans, but their roles vary signif…
This dissertation recounts the history of some widely read texts and develops new ways of writing about the past; it is at once an investigation into the particulars of history and an account of the historiography needed of that investigation. As an historical account, it docume…
Hugh Walpole was born in 1884, and arrived on the literary scene at the first attempt with his novel The Wooden Horse (1909), just as literary modernism was making its mark. Loyal to the traditional novel of plot and character, he was nevertheless aware that writers of his own g…
現代嶺南女作家的文學創作與中國現代文學史的五四新文學、革命文學、左翼文學、抗戰文學及延安文學等各時期的文學主潮基本保持一致。在新文學領域，澳門女作家趙連城、冼玉清；廣府女作家許廣平、草明、吳乃茵、杜君慧；潮汕女作家馮鏗、陳波兒、許心影、陳曙光、陳鳳兮；客家女作家李堅真、李素英，等等，從嶺南邊緣地帶進入北京、上海、武漢、延安等文化中心，融入文學主潮，以嶺南文化獨有的品格和活力，創作了不少優秀的文藝作品，在文學史上具有一定的作用和地位。在文言詩詞領域，趙連城、冼玉清、許心影、張荃等在抗戰時期的愛國詩篇，與同時代嶺南文人饒宗頤等一樣，表現了崇高的中華民族詩魂…
This dissertation examines the understudied development of epistolary knowledge in China during the late Qing and Republican periods (ca. 1831–1949), when an increasing number of guides to letter writing were published. Attending to the ways letter-writing manuals transmitted ep…
"Techno-Fiction: Science-Fictional Imaginaries and the Technik of Writing in Contemporary Korea" examines the history of Korean popular literature from the perspective of media archaeology. The study explores what German media theorists call the technik of writing—both the techn…
This thesis will demonstrate that the literature of Wales and Catalonia, two small stateless nations that are dominated by larger states with a different majority culture (the United Kingdom and Spain), can be read as resistance literature. However, crucially, it will focus on a…
John Milton’s Satan from his epic poem Paradise Lost is often read as a complex and sympathetic character, but a villain nonetheless. Here, I will examine how Milton’s Satan not only became a template for the modern atheistic Satanic Ideal, which is outlined by Anton Szandor LaV…
This thesis examines the construction of African-American identity in Toni Morrison’s trilogy, published in the decade between 1987 and 1997, Beloved (1987), Jazz (1992) and Paradise (1997) and Alice Walker’s 1982 to 1992 trilogy, The Color Purple (1982), The Temple of my Famili…
Neste trabalho, é estudado o modo como a música eletroacústica / mista se desenvolveu em Portugal. É contextualizado o seu surgimento no país do ponto de vista histórico, social e político. De um ponto de vista global, este é descrito em paralelo com o desenvolvimento do género …
The concept of daydreaming has recently been praised as a necessary tool to access imagination and creative thought. English literature is a subject that requires analytical skills and writing mechanics, but it also necessitates creative thinking to be able to explore, understan…
This dissertation examines translation phenomena in Singapore from colonial to contemporary times, arguing that they are better understood as performative acts where their symbolic meaning is more significant than their semantic content. Acts of literary translation are performa…
Since its heyday in the early 1960s, diction has fallen out of the critical conversation. Today diction is talked about, if at all, as a matter of praxis and thus is relegated almost exclusively to workshops; and when this diction becomes poetic, it offers a clear way not to pro…