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In the 1990s, the US poetry academy sought to create scholarship that represented diverse identities and appealed to public audiences. However, the poetry establishment misses a crucial opportunity to reconsider who might be said to count as a scholar, even as new forms of schol…

The present work examines the linguistic and thematic legacy of three Angolan prose works from the 1950s and 1960s: Quinaxixe by Arnaldo Santos and A cidade e a infância and Luuanda by Luandino Vieira. The twenty-two stories contained in the collections portray Angola as an ethn…

El propósito principal de este estudio es explicar tres trilogías de las escritoras Josefina R. Aldecoa, Esther Tusquets, y Ana María Matute. La primera, Trilogía de memoria, de Josefina R. Aldecoa, Historia de una maestra (1990), Mujeres de negro (1994), La fuerza del destino (…

This dissertation is to explore the interactive relationship between English literary modernism and religion through modernist novels’ using of sacred spaces. My argument is that in response to the increasing alienation between churches and characters in the 19 th century litera…

This dissertation explores the dual nature of Richard A.W. Hughes as a marginalized Gothicist and modernist. This duality facilitated the development of the author’s reparative vision for a 20th-century world traumatized by planetary war. The present study utilizes close reading…

This dissertation explores the historical representation of the Italian nation in regard to the narration of the Libyan War and its causes and implications in the consolidation of both state and society. The texts I examine were all published in contemporary newspapers and magaz…

All five of these stories revolve around the lives of Middle Easterners, and most are set in Lebanon. They are stories of war, freedom, religion, human rights, and sexuality. Discussing sex, religion and politics is a taboo in the regions I'm writing about, and every conversatio…

In this dissertation, I examine how notions of authorized and unauthorized English, or Standard and non-Standard English, were at the heart of literary aesthetics in Romantic Britain and Independence Era Africa and how they influenced the editing and reception of John Clare, a 1…

This project argues that the northwestern Balkan region known to Renaissance England as “Illyria” played a significant but under-appreciated role in the writings and political thought of the English. I examine the encounters of the English with the Illyrians and “Illyrian” Slavs…

This collection explores various aspects of Indonesian culture. From remote government settlements off the coast of Sumatra to the urbanized and commercial beaches of Bali, these stories take a look at the complexities, differences and adjustments felt by people of both the East…

This thesis was written in short episodic stories and poems, housing many characters, but featuring only one main character. The stories take the main character across the world to Lebanon, Germany, Afghanistan, Memphis, Florida, Great Lakes and others as she struggles with bein…

Ancient Egyptian culture has been a powerful influence on a major tradition of English literature that runs from Edmund Spenser‘s The Faerie Queene (1596), one of whose major iconographic centers is the temple of Isis, to John Crowley‘s four-volume novel Ægypt (2007). My dissert…

Videogames are a multibillion-dollar industry. Their high definition graphics and sophisticated gameplay cater to a continuously growing crowd of enthusiastic players. But what is their standing in the academic community? Can games be studied as texts or are they limited by the …

This study examines Arab American poetry 1967-Present in light of the political tension between the United States and the Arab World. It explores the ways in which the Arab American community has been greatly impacted by such frequent political pressures as the Arab-Israeli conf…

Critics have systematically overlooked contributions to the realms of fantasy and imagination by Spanish artists and writers. When studying the fantastic, even the most attentive studies have been biased by predetermined expectations. While theoreticians such as Tzvetan Todorov …

This dissertation analyzes the relationship between several mystic Sephardic texts called the Kabalah which include the three basic mystic books of Judaism: Sefer Yetsira, Sefer Bahir, and Sefer Zohar, and Argentine writer of Jewish descent, Marcos Ricardo Barnatan’s experimenta…

This dissertation examines the genre, narrativity and use of humor in Colonel José Cadalso's 1774 work Cartas marruecas (Moroccan Letters). The Moroccan Letters consists of a fictitious correspondence carried on between three people: Gazel Ben-Aly, a Moroccan youth traveling in …

By the early twentieth century, America had become enamored with standards. Desiring industrial, economic, geographic, and social normalcy, Americans advocated programs—such as eugenics, ugly laws, City Beautiful movements, and the scientific rationalism of Henry Ford and Freder…

This dissertation examines the 9/11 novel for evidence of the continuities of Orientalism, for an intensified resistance to Orientalism, and for a new discourse of conciliation. The analysis primarily employs Said's Orientalism as the theoretical framework to study the selected …

Few world cities can claim to have had as much of an impact on American literature as the Moroccan city of Tangier. The writers who resided in or passed through the city in the 1950s and the works of literature produced there have re-charted the course of American letters. Tangi…