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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…

T. E. Lawrence's reading and writing practices in his books and published correspondence demonstrate his vexed relationship to modernism. My dissertation, “Titan, Tome and Triumph: T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom as a Modernist Spectacle,” recovers Lawrence as an import…

In this dissertation, I examine travel and travel writing among British and American writers during the years between World War I and World War II. I focus in particular on how Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings, Wyndham Lewis, and Rebecca West variously employed the travel genre to rec…

Within the modernist period, the avant-garde “aesthetics of assault” and the women's writing so often contrasted to it in fact share an engagement with aesthetic agency and violence. Rather than renouncing the rhetorical weapons of their male modernist colleagues, Gertrude Stein…

This dissertation explores the many allusions to and retellings of the Oedipus myth in twentieth-century writing and examines their relationship to what many have seen as the crisis in humanism as it has unfolded in the past hundred years. For modernists and many of their succes…

This dissertation examines the intertextual relations between classic literature of the Rabbis, the Talmud and Midrash, and the fiction of three early modernist Hebrew writers—Uri Nissan Gnessin, David Fogel, and Dvora Baron. My attempt is to show that intertextual strategies an…

The aim of this thesis is to assess the impact of the Great War on the development of women's writing, giving particular attention to the connections between the experience of the conflict and the evolution of female modernist literary art. I show how the heterogeneous nature of…

This dissertation argues that the innovation of visual expression in Modernist poetry was fundamentally an Orientalist discourse, one that radically diverged from all previous literary modes of fantasizing the Orient by uniquely translating the form of Chinese writing into a rev…

This is a study the emergence and eventual disintegration of the dominant modernist national identity in Turkey. I argue that Turkish national identity was grounded not in an assertion of ethnic or racial purity, but in a modernist agenda of social and political transformation. …