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Secondary World Fantasy has changed significantly since the foundational work of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and the rising popularity of such works necessitates a critical analysis. Lacking the necessary framework and categorization to discuss high fantasy in the proper …

This dissertation defines a new genre called Digital Gothic, a cousin to the classic literary genre of Gothic, which revises the classic Gothic narrative method and aesthetic while retaining the genre’s typical aims of transgression, anxiety, and fear. In this new genre, technol…

This dissertation examines the relationship that exists between wartime poetry written by soldiers during WWI and that written by both soldiers and civilians in subsequent conflicts including WWII and the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The major figures analyzed in this…