Browsing Dissertations & Theses by Author "Brittain, Michael Lynn"
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"A Shot in the Dark": Post-9/11 One-Off Speculative Fiction
Brittain, Michael Lynn; 0000-0001-6964-9076 (2017-08-30)The cultural, political, and historical impact of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, as an event, continues to be questioned. For this project, I will examine six “one-off” or “one-time” works of speculative ... -
"The Curse Never Fell Upon Our Nation Till Now": History And Fear In Philip Roth's The Plot Against America
Brittain, Michael Lynn (English, 2007-08-23)In The Plot Against America, Philip Roth questions the common perception of historic "inevitability" by creating a counter-factual history, placing himself and his childhood family into a fictional World War II America. ...