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Becomes a Woman Best: Female Prophetic Figures in Shakespeare's Plays
(2015-12-09)This dissertation argues that female characters in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Henry VIII, Richard III, Macbeth, and 1 Henry VI function as prophets in the style of the Old Testament. In a culture that venerates Holy ... -
"The Best And The Brightest:" The Overachievement Rhetoric During America's Polio Epidemics
(English, 2013-03-20)In 1985, Dr. Richard Bruno, a post polio syndrome specialist, conducted a study on the personality traits of polio survivors, ultimately concluding that polio survivors have a significantly higher incidence of reporting ... -
Beyond Good And Evil: Sister Leopolda's Traumatic Will To Power
(English, 2007-08-23)This is an in-depth analysis of one of Louise Erdrich's most extraordinary characters, Sister Leopolda. I examine Leopolda first as a trauma victim who has suffered the loss of family, witnessed the death and assault of ... -
Biography As A Searchlight: Finding The Frank Stanford Story Cycle In Ellen Gilchrist's Fiction
(English, 2011-03-03)Ellen Gilchrist's short stories and novels form several story cycles that connect her characters and tie her work together into interdependent story groups. Her work is also strikingly autobiographical, featuring protagonists ... -
"Black Sounds": Hemingway And Duende
(English, 2007-08-23)Along with his efforts to revitalize the Spanish arts in the 1920's and 1930's, Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca gave an address entitled "Play and Theory of Duende" in which he claims duende as a distinctly ... -
Blood Path: An Original Screenplay Based On The Life And Works Of John Rollin Ridge
(English, 2013-03-20)Blood Path is an original, feature-length screenplay based on the life of John Rollin Ridge (1827-1867), a mixed-blood Cherokee whose work of sensational fiction, The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, is considered ... -
Borges And New Media: Connections Via Heterotopic Spaces
(English, 2011-03-03)Borges' short stories such as "The Aleph" and "The Garden of Forking Paths" were uncanny in their foreshadowing of hypertext and internet developments in the 1990's. His work was often credited as inspiration for various ... -
Breaking Trauma's Empire: Trauma And Resolution In Boardwalk Empire And Breaking Bad
(English, 2014-03-12)The purpose of this research is to analyze the performance of trauma and its resolutions in television, generally, and in Boardwalk Empire and Breaking Bad, specifically. The first chapter of this project analyzes Jacques ... -
Building Cultural Bridges Across Generational Chasms: Comparing Chicano And Jewish American Literature
(English, 2011-07-14)This study compares Arturo Islas's novel, The Rain God: A Desert Tale with Cynthia Ozick's novella, "Envy; or Yiddish in America." Specifically, I argue that during the 1970s, these authors fictionalized the discourse ... -
Chaucer's De-colonized Custance
(English, 2014-07-14)Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale (MLT) contains several non-Western views, religious practices, cultures and laws. Most importantly, within the MLT readers can discover an alternative to viewing non-Western people as enemies. ... -
Children Of Israel: Jacob Figures And Themes In The Novels Of Chaim Potok
(English, 2011-03-03)The twentieth-century novelist Chaim Potok made central to his fiction what he called “culture war,” juxtaposing his Jewish-American characters' inner spiritual lives with key elements of Western secularism. In five of ... -
Colorblind Fraternity: Unseating Racism, Males,
(English, 2007-08-23)This thesis examines four works by Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, and Benito Cereno as examples of a minority of nineteenth-century American literature that deconstruct negative black male stereotypes and promote ... -
The Commentary On Female Self-discipline In Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple And Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette
(English, 2011-07-14)This thesis studies Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple and Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette to explore the embedded commentary about the discourse of female selfdiscipline in the two novels. As two best-selling seduction ... -
Continuing Narratives Of The Pharmakos: Trans-ethical Perspectives Through The Liminal Performativity Of Material Agencies In Drug Genre Film
(English, 2014-12)In American film and television, the drug user or producer is often associated with narratives of the pharmakos, or "scapegoat," seemingly serving to expel the contamination of American identity and ethics. By analyzing ... -
Cracked Foundations: St. Antony, Textual Production, And Genre
(English, 2008-09-17)St. Antony is a saint who defies description. The foundational text about Antony--Athanasius' Life of Antony--is a text that introduces many of the paradigmatic elements of the hagiographic genre yet actually subverts ... -
Creating Myself: Friendship As Black Women's Liberation In Toni Morrison's Sula And Alice Walker's The Color Purple
The talking book trope, begun in the era of and with the authors of slave narratives, firmly establishes a literary tradition for black writers that continues today. Contemporary authors employ this rhetorical device in ... -
The Currency Of Love: The Merging Of Monetary And Amorous Concerns In The Merchant Of Venice and Timon Of Athens
(English, 2010-07-19)I argue that Timon of Athens and The Merchant of Venice illustrate that money and love can exist within the same exchange system, within which each relationship retains a value based upon an expectation of reciprocity. The ... -
"The Curse Never Fell Upon Our Nation Till Now": History And Fear In Philip Roth's The Plot Against America
(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. ... -
Death In Paradise Lost
(English, 2009-09-16)This thesis is an examination of the role that death plays in Paradise Lost. I argue that Milton's conception of death is a unified presentation of a complex but singular theological idea. My analysis examines the ways ... -
Death Of The American Dream: The Revolutionary Meaning Of Infant Mortality And Mourning In Hannah Webster Foster's the Coquette
(English, 2007-10-08)This thesis explores the broader implications of Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette through an acknowledgment and assessment of a male audience. The Coquette is a seduction narrative that is linked through form and ...