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Resisting Commodification (with Friends!): Facebook And Consumer Culture
(English, 2011-10-11)
Is participating in the Facebook phenomenon (or can it become) politically resistant - even revolutionary? Or are social networking websites merely another form of commodified capitalist consumerism? In this thesis, I ...
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 ...
Moving Beyond This Moment: Employing Deleuze And Guattari's Rhizome In Postcolonialism
(English, 2011-10-11)
The aim of this project is two-fold: to discuss the limits of Frantz Fanon's postcolonial theories, and to then present a possible model for turning "the `thing' colonized [into] a new man" (Wretched 2) by liberating "him" ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Japan In The Mirror Of Language: The Failure Of Language To Represent Objects In Travel Narratives On Japan
(English, 2011-03-03)
The travel narrative is, ostensibly, little more than representation of foreign places and things, foreign objects. The language of the travel narrative seems, on the surface, to succeed in representing the foreign. None ...
An Ecocritical Exploration Of The Unique Nature Of Early Modern Oceans In The Blazing World And The Tempest
(English, 2011-03-03)
Early modern perceptions of oceanic space diverged from standard perceptions of nature on land (or land-nature) because oceans presented a different type of wilderness. Because oceans defied early modern definitions of ...