Browsing PhD Dissertations - DO NOT EDIT by Subject "Posthumanism"
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LEAF, BARK, THORN, ROOT: ARBOREAL ECOCRITICISM AND SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA
(2019-04-30)Leaf, Bark, Thorn, Root traces the appearance of trees and their constituent parts in five Shakespearean plays: Macbeth, The Tempest, 3 Henry VI, Richard III, and As You Like It. The dissertation shows how these plays ... -
POSTHUMAN NURTURING IN AMERICAN LITERARY FUTURITIES
(2021-08-16)This dissertation applies posthuman theories to the concept of nurture in American literatures of 1880-1920 and 1980-2020 to explore how writers construct and imagine futurities that increasingly critique the liberal ... -
Space Opera: The Aesthetics of Personhood in the Works and Worlds of Philip K. Dick
(2020-07-31)In this dissertation, I examine the major novels of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick in light of his non-fictional and speculatively mystical writings. After establishing an approach to science fiction in general and ... -
Teaching Elsewhere: Curating↔Calibrating Posthumanist Possibilities
(2018-08-28)Following the material and ontological turns and working within the recent conversation applying posthumanist theory to education and educational research, this dissertation argues that professors can materialize immediate, ...