Browsing Department of English by Author "Roemer, Kenneth M."
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1984 in 1894: Harben's Land of the Changing Sun
Roemer, Kenneth M. (College of Arts and Sciences, 1972/1973) -
"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 ... -
Beyond Good And Evil: Sister Leopolda's Traumatic Will To Power
Feitosa, Alisha Stafford (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 ... -
Blood Path: An Original Screenplay Based On The Life And Works Of John Rollin Ridge
Chamberlain, Jennifer (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 ... -
Colorblind Fraternity: Unseating Racism, Males,
Kinkead, April Leigh (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 ... -
"A Condition Of Potentiality": American Women's Utopian And Science Fiction, 1920-1960
Arnold, Bridgitte Barclay (English, 2009-09-16)The 1920-1960 period of women-authored United States utopian and science fiction deserves a reassessment. This study focuses on utopian texts and science fiction texts with strong utopian emphasis and recovers 41 women-authored ... -
Covers, Titles, and Tables
Roemer, Kenneth M.; Shaffer, Bethany; Jacobs, Lori (University of Texas at Arlington Library, 2011-02-23)The "canon wars" of the 1980s and 1990s spilled over into highly publicized political debates about what types of literature should "represent" Americans and what is the "best" of our literature and culture. Unfortunately, ... -
Disabling Sex Education: Science, Narrative, and the Female Body in Feminist Medical Fiction, 1874-1916
Tavera, Stephanie P (2017-05-05)This dissertation offers a feminist disability theory approach to women’s medical fiction during the Comstock Law Era. I argue that, in responding to Comstockian censorship, women authors of medical fiction resisted sexed ... -
The Heuristic Powers of Indian Literatures: What Native Authorship Does To Mainstream Texts
Roemer, Kenneth M. (University of Nebraska PressDepartment of English, The University of Texas at Arlington, Summer 199) -
Indi'n Humor, Tricksters, And Stereotype In Selected Works Of Gerald Vizenor, Thomas King, And Sherman Alexie
Baxter, Corby J (English, 2012-07-25)Humor in American Indian literature is a popular and important area of study. Yet, to date few full-length studies have compared the role of humor in Gerald Vizenor, Thomas King, and Sherman Alexie. This study offers a ... -
Inventive Modeling: Rainy Mountain's Way to Composition
Roemer, Kenneth M. (National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 1984-12) -
"A Labor Of Love": A Social And Literary History Of The Blue Cloud Quarterly
Yardy, Bethany Ann (English, 2014-12)This thesis will explore the literary and historical context of a small magazine publication entitled the Blue Cloud Quarterly. The first publication of its kind to focus entirely on Native American poetry, the BCQ played ... -
Maternal Bodies, Ojibwe Histories And Materiality In The Novels And Memoirs Of Louise Erdrich
McCormack, Jodi Bain (English, 2009-09-16)This thesis examines uterine metaphors and birthing scenes in the novels and memoirs of Louise Erdrich. Specifically, it examines convergences between these images and material feminisms, as well as Ojibwe spirituality and ... -
The Multi-Missionary Eleanor Roosevelt of American Indian Literatures
Roemer, Kenneth M. (University of Nebraska PressDepartment of English, The University of Texas at Arlington, Summer 200) -
Native Spaces Of Continuation, Preservation, And Belonging: Louise Erdrich's Concepts Of Home
Wilson, Jonathan Max (English, 2008-08-08)In light of continual Native migration, relocation, and hybridization, it is my intention to examine the evolution and diversification of home in a spectrum of Louise Erdrich's writing. My examination of the texts focuses ... -
No Utopia Is An Island: The Ecosystem Of Utopias In Paul Mcauley's Quiet War Saga
Beauchesne, Kerri (English, 2013-03-20)In this thesis, I argue that a new, ambitious variety of literary utopia, which I call an ecosystem utopia, has developed over the past forty years, chiefly in science fiction and fantasy. My primary examples are Paul ... -
Perception and Imagination: A Note on Seven Arrows
Roemer, Kenneth M. (University of Nebraska PressDepartment of English, The University of Texas at Arlington, Autumn 198) -
The Potential Of Posthumanism: Reimagining Utopia Through Bellamy, Atwood, And Slonczewski
Mckeever, Jacob Aaron (English, 2014-12)In this thesis, I focus on posthumanist theory, utopia, and the evolving portrayal of technology in the novels of Edward Bellamy, Margaret Atwood, and Joan Slonczewski. The main argument of this thesis is that there is a ... -
Reinventing The Self: Native American Women's Autobiographies
Rozzell, Kristin Lynn (English, 2008-04-22)Native American women's autobiographies are complex writings that stretch the very genre itself. As the genre of autobiography is reinvented by both early and contemporary texts, the nature of self expression through that ... -
A Retro-Prospective on Audience, Oral Literatures, and Ignorance
Roemer, Kenneth M. (University of Nebraska Press, Fall 1997)