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"An Aligned, Transformed, Constructed World": Representing Material Environments in American Literature 1835-1945

Sexton, Melissa (University of Oregon, 2012)

This dissertation seeks to avoid two extremes that have polarized literary debate: on the one hand, a strong constructivism that reduces environments to textual effects; and, on the other hand, a strong realism that elides ...
A Pragmatic Realism: Events, Powers, and Relations in the Metaphysics of Objective Relativism

Taylor, Patrick (University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)

The early twentieth century witnessed the emergence of "objective relativism," a distinctly American school of metaphysical realism inspired by the works of John Dewey and A.N. Whitehead. Largely forgotten, objective ...
A Reality in Question: Negotiating Realism and Storyworld Construction in James Ward Byrkit's Coherence

Leinonen, Valtteri (University of Oregon, 2015)

This paper examines how the film Coherence (2013), directed by James Ward Byrkit, challenges foundational conceptions of its diegetic reality as held by the film’s viewer. The discussion centers around a cognitive ...
The Tension of the Real: Visuality in Nineteenth Century British Realism

Cornwall, Amanda (University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)

This dissertation begins from the problem that is built into realism as a literary genre: its commitment to capturing the unfiltered circumstances of human life will always be at odds with the artifice of its representational ...
Victorian Gothic Materialism: Realizing the Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Psiropoulos, Brian (University of Oregon, 2013-10-10)

This project begins by asking why so many realist novels of the Victorian period also exhibit tropes borrowed from the eighteenth-century gothic romance—its locales, characters, and thematics. While theorizations of realism ...