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English Theses and Dissertations
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This collection contains some of the theses and dissertations produced by students in the University of Oregon English Graduate Program. Paper copies of these and other dissertations and theses are available through the UO Libraries.
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)Christopher Marlowe’s Hero and Leander presents rich opportunities for understanding early modern sexuality and emotions. In the poem, hyperbolic representations of desire between beings of varying ontological status convey ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)At the Border of Subjectivity: On Literature, Space, and Subalternity critically reexamines the making of the border subject within Mexican and Mexican American literature. I comparatively read texts alongside cultural ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)What is the place of poetry in a postcolonial state? How does the antagonistic relationship between the postcolonial state and colonial language inform the poetics of anglophone and regional poetry? Starting from these ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)My dissertation explains how Hindu right-wing political factions have drawn upon a mythologically mediated superhero iconography to conjure images — and promise the return — of a Hindu golden past. Examining the comic book ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)“Visualizing Erotic Freedom” shows how contemporary Black comedic TV draws on the aesthetic legacy of the Black women’s literary renaissance of the 1970s to re-envision Black sexualities on their own terms. This project ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)This dissertation examines the issue of vocal “ability” where “passing”—as male, as white, as straight, or as abled—is a site of daily conflict for many people whose voices belie their marginalized identities. This disparity ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)Why has Appalachia been written out of the story of modernism? Current scholarship on American modernism’s geography proposes a bipartite model: proximal modernism in the North, a movement based in New York and Chicago ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)Ari Aster’s Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019) serve as unique and illuminating entry points into a discussion of how to take up both textual analysis of film and production studies through an attention to the material ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)Haunting the Future: Imagining Other Futures in Contemporary Diasporic Black and Diasporic Jewish Literature examines how ghosts help those they haunt recognize other ways of understanding history, subjectivity, and living ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)This project argues that we can read feelings in medieval chivalric romance the same way one reads conventional heraldic imagery, and doing so shows us how feelings are a site for identity construction in ways that align ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)Postfeminism & the extra mile examines representations (self-fashioned, fictional, journalistic and corporate-constructed) of women distance runners to explore contemporary discourses of gendered athletic identity. I argue ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)This dissertation explores the imbrication of race, gender, and place in the context of American Southern literature between 1911 and 1942. It examines Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, William Faulkner’s Go Down, ...
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(The University of Oregon, 1958-06)Although Sir Thomas Browne's most important work, the Religio Medici, created an intellectual stir at the time of its publication, the fickle current of taste and appreciation soon veered away and the book was left stranded ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)Ireland’s long history as a British colony raises questions in postcolonial studies about race, class, and gender that an ecocritical lens helps to answer. Drawing on literature, film, and archival photography and radio, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)Before history had christened modernism, the movement had emerged in disabled concepts and forms. It was “degenerate art,” as Hitler infamously put it, before it was modernism. Yet when scholars and many readers examine ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)“Sexuality and the Self” argues against conventional views of early modern subjects as anxious about possible breakdowns of self effected by sexual encounters, showing instead how sex’s potential to radically alter the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)From a young age, Helen Keller was accused of plagiarism over her ability to write about the material world. Such critiques were founded on an understanding of language as an abstraction meant to signify a material reality ...
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From Relationality to Resilience in Contemporary Dakota and Ojibwe Environmental Justice Literature (University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Indigenous literatures offer strong vantage points to address environmental injustice, climate change, and exploitation of marginalized populations in experiential terms. This dissertation approaches Indigenous environmental ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)This dissertation argues that the multiple temporalities of the subaltern, the indigenous, and the Anthropocene operate as critique against the homogenous developmental time of the postcolonial nation as constructed by the ...