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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, 2020-09-24)Attempts to define play have highlighted its complexity, making it a difficult concept to fully pin down, particularly in its relationship to game. However, the focus on transformation and creation remain consistent within ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)“Closed Captioning: Reading Between the Lines” argues that captions are a series of rhetorical choices created by captioners influenced by ideological networks which value specific types of bodies, pleasure, language, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)The middlebrow has always caused problems. When the term entered the popular lexicon during the 1920s and ‘30s, critics often used it as an epithet to lampoon middle-class readers who were more interested in accumulating ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)When Rebecca Harding Davis’s novella, Life in the Iron Mills first appeared in Atlantic Monthly in 1861, manufacturing cities had already cultivated an industrial appearance through smoky skies, soot-covered landscapes, ...
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"A Room and the Right Kind of People:" The Ideology of Romantic Comedy in Classical Hollywood Cinema (University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)Screwball comedy was a unique subgenre of romantic comedy occurring in American film of the 1930s and 40s, with an emphasis on fast-paced, witty dialogue, zany physical humor, and strong female characters. This dissertation ...
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(University of Oregon, 1964)
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(University of Oregon, 1964)
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(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)Despite longstanding critiques of single-issue feminisms—feminisms consisting primarily of a response to particular forms of sexism or specifically patriarchal violence—this model for theorizing and protesting gendered and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)On first read, “Lift Not the Painted Veil” supposedly instruct the reader to not lift the painted veil called life as it only is a mirage/mirror of reality painted to convince people that it is truth; however, this reading ...
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(University of Oregon, 1975-09)
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)In a debate significant for both its stakes and longevity, medievalists and early modernists have engaged the question of selfhood and argued about its ostensible “beginning.” Scholars on both sides have imagined the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)In the modern outdoor recreation community (and the $887 billion annually U.S. outdoor industry), there is the concern that outdoor recreationists are “loving our [crags, trails, rivers, summits] to death.” At the same ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)This dissertation asserts that climate change is a narrative problem in addition to a scientific one. I show the representational challenges of climate change to be bound to the complexities of race and nature expressed ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)<i>Make Something Besides a Baby: Race, Gender, and Reproductive Science in 20th Century Black Women's Novels</i> challenges the opposition between literature and science that has obscured the ways Black women write science ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)Building on the assumption that society constructs ideology through, according to Louis Althusser, “apparatuses,” this dissertation explores how medieval romances written from the twelfth through fourteenth century exploit ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)The body was, in many ways, just as imagined as the community in the nineteenth-century. This dissertation bridges the fields of Victorian literature, print culture, and disability studies to demonstrate that print and its ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)This dissertation explores the entanglements of racialized histories and experiences in America with conceptions of animals and animality and examines how African American and Native American writers render these intersections ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)My dissertation project explores the ways in which the banana exposes Americans’ interconnected imaginings of exotic food, gender, and race. Since the late nineteenth century, The United Fruit Company’s continuous supply ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)This project focuses on Horus Gilgamesh’s Awkward Moments of the Children’s Bible, Vol. 1 (2013), an adult picture book that parodies the Bible by illustrating biblical scriptures with child unfriendly images of gore, sex, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)I examine Sesshu Foster’s 2005 alternate history speculative fiction narrative Atomik Aztex using geographer Edward Soja’s concept of “spatial (in)justice” as an analytical lens, arguing Foster focuses on mobility and its ...