• RING AROUND THE ROSIE: QUEER TEMPORALITY IN NARRATIVES OF TRAUMA 

  Muhic, Dina (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  This dissertation employs both traditional and digital tools to analyze fictional texts through the converging lenses of narratology, queer theory, and trauma studies. I am invested specifically in the work fictional ...

• THE MAKING OF A PRINCESS: THE ROLE OF RITUAL IN CREATING COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY IN THE SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE ANACHRONISM 

  Parker, Deborah (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  Every weekend in the Society for Creative Anachronism, people from the far reaches of the globe leave behind the structures of their everyday lives, dress themselves in clothing from the Middle Ages, and construct medieval ...

• Between Us We Can Kill a Fly: Intersubjectivity and Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy 

  Macrae, Mitchell (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  Using recent scholarship on intersubjectivity and cultural cognitive narratology, this project explores the disruption and reformation of early modern identity in Elizabethan revenge tragedies. The purpose of this dissertation ...

• The Nature of the Secular: Religious Orientations and Environmental Thought in Nineteenth-Century American Literature 

  Zandstra, Robert (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

  My dissertation argues that changes in the structures and orientations of religious thought, changes commonly understood as secularization, have provided the intellectual underpinnings for the modern exploitation and ongoing ...

• Mending the Impossible 

  Blade, Kristine Lynn (University of Oregon, 1979-06)

• By the Will of the King: Majestic and Political Rhetoric in Ricardian Poetry 

  Driscoll, William (University of Oregon, 2017-09-27)

  The stories we tell give meaning and coherence to our political situation; they reproduce, interrogate, and, at times, challenge the discourse of authority. Thus, when the political situation changes so do our narratives. ...

• Rhetoric of Resistance: Social Justice in the Work of Wollstonecraft, Cugoano, and Godwin 

  Crane, Jessica (University of Oregon, 2017-09-27)

  This dissertation examines the rhetoric employed by Wollstonecraft, Cugoano, and Godwin who devise a top-down/bottom-up dialectic of social-justice writing which can be read as grassroots advocacy. The authors write with ...

• Tales of the Hasidim: Martin Buber's Universal Vision of Ecstatic Joy and Spiritual Wholeness 

  Hanna, Charles (University of Oregon, 2017-09-27)

  I will examine Martin Buber’s Tales of the Hasidim, and the limits of his concepts of “ecstatic joy” and “spiritual wholeness.” To Buber, Hasidic legends present the possibility of overcoming tensions between the quotidian ...

• Romanticism's Moving Bodies: Literary Embodiment and Affect 

  McAlvage, Katherine (University of Oregon, 2017-09-27)

  Romanticism’s Moving Bodies examines the centrality of the material body to poetry, prose, and visual culture of the so-called Romantic project in British Literature. In this project, I bring together the movement of body ...

• Funny Business: Women Comedians and the Political Economy of Hollywood Sexism 

  Martinez, Diana (University of Oregon, 2017-09-27)

  In the last five years there has been great public interest in Hollywood’s “gender problem,” namely its unequal representation of women in key creative roles such as director, producer, and studio head. Yet, in the long ...

• Stylish Politics: Long Takes in Post-1945 Cinema 

  Cheney, Zachary (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  This dissertation is a politically conscious, comparative-historical formal analysis of long takes at the intersection of art and mass-market cinemas in the post-WWII era. Given the contemporary fascination with long takes ...

• Weighing in on Wonder Woman: Analyzing Gardner Fox's Writing for Potential Sexism 

  DeRoss, Jennifer (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  Wonder Woman is seen as the embodiment of feminism in the comic world and her placement as the secretary of the Justice Society of America is seen as a crime against her character. Many blame Gardner Fox for this decision, ...

• Beautiful Empire: Race, Gender, and the Asian/American Femme on U.S. Network Television 

  Seid, Danielle (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  Since the earliest days of broadcast television in the 1950s, network television has maintained a keen fascination with Asian/American women, who implicitly helped secure the boundaries of white women’s “empire of the ...

• The Prince, The Punisher, and The Perpetrator: Masculinity in Animal/Monster Groom Tales 

  Kupsch, Mary (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  Feminist scholarship concerning fairy tales is too limited. While relationships between male and female characters have been explored extensively, this thesis focuses on masculinity as it is performed in interactions between ...

• American Modernism's Gothic Children 

  Godwin, Hannah (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  This dissertation delineates a range of literary endeavors engaging the gothic contours of child life in early to mid-twentieth century America. Drawing fresh attention to fictional representations of the child in modernist ...

• Congruent Affinities: Reconsidering the Epideictic 

  Griffin, Joseph (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  Aristotle's division of the "species" of rhetoric (deliberative, forensic, and epideictic) has served as a helpful taxonomy in historical accounts of rhetoric, but it has also produced undesirable effects. One such effect ...

• Musing Sadly on the Dead: Erotic Epistemology in the Nineteenth-Century English Elegy 

  Green, Jordan (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  This project is about what I am calling an “erotic epistemology” in nineteenth-century English elegiac poetry, a condition or event in a poetic text in which the discourses of love and knowledge are, to use a term Shelley ...

• Extending the Line: Early Twentieth Century American Women's Sonnets 

  Wakefield, Eleanor (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  This dissertation rereads sonnets by three crucial but misunderstood early twentieth-century women poets at the intersection of the study of American literary history and scholarship of the sonnet as a genre, exposing and ...

• Antagonistic Cooperation: Prose in American Poetry 

  LeRud, Elizabeth (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  Poets and critics have long agreed that any perceived differences between poetry and prose are not essential to those modes: both are comprised of words, both may be arranged typographically in various ways—in lines, in ...

• Honey from Maggots: Aura, Sacrifice, and the Human Universe in Charles Olson’s “The Kingfishers” 

  Roethle, Christopher (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

  In this thesis, I contend that some form of aura can be recovered from the ravages of technological reproduction described in Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility (Third ...

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