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  • Crafting Radical Fictions: Late-Nineteenth Century American Literary Regionalism and Arts and Crafts Ideals 
    Roberts, Rosalie (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)
    This dissertation demonstrates that Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Mary Hunter Austin’s The Land of Little Rain (1906), Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899), and Mary Wilkins Freemans The Portion ...
  • Disabling Modernism: Literature, History, Embodiment 
    Steele, Alexander (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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Networks of Modernism: Toward a Theory of Cultural Production 
    Hannah, Matthew (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)
    In “Patria Mia,” his 1913 series of essays in New Age magazine, Ezra Pound uses a metaphor for modernist cultural production that informs and structures this dissertation. “If it lie within your desire to promote the arts,” ...
  • Standing at the Precipice: Restrained Modernism in the Fiction of E.M. Forster, Nella Larsen, and Elizabeth Bowen 
    Bash, Rachel (University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)
    In the field of literary modernism, value has been assigned most often to texts that display a certain kind of innovation: aggressive, destructive, and difficult. Other, quieter texts have been relegated to the periphery ...
  • Static Chaos: The Great War and Modern Novels of Sterility 
    Stoeckl, Sarah (University of Oregon, 2012)
    The Great War was unprecedented both in its devastation and in the significance people attached to it, which this dissertation contends led to a crisis of representation that manifested in literary tropes and discourses ...
  • Visuality and Free Verse 
    Roethle, Christopher (University of Oregon, 2023-07-06)
    More than a hundred years after Whitman, vers libre, and the Imagist movement, many poets still have a remarkably indistinct understanding of what it means to write in free verse, as the form is too often defined by what ...

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