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(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)Framing my discussion in the 1990s and early 2000s, my dissertation—“A Counterhistory of the Ratchet”—explores what I term “the ratchet aesthetic” as both an aesthetic language that rejects the politics of respectability ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)Heroic fantasy produced by Anglophone creators overwhelmingly and often explicitly draws on western mythopoetic literary traditions. Just as products of the Renaissance and the Victorians before them, late 20th and 21st ...
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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, 2016-11-21)This dissertation seeks to articulate how early modern texts formalize their affective qualities in instances of ambiguity. Positioned within the recent turn away from humoral theories of the passions and toward the ...
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(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 ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-12)In this study, I examine the various techniques used by poets to provide consolation. With Tennyson's In Memoriam, I explore the relationship between formal and thematic consolation, i.e., the ways in which the use of ...
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(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 ...
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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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(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 ...
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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, 2015-08-18)In this thesis, I examine Gwendolyn Brooks’s diptych poems “Two Dedications” from her 1968 collection In the Mecca. Critical accounts of “Two Dedications” cast the poems as fixed oppositions between “frivolous” Western art ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)It is a pity that Old English poetry is not more widely known, not only because it is beautiful and powerful but because to read it is to experience a different way of thinking. It is also a pity - or opportunity - that ...
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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, 2023-03-24)What does it mean to study silence in a field that has historically been the study of speech and language in action? The discipline of rhetoric and composition relies on a foundational equivocation of speech with being and ...
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(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 ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)In the early decades of the twenty-first century William Shakespeare’s works and figure began to arise in Young Adult adaptations and transnarratives focusing upon the undead. These works of werewolf, vampire, and zombie ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-10)A common assumption in theories of the aesthetic is that it is a concept and experience that belongs to modernity. However, as Umberto Eco has shown, the aesthetic was a topic of great consideration by medieval thinkers. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)Medieval bodies often push against easy categorization. Hybrids, saints, giants, and transformative bodies are represented in literature as falling between or occupying multiple taxonomic hierarchical positions of divine, ...
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(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 ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)Contemporary trends in literary and cultural analysis are predicated on a reading practice that reduces their subjects to a binary dichotomy that can be summarized as a hegemonic-versus-subversive discourse where, in the ...
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