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English Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)Reading Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit’s understanding of the visual challenge to logocentric epistemologies presented by Caravaggio’s paintings in Caravaggio’s Secrets against their reading of Caravaggio in film, the biopic ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)This project uses fracture as a framework to analyze and visualize the devastation that settler colonialism has wrought on Indigenous communities, specifically through the history of Yaqui people, my ancestors. Utilizing ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)My dissertation argues that studying literary representations of women’s labor helps us to understand the intersection of racial capitalism and environmental injustice. I examine how various twentieth-century working-class ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)This paper considers how The Noma Guide to Fermentation is a microbiopolitical artifact that (re)produces certain values and characteristics associated with fermentation praxis. The Noma Guide to Fermentation is a significant ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)As horse trainers, a former child star and a mysterious UFO clash in the Agua Dulce desert, Jordan Peele’s Nope (2022), replete with nonhuman actors, presents a generative model for considering the possibilities and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)In this dissertation, I examine literary representations of Jewishness published between 1955 and 2021, after the perceived end of the transition of Jews into whiteness in the mid to late 1940s. Primary among these texts ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)Brand names, advertisements, and marketing strategies fill the pages of much contemporary ethnic American literature that engages with issues of environmental justice. In Toxic Entanglements: Advertising and Material ...
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(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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(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)In this dissertation, I analyze representations of the intersections between sense perception and sociality in early modern English literature. Literary texts from the late sixteenth through mid-seventeenth centuries ...
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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, 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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(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)Lower-class language, logics, and ways of being have been excluded from higher education, especially at selective universities. Fewer people from the lower classes enroll, and those who manage to matriculate do so as ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)Abstract: The history of Neodruidry is a convoluted journey from antiquity to social media. This research assesses the establishment and development of Neodruidry and examines how TikTok created and continues to create new ...
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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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