| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| Postmortem postmodernists : authorship and cultural revisionism in late twentieth-century narrative |
2006 |
8339 |
"The past three decades have witnessed an explosion of narratives in which the literary greats are brought back to life, reanimated and bodied forth in new textual bodies. In the works herein examined--Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower, Peter Ac... |
| [H]ere was one room ; there another : tracing relations between self and other in Woolf and Bakhtin ; and, So, I called myself Pip : voice, authority, and the monological self in Great expectations |
2006 |
5074 |
"This first paper examines Virginia Woolf's understanding of the relationship between self and other as expressed in Jacob's Room and Mrs. Dalloway. Because Woolf only indirectly articulates her ideas regarding the interconnections between individual... |
| Lolita the immortal: Nabokov, Kubrick, and Lyne's nymphet ; and Luray's pearls: a woman's life, struggle and wisdom in North Carolina, 1921-2008 |
2009 |
15858 |
"Lolita the Immortal: Nabokov, Kubrick, and Lyne's Nymphet" is an analysis of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel, Stanley Kubrick and Adrian Lyne's films, and at times a look at the screenplay of each film. The purpose is to compare and contrast ... |
| T. S. Eliot’s debt to J. M. Robertson: a consideration of their critical theories as represented in Eliot’s 1919 Athenaeum reviews. |
2009 |
6235 |
The purpose of my thesis was to examine the critical relationship between T. S. and J. M. Robertson. Both writers were important figures in driving the evolution of Twentieth century literary theory toward scientific empiricism. But there has been no... |
| Suffering and liberation: the personal poetics of Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsberg |
2011 |
12618 |
This dissertation examines Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsberg's personal poetry. While both poets attend to the random details of daily life, thereby establishing common ground as autobiographical writers, they differ markedly in their perspectives abo... |
| Bernard Shaw as devil's advocate |
1978 |
1759 |
George Bernard Shaw, the nineteenth century Irishman, became a notable twentieth century British dramatist. Though he did not shed his nineteenth century theatrical and philosophical origins any more than he disposed of his Irish humor and gift of ga... |
| Nabokov : the artist against caprice |
1987 |
1720 |
This study examines the use of detachment in the novels of Vladimir Nabokov, a detachment that has earned Nabokov an undeserved reputation as an aesthete interested only in manipulating his characters within intriguing artistic patterns. I attempt to... |
| Outlaw knot-makers : context, culture, and magic realism |
1995 |
5454 |
Outlaw Knot-Makers is a study of recent Postmodernism, focusing on five works. I consider three novels-Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold. William Kennedy's Ironweed. and Toni Morrison's Beloved-and two autobiographies, Art Spiege... |
| The novels of Roddy Doyle |
1996 |
1148 |
This dissertation is a critical examination of the five published novels of Roddy Doyle, The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, and The Woman Who Walked into Doors. Since this dissertation will be the first of its kind about Do... |
| Naturalism, the new journalism, and the tradition of the modern American fact-based homicide novel |
1993 |
4215 |
With the 1965 publication of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote announced the creation of a new literary genre: the "nonfiction novel." Because Capote's book inspired a succession of "copycats," many critics have traced a genre from it. But Capote's book i... |
| Concubines and second sons: stereotypes, transnationalism, and the production of identity |
2009 |
6138 |
The scope of my project identifies and critiques the fractured subjectivities of fictional characters through a transnational and transcultural lens. I focus my argument around characters who live in or originate from East and Southeast Asia. Critica... |
| Exile in the fiction of Joseph Conrad and Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
1985 |
326 |
Two nineteenth Slavic writers, Joseph Conrad and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, suffered intense personal experiences of exile; the former endured seven childhood years in Russian exile with his Polish parents because of their revolutionary activities against t... |
| Dread and portent: reading H. P. Lovecraft`s Necronomicon as social commentary |
2010 |
21484 |
This dissertation explores the narratives of twentieth-century American author H. P. Lovecraft, focusing on those tales which feature his creation of a metafictional spellbook titled the Necronomicon. Relying on a close reading of the texts, critical... |
| Cosmopolitan criminality in modern British literature |
2015 |
3260 |
Advances in cosmopolitan mobility, hybridity, and transnationalism during the modern age contributed to new criminal identity formations and classifications of crimes. This dissertation examines modern British fiction’s construction of cosmopolitan c... |
| The Irish theatre of Brian Friel : texts and contexts |
1992 |
3854 |
This dissertation places the sixteen plays of the contemporary Irish playwright Brian Friel, one of the leading dramatists writing in the English language today, in the context of Irish culture. I investigate the various Irish myths and legends to wh... |
| Wallace Stevens, James Merrill, and the way of the dandy |
1989 |
1397 |
Wallace Stevens and James Merrill seem to embody in their lives and poems the qualities of the dandy—not the fin de siècle dandyism of mere stylized dress, social hauteur, and public theatrics but the complete philosophy of life described by Jules Ba... |