Academic Unit: English and Comparative Literature / Type: Theses | Search Results

1. Can I Get a Witness?—Living While Black Death is Trending

: Del Sol, Lisa
: 2023
: Theses
: African Americans--Violence againstYoung adults, BlackRacismSocial mediaRace relationsMartin, Trayvon, 1995-2012Till, Emmett, 1941-1955Facebook (Firm)Instagram (Firm)Twitter (Firm)

2. Crossing the Americas: Empire, Race, and Translation in the Long Nineteenth Century

: Cádiz Bedini, Daniella
: 2023
: Theses
: Comparative literatureLatin American literatureAmerican literatureMexican War (1846-1848)African AmericansHispanic AmericansPolitical activistsCather, Willa, 1873-1947Ridge, John Rollin, 1827-1867Martí, José, 1853-1895Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885Delany, Martin Robison, 1812-1885

3. A Howling In the Paperwork: Feminist Practice in the Archives of the Caribbean

: Schorske, Carina del Valle
: 2022
: Theses
: Women's studiesWomen artistsStone carvingSculpture, CubanPuerto Rican poetryMendieta, Ana, 1948-1985Cabrera, LydiaPalma, MarigloriaDash, Julie

4. All Along…! The Pre-History of the Plot Twist in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

: Terlunen, Milan
: 2022
: Theses
: English literatureComparative literatureFiction--Stories, plots, etc.Literature--Stories, plots, etc.Nineteenth centuryMaupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976fAusten, Jane, 1775-1817Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Christie, Agatha)Emma (Austen, Jane)Great expectations (Dickens, Charles)

5. Documents of Revolution: Literacy, Translation and Internationalism in the Spanish Civil War

: Tripathi, Ameya
: 2022
: Theses
: Comparative literatureCivil War (Spain : 1936-1939)Spanish literatureEnglish literatureAmerican literatureHernández, Miguel, 1910-1942León, María TeresaHughes, Langston, 1902-1967Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965Orwell, George, 1903-1950

6. Fictions of Discernment in Late Medieval England

: Park, Yea Jung
: 2022
: Theses
: English literature--Middle EnglishLiterature, MedievalKnowledge, Theory of, in literature

7. Found Things: Variations in information density in long-form narrative

: Bohannon, Catherine Ridder
: 2022
: Theses
: LiteratureCognitive psychologyReading--Physiological aspectsLong-term memoryJoyce, James, 1882-1941Orwell, George, 1903-1950Agee, James, 1909-1955Portrait of the artist as a young man (Joyce, James)

8. Passive Life: Vitalism and British Fiction, 1820-1880

: Newby, Diana Rose
: 2022
: Theses
: English literaturePhilosophyVitalism in literatureSpinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876Eliot, George, 1819-1880

9. Rhythm Changes: Jazz Rhythm in the African American Novel

: Levy, Aidan
: 2022
: Theses
: English literatureAmerican literature--African American authorsMusic in literatureJazz in literatureJazz musicians in literatureAfrican American jazz musiciansHarlem RenaissanceEllison, RalphFisher, Rudolph, 1897-1934Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974Rollins, SonnyTaylor, Cecil, 1929-2018Petry, Ann, 1908-1997Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014Invisible man (Ellison, Ralph)

10. Rum, Rome, and Rebellion: The Reform of Reform in the Political Fiction of the Gilded Age

: Fernandez, Matthew Joseph
: 2022
: Theses
: American literatureHistoryComparative literaturePolitics in literaturePolitical satire, AmericanAmerican wit and humorNineteenth centuryMelville, Herman, 1819-1891Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859James, Henry, 1843-1916Adams, Henry, 1838-1918Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864Santayana, George, 1863-1952Ruiz de Burton, María Amparo, 1832-1895

11. The Hostile Tropics: Towards a Postcolonial Discourse of Climate

: Banful, Akua A.
: 2022
: Theses
: Comparative literatureSlaveryEcology in literatureImperialism in literaturePostcolonialismConrad, Joseph, 1857-1924Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970Carpentier, Alejo, 1904-1980Phillips, CarylPepetela

12. Archepollycyes: Fiction and Political Institution around Philip Sidney

: Lundy, Timothy
: 2021
: Theses
: English literatureClassical literaturePoetryMonarchyPolitics and literatureSidney, Philip, 1554-1586Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of, 1561-1621Greville, Fulke, Baron Brooke, 1554-1628Gorboduc (Norton, Thomas)Baptistes (Buchanan, George)Arcadia (Sidney, Philip)

13. Black Lyric: Trauma and Poetic Voice in Contemporary Irish Drama

: McHugh, Meadhbh
: 2021
: Theses
: TheaterIrish dramaDramatists, IrishPain in the performing artsMcDonagh, MartinCarr, Marina, 1964-Murphy, Thomas, 1935-2018

14. Circulating Knowledges: Literature and the Idea of the Library in Renaissance England

: Windhauser, Kevin Joseph
: 2021
: Theses
: English literatureEuropean literature--RenaissanceLibrariesRenaissanceProtestantismBodley, Thomas, Sir, 1545-1613Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674

15. Consuming the Word: Figures of Vernacular Translation in Late Medieval Christian Poetry

: Saretto, Gianmarco Ennio
: 2021
: Theses
: Literature, MedievalComparative literatureChristian poetry, English (Middle)HistoryMiddle AgesDante Alighieri, 1265-1321Plowman, PiersLibro de buen amor (Ruiz, Juan)Convivio (Dante Alighieri)De vulgari eloquentia (Dante Alighieri)

16. Missing Homes: Poe, Brontë, Dickens and Displacement

: Brown, Natalie
: 2021
: Theses
: English literatureAmerican literatureComparative literatureHome in literatureHomeless persons in literatureNostalgia in literatureNineteenth centuryPoe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

17. "Oh, Awful Power": Energy and Modernity in African American Literature

: Gordon, Walter
: 2021
: Theses
: African AmericansPower resourcesLiteratureAmerican literature--African American authorsLiterature, ModernDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963Schuyler, George S. (George Samuel), 1895-1977O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953Jones, J. McHenryPetry, Ann, 1908-1997Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 1896-1977Hairy ape (O'Neill, Eugene)

18. “Our World-Work”: Gender and Labor in African Diasporic Literatures

: Reid, Tiana
: 2021
: Theses
: Literature--Black authorsAmerican literature--African American authorsLabor in literatureGender identity in literatureWomen, Black, in literatureDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963Marshall, Paule, 1929-2019

19. Performance as Translation in the Americas: Ana Mendieta's Feminist Ethnographies, 1973-81

: Ray, Montana
: 2021
: Theses
: EthnologyFeminism in artGender identityFeminist anthropologySex roleTaino IndiansCiboney IndiansArt, CubanMendieta, Ana, 1948-1985Oiticica, Hélio, 1937-1980Ortiz, Fernando, 1881-1969

20. Presumption and Despair: The figure of Bernard in Middle English imaginative literature

: Horn, Adam
: 2021
: Theses
: English literature--Middle EnglishLiterature, MedievalMiddle AgesHistoryCanterbury tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey)Imagination in literatureBernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153Plowman, PiersMalory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th centuryParson's tale (Chaucer, Geoffrey)Prick of conscience

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