Type: Theses / Subject: American literature | Search Results

1. Yiddish and the Avant-Garde in American Jewish Poetry

: Ponichtera, Sarah Elizabeth
: 2012
: Theses
: Comparative literatureYiddish poetryAmerican literatureJapanese poetryLanguage poetryYehoash, -1927Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978Bernstein, Charles, 1950-

2. Writing Diplomacy: Translation, Politics and Literary Culture in the Transpacific Cold War

: Bo, Lamyu Maria
: 2018
: Theses
: Comparative literatureAmerican literatureLiterature--Translations into EnglishDiplomacyTranslatorsCold War (1945-1989)Literature--Translations into ChineseDiplomatic history

3. William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and the Immortalized Artist: On the Successes and Failures of Thomas Sutpen’s Ruthless Design

: Gamble, Kate V.
: 2014
: Theses
: American literatureFaulkner, William, 1897-1962Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner, William)

4. What Maisie Knew and How Henry James Exploited Her Knowledge: A Sacrifice of Character

: Polkes, Aliza J.
: 2014
: Theses
: American literature

5. Wayward Reading: Women's Crime and Incarceration in the United States, 1890-1935

: Hainze, Emily Harker
: 2016
: Theses
: Women prisoners--Social conditionsWomen prisoners in literatureReformatories for womenWomen prisonersAmerican literatureWomen's studies

6. Translated Subjects: Visions of Haiti in 19th-Century Literary Exchange

: Albanese, Mary Grace
: 2017
: Theses
: American literatureAfrican AmericansCaribbean literatureAbstraction in literature

7. Translated Conquests: Archive, History, and Territory in Hemispheric Literatures, 1823-1854

: Van Tine, Mary Lindsay
: 2015
: Theses
: ImperialismImperialism in literatureNineteenth centuryAmerican literatureHistoryLatin Americans

8. The Unforgiving Margin in the Fiction of Christopher Isherwood

: McNeil, Paul
: 2011
: Theses
: American literatureGay and lesbian studiesSexual minoritiesAmericansIsherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986

9. The Transatlantic Renewal of Textual Practices: Philology, Religion, and Classicism in Madame de Staël, Herder, and Emerson

: Wagner, Ulrike
: 2012
: Theses
: German literatureTranscendentalismTranscendentalism in literatureComparative literatureAmerican literatureHerder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817

10. The Terms of Our Connection: Affiliation and Difference in the Post-1960 North American Novel

: James, Jennifer M.
: 2012
: Theses
: American literatureGender identitySex roleGay and lesbian studiesSexual minorities

11. “The Prophetic American Voice of Our Day”: The Implications of Wendell Berry’s Cultural Critique for American Education in the Twenty-first Century

: Driver, Betty Ann
: 2018
: Theses
: Education--PhilosophySustainabilityAmerican literatureEducationBerry, Wendell, 1934-

12. The Predicament of Illegality: Undocumented Aliens in Contemporary American Immigration Fiction

: Llobrera, Kairos
: 2013
: Theses
: American literatureEmigration and immigration in literatureNoncitizens in literatureEmigration and immigration

13. The Postapocalyptic American Frontier: Uncanny Historicism in the Nineteenth Century

: Hay, John Andrew
: 2013
: Theses
: Frontier and pioneer life in literatureApocalyptic literatureIndigenous peoples in literatureAmerican literatureNineteenth centuryHistoricism in literature

14. The Outward Turn: Personality, Blankness, and Allure in American Modernism

: Diebel, Anne
: 2013
: Theses
: American literature

15. The Ontological Imagination: Living Form in American Literature

: Barasch, Benjamin W.
: 2019
: Theses
: American literatureOntologyImaginationComparative literatureHumanism in literature

16. The Objectification of Poetry: Textiles, Maps, Documents, and Margins in the Postwar American Avant-Garde

: Arkebauer, Sarah Hannan
: 2019
: Theses
: American literatureLiteratureAvant-garde (Aesthetics)Poetry

17. The Melting Plot: Interethnic Romance in Jewish American Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century

: Kirzane, Jessica Kirzane
: 2017
: Theses
: JewsComparative literatureAmerican literatureInterethnic marriageEthnic relations in literature

18. The Labor of the Avant-Garde: Experimental Form and the Politics of Work in Post-War American Poetry and Fiction

: Winslow, Aaron
: 2015
: Theses
: American literatureLiterature, ModernLiterature

19. The Feeling of a Line: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Psychology of Imagination

: DeSantis, Alicia M.
: 2013
: Theses
: American literatureLiterature

20. The Central Mystery: Conversion Experiences in Selected Works of Flannery O’Connor

: Kennison, Rebecca R.
: 1987
: Theses
: American literatureReligionO'Connor, Flannery

21. The Borderlands Aesthetic: Realism and Governments at the Edges of Nations

: Donahue, Timothy Mark
: 2015
: Theses
: BorderlandsBorderlands in literatureTerritory, NationalBoundariesAmerican literatureComparative literature

22. Surprise Encounters: Readings in Transatlantic Modernism

: Stanley, Kate
: 2013
: Theses
: American literatureLiterature, Modern

23. Skeletal Testimony: Bony Biopolitics in the Early Atlantic

: Takahata, Kimberly
: 2020
: Theses
: American literatureIndiansIndians of North AmericaSkeletonBones--Collection and preservationColonistsEighteenth centuryApess, William, 1798-1839

24. Simultaneous Diversity: Discontinuity, Entanglement, and Contemporary American Fiction

: Thurman, Alexander C.
: 2000
: Theses
: American literatureCriticism

25. Seeking the True Contrary: The Politics of Form and Experience in American Modernism, 1913-1950

: Webre, Jude Patrick
: 2017
: Theses
: Modernism (Art)Art, AmericanUnited StatesModernism (Literature)HistoryAmerican literature

26. 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

27. Projective Citizenship--The Reimagining of the Citizen in Post-War American Poetry

: Smith, Lytton Jackson
: 2012
: Theses
: American literatureCitizenshipLiteratureLiterature, Modern

28. Prisoners of Style: Slavery, Ethics, and the Lives of American Literary Characters

: Parra, Jamie Luis
: 2016
: Theses
: Characters and characteristics in literatureSlavery in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican AmericansCrafts, HannahTwain, Mark, 1835-1910Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932Faulkner, William, 1897-1962

29. Picturing Reality: American Literary Realism and the Model of Painting, 1875-1900

: Roberts, Zachary John
: 2018
: Theses
: American literatureArtRealism in literatureComparative literaturePaintingArt in literature

30. Our War Paint is Writer's Ink: Ojibwe Literary Transnationalism

: Spry, Adam Michael
: 2014
: Theses
: EthnologyOjibwa literaturePolitics and literatureAmerican literatureIndiansIndians of North America

31. Networks of Displacement Genealogy, Nationality, and Ambivalence in Works by Vladimir Nabokov and Gary Shteyngart

: Darnell, Michael Richard
: 2016
: Theses
: Families in literatureMetaphor in literatureNational characteristicsComparative literatureAmerican literatureSlavic literatureShteyngart, Gary, 1972-Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977

32. 'Native, Yet Foreign': Spain in the African American Imagination

: Pawel, Rebecca Catherine
: 2020
: Theses
: African AmericansAmerican literatureComparative literatureHistoriography

33. 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

34. Mestizo Visionary Art of the Americas in the Late Twentieth Century: Hallucinogens, Politics, Aesthetics and Mass Consumer Culture in the United States, Mexico, and Colombia

: Cadena Botero, Juan David
: 2022
: Theses
: Latin American literatureAmerican literatureHallucinations and illusions in artHallucinogenic drugsLSD (Drug)Art--Political aspectsConsumer behaviorTwentieth centuryAesthetics, ComparativeMestizo cultureMestizos

35. Melville's England

: Bersohn, Leora
: 2011
: Theses
: American literatureCommerce in literatureArt in literatureTravel in literatureMelville, Herman, 1819-1891Redburn (Melville, Herman)Israel Potter (Melville, Herman)

36. Mapping the Global Black South: Aesthetics, Labor, and Diaspora

: McInnis, Jarvis Conell
: 2015
: Theses
: American literatureAfrican AmericansCaribbean literature

37. Investing in Stereotypes: Comic Second-Sight in Twentieth-Century African American Literature

: Hunt, Irvin
: 2014
: Theses
: Wit and humorComedyStereotypes (Social psychology) in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican AmericansTheater

38. ‘Impossible Tales’: Language and Monstrosity in the Literary Fantastic

: Bulla, Irene
: 2018
: Theses
: Comparative literatureAmerican literatureFantasy literatureMonsters in literature

39. Imitating Matter: Ontologies of Reform in the Literature of the Long Reconstruction

: Tsygankova, Valeria
: 2019
: Theses
: American literatureHistoryReformersReconstruction (United States : 1865-1877)

40. Human/Nature: American Literary Naturalism and the Anthropocene

: Polefrone, Phillip Robert
: 2020
: Theses
: American literatureEcologyClimatic changesNaturalism in literatureLondon, Jack, 1876-1916Norris, Frank, 1870-1902Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932

41. Fugitive Poetics: Ecological Resistance in the Plantation Era

: McIntyre, Katherine
: 2020
: Theses
: American literaturePlantation lifeLiterature and raceEcology in literatureSlaveryAmerican poetry

42. Ears Taut to Hear: Sound Recording and Twentieth-Century American Literature

: Teague, Jessica Elaine
: 2013
: Theses
: Sound recordings in literatureSound recordingsSound in literatureAmerican literatureMusic

43. Customary Practice: The Colonial Transformation of European Concepts of Collective Identity, 1580-1724

: Hilliker, Robert J.
: 2007
: Theses
: American literatureCanadian literatureGroup identityComparative literature

44. Common Place: Rereading 'Nation' in the Quoting Age, 1776-1860

: Santiago, Anitta C.
: 2014
: Theses
: American literatureComparative literature

45. Buying Time: Literary Philanthropy and 20th Century American Literature

: Rocca, Alexander Gordon
: 2017
: Theses
: American literatureLiteratureHistoryAuthors and patronsEndowments

46. Archival Vagabonds: 20th-Century American Fiction and the Archive in Novelistic Practice

: Cloutier, Jean-Christophe
: 2013
: Theses
: ArchivesFictionLiteratureAmerican literatureFrench-Canadian literatureWright, Richard, 1908-1960Ellison, RalphKerouac, Jack, 1922-1969McKay, Claude, 1890-1948

47. Animal Abilities: Disability, Species Difference, and American Literary Experimentation

: Bowen, Elizabeth
: 2020
: Theses
: American literatureAnimals in literatureFaulkner, William, 1897-1962Hurston, Zora NealeMorrison, ToniSound and the fury (Faulkner, William)Their eyes were watching God (Hurston, Zora Neale)

48. Afterlives of Violence: The Renewal and Refusal of American Carnage

: Birch, Campbell
: 2019
: Theses
: American literatureComparative literatureIndigenous peoples in literatureAmerican literature--African American authorsPolitical violenceRacism--Political aspectsViolence in literature

49. Active Enchantments: Form, Nature, and Politics in American Literature

: Kuiken, Vesna
: 2015
: Theses
: American literaturePolitics and literatureIdentity (Psychology) in literatureEmerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850James, Henry, 1843-1916James, William, 1842-1910

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1. Yiddish and the Avant-Garde in American Jewish Poetry

2. Writing Diplomacy: Translation, Politics and Literary Culture in the Transpacific Cold War

3. William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and the Immortalized Artist: On the Successes and Failures of Thomas Sutpen’s Ruthless Design

4. What Maisie Knew and How Henry James Exploited Her Knowledge: A Sacrifice of Character

5. Wayward Reading: Women's Crime and Incarceration in the United States, 1890-1935

6. Translated Subjects: Visions of Haiti in 19th-Century Literary Exchange

7. Translated Conquests: Archive, History, and Territory in Hemispheric Literatures, 1823-1854

8. The Unforgiving Margin in the Fiction of Christopher Isherwood

9. The Transatlantic Renewal of Textual Practices: Philology, Religion, and Classicism in Madame de Staël, Herder, and Emerson

10. The Terms of Our Connection: Affiliation and Difference in the Post-1960 North American Novel

11. “The Prophetic American Voice of Our Day”: The Implications of Wendell Berry’s Cultural Critique for American Education in the Twenty-first Century

12. The Predicament of Illegality: Undocumented Aliens in Contemporary American Immigration Fiction

13. The Postapocalyptic American Frontier: Uncanny Historicism in the Nineteenth Century

14. The Outward Turn: Personality, Blankness, and Allure in American Modernism

15. The Ontological Imagination: Living Form in American Literature

16. The Objectification of Poetry: Textiles, Maps, Documents, and Margins in the Postwar American Avant-Garde

17. The Melting Plot: Interethnic Romance in Jewish American Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century

18. The Labor of the Avant-Garde: Experimental Form and the Politics of Work in Post-War American Poetry and Fiction

19. The Feeling of a Line: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Psychology of Imagination

20. The Central Mystery: Conversion Experiences in Selected Works of Flannery O’Connor

21. The Borderlands Aesthetic: Realism and Governments at the Edges of Nations

22. Surprise Encounters: Readings in Transatlantic Modernism

23. Skeletal Testimony: Bony Biopolitics in the Early Atlantic

24. Simultaneous Diversity: Discontinuity, Entanglement, and Contemporary American Fiction

25. Seeking the True Contrary: The Politics of Form and Experience in American Modernism, 1913-1950

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

27. Projective Citizenship--The Reimagining of the Citizen in Post-War American Poetry

28. Prisoners of Style: Slavery, Ethics, and the Lives of American Literary Characters

29. Picturing Reality: American Literary Realism and the Model of Painting, 1875-1900

30. Our War Paint is Writer's Ink: Ojibwe Literary Transnationalism

31. Networks of Displacement Genealogy, Nationality, and Ambivalence in Works by Vladimir Nabokov and Gary Shteyngart

32. 'Native, Yet Foreign': Spain in the African American Imagination

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

34. Mestizo Visionary Art of the Americas in the Late Twentieth Century: Hallucinogens, Politics, Aesthetics and Mass Consumer Culture in the United States, Mexico, and Colombia

35. Melville's England

36. Mapping the Global Black South: Aesthetics, Labor, and Diaspora

37. Investing in Stereotypes: Comic Second-Sight in Twentieth-Century African American Literature

38. ‘Impossible Tales’: Language and Monstrosity in the Literary Fantastic

39. Imitating Matter: Ontologies of Reform in the Literature of the Long Reconstruction

40. Human/Nature: American Literary Naturalism and the Anthropocene

41. Fugitive Poetics: Ecological Resistance in the Plantation Era

42. Ears Taut to Hear: Sound Recording and Twentieth-Century American Literature

43. Customary Practice: The Colonial Transformation of European Concepts of Collective Identity, 1580-1724

44. Common Place: Rereading 'Nation' in the Quoting Age, 1776-1860

45. Buying Time: Literary Philanthropy and 20th Century American Literature

46. Archival Vagabonds: 20th-Century American Fiction and the Archive in Novelistic Practice

47. Animal Abilities: Disability, Species Difference, and American Literary Experimentation

48. Afterlives of Violence: The Renewal and Refusal of American Carnage

49. Active Enchantments: Form, Nature, and Politics in American Literature