Subject: American literature | Search Results

1. Citation and Tradition: Hannah Arendt’s and Susan Sontag’s Walter Benjamin Portraits

: Mattner, Cosima
: 2024
: Theses
: American literatureCriticsCriticismQuotations, GermanEditingCharacters and characteristics in literatureFeminist literatureArendt, Hannah, 1906-1975Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969

2. The Work of Art: Honoring the Overlooked in Northeastern American Nature Poetry of the Long Nineteenth Century

: Pollak, Zoë Elena
: 2024
: Theses
: American poetryAmerican literatureAestheticsNature poetryAuthorship--Moral and ethical aspectsNineteenth centuryEnvironmental sciences--PhilosophyTuckerman, Frederick Goddard, 1821-1873Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886Bush-Banks, Olivia Ward, 1869-1944Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962

3. Casual Things: Poetry, Natural History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century America

: Yoon, Ami
: 2023
: Theses
: American literatureAmerican poetryRomanticismNatural historyNineteenth centuryImperialismRacismSlaveryGenocideMelville, Herman, 1819-1891Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911

4. 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

5. Narratives and Neighborhood Change: Writing New York and Chicago in the Twentieth Century

: McMillan, Bo
: 2023
: Theses
: American literatureAfrican AmericansNeighborhoodsNeighborhoods in literatureTenement housesSlumsBrownstone buildingsWorld's Columbian Exposition

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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)

11. Fugitive Poetics: Ecological Resistance in the Plantation Era

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

12. 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

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

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

14. Skeletal Testimony: Bony Biopolitics in the Early Atlantic

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

15. 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

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

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

17. 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

18. The Ontological Imagination: Living Form in American Literature

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

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

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

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

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

21. “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-

22. "Trust in One's Nakedness": James Baldwin's Sophistication

: Posnock, Ross
: 2018
: Articles
: American literaturePopular culture--Study and teachingRacismBaldwin, James, 1924-1987

23. 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

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

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

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. 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

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

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

28. Blood on the Rock: Cather's Southwestern History

: Graham, Thomas Austin
: 2016
: Articles
: History in literatureComparative literatureAmerican literatureCather, Willa, 1873-1947Bolton, Herbert Eugene, 1870-1953

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

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

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

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

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

35. 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

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

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

37. Un nuevo contexto de lectura: literatura latinoamericana en USA

: Montaldo, Graciela Raquel
: 2015
: Reports
: LiteratureLatin American literatureAmerican literature

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

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

39. 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

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

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

41. The Salinger Riddle

: Posnock, Ross
: 2014
: Reports
: Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010American literature

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

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

43. 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)

44. 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

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

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

46. Fish, Crystal, and Loop: Dreiser’s Histories in the “Trilogy of Desire”

: Graham, Thomas Austin
: 2013
: Articles
: American literatureComparative literatureHistory in literatureDreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945Trilogy of desire (Dreiser, Theodore)

47. Surprise Encounters: Readings in Transatlantic Modernism

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

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

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

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

: Diebel, Anne
: 2013
: Theses
: American literature

50. 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

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