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  • Space and movement : dance, art, and the poetry of William Carlos Williams

    Creator:
    Hoch, Jamie
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    The Modern era, roughly the time between 1860-1930, brought about a significant restructuring of artistic mediums. From the canvas to the page, artists of the twentieth century turned towards collaboration as a means by which they could reconfigure their works. Painters, writers, and dancers, borrowed aesthetic techniques from one another...
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    of Modernist literature took place in a cultural climate characterized by an unprecedented

  • Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

    Creator:
    Wood, Amy
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    In This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the importance of wealth as a factor in supporting happiness and fostering the American Dream on an individual basis. With these texts, Fitzgerald acknowledges that wealth is a factor and, simultaneously, a...
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    whom he went to college, and he wanted to fit in with them. His “moving experience” was the “poor

  • Caution – ideological mechanisms at work : interpellation and the melancholic turn in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden

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    Travers, Jessica D.
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    In this thesis I examine the ideological mechanisms that work to constitute, construct, and maintain subject identity. Such mechanisms include repetition, performativity, identification, and interpellation. I incorporate structuralist, post-structuralist, and psychoanalytic theories as a means to discuss the ways in which gender, sexuality, and identity are performative masquerades. Furthermore, these...
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    the Melancholic Turn in Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden

  • Fighting tradition : Hemingway’s Nick Adams and shell shock

    Creator:
    McGrath, Cole P.
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    In his Nick Adams stories, Ernest Hemingway traces the life of a single man as he moves from boyhood to adolescence to adulthood to fatherhood. From the beginning of Nick Adam’s life, it is clear that he does not fit into the role of the traditional hero. In addition, Nick...
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    the Chimera. On a looser level, many adversaries in epic literature are not clearly defined

  • Radical/domestic : representations of the professor in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin

    Creator:
    Butcher, Ian
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    This thesis is an exploration of literary representation of professors, specificially in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin. I explicate the political unconscious of these texts by teasing out the tensions and ironies stemming from the conflict between the radical political consequences of the titular characters' scholarship...
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    professors have been represented in American literature during the twentieth century (9). I posit that in

  • Edith Wharton’s dark ecology : representations of nature in three major novels

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    Bacon, Julie M.
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    This thesis is arranged in three chapters which explore Wharton’s representations of nature in three novels: The House of Mirth (1905), The Fruit of the Tree (1907), and The Custom of the County (1913). This thesis contends that Wharton’s novels reveal changes in the interplay between representations of nature and...
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    issues. In literature and art, one type of culturally constructed relationship between women and nature