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Asynthesis & act: the evental sublime in Badiou, Byron, and Barker

Creator:: Drury, Adam Marshall
Abstract:: Asynthesis & Act is a signiﬁcant intervention into the discourse of the sublime. Through a deep investigation of the critical metaphysics of Immanuel Kant, the ﬁrst chapter of this thesis puts forth the claim that the sublime is a radical experience that occasions a possibility for the individual to commit...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: - revised] AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Adam Marshall Drury for the degree of Master of Arts in English

Irreconcilable differences : modernist representations of class and gender in the early work (1911-1936) of Rebecca West

Creator:: Pence, Peggy D.
Abstract:: This thesis on Rebecca West's writing (1911-1936) addresses the relationship between her polemical essays and her fiction, exploring modernist representations of class and gender differences and conflicts. West expresses a view of gender and class relations in early twentieth century Great Britain that is based on opposed and dichotomous pairs...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Peggy D. Pence for the

Bildungsroman in contemporary black women's fiction

Creator:: Carey, Cecelia V.
Abstract:: Bildungsroman in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction is a study of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Both of these writers implement a newer version of the genre of Bildungsroman to reveal the complexities involved in coming of age for a young woman of color. Both...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Cecelia V. Carey for the degree of

Codified into the word : the intersections of language and violence in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

Creator:: Hagan, Matthew T.
Abstract:: In this thesis I argue that Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel Blood Meridian serves as a critique of the American Western mythos by collapsing aspects of myth, ideology, and the sublime into the question of violence's relationship to language. In explicating the novel, I demonstrate how the ironies staged between the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Matthew T. Hagan for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on

The Word Made Flesh: Molly Bloom’s Political Body

Creator:: Dennon, Anne
Abstract:: The century since James Joyce published Ulysses has been an era of incredible social reconfiguration, particularly for women’s roles and rights, which Joyce foreshadowed in his major works. The developments and divisions of feminist theory ultimately return to Joyce as an author who attempted an early example of what might...
Resource Type:: Research Paper
Full Text:: the ultimate product of her work, a burial shroud for her father- in-law. The finished piece is of

"Its Own Sense of Verisimilitude" : The Lizzie Bennet Diaries As a Transhistorical Adaptation of the Semipublic

Creator:: Surface, Samara
Abstract:: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a multimodal adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, released from 2012-2013. As a media event, the show proved how effective transmedia storytelling can be, eventually winning an Emmy for Original Interactive Program. In creating an intensely immediate narrative world, the series adapted more than Jane Austen’s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: provided opportunities for women to challenge patriarchal standards by writing or participating in the

Form Fits Content in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Creator:: Hogan, James Joseph
Abstract:: In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce used the form or structure of his language to connote a meaning which supported the content of the text. The elements of form he used most often were sentence and paragraph structure, punctuation, rhythm, and classical rhetorical schemes....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF lames J. Hogan for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary

Global Citizen, Global Consumer: Study Abroad, Neoliberal Convergence, and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon

Creator:: Barbour, Nancy Staton
Abstract:: This thesis examines the convergence of neoliberal rhetoric across popular media, academic, and institutional discourses, and draws connections between contemporary women's travel literature and common scripts in study abroad promotion. Finding such narratives to be freighted with ethnocentric constructs and tacit endorsements of market-based globalization, I critique the mainstreaming of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Nancy Barbour for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary

Running Athwart the Human : Queer (Un)Intelligibility and Animal Connections in Justin Torres' We the Animals and Mario Bellatín's Beauty Salon

Creator:: Kennedy, Amy
Abstract:: This thesis examines notions of social unintelligibility produced within queer spaces in two primary texts: Justin Torres' We the Animals and Mario Bellatín's Beauty Salon. Chapter One discusses the racial and queer marginalization of the unnamed narrator and explores his turn towards an "animal language" in his moment of exposure...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -humanist values lead and because ‘full-humanity’ has never been the only horizon for queer becoming…The

James Joyce's critique of "Faubourg Saint Patrice" : Ulysses, the Catholic Panopticon, and religious dressage

Creator:: Nelson, John C. M.
Abstract:: In his works, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses (1922), James Joyce demonstrates what he perceives to be the paralyzing effects of those institutionalized religions that sit at the center of cultures. Drawing on Michel Foucault's analysis of institutional dressage as well as his...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , the Catholic Panopticon, and religious dressage AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF John C.M. Nelson for

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Asynthesis & act: the evental sublime in Badiou, Byron, and Barker

Irreconcilable differences : modernist representations of class and gender in the early work (1911-1936) of Rebecca West

Bildungsroman in contemporary black women's fiction

Codified into the word : the intersections of language and violence in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian

The Word Made Flesh: Molly Bloom’s Political Body

"Its Own Sense of Verisimilitude" : The Lizzie Bennet Diaries As a Transhistorical Adaptation of the Semipublic

Form Fits Content in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Global Citizen, Global Consumer: Study Abroad, Neoliberal Convergence, and the Eat, Pray, Love Phenomenon

Running Athwart the Human : Queer (Un)Intelligibility and Animal Connections in Justin Torres' We the Animals and Mario Bellatín's Beauty Salon

James Joyce's critique of "Faubourg Saint Patrice" : Ulysses, the Catholic Panopticon, and religious dressage

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