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Crossing the Human: Posthumanist Deviations in Cormac McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy

Creator:: Johnson, Anthony
Abstract:: This thesis argues that the first two novels of Cormac McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy mark a sharp turn from the antihumanism of his earlier ‘Southern’ novels to a more affective exploration of posthumanist subjectivity within a world dominated by social discourse and metanarratives. In my examination of All the Pretty...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________________________________ Raymond Malewitz This thesis argues that the first two novels of Cormac McCarthy’s The Border

In the Margins of Representation: A Critique of Plascencia's The People of Paper

Creator:: Turk, Tully
Abstract:: This thesis explores the common features that unite postcolonial and posthumanist theories, finding that the Cartesian notion of representationalism has enabled the humanist hierarchy that both fields decry. This humanist hierarchy coalesces in the figure of the author, and as such its most effective criticism takes the form of metafiction....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

“Beyond the Gaze: A Reassessment of Race in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”

Creator:: Bridges, Brandt
Abstract:: Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is one of the most widely read novels written by an Oregonian. A mute Native American, a boisterous Irish white man, and numerous African Americans working behind the scenes of the narrative all converge in this struggle for autonomy. Little to no...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: :_____________________________________________________ Raymond Malewitz Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is one of the most widely

Eaffective Ecopoetics as a Practice for Feeling a World in Crisis

Creator:: Platt, Benjamin D.
Abstract:: Discussions of ecopoetics often seek to investigate how poetics as a form can be rendered more ecological, often in contrast to nature poetry. These conversations tend to concentrate on this generic contrast and the formal qualities of an ecological poetics. Ecopoetics as a field emerged largely as a response to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Raymond Malewitz Discussions of ecopoetics often seek to investigate how poetics as a

"A Sea of Grief is Not a Proscenium": Claudia Rankine's Citizen and the Spectacle of Racist Violence in Cyberculture

Creator:: Lathos, Athena M.
Abstract:: In her 2016 article “Beyond Rights as Recognition, Black Twitter and Posthuman Coalitional Possibilities,” Pritha Prasad argues that the hashtag, one of the decade’s most omnipresent features of digital communication, functions as “a performative composing medium that not only demands relationality” and “call[s] for the recognition of both the Black...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Raymond J. Malewitz In her 2016 article “Beyond Rights as Recognition, Black Twitter and

LSD, Mules and Men : Hypermediation in Hunter S. Thompson and Zora Neale Hurston

Creator:: Collins, Harold R., III.
Abstract:: Hypermediation, as described by Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin in their book Remediation, is a style of writing, recording, presenting, etc. that “makes us aware of the medium or media and (in sometimes subtle and sometimes obvious ways) reminds us of our desire for immediacy” (34). This mode of production...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Raymond J. Malewitz Hypermediation, as described by Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin in their book

A Different Kind of Fatigue : A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Etiology of Burnout in Medical Literature

Creator:: Tran, Jessica
Abstract:: The rate of physician dissatisfaction is steadily rising. Between 2011 and 2012, the number of physicians that would not choose a career in medicine if given the opportunity to decide again increased by 15% (Adams). This discontentment has major repercussions in the midst of the rising need for physicians: it...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: : _____________________________________________________ Raymond Malewitz The rate of physician dissatisfaction is steadily rising. Between 2011 and

“The ivory men make company between us”:  Rethinking subject and object roles in the poetry of T.S. Eliot

Creator:: Harr, Kayla
Abstract:: While metaphysical turmoil is the essential human problem in T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “Preludes,” traditional criticism of the poems relegates the physical world to a merely rhetorical role. This thesis argues that Eliot’s use of objects in his poetry suggests they...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

James Baldwin's Pedagogy of Love: A Method for Transforming American Political Thinking and Pedagogy in the Academy

Creator:: Saleem, Ikhzaan
Abstract:: My thesis examines how the American identity is constructed through thinking shaped by deception and domination, as James Baldwin argues in the corpus of his work. I rely on the work of Eddie Glaude Jr., Sean Kim Butorac, and Joel Schlosser to forward love in Baldwin’s political vision as being...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Raymond Malewitz

Primal Matter : Deep Objects in Historical Accounts of the Glanton Gang

Creator:: Schauer, Austin A.
Abstract:: The question of deep time has been widely debated in the field of American Literature, with scholar Wai Chee Dimock arguing that a deep time perspective puts the chronology of different nations against one another. However, this argument has not adequately addressed the issue of how deep time theories would...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Raymond J. Malewitz

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Crossing the Human: Posthumanist Deviations in Cormac McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy

In the Margins of Representation: A Critique of Plascencia's The People of Paper

“Beyond the Gaze: A Reassessment of Race in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”

Eaffective Ecopoetics as a Practice for Feeling a World in Crisis

"A Sea of Grief is Not a Proscenium": Claudia Rankine's Citizen and the Spectacle of Racist Violence in Cyberculture

LSD, Mules and Men : Hypermediation in Hunter S. Thompson and Zora Neale Hurston

A Different Kind of Fatigue : A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Etiology of Burnout in Medical Literature

“The ivory men make company between us”:  Rethinking subject and object roles in the poetry of T.S. Eliot

James Baldwin's Pedagogy of Love: A Method for Transforming American Political Thinking and Pedagogy in the Academy

Primal Matter : Deep Objects in Historical Accounts of the Glanton Gang

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