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  • Politics of Style: Modernist Embodiments of Gender and Consciousness in the Short Fiction of Virginia Woolf & Clarice Lispector

    Creator:
    Asher, Jamee
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    This thesis argues for a similar politics of style behind the aesthetic experimentation in the short fiction of Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and Clarice Lispector (1920-1977). By locating the two writers within the international trajectories of modernism, I contend that both Woolf and Lispector engage modernist experiments in consciousness as a...
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    her guidance, I would have been entirely lost. A debt of gratitude to Dr. Neil Davison, whose

  • An American College Experience: It Tastes Like Burning

    Creator:
    Shapiro, David L.
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    A collection of short stories in the style of flash fiction. The themes of the stories include relationships, legality, and friendship. The stories are connect by themes, cross self-referencing, repetition, fragmentation, and characters. The main unifying feature is the characterization of the narrator through his response and commentary. The styles...
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    ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ Neil Davison, Committee Member, representing English

  • An Evental Romanticism

    Creator:
    Webster, Austin
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    The Romantic period sits in a liminal historical space when radically different ideas about the categories of past, future, progress, and change coexisted in popular consciousness. The French Revolution inaugurated the concept of an Event, something that appears to come out of nowhere, and that not even the most well-informed...
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    Masters Thesis
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    my thesis committee, Megan Ward and Neil Davison, both for their careful advice and enthusiastic

  • Leslie Marmon Silko and the New Sincerity

    Creator:
    Lackey, Ryan W.
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    One reading of the post-postmodern literary period argues that as formal aesthetics have (re)engaged with ethics there has been a concomitant move to treat literature as a space of ethical potential. Adam Kelly has called this attitude, when combined with the appropriation of certain metafictional and postmodern techniques, the “New...
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    , and his thesis committee members, Neil Davison and Anita Helle. The author also extends his thanks

  • The objects within : an applied OOO literary criticism

    Creator:
    Dodson, Matthew J.
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    For centuries, continental philosophy has clung to the belief that the world only meaningfully exists through human perception--that, in other words, when a tree falls in the forest, it does not make a sound. Literary theory, which has strong roots in continental philosophy, followed suit, remaining tied to humanism even...
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    committee: Flo Leibowitz and Neil Davison, for being such enthusiastic and willing readers though my

  • Sexologists, What of the Night?: Parody and Resistance in Nightwood

    Creator:
    Simpson, Taylor
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    The present study considers the mid-nineteenth century origins of the term “sexual inversion,” as it became applied to a variety of nonnormative subjects and sexual practices. Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood (1936) has long been recognized as a discursive space wherein socially constructed notions of sexuality and gender are interrogated. A key...
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    , Anita Helle, and her thesis committee members, Neil Davison and Jillian St. Jacques. The author also

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

    Creator:
    Bridges, Brandt
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    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...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    _____________________________________________________________________ Neil Davison, Committee Member, representing School of Writing, Literature and Film

  • Our Moral Educators : Educational Debate and Representations of Teachers in the Mid-Century Victorian Novel

    Creator:
    Taylor, Corey
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    In this thesis, I read the teachers in four mid-century Victorian novels--Charles Dickens' David Copperfield (1850) and Hard Times (1854), Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857) and Charlotte Brontё's Villette (1853)-- within the context of mid-century English educational debate in an effort to explicate the ways in which these characters...
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    Masters Thesis

  • "Her Hypnotic Eyes" : Reading the Optical in Aaron Douglas’s Aspects of Negro Life and Nella Larsen's Passing

    Creator:
    Barkley, Charles K.
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    This thesis examines two cultural productions of the Harlem Renaissance: Aaron Douglas's mural series, Aspects of Negro Life, and Nella Larsen's novel Passing. I read these works together because, more than their shared time period, they showcase an attention to the visual. Both Larsen and Douglas's works are concerned with...
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    Masters Thesis
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    discover my own voice in the critical conversation. To Neil Davison, thank you for your support

  • Conjuring September 11, 2001 : Midwest Narratives in the Time of Death

    Creator:
    Josten, Jonathon M.
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    Over the past fourteen years since the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Americans of varied political persuasions have continually identified the day as a defining moment in the history of the nation, which caused a rupture in the cultural rhythm and psyche. This sensibility is...
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    Dr. Neil Davison for our spontaneous chats in the halls of Moreland Hall and our fantastic