Browsing by Subject "Literature"
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A Poetics of Globalism: Fernando Vallejo, the Colombian Urban Novel, and the Generation of `72
(2011)This thesis explores the confluence and clashes between local and global cultural flows in Latin America through the multiple literary movements and tendencies for which the Colombian author, Fernando Vallejo, acts as a ... -
Abolitionist Futures: Black Cultural Imagination at the End of the World
(2021)My dissertation, Abolitionist Futures: Black Cultural Imagination at the End of the World, examines abolitionist imagination in the cultural production of black American writers, creatives, activists, and thinkers. From ... -
Arrested Development/Scrubs: Excursuses on the Use of Fiction
(2010)This thesis investigates two episodic television shows, <italics>Arrested Development</italics> and Scrubs, and attempts to establish why one succeeded with audiences and the other failed. Following the work of genre theory, ... -
Automatic Modernism: Habit, Embodiment, and the Politics of Literary Form
(2012)Literary modernism followed a century during which philosophical speculations about the mechanistic basis of human life found experimental validation in the work of physiologists, who stressed the power of environment to ... -
“Chinese Whispers”? The “China” that Disappears from Lossy Communications
(2021)In 1949, Bell Lab mathematician Claude Shannon modeled telephone communication by assigning statistic regularity to the rather irregular usage of human language. His lab mate Warren Weaver took a step further, putting the ... -
Climate Impasse, Fossil Hegemony, and the Modern Crisis of Imagination
(2022)I argue in this dissertation that “climate impasse” — knowing much and doing little about climate change — has become a defining political, social, and cultural problem of the contemporary period (1980s to the present). ... -
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): an evidence map of medical literature.
(BMC medical research methodology, 2020-07-02)<h4>Background</h4>Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in December 2019, a substantial body of COVID-19 medical literature has been generated. As of June 2020, gaps and longitudinal trends in the COVID-19 medical ... -
Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Modernism: State, Self and Style in Four Authors
(2011)This study examines Irish modernist literature in order to complicate established critical modes which read modernist movements as reflective of distinctly vernacular or cosmopolitan aesthetic and political commitments. ... -
Cowboys and Indians in Africa: The Far West, French Algeria, and the Comics Western in France
(2017)This dissertation examines the emergence of Far West adventure tales in France across the second colonial empire (1830-1962) and their reigning popularity in the field of Franco-Belgian bande dessinée (BD), or comics, in ... -
Cut/Copy/Paste: Composing Devotion at Little Gidding
(2015)At the community of Little Gidding from the late 1620s through the 1640s, in a special room known as the Concordance Chamber, Mary Ferrar, Anna Collett, and their sisters sliced apart printed Bibles and engravings, then ... -
Demography of Literary Form: Probabilistic Models for Literary History
(2013)Digitization of library collections has made millions of books, newspapers, and academic journal articles accessible. These resources present an opportunity for historians interested in identifying patterns in cultural production ... -
Digital Environmental Metabolisms: An Ecocritical Project of the Digital Environmental Humanities
(2017)By combining literary, ecocritical, and media techniques with a mindfulness of the environment, “Digital Environmental Metabolisms: An Ecocritical Project of the Digital Environmental Humanities” contributes to the urgent ... -
Discounted life: Social time in relationless Japan
(Boundary 2, 2015-08-01)<jats:p>The essay takes on recent news stories of “missing elderly” (elderly whose deaths go unrecorded) and “lonely death” (bodies discovered days or weeks after someone has died all alone) to consider how life, death, ... -
Disposable Life: The Literary Imagination and the Contemporary Novel
(2015)This dissertation explores how the contemporary Anglophone novel asks its readers to imagine and respond to disposable life as it emerges in our present-day biopolitical landscape. As the project frames it, disposable life ... -
Doktor Zhivago's Cold War
(2021)My dissertation project, Doktor Zhivago’s Cold War, follows the global travels of Boris Pasternak’s novel as it becomes a key text in the propaganda politics of the 1950s. The story I tell contributes to scholarly understandings ... -
Dwelling in the Barzakh: Mad Archives of the Lebanese Civil War
(2020)The idiom of madness is ubiquitous in Lebanese cultural production about the country’s 1975-1990 civil war. Despite this, there has been no investigation into what, and how, this madness signifies. In Dwelling in the Barzakh: ... -
"Existential Realism: Modernism and the Ethics of Agency in the Franco-American Existentialist Tradition, 1937-1955"
(2022)"Existential Realism: Modernism and the Ethics of Agency in the Franco-American Existentialist Tradition, 1937-1955” unearths the pivotal role American fiction played in the development and dissemination of the ... -
Experiments in Violence: The Problem of Oppositional Politics in Late Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Fiction
(2020)Paradoxically, Benedict Anderson’s notion of the nation as an imagined community occupying a territory at once bounded and sovereign became commonplace around the same time that prominent global novelists were beginning ... -
Facts and Fictions: Feminist Literary Criticism and Cultural Critique, 1968-2012
(2014)"Facts and Fictions: Feminist Literary Criticism and Cultural Critique, 1968-2012" is a critical history of the unfolding of feminist literary study in the US academy. It contributes to current scholarly efforts to revisit ... -
Feedback Exhaust: Money and the Novel at the End of the Contemporary
(2019)In the contemporary context of global financialization, the distance between the categories of money and fiction has been theorized as narrowing. This dissertation uses a Marxist analytic to argue that financialized money ...
