Browsing by Subject "Literature, English"
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"Am not I your Rosalind?": Ovidian Identity and Transformation in Shakespeare's "As You Like It"
(2008-12-01)"'Am not I your Rosalind?': Negotiating Ovidian Identity and Transformation in Shakespeare's As You Like It" argues that the theatrical self-masquerade, that rare and uniquely Shakespearean moment in which a character ... -
Back in the World: Vietnam Veterans through Popular Culture
(2009)In his Dispatches, Michael Herr quotes the gonzo photojournalist Tim Page: "Take the glamour out of war! I mean, how the bloody hell can you do that?[...] Ohhhh, war is good for you, you can't take the glamour out of that. ... -
'Dost Thou Speak like a King?': Enacting Tyranny on the Early English Stage
(2009)The Biblical drama that was popular in England from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries is a fruitful site for exploring the dissemination of political discourse. Unlike Fürstenspiegeln (mirrors for princes literature) ... -
Expensive Shit: Aesthetic Economies of Waste in Postcolonial Africa
(2008-07-03)This dissertation proposes a reading of postcolonial African literature in light of the continent's continued status as a "remnant" of globalization--a waste product, trash heap, disposable raw material, and degraded offcut ... -
Fictions of the Afterlife: Temporality and Belief in Late Modernism
(2009)This dissertation analyzes the period of late modernism (roughly 1930-1965) by attending to an understudied subgenre: fictions that depict the experiences of the dead in the afterworld. The project originated from my observation ... -
Forms of Empire: Law, Violence, and the Poetics of Victorian Power
(2009)Victorian England was the first empire in history to imagine itself as liberal, believing that its own power could bring law to the darkest and most unruly corners of the world. But despite covering nearly the entire period ... -
"In Propria Persona": Artifice, Politics, and Propriety in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
(2009)This dissertation examines the use of personae, the rhetorical artifices by which an author creates different voices, in John Gower's Confessio Amantis. I argue that the Confessio attempts to expose how discourses of sexual ... -
Love, Labor, Liturgy: Languages of Service in Late Medieval England
(2009)This dissertation explores the complex vocabularies of service and servitude in the Age of Chaucer. Working with three major Middle English texts--William Langland's Piers Plowman (chaps. 1 and 3), Julian of Norwich's Revelation ... -
Race and Conversion in Late Medieval England
(2009)Despite general consensus among scholars that race in the West is an early modern phenomenon that dates to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, late medieval English texts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries expend ... -
Scriblerian Ethics: Encounters in Satiric Metamorphosis
(2009)"Scriblerian Ethics" proposes that the aesthetic and ethical standpoint of the writings of the Scriblerians (Pope, Swift, Gay, Arbuthnot, Oxford, Parnell) can be better understood through an attunement to their orientation ... -
Seasons and Sovereigns: Succession in the Greenworld, 1579 - 1621
(2009)<bold>Seasons and Sovereigns:<br>Succession in the Greenworld, 1579 - 1621<br></bold><p> Current scholarship on months, seasons, and climates in Renaissance aesthetics has developed along the two-dimensional axis of pastoral ... -
The Afterlives of King Philip's War: Negotiating War and Identity in Early America
(2009)"The Afterlives of King Philip's War" examines how this colonial American war entered into narratives of history and literature from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, and investigates how narrative representations ... -
When the Poet Is a Stranger: Poetry and Agency in Tagore, Walcott, and Darwish
(2009)ABSTRACTThis study is concerned with the process of the making of a postcolonial poet persona where the poet is addressing multiple audiences and is trying to speak for, and speak to, multiple constituencies through poetry. ...
