Browsing by Subject "Literature, Modern"
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Engaging and Evading the Bard: Shakespeare, Nationalism, and British Theatrical Modernism, 1900-1964
(2010)Engaging and Evading the Bard is about British theatrical modernism and its ambivalent relationship to Shakespeare. The conventional narrative of early twentieth-century British theater and drama situates their rise within ... -
Genealogies of Attention: the Emergence of US Hegemony, 1870 -1929
(2008-04-25)This dissertation is at once a historical study of the emergence of U.S. hegemony through the lens of discourses and techniques of attention, and a sustained series of methodological reflections centering on how to write ... -
Minor Measures: The Plebeian Aesthetics of World Literature in the Twentieth Century
(2010)Focusing on a diverse set of creative work from Europe, East and South Asia, the Americas, Middle East, and Africa, Minor Measures investigates modalities of world writing through modernist, postcolonial and contemporary ... -
Stevens After Deleuze: The Effects of a New Ontology on the Problems of Poetics
(2010)Gilles Deleuze's definition of the other as the expression of a possible world has introduced a novel ontological organization into philosophy. It makes possible the conception of a singular being which may be expressed ... -
Transitar El Parpadeo: Seis Poetas Españoles
(2008-04-21)To traverse the blinking, Transitar el parpadeo, is to consider six poetries that seem invisible or at least blurred in current Spanish poetic contexts: José-Miguel Ullán, Carlos Piera, Pedro Provencio, Ildefonso Rodríguez, ...
