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Browsing by Subject "literature"
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Anthropomorphic Attachments in U.S. Literature, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence
(2010)"Anthropomorphic Attachments" undertakes an examination of the human as a highly nebulous, fluid, multiple, and often contradictory concept, one that cannot be approached directly or in isolation, but only in its constitutive ... -
Chaucer and the Disconsolations of Philosophy: Boethius, Agency, and Literary Form in Late Medieval Literature
(2016)This study argues that Chaucer's poetry belongs to a far-reaching conversation about the forms of consolation (philosophical, theological, and poetic) that are available to human persons. Chaucer's entry point to ... -
Designing Community: Architecture, Race and Democracy in American Life Writing, 1900-‐‑1950
(2017)The turn of the nineteenth to twentieth century saw unprecedented growth and change in the demographics of United States urban environs. Not only did U.S. cities grow bigger, they grew increasingly multicultural and multiracial. ... -
How We Became Posthuman: Ten Years On An Interview with N. Katherine Hayles
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Misrecognized: Looking at Images of Black Suffering and Death
(2008-04-30)This dissertation investigates the social, emotional, and ethical implications of looking at the suffering and death of African Americans. Drawing on film theory, visual studies, literary criticism, and semiotics, the study ... -
Our Ice Age: The Geohistorical Imagination in the Northern Hemisphere
(2020)“Our Ice Age: The Geohistorical Imagination in the Northern Hemisphere” contributes to discussions in the environmental humanities about the historical and narrative significance of climate change by examining representations ... -
Revising Justice: Punitory Thought and Action in the Work of Atwood, Jordan, and Oates
(2016-05-05)*Designated as an exemplary master's project for 2015-16*This paper examines how contemporary literature contributes to the discussion of punitory justice. It uses close analysis of three contemporary novels, Margaret Atwood’s ... -
Rewriting Dante: The Creation of an Author from the Middle Ages to Modernity
(2018)Rewriting Dante explores Dante’s reception and the construction of his figure as an author in early lyric anthologies and modern editions. While Dante’s reception and his transformation into a cultural authority ... -
Science Fiction Without a Future: Imagination in the Age of Post-productive Capitalism
(2022)This dissertation takes as its starting point what contemporary cultural, literary, and science fiction scholarship have described as the “end of the future,” or the post-1970s rise in stagnant, bleak, and apocalyptic images ... -
Senses of Belonging: The Synaesthetics of Citizenship in American Literature, 1862 - 1903
(2011)In American letters, the Civil War represented a decisive break in literary form, a shift from interiority to exteriority. Sentimentalism harnessed the transformative effects of aesthetic feeling to galvanize political opinion ... -
Split Reality: Virtual Worlds of American Culture from 1692-2017
(2020)Virtuality—specifically the influence of the immaterial digital world—has been identified as an accomplice of twenty-first century media driven crises. From arguments that video games cause mass shootings to the emergence ... -
Une exploration neuro-génétique de l’évolution de l’épilepsie non traitée dans La Tentation de Saint Antoine de Gustave Flaubert
(2023-04-20)Nineteenth century French author Gustave Flaubert's La Tentation de Saint Antoine is a complex and enigmatic work that underwent many revisions over twenty-five years, resulting in multiple versions with different narrative ... -
Unnatural History: Ecological Temporality in Post-1945 American Literature
(2016)While environmental literary criticism has traditionally focused its attention on the textual representation of specific places, recent ecocritical scholarship has expanded this focus to consider the treatment of time in ...
