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Perry Smith and Josef Kavalier: Historical and Literary Victimized Victimizers
<p>In literary trauma theory, victimized victimizers represent an ambiguous area. In my thesis, I show how Perry Smith, a historical figure in Truman Capote's <em>In Cold Blood</em>, and Josef Kavalier, a fictional character in Michael Chabon's <em>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay</em>, …
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"That Hateful Prairie Wind": Violence and Ecophobia in Twentieth Century American Gothic
<p>As ecocriticism continues to grow and unfold, ecocritics must continue to define its overall goals. This thesis further defines and exemplifies Simon Estok’s term, “ecophobia,” which refers to fear and contempt of the natural world, as a way of understanding human relationships with the nonhuman …
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The eyewitness in American specular narrative : empiricism, representation, and the gaze
In this dissertation, I investigate American specular narrative which displays a significant level of visual empiricism and examine the implications of the eyewitness perspective such narrative assumes. Based on the epistemological assumption that "to see is to know," specular narrative imagines an …