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Showing 1 to 20 of 230 for “"Literature in English, North America"”.
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The Completeness: Novel
The concept of completeness is a state of having all the parts that one needs to be whole--or, of being complete. What that is depends on what the person needs--a wife, a friend, a lover, a friend, art, a trade, a religion, a God. Each of these others fits into the individual character, like a …
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The Poet's Place: Individuality and Collectivity in Modern American Poetry, 1910-1940
<p>This dissertation examines how modern American poets such as H.D., T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, and others created new modes of lyricism, ones based not on privacy and the celebration of an individual self but on community, collectivity, and chorality. In examining the development of these new …
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The Cultural Consciousness of John Updike: Rhetorical Spaces as Representations of Americana through the “Rabbit” Series
<p>This thesis is a scholarly examination of John Updike’s first two novels of the Rabbit saga: Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux. The discussion is centered on the cultural artifacts and geographic spaces that populate the novels and how they are a reflection of popular cultural and contemporary …
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Realism & Language: How Luis Alberto Urrea Uses Bilingualism to Elevate His Works of Realism
… nonfiction, yet his works are not widely taught in academic settings, nor is there substantial scholarly work discussed on his published works. This thesis focuses on Urrea’s trajectory in order to situate him as a realist writer, as I discuss Urrea alongside Amy Kaplan and Ramón J. Guerra. …
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Trauma Begetting Trauma: Fukú, Masks, and Implicit Forgiveness in the Works of Junot Díaz
<p>This essay began as an examination of Junot Díaz’s combination of “low” and “high” culture art and literature in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.In the wake of Díaz publishing “The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma,” and the subsequent accusations of abuse against him, it seemed …
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The Ethical Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas: A Phenomenological Approach to Cormac McCarthy’s <em>The Road</em>
… Road</em> and the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas</li> <li>Chapter 2: Proximity, Justice, and Memory: Elements to Rebuild an Ethical Society</li> <li>Chapter 3: Violence in <em>The Road</em>: The Face, Killing, and Freedom</li> <li>Chapter 4: Investigating God and the Other in McCarthy’s …
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We Can Come Back From This: Navigating the Perils of the Anthropocene in The Walking Dead
<p>Humanity has become increasingly aware of the Anthropocene and the impact of a worldview based on prioritizing human progress above all else. We’ve always used stories to navigate and negotiate the world in which we live. We have also continually developed new and different ways of telling those …
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William Faulkner as Sociologist: An Adventure in the Sociology of Literature
… or to suggest that his works be required reading in courses in sociological theory, but rather, to show in what sense and what areas his and the role of sociologist overlap. A. thorough reading of the major Faulkner novels, a sorting-out and. probing of his passages relevant to the field of …
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Redefining the Gothic: How the Works of Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams & Flannery O'Connor Retained Gothic Roots and Shaped the Southern Gothic
<p>My aim in this thesis is to explore the commonalities between Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams and Flannery O’Connor, particularly in terms of three main themes: isolation, the pervasion of American normalcy and gender roles. While each of these authors clearly inserts some autobiographical …
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