Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"War literature"”.
-
The Negro in Pre-Civil War Literature
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:39:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6915425.pdf: 14281891 bytes, checksum: 309a893368f30ea4e1663d7fb7f806d9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
-
Empathy, Ethics, and Justice in Children's War Literature
… are created and communicated in children’s war literature. Due to the divisive nature of war literature, the basis of this thesis lies on the in- and outgroup theory of empathy, according to which the extend of our empathy is strongly tied to who we identify as “like us” (ingroup) or “unlike …
-
'Garden of evil' : images of the enemy in American war literature 1962-1990
… representations of the enemy in threeAmerican war novels: James Jones's The Thin Red Line (1962), LarryHeinemann's Paco's Story (1986), and Tim O'Brien's The Things TheyCarried (1990). While American literary responses to the Vietnam War arethe primary concern of this thesis, The Thin Red Line, …
-
"""Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"": The Citizen-Soldier and the Construction of Identity in Northern Civil War Literature"
… of individual minority groups, regionalist literature, and the development of the modern industries of sport and entertainment.
-
How To Find What's Lost When What's Lost Is You: The Presence of Disappearing Bodies in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq War Literature
… bodies in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq war literature. The term “disappearing body” has several connotations. Disappearing bodies refers to throwaway or neglected bodies, bodies that routinely absorb into the landscape. Women and African Americans typically fall into this category, but …
-
The Words. Or Holes. Or Both: Writing as an Integrative Methodology for Trauma
… experiences. My work will analyze the genre of War Literature and specific authors like J.R.R. Tolkien and Kurt Vonnegut to explore the way writers describe the trauma of combat. Using insights from neuroscience and psychology, I will expand the field of Cognitive Literary Studies from a focus …
-
Playing the Game: Violence and the Revolt Against Normative Masculinity in John Updike's Rabbit Run, Norman Mailer's an American Dream, and Phil Andros's $tud
… will examine two high-brow examples of Cold War literature by white male authors, Norman Mailer's An American Dream (1965) and John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), and examine them through the lens of the lesser-known gay pulp $tud (1966) by Phil Andros. Although $tud's gay hustler protagonist …
-
Empire Day : a novel and critical commentary
… from the perspective of Martin Welles, a war poet, and the other from the perspective of Amanda Budden, a university friend of Martin’s who has given up on her own writing. Against a backdrop of violence, they struggle to find a moral standpoint that corresponds to their status as …
-
A Historical Study Of Irvin Cooper: Choral Music Educator And Founder Of The Cambiata Concept
… This thesis, through analysis of contemporary war literature and film, proposes that a better paradigm for understanding and anticipating the human experience of killing in combat is the view the soldier maintains of him/herself and of the other as similarly human. The contemporary soldier may …
-
Women and World War One: Perspectives on Women's Role in WWI Literature
… British women who served as caretakers in World War One. Often overlooked for their contributions, the women who worked on the frontlines of the war defined the changing role of women during and after the war in several crucial ways: 1) the general expectations of women’s gender role, 2) how …
-
Telling the Soviet redemption story: Ronald Reagan’s changing Soviet rhetoric
… matters. The chapter also stands as a Cold War literature review that reveals how America understood itself as the world’s guardian against communist encroachment. The second chapter is concerned with Reagan’s pre-presidential Soviet rhetoric from his position as the Screen Actors Guild …
-
Literature and the Long Postwar: Recuperating the Post-45 Veteran
“Literature and the Long Postwar: Recuperating the Post-45 Veteran” examines the critical omission of the World War II veteran in literary studies. It argues that depictions of an aggrieved, often racialized veteran have been obscured for implying disapproval of a war that has been racially …
-
Cuerpo, mujer y nación: el Bildungsroman posrevolucionario mexicano
… against the masculinizing discourse in post war literature. On the other hand, they are an important tool to observe the circumstances around marginal groups, as well as excluded and ignored communities by the official discourse during the reconstructive post-revolutionary era. Chapter 1 …
-
Waiting, Part One of a Sarajevo Novel: The Figure of the Siege and the Refugee in a Selection of Twentieth-Century Siege-Exile Literature
… Beginning with a discussion of the siege in post-war literature, the critical section then looks at the double figure of the siege in Camus’s The Plague, before turning to themes of siege and exile in Susan Sontag’s 1993 Sarajevo production of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. It finally examines …
-
Religion, violence & the state : a dialogical encounter between activists and scholars
… research questions: First how does the post-Cold War literature on religion and violence deal with the issue of systemic institutional violence and state-sponsored terror as elucidated by Chomsky and Herman (1979), Stohl and Lopez (1984), Falk (1998) and Sluka (2000)? Second, under what conditions …
-
Negative Masculinity: Theories of Freedom in American Literature after 1950
… variety of ways of thinking about freedom in postwar American literature. This term is built in part by theories of freedom in American political thinking that value individualism and autonomy, and this dissertation connects core aesthetics of American subjectivity to the role of masculinity in a …
-
"Of the sky above you must beware": Airspace and airpower in twentieth century literature
… tension between the military discourse of air war in the twentieth century and the literature that challenged that discourse. Situated within the broader study of war literature, the project moves beyond traditional studies of soldiers fighting ground wars, to explore instead the dynamics of …
-
Sound in Conflict: Lyric Poetry and the American Civil War
… written during and about the American Civil War, and asks how closely related these acoustics were to their historical environment. I thus attempt to redress the dominant visual and material responses to Civil War aesthetics, in favour of attention to its sounds. I also set out to discover …
-
That Dark Remembered Day - a novel, and critical self-reflection on composition and the editorial process
… condition, specifically the effects of post-war trauma on one family. The novel’s structure would be crucial in achieving its emotional heft, as each of the central characters is allocated at least one section, the reader experiencing events from disparate and increasingly illuminating …
-
‘Richard would outlive his overthrow’: Post-Shakespearean Representations of Richard III
… Crown and Parliament culminating in the Civil Wars, and the execution of Charles I. These texts offer a fuller picture of the contemporary literary-political climate, while illuminating the role of historical memory in forming national consciousness, including the forging and dismantling of …
Page 1 of 2