Browsing Graduate and Professional School by Department "English"
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(2021-04-22)In this work I investigate the new aesthetic form that has been emerging in India, post-Nirbhaya case. This aesthetic is centered on representations of acid-attack survivors. Using disability studies as the framework for ...
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(2023-05-18)There exist myriad intimacies from friendship to allyship but kinship—biological kinship—is still a dominating criterion by which all other intimacies are measured, even in statements that express an association stronger ...
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(2023-05-18)There exist myriad intimacies from friendship to allyship but kinship—biological kinship—is still a dominating criterion by which all other intimacies are measured, even in statements that express an association stronger ...
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(2019-03-18)This study investigates how various age metaphors from a vampire to mandatory euthanasia function to invalidate linear progressions of both individuals and society in fin-desiècle British literature. It explains how and ...
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(2012-10-19)This dissertation examines how postmodernist narratives of memory in Graham Swift's Waterland, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, and Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines retrieve the stories of those who have been lost or ...
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(2011-02-22)Analyzing novels by Sheri Reynolds, Lee Smith, Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, and Sue Monk Kidd, I argue that these authors challenge religious structures by dramatizing the struggle between love and ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)This dissertation explores the ongoing division between technical communication practitioners and academics by examining the conceptual metaphors that underlie their discourse in professional journals and textbooks. Beginning ...
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(2013-08-22)This dissertation examines how the construction of Saint Mary Magdalene as a symbol participated in a network of political, social, and religious practices in fifteenth- century England. That symbol both changed and was ...
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(2012-07-16)In this dissertation, "An Archive of Shame: Gender, Embodiment, and Citizenship in Contemporary American Culture," I use the affect of shame in its multiple forms and manifestations as a category of analysis in order to ...
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(2011-02-22)The years following World War II symbolized a new beginning for the United States. While at the height of global power, Americans founds that they were able to experience a leisurely existence where items, desired instead ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)This thesis is a book of poems, containing two major sections. The first part is a critical introduction to the creative writing; the second part consists of poetry that I have composed, revised, and revisited during the ...
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(2012-10-19)This thesis is a work of literary journalism that explores the distinct boundaries in style that partition how a writer reports objective facts and reveals subjective experience. In brief, it is a genre-breaking prose ...
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(2017-07-31)Tracing sensory and affective experiences associated with cinematic modes of perception in modernist literature, this study reveals how modernist writers embraced the medium of cinematic language as a means to examine new ...
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(2018-03-01)Writing from the end of the seventeenth century through the mid-eighteenth century in England, the fair triumvirate of wit—consisting of Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood—are pivotal figures in the history ...
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(2013-10-15)This project explores the anxieties authors of the early twentieth century experienced in relation to mass media, particularly newspapers and the movies, focusing on the selected works of four modernist authors: Sherwood ...
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(2011-02-22)In examining examples of prologues, inductions, and choruses from early modern drama, Authors, Audiences, and Elizabethan Prologics tries to frame a more comprehensive picture of dramatists’ relationships with the plays ...
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(2014-05-19)The Cold War 1950s America experienced a radical shift of gears after the WWII of the 1940s and the economic crisis of the 1930s; the sudden boom of prosperity began the long-sought call towards normalcy. However, not ...
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(2016-07-08)Leftist political theory in Amerika has struggled to understand the two most important issues facing us today: sovereignty and neoliberalism. In their efforts to understand neoliberalism, most scholars rely on either ...
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(2012-02-14)This story suite is a work of autobiographical fiction, a coming of age tale which uses a young girl’s relationship to horses—along with various people and places connected to the horse world—as its narrative theme. The ...
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(2016-07-14)This scholarly-creative dissertation uses a decolonizing storytelling methodology to investigate the 1979 Church Rock uranium spill near Gallup, New Mexico, where an open-air uranium waste pond breached its earth dam, ...