Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "O'Farrell, Mary Ann"
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Little, Michael Robert (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This dissertation studies the fictional and non-fictional responses of David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Richard Powers to their felt anxieties about the vitality of literature in contemporary culture. The ...
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Snider, Jessi M (2020-05-15)This dissertation, utilizing the theories of J. L. Austin, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, and Alex Woloch, analyzes performative speech in Victorian novels to highlight its profound illocutionary effects on minor characters ...
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Haitos, Alexander Nicholas (2015-10-29)My theme herein is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s (1804-1864) treatment of science in his short stories, primarily “The Artist of the Beautiful” and “The Birthmark.” In particular, I am interested in the caution he sounds against ...
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Kim, Seung-Hyun (2019-05-21)This dissertation examines representations of ideas about untidiness in modern and contemporary British novels. Reading works by Virginia Woolf, D. M. Thomas, and Ian McEwan as memory texts that engage historical atrocities, ...
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Nozaki, Naoyuki (2012-07-16)The main objectives of this thesis are to examine the relations between people and things in American novelist Henry James's 1897 novel The Spoils of Poynton, and thus to deepen our understanding of James's engagement with ...
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Schweikhard Robison, Andrea R. (2011-02-22)Project Runway premiered on Bravo TV on December 1st, 2004, and is now in its sixth season, which aired on Lifetime. On Project Runway, designer contestants live together in apartments in downtown New York for the duration ...
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Pfuntner, Deborah Lynn (2016-08-04)Women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries changed the genre of commonplace books. During the Romantic period, women shifted emphasis away from classical texts and conduct literature toward colloquial, individualized ...
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Gillard, Shannon Elayne (Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)This thesis attempts to identify authors' attitudes toward late eighteenth century London prostitutes. Through the examination of several selected sources, one can isolate feelings that eighteenth century writers had about ...
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Perrings, Laura Elizabeth (2016-08-04)This study examines the use of supernatural elements in Victorian-era detective fiction. By focusing on critically neglected detective stories involving ghosts, clairvoyance, dreams, mesmerism and providence, I highlight ...
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Hyun, Sook K. (2010-01-16)This dissertation aims to examine the various ways in which three Victorian novels, such as Wilkie Collins?s The Woman in White (1860), Anne Bront�?s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Charlotte Bront�?s Villette (1853), ...
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Cheshier, Laura Kay (Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)Lovesickness is a common malady in British literature, but it is also an illness that has been perceived and diagnosed differently in different eras. The nineteenthcentury British novel incorporates a lovesickness that ...
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Furuya, Kohei (2015-05-15)This dissertation investigates the significance of translation in the making of American national literature. Transition has played a central role in the formation of American linguistic, literary, cultural, and national ...
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Choi, Jung Sun (2013-05-01)This dissertation examines how Victorians used the word “queer” as associated with senses of “counterfeit” and “eccentricity” in selected Victorian novels. The word was popularly used, by Victorian writers of both genders ...
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Clough, Kimberly Angela (2022-05-20)Muslim women’s veils are a global obsession. From the compulsory hijab laws in Iran to police stripping women of their burkinis on French beaches, the sight of the veil provokes visceral reactions. International public ...