Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "O'Farrell, Mary Ann"
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Harris, Rebecca (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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Bowers, Abigail Leigh (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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Ozment, Kate Elizabeth (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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Durgan, Jessica (2012-07-16)This dissertation investigates the cultural connections made between race and color in works of fiction from the Victorian and Edwardian era, particularly how authors who are also artists invent fantastically colored ...
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Song, Ho Rim (2012-10-19)This dissertation explores the emergence of the complexity paradigm in our technoscience culture and proposes "scientific fiction" as a genre of cultural studies based on that paradigm. Throughout this dissertation, I use ...
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Lee, Seul (2021-07-23)Conviviality, a term usually connoting cheerfulness, has become an explanatory term that returns to its etymological roots, “living together,” that refers to an extant multicultural and diverse coexistence. Focusing on the ...
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Montz, Amy Louise (2009-05-15)Victorian women were not merely the symbols of nation nineteenth-century imagery would suggest in an era marked by the images of Queen Victoria and the symbolic representation of Britannia. They also were producers, ...
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Kim, Soo Yeon (2011-08-08)This dissertation investigates representations of betrayal in works by Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie, Irvine Welsh, and Alan Hollinghurst. In rethinking "bad" acts of betrayal as embodying an ethical desire not for the ...
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Haitos, Alexander Nicholas (2018-07-11)In this manuscript I widen the interpretive parameters of Alfred North Whitehead’s thought in an effort to make his philosophy more readily available to concerns it is not usually taken to address, such as those that define ...
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Hoeflinger, Emily Sara (2016-01-19)In this project, I am examining zines in relation to the question of contemporary amateurism. With the onset of Web 2.0 came a space for new forms of amateur work, but this new work hasn’t been addressed as “amateur,” which ...
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Yi, Dongshin (2009-05-15)This dissertation considers the future convergence between gothic studies and humanism in the age of posthumanism and proposes “cyborgothic” as a new literary genre that heralds that future. The convergence under consideration ...
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Janes, Samantha (2020-05-26)This research explores the representation of female characters in classical Hollywood screwball comedy films and their often-obscured source material. The examination of both the original comedic literature and the film ...
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Kim, Soyoun (2017-05-18)The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the ways in which traveling boys in Victorian fiction embody and complicate cultural ideas concerning the formation of masculinity and the imperial expansion. Both literary ...
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Cantrell, Samantha E. (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)A repeated theme in the fiction of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson is the use of domestic space as a tool for defining socially acceptable versions of female sexuality. Four novels that crystallize this theme are the ...
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Thielman, Frances May (2021-08-05)This dissertation studies novels, government public health reports, and journalism to draw conclusions about the logic that informs how the Victorians thought about trash. This logic, which I term the logic of trash, asserts ...
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Himes, Amanda E. (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)ComfortâÂÂwith its various connotations of physical ease, wealth, independence, and serviceâÂÂis an important concept to Jane Austen, who uses comfort in her novels to both affirm and challenge accepted womenâÂÂs ...
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Han, Heeseung (2020-07-28)The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the ways heterosexual romantic love deconstructs and threatens the subject in the Victorian novel. The romantic myth that love can consolidate and empower the subject has ...
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Foreman, Adrienne C (2013-07-15)The appearance, use, and philosophy of the disabled detective are latent even in early detective texts, such as in Arthur Conan Doyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes series. By philosophy, I am referring to both why the detective ...
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Day, Sara K. (2011-10-21)This dissertation offers the term “narrative intimacy” to refer to an implicit relationship between narrator and reader that depends upon disclosure and trust. By examining contemporary American fiction for adolescent women ...
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Gamez, Yadira (2023-07-24)Mainstream media such as the news, radio, TV shows and movies have long been used to stereotype and categorize minorities. These highly influential institutions repeat and uphold certain ideas and images about people of ...