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"A fit soule": Italian influences upon Milton's Eve
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
Seventeenth-century England proved to be a dynamic atmosphere for John Milton's development as a poet. The Scientific Revolution, the rise of the middle class and the increasing conflict between country and crown culminated ...
The new voice of antisemitism: recent Holocaust negationist literature in America
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
This honors thesis argues that the literature of Holocaust negationism is a repackaging of classical antisemitism. The propositional content of negationist discourse is less significant, I argue, than its rhetoric. And its ...
Men in question: rethinking white masculinity after the sixties
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
The social and political movements of the 1960s created a contemporary crisis in white masculinity. The civil rights, women's liberation, and counterculture movements all challenged traditional notions of white masculinity ...
A comparative study of women in early modern England and their contemporaries in the Ottoman Empire
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
An old Arab proverb says, "People are more akin to their contemporaries than they are to their own forefathers." Do the early modern women of England and the Ottoman Empire share more than their gender? English women of ...
The politics of mind reading: cartography and brain science in the discourse of medicine
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
Medicine, like all other contemporary discourses, has a history. As such, medical discourse has been shaped by a wide range of ideologies in the long course of its development, and is open to criticism and analysis. In ...
Disabilities and gender in the novels of Wilkie Collins
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
Many Victorian novelists sought to promote the importance of the individual by placing their characters in situations that allowed them to go outside society's pre-established boundaries. In spite of these novelists' ...
Family ties: representing the relationships between parents and children in contemporary Irish political poetry
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
The implications of Irish historical occurrences such as the colonization of the Irish by the English, the partial independence achieved by the Irish in 1922, the subsequent splitting of the island into two separate sections, ...
Differences in cultural perception: a comparison of John Grady Cole & Billy Parham in Cormac McCarthy's The Border Trilogy
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
The border between one understanding of life and another is a recurring theme in the novels that make up The Border Trilogy. But borders do not necessarily have to separate two lands, nor even two culturally different ...
Velvet/fracture: David Lynch, Clayton Eshleman, and the construction of the American underworld
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
The dominant American myth of selfhood is the "Protestant English pioneer," the conquering hero that pulled in the reigns on natives and wilderness. However, this heroic selfhood comes at an astonishing price. The ...
From Highbury to Hollywood and back again: Jane Austen's materialization in popular culture
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
Within the past several years, there has been a resurgence of interest in Jane Austen's life and works. She and her novels have become a part of popular culture through films, written adaptations, and Austen-related ...