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English Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Cry to dream again
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The Extracurriculum of Two Black Preachers: A Descriptive Study of Culturally Learned Practices
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)This study examines the "extracurriculum" of the black preacher, the extracurriculum as theorized in Rhetoric & Composition, a subfield within the discipline of English. The extracurriculum is a concept characterized by ... -
Anxious Origins: Zora Neale Hurston and the Global South, 1927-1942
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)Zora Neale Hurston's autoethnographic trilogy of the Global South - Mules and Men (1935), Tell My Horse (1938), and Dust Tracks on a Road (1942) - charts a geocultural terrain that recovers transgressive histories otherwise ... -
EXPLAINING SELECTION: EXAMINING UPTAKE IN THEORY AND LITERATURE
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)This project has at the very least a dual purpose. It seeks to elaborate on uptake, applying to it theories from sociology, linguistics, history, and philosophy, and to illustrate the process of uptake in Elizabeth Gaskell's ... -
The Medieval Green Age: Environmentalism and English Literature in the Middle Ages
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)In my dissertation I challenge standing views of the Middle Ages by forging a connection between current ecocritical theory and the representation of the environment in Medieval literature. Grounding my argument with ... -
Consuming Communities: U.S. Women's Regionalism and Consumer Culture, 1870-1930
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)Literary regionalism has always faced critical devaluation, both at the time of its greatest popularity in the late nineteenth century and during its critical rediscovery in the past twenty years. Even those critics who ... -
"Narratives of Technological Globalization and Outsourced Call Centers in India: Droids, Mimic Machines, Automatons, and Bad 'Borgs"
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)Taking as a premise that contemporary communication and information technology-aided globalization is a world-making practice that relies on narratives to construct and transmit global imaginaries and relational identities, ... -
Kansas in the American novel and short story
(University of Kansas, 1926) -
A study of words of Scottish Lowland dialect in John Watson's Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
(University of Kansas, 1927) -
Some contributions to the study of Kansas vocabulary
(University of Kansas, 1929) -
Critical edition of Joanna Baillie's The Bride
(University of Kansas, 1927) -
American treatment of foreigner in modern American drama
(University of Kansas, 1929) -
The writers of Tennessee ; A manual of Tennessee literature
(University of Kansas, 1925) -
Tracing Intergenerational Narratives of Ecological, Cultural, and Sexual Violence in the U.S./Mexico Borderland
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)In an oft quoted line from the seminal text, Borderlands/La Frontera=The New Mestiza, Gloria Anzaldúa states, “The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And ... -
Community and little theatres in America
(University of Kansas, 1928) -
Dialect and colloquialisms in The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper
(University of Kansas, 1928) -
Eugene O'Neill : the playwright and his plays
(University of Kansas, 1928) -
The major concept of Rabindranath Tagore : man's realization of unity
(University of Kansas, 1929) -
A dictionary of the characters in the novels of William Dean Howells
(University of Kansas, 1928)