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English Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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A Short Story Collection
(University of Kansas, 2013-08-31)This is a collection made up of Flash Fiction, Short Shorts, and Short Stories, told by both the first and second person, told by both a young adult and an adult narrator, and touches on the unique experience of women, ... -
"Modernism is a Prophet Crying in the Wilderness": Mina Loy, Manifestoes and Prophecy
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)This study argues that modernist poet Mina Loy's investment in the power of prophetic discourse and religious revelation is a crucial feature of her idiosyncratic appropriation of the manifesto during the 1910s. Unlike the ... -
OZ, YEHOSHUA, AND GROSSMAN: POST-ZIONIST NARRATIVES
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)Ranen Omer-Sherman has called David Grossman, Amos Oz, and A. B. Yehoshua the three most internationally acclaimed Israeli writers. They are also three secular Israeli men who grew up with the State of Israel, and whose ... -
The Literary History of the Age of Queen Anne
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Shared Recklessness
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)A collection of fiction, nonfiction, and short shorts that together demonstrate my development as a writer. In these pieces, I explore themes of sexuality, religion, and death. I am interested in why people do what they ... -
"BECAUSE SOME STORIES DO LIVE FOREVER": STEPHEN KING'S THE DARK TOWER SERIES AS MODERN ROMANCE
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)Stephen King's Dark Tower series is a seven-volume work that contains elements from myths, fairy tales, American westerns, legends, popular culture, Gothic literature, and medieval romance. Few scholars have engaged with ... -
Domestic Trauma and Colonial Guilt: A Study of Slow Violence in Dombey and Son and Bleak House
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)In this study of Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son and Bleak House, I examine the two forms of violence that occur within the homes: slow violence through the naturalized practices of the everyday and immediate forms of ... -
Mythology of Touch
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)Mythology of Touch is a collection of poetry that explores loss and patterns of connection and disconnection. This collection shows us how the mythology of touch includes the spaces in between-both physical and emotional-and ... -
"Beasts," "Beings," and Everything Between: Environmental and Social Ethics in Harry Potter
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)This paper examines J.K. Rowling's fictional textbook, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, alongside the Harry Potter series, exploring how Rowling questions official academic discourse that defines boundaries between ... -
A Steady Lessening
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)Presented here is a novella plus an academic introduction. The introduction attempts to explain how the use of literary theory, specifically theory of the novel, can be in a productive dialogue with the creative process ... -
Shakespeare Studies in China
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)Different from Germany, Japan and India, China has its own unique relation with Shakespeare. Since Shakespeare's works were first introduced into China in 1904, Shakespeare in China has witnessed several phases of developments. ... -
Queering the Narrative: Life Writing in the Bruce McKinney Collection
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)This dissertation problematizes the definition of autobiography by considering the Bruce McKinney Collection, an archive at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas, a communal autobiography of the ... -
Willows in the Spring
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Service Learning in the Writing Center: Theoretical Connections and Practical Application
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)In recent years, scholars have begun pushing for a greater connection between academic work and the community outside of academia. Creating a connection can both make work seem more applicable for students and help the ... -
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The Freedom to Choose: The Aesthetics of Choice in Short Stories by Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Amiri Baraka, and Toni Cade Bambara
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)Black Arts' writer Amiri Baraka observes in his essay "Northern Iowa: Short Story and Poetry," that "For black people, freedom is our aesthetic and our ideology." The focus on liberation has artistic and political resonance ... -
A Man's Face in the Sky Instead of the Sun
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)This is Daniel Rolf's thesis. It consists of short, interrelated fictions that work together as a whole. -
On the Banks of the Karakoro
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)On the Banks of the Karakoro offers readers intimate details of life in Mauritania, a little-known West African country saddled by the Sahara and underdevelopment. Heartbreaking, visceral, honest, and hopeful, the account ... -
We would come to the edge
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)Abstract: This small collection centers on ideas of dislocation and place. With a sharp awareness of the Midwest, its gory history and oppressive weather, many of these pieces delve into these obsessions through a speaker ... -
Communion
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)This collection represents some of the work I've done in fiction during the course of my career at the University of Kansas. In line with the guidelines for the M.F.A. in Fiction, the work totals over 25,000 words and is ...
