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English Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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The Writing of Nation: Faulkner and the Postbellum South
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)This dissertation argues that William Faulkner, drawing on a conversation begun by earlier Southern writers, writes his anxiety about the South's assimilation into the nation. Specifically, I argue that his early works ... -
Homecoming
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)Homecoming is a full-length poetry collection that documents happenings within a psychological landscape (or inner country), where demarcations between the lived and the imagined do not exist and where people, animals, and ... -
Literary Reality: Rhetoricizing Literature and English Studies
(University of Kansas, 2011-05-31)Drawing on conceptual metaphor theory and John Bender and David E. Wellbery's description of rhetoricality, I offer a reconceptualization of literature as a conceptual metaphorization of the experience of the cognitive ... -
Renaissance Fare: Appetite and Authority on the Early Modern English Stage
(University of Kansas, 2011-05-31)The politics of food are naturally central to many early modern plays in part because of unstable supply and means of distribution in London. Food is a type of property that can represent a great deal of power, especially ... -
Steam Men, Edisons, Connecticut Yankees: Technocracy and Imperial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
(University of Kansas, 2010-12-31)This dissertation analyzes the representation of technology in U.S. popular fiction of the nineteenth century, particularly as it relates to concepts of imperial expansion that shore up the period's constructions of American ... -
THE ODICY
(University of Kansas, 2010-12-31)The title of The Odicy refers to the epic story of Ulysses, but it also indicates another term, the single word "theodicy," which Leibniz coined to describe a vindication, in the face of evil, of the goodness and fairness ... -
We Benefit from That: A Novel in Stories
(University of Kansas, 2010-05-31)We Benefit from That is a novel in stories about one suburban family. The father, Tony, divorced with two kids, meets Elaine at a support group for children of alcoholics, and marries her. Together Tony, Elaine, and the ... -
Parts and Accessories: Essays
(University of Kansas, 2010-05-31)A collection of discreet essays, ranging in subject from childhood thievery to foxing to weather to the dash. -
Barely Hidden Magic: Acadiana Stories
(University of Kansas, 2010-05-31)The revelations that explain everything are often details that are missed. This is the theme that emerged during the compiling of this thesis. I wish I could claim it was by intention, but it is merely the reflection of ... -
We March to the Sea
(University of Kansas, 2010-05-31)We March to the Sea, a multi-perspective fictional novel, explores the collapse of family unity and cultural heritage in modern-day North Carolina. The Jalin family is drifting apart--Joy is studying Civil War history at ... -
The Construction of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X in Composition Textbooks: Rereading Readers
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)While scholars have written about the use of textbooks in writing courses, little attention is paid to how textbooks anthologize writers, especially women and people of color. This study examines the portrayal of Dr. Martin ... -
"Wundorlice hit hæleþ": Organization and Metatextual Markers in Old English Recipes
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)This study seeks to examine the ways structural components and metatextual markers contribute to the organization of Old English medicinal texts. Through quantitative linguistic analysis of the Læceboc, Lacnunga, Herbarium, ... -
Simile and Metaphor in Keats
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Exhuming Henry VIII's Court: The Tudor Household on the Jacobean Stage
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)The Jacobean plays that perform Henry VIII and his court struggle with Henry's paradoxical image and his troubling legacy of discarded advisors, wives, and heirs. Sir Thomas More, Thomas Lord Cromwell, When You See Me, You ... -
Based on Shakespeare: Twenty-First Century American Film Adaptations of Shakespeare
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)This dissertation investigates turn-of-the-century American Shakespeare films and how they adapt Shakespeare's plays to American contexts. I argue that these films have not only borrowed plots and characters from Shakespeare's ... -
A Comparative Study Of The Poetry Of Fergusson And Burns
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Burroughs As a Nature Essayist
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Thackeray’s Comment on the Social Aspect of Art, Politics and Religion
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Shifting Form, Transforming Content: Stylistic Alterations in the German Translations of Hemingway's Early Fiction
(University of Kansas, 2009-11-30)The general purpose of this study is to investigate the German translations of the early fiction of Ernest Hemingway. Unfortunately, the work of translators is too frequently minimized or ignored, and this dissertation ... -
The Verse Romances in the Percy Folio Ms.: A Study of the Type
(University of Kansas, 1910)