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English Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Above Vulgar Economy: Jane Austen and Money
(University of Kansas, 2010-11-20)Abstract: "Above Vulgar Economy": Jane Austen and Money By: Sheryl Bonar Craig Jane Austen's career as an author coincided with a series of economic recessions leading to a major economic depression, a banking crisis that ... -
Fiction and Other Fiction
(University of Kansas, 2011-05-09)This collection of fiction is a collection of fiction. -
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Walking and the Reinvention of Space
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-20)Through the figure of the walker, this thesis considers the relationship between rhetoric and space, where rhetoric is understood as embodied, performative action and space is considered both as a material artifact and an ... -
A Dictionary of Characters in George Eliot’s Novels: Part One
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Parts We Didn't Know We Had
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-26)Deals with topics in contemporary American motherhood. -
If I Were On Fire
(University of Kansas, 2011-05-10)IF I WERE ON FIRE A collection of seventy-two original poems by Michael J. Argumedo as a thesis for the Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Kansas University, subsequently published under the pseudonym Mickey Cesar ... -
Ethical Engagement: Critical Strategies for Approaching Autoethnographic Fiction
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-18)Critics of American literature need ways to ethically interpret ethnic difference, particularly in analyses of texts that memorialize collective experiences wherein that difference is a justification for large-scale atrocity. ... -
Beyond `Further': Collaboration, Community and Compassion in the Digital Age
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-25)In this paper, I outline specific approaches that may be taken to bring the Composition classroom into the digital, collaborative present, and close by questioning what further practices might be explored to more deeply ... -
Lost Ladies, New Women: Narrative Voice and Female Identity in Willa Cather's A Lost Lady and Kate Chopin's The Awakening
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-20)The impact of assigning gender to narrators, either by the author or reader, has recently become a point of interest in narratology. The increasing interest in gender, sexuality, and queer studies highlights gendered voices ... -
Fantasies of Maternal Unity in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century African Diasporic Women's Fiction and Science Fiction
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-20)This dissertation explores the power children realize in the past, present, and future from their real or imagined connections to their absent mothers in twentieth- and twenty-first-century African diasporic women's fiction, ... -
Whirlybirds and Ordinary Times: Reflections on Faith and the Changing of Seasons
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-25)The following is a work of creative nonfiction, a collection of personal essays organized around the liturgical Christian church seasons. The form is one that wanders, that claims no particularly special knowledge or ... -
Collected Works
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-26)The collection of work presented here illustrates the constant struggle individuals face in understanding the repercussions of their past, the weight of their decisions in the present moment, and the possibilities of the ... -
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"They Talked as Industriously as They Worked": Reforming the Family and its Labor in Louisa May Alcott's Work: A Story of Experience
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-27)As my title suggests, this project examines Alcott's vision of the family in Work (1873). Her characters do indeed "talk as industriously as they work" as a means of creating the circumstances necessary for the achievement ... -
Of Routes and Roots: Essays on Place and Community
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-17)How can we cultivate an appreciation for the places we visit and in which we reside? The essayist draws on her own travels, as well as the wisdom of other writers, as a means of exploring the issue of place and its effect ... -
The Big House: Marriage and Masculinity in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-29)In William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha masculinity is often at issue and is usually defined by men's activities in the outdoor world. But this study reveals that young white men often contemplate their masculinity in relation ... -
The Aura of the Irish Book: The Cuala and Dolmen Presses
(University of Kansas, 2009-04-27)Irish printing in the early years of the Celtic Revival had fallen into disarray, and as a response to this circumstance, Elizabeth Yeats and her brother W.B. Yeats inaugurated a new era of Irish printing with the creation ... -
"Imbued with the science of Venus": Female Fallenness, Sexual Pedagogy, and Victorian Pornography
(University of Kansas, 2010-12-16)As a decidedly heterogeneous genre, Victorian pornography offers a wide range of sexual narratives, including those that directly challenge both real and fictional narrative constructions of female fallenness by foregrounding ... -
Transpacific Transcendence: The Buddhist Poetics of Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen
(University of Kansas, 2010-09-10)"Transpacific Transcendence: The Buddhist Poetics of Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen" examines the influence of East Asian literature and philosophy on post-World War II American poetry. Kerouac's "Desolation ...