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English Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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We Too
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)A collection of poetry which explores the notions of global climate change, gay sex, and class war as speculative nightmarescapes of varying degrees of reality. The formal breadth stretches from metered quatrains to ... -
Writing and reading the individual : the development of personal narrative in the works of Defoe, Richardson, and Boswell
(University of Kansas, 1999)By specifically focusing upon the works of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and James Boswell, this study describes stylistic and content shifts that occur within narrative writing during the eighteenth century. A close ... -
The influence of Germany on the American men of letters who studied at Göttingen in the early nineteenth century
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Studies in the technique of Ruskin's prose
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Gentilesse, noblesse, and their congeners: a semantic study
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Mr. James Branch Cabell's accomplishment as judged by his own theory of romance
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A study of the manner in which Shakespeare closes his plays
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The Children
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)The Children presents the fictional journal of Harold Shapely Jr., recent heir to a Maine island estate and failing wool business. Set in the winter of 1962, the Log reveals Harold’s struggle to cope with the loss of his ... -
Global Ethics and Postcolonial Lucifers
(University of Kansas, 2015-13-31)This dissertation unites four literary accounts from four different parts of the world under the concept of extraterritorial literature - literature by and about exile. Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (India-England, ... -
Harry Leon Wilson as a humorist
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Chicago in creative literature, 1900-1925
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The Southwest as treated in a selected list of American novels
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Kansas nature in the twentieth century Kansas novel
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A Cold In My Woman Parts
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)In A COLD IN MY WOMAN PARTS the author explores her background and bi-cultural marriage in order to better understand why she drifted away from her familiar, rural Midwest “hearth.” A large section of the thesis is set ... -
The English ode from Spenser to Dryden
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A survey of criticisms of American literature from 1914 to 1920, based on a selected list of French periodicals
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The novels of Susan Ferrier
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The ballad poetry of Dante Gabriel Rosetti
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The Orient in American poetry from the beginning to 1900
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Resistance and the Sermon: The Cultural Work of Literary Preaching from Emerson to Morrison
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)Resistance and the Sermon asks two central questions. First, how might we account for the fact that, across a long period of US literary history, a wide variety of writers have subverted the predominantly religious content ...