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English Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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The Mainstream of Consciousness: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner and Mass Modernism
(University of Kansas, 2010-12-16)The Mainstream of Consciousness: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner and Mass Modernism argues that the "stream of consciousness" method which has become synonymous with "high" modernism was, in actuality, a ... -
Home Front as Warfront: African American World War I Drama
(University of Kansas, 2010-08-31)This dissertation recovers little-known African American World War I plays that blur the boundary between the home front and warfront. I argue that with this focus, the plays wage their own war for African American citizenship ... -
Disrupting Conventions: When and Why Writers Take Up Innovation
(University of Kansas, 2010-08-19)Genre scholars have exposed the ideological nature of genres by examining how they promote and normalize certain values, epistemologies, and power relations. Recently, scholars have extended this work to uptake--the ways ... -
Painted Ponies: Essays on Memory and Loss
(University of Kansas, 2008-12-30)This collection explores the spiral nature of memory as it examines the way loss and one's reactions to loss repeat themselves in new guises and new contexts. Interspersing poetry with essays of memoir, Klayder examines ... -
A Life in Letters: Personal Essays
(University of Kansas, 2008-12-16)By formatting my dissertation as a series of letters to famous writers, artists, and musicians, I have attempted to establish an intimate, detailed connection between my life story and the words of the artists I am addressing. ... -
Famine as a Function of Empire in Arrow of God and Star of the Sea
(University of Kansas, 2010-05-22)This paper speaks to several broad questions about the relationship between culture and nature as represented in Chinua Achebe's novel Arrow of God and Joseph O'Connor's novel Star of the Sea: How are the categories nature ... -
Full-Fledged Indian
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-26)Lee Stafford is in his seventh summer as a counselor at Camp Arrowdance. While Lee enjoys his status as one of the most popular staff members at camp, he begins to wonder if he's in danger of going "Full-Fledged Indian", ... -
Up from the Ground: Blogging the Farm and Farming the Blog
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-22)Up from the Ground: Blogging the Farm and Farming the Blog was written in the form of blog posts from May 2009 until March 2010. The blog chronicled successes and failures in the transition from city life to organic ... -
From Here the Beginning is Hard to Find: Stories
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-26)From Here the Beginning is Hard to Find is a collection of inter-related short stories about a family. Their shared experience is detailed through shifting perspectives. -
The Radius of Home
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-16)In the tradition of My Life by Lyn Hejinian, I, Afterlife, by Kristin Prevallet, and Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely, The Radius of Home is a poetic adulthood-meets-childhood memoir of perception, language, and ... -
Dreams of Earth and Sky: Interviews with Nine Kansas Poets
(University of Kansas, 2010-07-28)This thesis comprises interviews with nine poets who have a Kansas background and whose work exhibits a strong sense of place. The interviews took place during the period running from April 2008 through May 2009. The ... -
Boy Gothic and Other Stories
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-18)[i]Boy Gothic and Other Stories[/i], by James Benjamin Storey, is a collection of short stories related by theme. Most of the stories follow the life of Sam, our main character, as he confronts and explores the modern ... -
Masculine Interludes: Monstrosity and Compassionate Manhood in American Literature, 1845-1899
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-05)This dissertation examines the textual formulation of "compassionate manhood"--a kind, gentle trope of masculinity--in nineteenth-century American literature. George Lippard, Mark Twain, J. Quinn Thornton, and Stephen Crane ... -
All Skate, Now Reverse
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-28)All Skate, Now Reverse is a memoir that consists of personal narratives that are set in or are about my growing up in Nebraska. It is about life and its defining moments, and the collection summons up childhood epiphanies ... -
In Fugue: Well-Tempered Poetry
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-28)While each poem here has grown organically out of a personal experience, emotion, or love of language, each sequence has been tempered through an intense artistic process by the application of musical and psychiatric ... -
Soul's Night Out
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-28)Abstract: Souls Night Out, a collection of poems by Nedra Rogers, employs confessional, lyrical, narrative, and meditative modes to investigate the poet's relationship to her world. In the introduction, the process of ... -
Me and My House
(University of Kansas, 2008-04-30)An informative Abstract for "Me and My House" by Ted Kritikos: The purpose of this work is to examine the Biblical book of Joshua by using twenty-four short stories/chapters which correspond in different ways to to the ... -
Representing the Museum and the People: Rhetorical Sovereignty and the Representational Genres of American Indian Museums
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-29)This study addresses questions surrounding American Indian representations, specifically how Native nations use standard museum communicative structures to forward those communities' needs and goals, thus enacting what ... -
Chaucer's Arthuriana
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-31)I trace Chaucer's increasingly complex use of the Arthurian legend. In his early dream visions, Chaucer mirrors his Italian and French sources; however, his Arthurian allusions diverges from his predecessors to reflect the ... -
Troy Imagery and Competing Codes of Piety in Shakespeare's Early History Plays
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-15)This dissertation examines the relationship between British identity and mythic history presented in the early history plays of Shakespeare's first tetralogy. By examining the imagery of Troy and Rome, specifically the ...
