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English Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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At the Center of Her Art: Ex/Isle, Trauma, and Story-Telling in Julia Alvarez's First Three Novels
(University of Kansas, 2007-12-20)Julia Alvarez's first three novels, which can be read as a story cycle, are highly autobiographical, and, if studied together, reveal how she progresses as an author. Drawing from theories concerning life writing, language, ... -
The Preoccupations of Mr. Lomax, Inventor of the "Inventor of Jazz"
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-18)Since its publication in 1950, Alan Lomax's book Mr. Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz" has been a crucial source for jazz music scholars. Based on Lomax's 1926 interviews ... -
Mapping a Post-Process Dialogics for the Writing Classroom as Public
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-09)The broad goal of this study is to better understand the rhetorical tasks faced by student writers in composition studies' "public turn." Questioning the common assumption that publicness resides outside of the classroom ... -
Animus
(University of Kansas, 2008-06-18)This is a collection of short stories written by Emily Hall. -
The Banality of Virtue: A Multifaceted View of George Orwell as Champion of the Common Man
(University of Kansas, 2007-10-11)This dissertation focuses on several aspects of the life and works of one Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell. It views Orwell as a servant of empire, as a revolutionary, as an intellectual, as an optimistic ... -
Performance and Performativity in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford and Ruth
(University of Kansas, 2008-05-08)This thesis analyzes the aspects of performance and performativity in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford and Ruth. Gaskell shows through her characters how gender and class intertwine, involving the notions of cultural, social, ... -
From the Individual to the Collective: Community in August Wilson and Tony Kushner
(University of Kansas, 2007-12-17)My study examines the playwrights August Wilson and Tony Kushner as "political" artists whose work, while positing very different definitions of "community," offers a similar critique of an American tendency toward a kind ... -
William Blake's Laocoon: The Genealogy of a Form
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-11)The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the relationship between the British artist and poet William Blake and the art of Antiquity, in particular the Laocoön sculpture group in the Museo Pio-Clementino in Rome. ... -
Marietta Holley, Alice Duer Miller, the Rhetoric of Suffrage Humor, and the Changing Notions of Womanhood, 1848-1920
(University of Kansas, 2007-12-03)Generally when people think of the suffrage movement, they conjure up serious images of impassioned speeches, violent protests, and intense congressional lobbying. However, there was another side to the movement and that ...