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The Hungry
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This thesis is the first one hundred and thirty-five pages of a fiction novel entitled The Hungry. The novel employs a braided narrative structure that moves back and forth between a vampire’s history living in France and ... -
Migration of Text and Shift of Identity: Self-Translation in the Bilingual Works of Lin Yutang, Eileen Chang, and Ha Jin
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This dissertation contends that self-translating authors, who translate their own works into other languages, serve as a locus through which to study the migrations and intersections of literature, language, culture, and ... -
Black Literary Suite: Reclaiming the Black Body: Women Writing Women
(University of Kansas, 2018-03-01)Acknowledging the primacy of physical violence against the female black body, “Reclaiming the Black Body” seeks to open up a new conversation through works that tells us a different story about agency and self-ownership, ... -
Mentorship at the HBCU: An Alternative Approach to Critical Pedagogy
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)Critical pedagogues across a multitude of disciplines continually search for effective pedagogical tools and practices that can efficiently create a student-centered empowering critical classroom. In the decades since its ... -
Rewriting the Formula: Exploring Student Engagement and Meta-Awareness in the “New Literacies Narrative”
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)This study examines students’ engagement and meta-awareness of literacy in a modified literacy narrative assignment, the New Literacies Narrative. The traditional literacy narrative (a short autobiographical essay describing ... -
Reading Romanticism: Keats, Embodied Cognition, and the Work of Affect
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)My dissertation argues that Romantic writers conceived of reading as an embodied social practice, understanding literary affect as a physiological connection between writer and reader. These writers turned the phenomenon ... -
Re-Placing the Prostitute: Ruth Hall and the Spatial Politics of the Streetwalker
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)In Fanny Fern’s 1854 Ruth Hall, the eponymous heroine encounters an opulently maintained brothel immediately after moving in to a third-rate boardinghouse in the slums. Rather than treating this as a marginal incident in ... -
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, ... -
Ben Jonson’s Dead Body: Henry, Prince of Wales, and the 1616 Folio
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)This essay examines the 1616 Ben Jonson Folio in the context of the social, poetic, and bibliographical aftermath of the death of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, in 1612. Those involved in the stated and implied social ... -
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
(University of Kansas, 1931)