Browsing by Author "Cecelia Tichi"
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Haynes, Justin (2010-08-03)Department: EnglishIn this dissertation I examine the origins, influences and features of Caribbean carnivals as cultural festivals that developed and expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly during moments of ...
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Holladay, Melanie Butler (2006-07-28)Department: EnglishENGLISH INDIVIDUALISM POSSESSED: THE SUPERNATURAL MARRIAGE PLOT, 1820-1870 MELANIE BUTLER HOLLADAY Dissertation under the direction of Professor Cecelia Tichi This project focuses on the supernatural marriage plot, ...
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Graydon, Benjamin Thomas (2008-09-24)Department: EnglishThis dissertation is a study of the relationship between product branding and American literature and culture around the turn of the twentieth century. By the late nineteenth century, branding had emerged in the United ...
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Passino, Sarah McAuley (2010-08-12)Department: EnglishABSTRACT Pirating Human Rights studies critical theorists’ and activists’ insights on rights in order to bring these two differently situated traditions into productive relation. Arguing the left’s critique of rights has ...
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Harris, Eugenia Kay (2006-03-22)Department: Liberal Arts and ScienceIn this thesis, I examine novelist Sara Paretsky’s use of voice as power in the V.I. Warshawski series. The series gives Paretsky the opportunity not only to use her own voice, but also to create new ones. It is in V.I.’s ...
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Shelley, Maria Tempenis (2007-03-31)Department: SociologyThis study explores how emotion culture relates to class position and beliefs about masculinity. What are the cultural ideologies, values, norms, and vocabularies about emotion that structure men’s lives? And, do these ...
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Chung, Hyeyurn (2005-11-28)Department: EnglishThis dissertation investigates how men on the racial margins, whose ownership of masculinity is contested within the American context, co-opt, subvert, and rupture – that is “disidentify” with – conventional registers of ...
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Morrell, John J. (2012-03-25)Department: EnglishThe science of climate change is largely a narrative endeavor, and it is the shape of this narrative that is contested in debates about the politics of global warming. The most significant variables in models of possible ...
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Hagood, Charlotte Amanda (2010-08-06)Department: EnglishThis project links the modern American environmental movement, typically thought to have its origins in the social upheaval of the 1970’s, with the earlier postwar period. I argue that the same domestic “turn” which ...
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Spoth, Daniel Frederick (2009-06-05)Department: EnglishThis dissertation is a study of the interplay of regionalism and globalization in the work of William Faulkner (1897-1962) and Derek Walcott (1930-). Through a survey of contemporary criticism delineating a common ...
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Fusco, Katherine (2008-08-05)Department: EnglishBy examining naturalist novels and silent films from 1895 to 1915, my dissertation projects backwards out of these representational “solutions” to identify a formal and philosophical problem: time as force. I argue that ...