Browsing by Subject "Literature"
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(2012-12-12)Department: EnglishThis dissertation pairs fictional texts with periodicals in four time periods that span the nineteenth century to compare the changing narrative perspectives encoded in the editorial “We,” or as Anthony Trollope called it, ...
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(2013-07-15)Department: SpanishThis dissertation uses theoretical models of cultural studies to examine social factors that contribute to the development of the novel in early modern Spain and beyond. Documents from the conquest of the Americas provide ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-16)In these pages, I will examine the dissonant voices of Faulkner the author and the Faulkner the man alongside the voices of the characters and narrators in his fiction. My interest lies not in finding a satisfactory ...
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(2015-11-23)Department: EnglishIn this thesis, I consider the short story “Korea” and the novel Knife Song Korea, by physician and writer Richard Selzer to pose questions about how a surgeon’s professional technique, or surgical style, may be shaped by ...
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(2021-06-16)Department: FrenchThis dissertation examines how Haitian writers record memories of deceased family members, friends, and public figures in literature. In the years following the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804), memoirs, poetry, and historical ...
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(2022-05-17)Department: Spanish & PortugueseThis dissertation is the most comprehensive survey of slavery in Afro-Latin American literary narrative to date. Of the approximately 12.5 million Africans trafficked in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, an estimated 7 million ...