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Writing the Vampire: Constitutions of Gender in Carmilla, Dracula, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-22)
Examination of the constitutions of gender and sexuality in three texts centered on vampires.
"All thinking things" and "Objects of all thought": Materiality and Thought in Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-20)
"The French Book Saith": Malory’s Adaptation of His Sources
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-17)
Rancière’s Political "Perceptible" and Perversions of Marxist Ideology: An Analysis of Narrative Politics in Brecht, Bulgakov, and Ishiguro
(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-17)
The “Universal Cannibalism” of Things: A Historical, Psychoanalytic Treatment of Melville’s Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, and Billy Budd
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-16)
This study will evaluate Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, and Billy Budd as evidence of Melville’s embrace of an historical view of the U.S. and will further analyze these novellas ...
Resounding Footnotes Understanding the Pre-Romantics Through the Footer
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-13)
Labels can be highly problematic metaphysical entities when they suggest and lead to the creation of unity where little exists. When exactly did the Romantic Period start and stop? Some individual works are certainly ...
Trauma in Lyric: A National Reading of 20th Century Postwar Lyric
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-17)
Grounded in postwar German and British poetry, this thesis explores the dynamic tension between the historicity located in poetic language and the trans-temporality of the identification mechanism facilitated by the lyrical ...
Roadblocks to Publishing Obscenity and Blasphemy in Ulysses and The Satanic Verses
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-24)
The publishing industry is in such turmoil—thanks to digital publishing platforms which offer higher royalties and instant gratification to authors—that nearly every day a new story comes to light of a bookstore closing, ...
Campbell, Frye, and Girard: Myths, Heroes & Ritual Violence in Literature
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-18)
In my thesis, I analyze the literary theories of Joseph Campbell, Northrop Frye, and Rene Girard for their ability to address political concerns in literature. In the movement from Campbell -- who treated politics with ...
Speaking with the Subaltern: An Exploration of the Voices of South Asian Women in Literature and Film
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-17)
If the subaltern could speak, what would she say? Would the women of India and South Asia talk about arranged marriages, sati (the sacrificial burning of widows), bride burnings, clitoridectomy, purdah, pativratadharma ...