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RAUBER, DONALD
(The University of Oregon, 1958-06)
Although Sir Thomas Browne's most important work, the Religio Medici, created an intellectual stir at the time of its publication, the fickle current of taste and appreciation soon veered away and the book was left stranded ...
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Rauber, Donald F.
(University of Oregon, 1964)
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Hurt, Ellen Louise
(University of Oregon, 1964)
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Bodey, Donald Lee
(University of Oregon, 1975-09)
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Blade, Kristine Lynn
(University of Oregon, 1979-06)
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St. John, Robert
(University of Oregon, 1989-06)
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Wadley, Meredith Lynne
(University of Oregon, 1989-06)
Short stories and selections of a novel in progress.
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Howard, Robert Glenn
(University of Oregon, 2001)
Since the advent of the public World-Wide-Web in 1992, networked computer communication has rapidly become integral to the daily lives of many North Americans. Many researchers in the humanities and social sciences debate ...
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Hart, Hilary, 1969-
(University of Oregon, 2004-03)
The nineteenth-century American sentimental novel has only in the last twenty years received consideration from the academy as a legitimate literary tradition. During that time feminist scholars have argued that sentimental ...
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Spicer, Arwen
(University of Oregon, 2005-06)
This study examines implications of utopian and dystopian fiction for contemporary ecological praxis, emphasizing the respective differences in ecological discourse arising out of (Neo-)Darwinian and Neo-Lamarckian ...
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Hediger, Ryan
(University of Oregon, 2005-08)
This dissertation inquires into the ethical, embodied subjectivity in American literature since World War II. It demonstrates how texts that register embodiment operate at the limits of the human and the literary, exposing ...
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Coronado, Teresa Marie Freeman, 1975-
(University of Oregon, 2008-06)
This project critiques the performance of class identity through the works of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonial and early national period authors using the lens of humor, primarily as posed by Elliot Oring and ...
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Sultzbach, Kelly Elizabeth
(University of Oregon, 2008-09)
Modernism's fragmented literary style has been called "an art of cities." My project challenges such conventional understandings by exposing a strain within modernism that expresses an awareness of a broader phenomenological ...
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Casimir, Ulrick Charles, 1973-
(University of Oregon, 2008-09)
This dissertation examines the relationship between British and American conceptualizations of the Anglophone Caribbean and the way that Anglophone Caribbean fiction writers and filmmakers tend to represent the region. ...
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Soles, Carter Michael
(University of Oregon, 2008-09)
My dissertation argues that the film comedies of Kevin Smith, through their willingness to depict and verbalize gender-bending, queer desire, and deviant sexual practices, exemplify the role independent "slacker" cinema ...
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Brassaw, Mandolin R.
(University of Oregon, 2008-12)
This dissertation argues that American women writers have revised sacred texts to challenge patriarchy, racism, and colonialism and rewritten American history to reveal how biblical scripture has been implicated in these ...
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Spann, Britta, 1979-
(University of Oregon, 2009-09)
In English literary studies, classical epic poetry is typically regarded as a masculinist genre that imparts and reinforces the values of dominant culture. The Iliad , Odyssey , and Aeneid , after all, were written by ...
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Pollard, Jacqueline Anne
(University of Oregon, 2009-09)
This dissertation considers the formal and thematic camaraderie between T. S. Eliot and Djuna Barnes. The Waste Land 's poet, whom critics often cite as exemplary of reactionary high modernism, appears an improbable ...
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Tracy, Hannah R.
(University of Oregon, 2009-12)
While the impact of Darwin's theory of evolution on Victorian and modernist literature has been well-documented, very little critical attention has been paid to the influence of Lamarckian evolutionary theory on literary ...
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Kaplan, Stacey Meredith, 1973-
(University of Oregon, 2010-03)
My dissertation analyzes the overlooked short works of authors and auteurs who do not fit comfortably into the conventional category of modernism due to their subtly experimental aesthetics: the versatile British author ...
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