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Yu, Hongmei
(University of Oregon, 2008-06)
This dissertation explores the interaction between filmmaking and the changing exigencies of leftist political ideologies in China at different stages of modernity: semi-colonial modernity, socialist modernity, and global ...
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Meyers, Emily Taylor, 1979-
(University of Oregon, 2009-06)
Writers in the Caribbean, like writers throughout the postcolonial world, return to colonial texts to rewrite the myths that justified and maintained colonial control. Exemplary of a widespread, regional phenomenon that ...
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Adkins, Roger A., 1973-
(University of Oregon, 2010-06)
This dissertation investigates the cultural importance of the "monstrous Other" in postmodern literature, including novels from Sweden, Finland, and the United States. While the theoretical concept of "the Other" is in ...
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McCann, Michael Charles, 1959-
(University of Oregon, 2011-09)
The twentieth-century project of American rhetorician Kenneth Burke, grounded in a magic-based theory of language, reveals a path to the origins of what I am going to call occult invention. The occult, which I define as a ...
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Rayneard, Max James Anthony
(University of Oregon, 2011-09)
In this dissertation "literariness" is defined not merely as a quality of form by which texts are evaluated as literary, but as an immanent and critical sensibility by which reading, writing, speaking, learning, and teaching ...
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Da Silva, Meyre
(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)
Colonial narratives and nationalist rhetoric in Africa have always associated female sexuality with male desire and consumption, aberrance, or perversion. While historical narratives suggested that native women's bodies ...
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Chang, Jeong
(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)
This project focuses on films that reveal concerns about care and subjectivity in a world transformed by neoliberalism, flexible capital, and globalization. As these films show, care is still necessary, but under the logic ...
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Zikpi, Monica
(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)
This dissertation is a history of interpretation and interlinear commentary translation of the "Li Sao," an allegorical poem attributed to the late Warring States (475-221 BCE) poet Qu Yuan. I argue that the significance ...
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McGinn, Emily
(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)
This project is a comparative study of Irish and Latin American modernisms and the literary responses to the advent of recorded sound. It focuses particularly on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Flann O'Brien's The Third ...
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Toepfer, Yvonne
(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)
This comparative project investigates different representations of the sandman between the 19th century and the 20th century. My discussion focuses on Romantic texts, in particular E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1816 literary tale "Der ...
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Richards, Jamie
(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)
My dissertation research focuses on Italian literature of the 1960s, specifically translations from the American counterculture and poetry of the neo-avantgarde. Through a detailed study of three specific translational ...
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Lisiecki, Chet
(University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)
As fascist movements took hold across Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, there emerged a body of lyric poetry concerned with revolution, authority, heroism, sacrifice, community, heritage, and national identity. While the Nazi ...
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Odintz, Jenny
(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)
In this project I explore the creation of female community in the novels of four contemporary feminist writers: Nicole Brossard, Michelle Cliff, Maryse Condé, and Gisèle Pineau. I contend that in their diverse representations ...
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Gilroy, Andrea
(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)
My dissertation argues that comics’ unique formal properties are particularly suited toward exploring and representing the complex nature of identity. Just as the comics form is broadly defined by a peculiar tension between ...
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Cornwall, Amanda
(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)
This dissertation begins from the problem that is built into realism as a literary genre: its commitment to capturing the unfiltered circumstances of human life will always be at odds with the artifice of its representational ...
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Leggette, Amy
(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)
This dissertation examines how literary form adapts to emergent print environments by identifying common strategies for incorporating the act of reading into the situation of the text. In my analysis of original textual ...
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Tougas, Ramona
(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)
Title: Performing Work: Internationalism and Theatre of Fact between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.
Theatre’s public, and yet intimate emotional ability to demarcate extraordinary occurrences and provoke communal ...
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Kovalchuk, Anna
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)
This dissertation investigates nineteenth-century narrative representations of the Cossacks—multi-ethnic warrior communities from the historical borderlands of empire, known for military strength, pillage, and revelry—as ...
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Bhattacharya, Sunayani
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-27)
My dissertation traces the formation and growth of the reader of the Bengali novel in nineteenth century Bengal through a close study of the writings by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay that comment on—and respond to—both the ...
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Eccleston, Rachel
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)
This project analyzes the intersections between representations of female sovereignty used to promote and rethink feminine virtue in both early modern English and Spanish advice literature and literary texts published in ...
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