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The Frankfurt School and the American Road Novel: A Study in Critical Discourse Across Literature and Philosophy

Description:
This thesis attempts to engage in an analysis that probes the relationship between the discourse of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and the …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Goodman, Jake (creator)
Nabers, Deak (thesis advisor)
Khalip, Jacques (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Institut für Sozialforschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
On the road (Kerouac, Jack)
Lolita (Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich)
Marcuse, Herbert, 1898-1979
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969
Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980
Nineteen fifties
Conformity in literature
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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The Ineluctable Modality of the Complex: Heidegger and the Philosophical Form of Ulysses

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2021
  • Concentration: English
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Lindseth, Nicholas M. (Author)
Armstrong, Paul (thesis advisor)
Richter, Gerhard (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Ulysses (Joyce, James)
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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The Inhuman Renaissance: Naturalist Poetics and Forms of Life

Description:
“The Inhuman Renaissance” is a project in environmental history and literary analysis situated at the crossing of ecological and early modern science studies. In each …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Swarbrick, Steven Robert (creator)
Rambuss, Richard (Director)
Newman , Karen (Reader)
Kuzner, James (Reader)
Wilson, Elizabeth (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Early modern literature
history of science
ecocriticism
poetry and poetics
Queer theory
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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The Ironic Narrators of Austen, Eliot, and Forster

Description:
Describes the curious, personable, and ironic narrators of Emma, by Jane Austen; The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, by George Eliot; and Howards End, …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Michaud, Paul (creator)
Parker, Benjamin (thesis advisor)
Armstrong, Paul (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Irony
ironic
narrator
narratology
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Eliot, George, 1819-1880
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970
Lukács, György, 1885-1971
Booth, Wayne C.
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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The Ornamental Unconscious: Modernism, Psychoanalysis, and the Functions of Form

Description:
This dissertation threads innovations in modernist literature, architecture, and design with the contemporaneous rise of the psychoanalytic clinic to trace a crucial tension across 20th-century …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Rada, Michelle (creator)
Rooney, Ellen (Advisor)
Copjec, Joan (Reader)
Katz, Tamar (Reader)
Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Comparative literature
Critical theory
Modernism (Literature)
Latin American literature
English literature
Feminism and literature
Psychoanalysis
20th century
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981
Modernism (Art)
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Functionalism (Architecture)
Decoration and ornament
Decoration and ornament, Architectural
Ulysses (Joyce, James)
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Invención de Morel (Bioy Casares, Adolfo)
Ifigenia (Parra, Teresa de la)
Parra, Teresa de la, 1889-1936
Waves (Woolf, Virginia)
Jacob's room (Woolf, Virginia)
Psychoanalysis and literature
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
Bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even (Duchamp, Marcel)
Bioy Casares, Adolfo
Jones, Ernest, 1879-1958
Collection:
English
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The Parent-Child Paradox: Greene’s Trilogy on Littleness and Salvation

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2021
  • Concentration: English
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Kelly, Abigail M. (Author)
Kuzner, James (thesis advisor)
Armstrong, Paul (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Paradox in literature
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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The Pleasure in Error: Early Modern Romance and Poetic Futility

Description:
This dissertation examines the errant role that pleasure plays in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English writers' attempts to define the epistemological, ethical, and civic value of …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
McEleney, Corey William (creator)
Kahn, Copp�a (Director)
Feerick, Jean (Reader)
Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
romance
Renaissance
Poetry
Errors
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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The Postwar American Novel and Mr. Keynes: Literature in the Age of Stabilizing Economic Disequilibrium

Description:
This dissertation maintains that postwar literature responds primarily to changes in the American economic landscape following WWII. Literary studies of postwar fiction by scholars such …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Gorman, Austin C (creator)
Nabers, Deak (Director)
Kim, Daniel (Reader)
Murray, Rolland (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
keynes
macreconomy
postwar literature
consumer economy
American literature
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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The Promise of Art and the Problem of Difference: Aesthetic Universalism in Romantic-Era Britain

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This dissertation examines the post-Enlightenment concept of aesthetic universalism as it figures in British art and literature of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. During the …
Year:
2009
Contributor:
Chander, Manu Samriti (creator)
Keach, William (director)
Bewes, Timothy (reader)
Chow, Rey (reader)
George, Olakunle (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
universality
Romanticism
Aesthetics
Orientalism
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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The Reality of the Romantic Grand Gesture in Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac: the Legacy and Adaptation of the Cyrano Story Trope

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2021
  • Concentration: English
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Yuan, Abigail (Author)
Kuzner, James (thesis advisor)
Burrows, Stuart (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Figures of speech
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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The Skeletons

Description:
A former child-star struggling with Crohn's Disease attempts to flee from his troubles by joining a group of bohemian artists in New York City.
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Baer, Tristan (creator)
Rambuss, Richard (thesis advisor)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Motion picture plays
Skeletons
Baer
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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The Slash Between: In/authenticating Burmese American Literature

Description:
Through an analysis of works by Wendy Law-Yone, Charmaine Craig, Maw Shein Win, and Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, this dissertation deconstructs Burmese American literature as …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Dun, Ashley Aye Aye (creator)
Kim, Daniel (Advisor)
Ramírez-D'Oleo, Dixa (Reader)
Smailbegović, Ada (Reader)
Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
American literature--Asian American authors
Asian American literature
Burmese American literature
Collection:
English
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The Spoils of Shame: Queer Affect in the Works of Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Radclyffe Hall, and Virginia Woolf

Description:
This dissertation interrogates the complex operations of shame around homosexuality as they appear in early twentieth-century Anglophone writing. I argue that these operations do not …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Groeneveld, Dominique D. (creator)
Herrnstein Smith, Barbara (Director)
Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
Katz, Tamar (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
modernism
models of affect
Shame
Queer theory
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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The World Before Us: Blackness, Narration, and Photography

Description:
“The World Before Us” demonstrates that black writers’ explorations of how textuality and visuality mutually mediate racialized identity began in the mid-nineteenth century, during photography’s …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Morgan, Cole (creator)
Murray, Rolland (Advisor)
Gould, Philip (Reader)
Burrows, Stuart (Reader)
Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Photography
Slavery
african american literature
Critical Race Studies
Narrative Theory
Subjectivity
Media studies
visuality
Collection:
English
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This Is Not One Thing

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2021
  • Concentration: English Nonfiction Writing
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Miller, Duncan (Author)
Readey, Jonathan (advisor)
Stewart, Michael (reader)
Brown University (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Creative non-fiction
Collection:
English
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Time Passages: The Paradox of Time, Motion and Reality in Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry and the Rise of the Countercultural Consciousness in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2020
  • Concentration: English
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Russell, Alexandra Elise (creator)
Egan, James (thesis advisor)
Kuzner, James (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Literature
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Time Travels: Metalepsis and Modernist Poetry

Description:
In Time Travels: Metalepsis and Modernist Poetry, I examine how modern notions of time play out rhetorically in the work of Wallace Stevens, W. B. …
Year:
2008
Contributor:
Ben-Merre, David N. (creator)
Blasing, Mutlu (director)
Katz, Tamar (reader)
Keach, William (reader)
Smith, Barbara (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
modernism
Yeats
Stevens
Merrill
Eliot
Metalepsis
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Translation, the Hoax, and the Postcolonial Novel in a Global Age.

Description:
In my dissertation I argue that the trope of translation helps us understand how diasporic and transnational writers dissolve the opposition between postcolonial localism, on …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Holmes, Christopher (creator)
George, Olakunle (Director)
Chow, Rey (Reader)
Armstrong, Paul (Reader)
Reichman, Ravit (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Translation
Postcolonial
World Literature
Literary Hoaxes
Postcolonialism
Literature
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Translational Futures: Asian/American Environmental Fiction and the Transpacific Turn

Description:
From rising sea levels and acidifying oceans to overflowing landfills, plastic particulates, and mass extinctions, the environmental crises of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries often …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Gullander-Drolet, Claire (creator)
Kim, Daniel (Advisor)
Perry, Samuel (Reader)
Rodriguez, Ralph (Reader)
Smailbegović, Ada (Reader)
Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
American literature--Asian American authors
Korean literature
Collection:
English
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Transpacific Vibrancy: Listening across Asian American and Chicanx Texts

Description:
This dissertation brings together studies of the transpacific—especially as a site of colonization, military empire, and racialized subject formation—with studies of sensorial racial ecologies—especially as …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Lafferty, Olivia Anne (creator)
Kim, Daniel (Advisor)
Rodriguez, Ralph (Reader)
Smailbegovic, Ada (Reader)
Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Photography
American literature--Asian American authors
American poetry--Asian American authors
transpacific
Asian American literature
Latinx Literature
Asian American History
Chicanx Literature
Chicanx Poetry
Collection:
English
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