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'Unhackneyed Solitudes': Recycled Fragment as Lyric Voice in the Poetry of Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath

Description:
My dissertation argues that lyric is best defined as an indirection of voice rather than the subjective experience of a persona. Following Paul de Man, …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Rayburn, Laurel G (creator)
Blasing, Mutlu (Director)
Katz, Tamar (Reader)
Nabers, Deak (Reader)
Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Lyric voice
Moore
Bishop
Plath
recycled
genre
Literary form
Plath, Sylvia
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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American Literature and the Religion of the Disinherited: Antisecularism and Modern Fiction

Description:
This dissertation examines representations of antisecular religion (herein referred to as the “religion of the disinherited”) in the late nineteenth and twentieth century American novel, …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Conroy, Nathaniel A (creator)
Gould, Philip (Director)
Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
Nabers, Deak (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Flannery O'Connor
James Baldwin
Sinclair Lewis
Nathanael West
Harold Frederic
Modernism
Secularism
American literature
Religion and literature
Fundamentalism
Pentecostalism
Secularization
O'Connor, Flannery
Baldwin, James > 1924-1987
Lewis, Sinclair > 1885-1951
West, Nathanael > 1903-1940
Frederic, Harold > 1856-1898
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Between Law and Justice: Legal Authority, Liberal Democracy, and Postwar Fiction

Description:
“Between Law and Justice” considers how American literature after WWII responded to political and philosophical debates about the interrelation of law, conscience, and democracy. From …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Fitzpatrick, Kathleen (creator)
Anderson, Amanda (Advisor)
Nabers, Deak (Reader)
Katz, Tamar (Reader)
Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
American literature
Law and literature
Collection:
English
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Indexical Modernism: Autonomy, Commitment, Aesthetics

Description:
This dissertation aims to explain the emergence of a set of vital, if unrecognized, realist imperatives in American literature and critical thought at mid-twentieth century. …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Osment, Sarah M (creator)
Bewes, Timothy (Director)
Burrows, Stuart (Reader)
Nabers, Deak (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
20th Century Literature
Visual Culture
American literature
Aesthetics
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Making a Living Poetry: The Process of Poetic Vocation in Postwar America

Description:
Making a Living Poetry investigates modern and contemporary American poetry’s reworking of the religious and romantic valences of a vocation in order to resist and …
Year:
2014
Contributor:
Neilson, Jeffrey P (creator)
Gould, Philip (Director)
Herrnstein Smith, Barbara (Reader)
Nabers, Deak (Reader)
Shoptaw, John (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Modern American poetry; poetics; religion and literature; pragmatism; post-secularism
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Our Kind of Seriousness: The Reintegration of Judgment in Contemporary American Culture

Description:
My dissertation attends both philosophically and historically to the affect of seriousness in contemporary American culture. It focuses specifically on expressions and performances of seriousness, …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Actis, Andrea Camille (creator)
Khalip, Jacques (Advisor)
Nabers, Deak (Reader)
Smailbegović, Ada (Reader)
Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Queer theory
Affect theory
American literature
Feminism and literature
Poetics
Philosophy and religion--History of doctrines
Critical Race Studies
Collection:
English
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Paper Urbanism: American Literature and the Design of Cities

Description:
“Paper Urbanism” explores what I refer to as American literature’s "urban design imagination," as it evolved between the end of the nineteenth century and the …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Gastiger, Michael Joseph (creator)
Anderson, Amanda (Advisor)
Murray, Rolland (Reader)
Nabers, Deak (Reader)
Zipp, Samuel (Reader)
Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Urbanism
American literature
City planning
American Studies
Urban literature
20th century
Collection:
English
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Professional Sentiments: Professionalism, Affect, and American Literature, 1830-1910

Description:
Professional Sentiments argues that nineteenth-century U.S. fiction revised sentimental models of subjectivity and social relations to evolve an affectivity of professionalism. Challenging a critical practice …
Year:
2010
Contributor:
Sweeney, Brian D (creator)
Gould, Philip (Director)
McLaughlin, Kevin (Reader)
Burrows, Stuart (Reader)
Nabers, Deak (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
professionalism
novel
19th century U.S. literature
affect
class
African American literature
servants
professionals
Charles Chesnutt
Sarah Orne Jewett
Anna Katharine Green
Harriet Wilson
detective fiction
American literature
Sentimentalism
Household employees
Professional employees
Detective and mystery stories
Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell) > 1858-1932
Jewett, Sarah Orne > 1849-1909
Green, Anna Katharine > 1846-1935
Wilson, Harriet E. > 1825-1900
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Strange Intimacies: The Limits of Community in the Twentieth-Century Novel

Description:
This dissertation examines a series of strange intimacies in twentieth-century literature by focusing on works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Richard Wright, Graham Greene, …
Year:
2014
Contributor:
Schnepf, Jennifer D (creator)
Kim, Daniel (Director)
Khalip, Jacques (Reader)
Nabers, Deak (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Twentieth-Century Literature
Modernism
American literature
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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The Biomatters of American Modernity

Description:
My dissertation examines the relationship between aesthetic forms and the governance of life. I argue that the materially reductionist accounts of persons in realist and …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Hollingshead, David (creator)
Bewes, Timothy (Reader)
Gould, Philip (Advisor)
Nabers, Deak (Reader)
Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
19th Century Prose Fiction
Biopolitics
American literature
african american literature
Naturalism in literature
Collection:
English
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Unimagined Communities: Literary Forms and Nationalism in 19th-Century America

Description:
This dissertation argues that a driving force in the evolution of the nineteenth-century American novel's theoretical and formal concerns was a broadly shared uncertainty about …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Iacono, Jonna H. (creator)
Gould, Philip (Director)
Burrows, Stuart (Reader)
Nabers, Deak (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
nineteenth-century American literature
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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