English Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation maintains that Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics holds a crucial significance for how we analyze character and subjectivity in postcolonial Anglophone literary studies. …
Year:: 2011
Contributor:: Babcock, David J (creator); George, Olakunle (Director); Bewes, Timothy (Reader); Reichman, Ravit (Reader); , (Director); , (Reader); Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: professional; Anglophone; postcolonial; Ishiguro; Coetzee; Ondaatje; affect; Globalization; Biopolitics; Professional employees; Subjectivity; English-speaking countries; Postcolonialism; Ethics; Coetzee, J. M. > 1940-; Ondaatje, Michael > 1943-
Language:: English
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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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; Theses and Dissertations

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