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Bad Style: Feminism and the Ethics of Reading in 20th and 21st century Global Anglophone Literature

Description:
Against readings of certain World Literature writers like Kazuo Ishiguro and Vladimir Nabokov that too quickly aestheticize them in order to privilege a universality of …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Tan, Jerrine Ee-Wen (creator)
Kim, Daniel (Advisor)
Burrows, Stuart (Reader)
Anderson, Amanda (Reader)
Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Literature
Feminism and literature
Contemporary Literature
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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The Ornamental Unconscious: Modernism, Psychoanalysis, and the Functions of Form

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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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When the Slipper Doesn’t Fit: Subversion, Irony, and Feminism in Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Fairy Tales

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2021
  • Concentration: English
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Lovell, Alexandria Leann (Author)
Seifert, Louis (thesis advisor)
Rabb, Melinda (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Feminism and literature
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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