English Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This thesis looks at the autobiographical writing of two second-generation New York School poets, Alice Notley and Eileen Myles, arguing that they use this form …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Kamphaus, Rachel (creator); Katz, Tamar (thesis advisor); Bewes, Timothy (reader); Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Poetry; Postmodernism (Literature); Subjectivity; Lyric poetry; Autobiographies
Language:: English
Collection:: 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:: “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; Theses and Dissertations

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