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"An Interesting Planet": The Ecotheology of Marilynne Robinson's Fiction

Description:
This thesis follows the development of Marilynne Robinson's ecotheology across her four novels. Robinson's theologically-grounded engagement with the environment is not simply marginal or incidental …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Kim, Naomi (creator)
Kuzner, James (thesis advisor)
Nabers, Deak (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Christianity
American literature
Christianity and culture
Religion and literature
Ecotheology
Environmental humanities
Marilynne Robinson
Theology
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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"Cheap plywood and glue": American Theatrical Enclosure at the End of the Frontier

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2021
  • Concentration: English
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Sabel, Francesca (Author)
Gould, Philip (thesis advisor)
Rambuss, Richard (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
American drama
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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'The Feel of Not to Feel It': British Romanticism, Melancholic Historiography, and the Degree Zero of Emotion

Description:
The dissertation identifies the waning of emotion that attends Romanticism's desire for an evocative past. My readings of poetry, prose fiction, belles lettres, and philosophy …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Block, Daniel Robert (creator)
Keach, William (Director)
Khalip, Jacques (Reader)
Bernstein, Susan (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
British Romanticism
affect studies
Hume
Wordsworth
Scott
Keats
Historiography
Wordsworth, William
Scott, Walter > 1771-1832
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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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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A Complicated Faith

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2020
  • Concentration: English Nonfiction Writing
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Zuckerman, Zachary (creator)
Schapira, Kate (thesis advisor)
Quashie, Kevin (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Creative nonfiction
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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A Lily on Display: Compromised Privacy in The House of Mirth

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2020
  • Concentration: English
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Pustizzi, Connor J. (creator)
Gould, Philip (thesis advisor)
Kuzner, James (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Literature
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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A New Normal: Family Stories of Mental Illness, Resilience, and Recovery

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2020
  • Concentration: English Nonfiction Writing
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Brown, Katherine Isabelle (creator)
Taylor, Elizabeth (thesis advisor)
Schapira, Kate (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Creative nonfiction
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Aesthetics in Place: Commercial Rhetoric and Local Identity in the British Atlantic, 1720-1820

Description:
This dissertation adopts a transatlantic frame of reference to argue that literary representations of local community shaped cultural identity in colonial British America and the …
Year:
2010
Contributor:
Melson, John A (creator)
Egan, James (Director)
Gould, Philip (Reader)
Keach, William (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
provinciality
locality
transatlantic culture
early American literature
Commerce
Transatlantic aesthetics and culture
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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All About Me: Rewriting Subjectivity in the Poet's Autobiography

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
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American Corps: Who Is One of Us?

Description:
What does it mean to be American? This is a thesis about America, service (military & volunteerism), and what it means to be American, written …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Ren, Ingrid X (creator)
Stewart, Michael (thesis advisor)
Schapira, Kate (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Racism
United States
Polarization (Social sciences)
American history
Public service
Voluntarism
Belonging
Uniforms
Race relations
Cultural pluralism
Emigration and immigration--Social aspects
War brides
Montana
Military community
National Civilian Community Corps (AmeriCorps (Program))
Political and social views
Chinese Americans--Cultural assimilation
Chinese Americans--Social conditions
Asian Americans--Cultural assimilation
Romance films
Volunteer workers in income tax return preparation
Creative nonfiction
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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An Education on Wandering

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2020
  • Concentration: English Nonfiction Writing
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Bigelow, Margaret Hope (creator)
Ward, Robert (thesis advisor)
Hardy, Ed (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Creative nonfiction
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Authentic Modernism: Ekphrasis and Objecthood in British and American Literature of the Early Twentieth Century

Description:
This dissertation examines ekphrasis in literary modernism?the verbal representation of visual artworks. In modernist studies the relationship between literature and painting has long been conceived …
Year:
2009
Contributor:
Blizard, Dawn E. (creator)
Scholes, Robert (director)
Armstrong, Paul (reader)
Bewes, Timothy (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
modernism
visual culture
materiality
literature & painting
Museums
Aesthetics
Art and literature
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Automatically Popular: Exoticism and Mass Media in Nineteenth-century British Fiction

Description:
This dissertation argues that many instances of nineteenth-century British fiction rely on exoticism to narrate the collective experience of mass media as an unfamiliar dynamic …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Shepherd, Bethany Snow (creator)
McLaughlin, Kevin (Director)
Keach, William (Reader)
Ryan, Vanessa (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
British fiction
Exoticism
mass culture
popular nineteenth-century culture
Popular culture
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Biopolitics, Professional Subjectivity, and Postcolonial Anglophone Literary Studies: Ishiguro, Coetzee, Ondaatje

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
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Bodies Unbound: Race, Gender, and Embodied Identity Politics in Recent Ethnic American Fiction

Description:
Despite claims that we have arrived at a post-race era, many signs indicate that Americans are as invested in racial difference as ever. In recent …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Katz, Deborah Koto (creator)
Kim, Daniel (Director)
Murray, Rolland (Reader)
Rodriguez, Ralph (Reader)
Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
gender
ethnic studies
Race
Sex
Feminism
American literature
Ethnology--Study and teaching
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Boundaryland

Description:
Boundaryland examines the intersections of family stories, nature, and celebrity culture along the California coast.
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Lomax-Emrick, Sloan E. (creator)
Schapira, Kate (thesis advisor)
Hipchen, Emily (reader)
Ward, Robert (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Celebrities
family
Nature
Nature--Effect of human beings on
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Can't Decide

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2020
  • Concentration: English Nonfiction Writing
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Towers, Julian Randall (creator)
Imbriglio, Catherine (thesis advisor)
Stanley, Lawrence (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Creative nonfiction
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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Claiming Idaho: Detangling the Narratives of Home

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2020
  • Concentration: English Nonfiction Writing
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Carignan, Catherine G. (creator)
Ward, Robert (thesis advisor)
Rush, Elizabeth (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Creative nonfiction
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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"A Critical Romance: Literary Modernism Rewriting Literary History"

Description:
In “A Critical Romance: Modernism Rewriting Literary History,” I examine the formative role of the romance in literary modernism’s work to think critically about itself …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Sikorski, Hannah Joran (creator)
Katz, Tamar (Director)
Reichman, Ravit (Reader)
Burrows, Stuart (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
modernism
romance
counterfactual
Chance
Counterfactual histories
Literature
Language:
English
Collection:
English
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