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 …
This dissertation explores the role of autobiography in the work of four queer modernists: W.H. Auden, Gertrude Stein, Elizabeth Bishop, and H.D. While autobiographical elements …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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. …