This dissertation constructs a critical theory of language, translation, and self-translation from the resources to be found in the writings of Walter Benjamin and Theodor …
"Ugly Americanism" examines the intersection of aesthetic theory and early-twentieth-century literature, tracking how American authors and artists engaged the idea of ugliness in their work. …
In this study, I explore listening’s relationship to reading and its inflection through the materiality of the silent page. More specifically, I aim to understand …
This dissertation explores the ways in which three modernist poets—William Butler Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Wallace Stevens—used elements of poetic form, such as rhythm, …
“The Peripheral Metropolis: The City, Montage and Modernity” examines Latin American writers in the 1920s and 1930s who, in writing about Mexico City, Lima and …
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 …