Affecting Labors: The Novel and the Antinomies of Bourgeois Production traces the emergence of a set of negative affects in literature written in the last …
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 is a work in political philosophy that considers the metamorphosis of the subject as it seeks alternative modes of being through revolutionary alteration of …
Abstract of "Indeterminate Reading with Foucault: Performing Critical Distance through Textual Analysis," by Jennifer L. Schmeyer, A.M., Brown University, May 2017. This thesis is an …
This dissertation brings together a range of manifestos, novels, memoirs, and artworks from the first half of the 20th century to trace the emergence of …
This dissertation explores the concept of 'narrative world' within the frame of the relationship between embodiment and writing. The first chapter looks at how Martin …
This dissertation evaluates how the advent of digital technologies have implicated film and media studies in recent debates over the legacy of critical theory and …
“Unclaimed Language” examines the epistolary debates and philosophical tensions between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno, focusing on their divergent understandings of language and literary …
Untimely Forms is a study of the problem of autonomy in the novel after postmodernism. Recent literary theory has criticized the idea of aesthetic autonomy …