This dissertation examines works by Richard Wright, Chang-rae Lee and Junot Diaz, as well as Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather films, and how they theorize …
This dissertation begins with the observation that, during the English Renaissance, matter was a multivalent term, which could refer to the phenomenal world as well …
"Postmodern Realism and the Neoliberal Imagination" argues that postmodern fiction’s primary engagement with the politics of neoliberalism is generic, rather than ideological. Neoliberalism, I suggest, …
“Reverb” recovers the resonance between American literature and sonic media from the invention of the telephone and phonograph (the 1870s) to the end of the …
The purpose of this dissertation is to reevaluate the relationship between the aesthetics we call Romantic and the abstracting scientific procedures that have been underappreciated …
This dissertation argues that secrets become increasingly politicized over the course of the twentieth century, emerging from the private realm (the context of “family secrets” …