Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - English by Creation Date
Now showing items 1-20 of 268
-
La fragmentacion de la identidad politica nacional Argentina: los presidentes y las antinomias
(2006-11-27)Using the exploratory method in a historical-comparative perspective, this thesis investigates, through presidential speeches, the visualization that authoritarian and democratic governments have had on Argentina's national ... -
Epistemology and intertextual practice in Ezra Pound's "The Cantos"
(Georgetown University, 2007) -
Zadie Smith as the postcolonial Sisyphus : a neo-postcolonial examination of On Beauty
(Georgetown University, 2008) -
Classical meets colonial : an exploration of the travel narratives of George Best
(Georgetown University, 2008) -
What happens next : Jane Austen's fans and their sequels to Pride and Prejudice
(Georgetown University, 2008) -
The rush to knowledge : perception and interpretation in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Othello and The Winter's Tale
(Georgetown University, 2008) -
Performing ambivalence : a study of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
(Georgetown University, 2008) -
Mourning loss : community and consolation in 20th century elegy
(Georgetown University, 2008) -
Detective fiction and modernity : a study of Dorothy L. Sayers and Christopher Caudwell
(Georgetown University, 2008) -
The politics of excess : religion, gender, and race in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown
(Georgetown University, 2008) -
Reading "The Revelations of Elizabeth of Hungary" as a Devotional Text
(2008-02-20)Beginning with the argument that "The Revelations" were intended to function as a devotional text, this thesis then examines how a devotional reading of "The Revelations" must have changed between two contexts: the first ... -
All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go: Women and First-Class Performances in the Plays of Tennessee Williams
(2008-04-08)Though critics have analyzed Tennessee Williams' plays in light of class conflict, little attention has been paid to women through the working-class studies lens. This paper seeks to explore ways in which gender complicates ... -
Desire and Discourse in Innovative Young Adult Fiction
(2008-04-29)"Desire and Discourse in Innovative Young Adult Fiction" explores and analyzes the representation of adolescent desire in young adult fiction and the significance of desire in constructing and influencing young adult ... -
Traumatized Masculinity: Queering the Male Body in American Naturalism
(2008-04-30)Scholars typically code American literary naturalism as a hyper-masculine and heterosexist genre, which is perhaps the reason it has been under-addressed in queer studies. Only recently have scholars begun to re-explore ... -
Bodies of Work: The Production of Work, Class and Gender in Film Musicals
(2008-05-01)Film musicals are a unique representation of working-class cultural expression. My study will focus on three film musicals: The Pajama Game (1957), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), and Hairspray (2007) with the goal of ... -
Quiet Revisionists: Identity Reconciliation and the Trope of Marriage in the Fiction of Dorothy West and Nella Larsen
(2008-05-01)The middle class identity of the African American woman is complicated by the intersectionality of race, class, and gender. Economic stability cannot protect her from society's marginalization of black womanhood. Her ability ... -
The mediating force of Margaret Fuller's work in education, nature writing, and social reform
(Georgetown University, 2009) -
Gendered glances : the male gaze(s) in Victorian English literature
(Georgetown University, 2009)
