• Spenser's Burning Light: The Soul's Transformations in the Faerie Queene 

  Sharpe, William Franklin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  The extent of Spenser’s Neoplatonic influence has long been the subject of debate, and even proponents of a more fully Neoplatonist Spenser have often hesitated to read The Faerie Queene in the full light of this tradition. ...
• The Early Plays of Shakespeare: Chronology, Authorship, and Intertextuality 

  Hulse, Mark Charles (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  This dissertation explores ways in which diverse subtopics in literary studies converge to answer questions about the composition history, reception, and thematic content of several plays by Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd. I ...
• ∞ = Δ (God is Change): Deconstructing/Reconstructing Disability in Octavia Butler's Afro-Futurisms 

  Isaacs, Tyra (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower is a piece in which the affordances of the Afro-futuristic genre grants disabled and minority identities the ability to be imagined anew. This is especially pertinent when considering ...
• (De)Coding the Church: Christian Performance and White Southern Girlhood in Welty's One Writer's Beginnings 

  Perschall, Abigail (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  Eudora Welty’s memoir One Writer’s Beginnings conveys the author’s childhood enchantment with reading and education. Critical engagement with the text often centers its impact on readings of her fiction or Welty’s relationship ...
• Robert Loveman: Belated Romanticist 

  Friedman, Helen Adele (University of Alabama Libraries, 1932)

  The purpose of this thesis, however, is not to "stir a little dust of praise" that would soon settle down again into oblivion. Its purpose is to present an accurate record of the life and work of a gentle and lovable man ...
• Black feminist utopianism and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day 

  Patel, Megha D. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  The feminist utopia was a prominent literary genre for women writers throughout the 1900s. Otherworldly separatist societies in novels such as Herland (1915) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Female Man (1975) by Joanna ...
• The role of language use in identity construction amongst LGBTQI+ Youtubers 

  Acar, Sezgi (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  The majority of previous studies of sexual orientation and phonetic variation are based on speakers of North American English. The nature of social scientific theory can be founded exclusively on people from western, ...
• Paddle faster I hear techno music: mapping the prehomosexual and the posthomosexual in the souths of James Dickey and Samuel R. Delany 

  Coffman, Alexander (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  This thesis argues that James Dickey’s Deliverance, and Samuel R. Delany’s Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders are works of speculative Southern fiction by reading them through David Halperin’s “How to do the History ...
• The flood, the ark, & the shark: narrating the natural world in early modern Europe 

  Foster, MK (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  Revisiting the academic discourse around the long-term impact of early modern Europe’s shifting ecological attitudes, this project resuscitates the critical premise of “nature as performance” and proposes a revitalized, ...
• Intoxicated pilgrims in America's early atomic age literature 

  Kline, Erik (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  This dissertation has three primary concerns. 1.) How did the military-industrial complex affect an alienation of religious or spiritual feeling in the United States during the early- to mid-Cold War? 2.) How did countercultural ...
• Shakespeare, race, and adaptation in times of unrest, 1601-1888 

  Hamlet, Jess (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  This dissertation takes up the question of Shakespeare’s literary afterlives in seventeenth-century England, pre-Jacksonian America, and nineteenth-century Britain and British India. By examining when and where Shakespeare ...
• Mass media critique in Charles Dickens’s "Martin Chuzzlewit" and William North’s "The City of Jugglers; or, Free-Trade in Souls" 

  Kjoss, Victor (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  The Victorian period is arguably the era when the mass media was born. In the nineteenth century, a myriad of factors allowed newspaper circulations to increase substantially and transformed the paper from something that ...
• Samuel Beckett's negative narrative and its historicity: towards a critical historicism 

  Lu, Xinyu (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  This thesis interprets Samuel Beckett’s negative narrative from a historicist point of view. Chapter One reconstructs the Viconian elements in Beckett’s early critical work, “Dante … Bruno . Vico .. Joyce.” Beckett’s ...
• The female body as contagion, commodity, and cure: examining discursive agency through patriarchal quackery in Elizabeth Inchbald and Mary Robinson 

  Green, Jordan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  This thesis seeks to prod at the disciplinary rift between science and literature in an attempt to examine how the female body has been reinscribed, further codified, and controlled within the gendered linguistic structures ...
• Developing your academic writing friend: an academic writing tool for independent use 

  Scherber, Yanisa Haley (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  As the popularity of independent learning resources grows, new approaches to education and educational technology must be considered. This thesis introduces and details the development process for the prototype of a new ...
• “How many more are there? How much longer is this going on?”: eugenic discourse and themes in Faulkner’s snopes trilogy 

  Wesley, Shelby Miranda (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  William Faulkner’s Snopes trilogy (comprised of The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion) follows the rise of the Snopeses, an impoverished white family that moves into Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, and begins to replace ...
• The educational visual "language" in graphic novel adaptations of Shakespeare 

  Fulton, Ciara Jean (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  There is a hierarchal problem in how Shakespearean graphic novels are taught withinsecondary level education. As will be shown in my review of the critical work surrounding Shakespearean graphic novel adaptations, graphic ...
• The rhetoric of rank in early modern drama from 1590 to 1642 

  Smith, Matthew Burdick (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  My dissertation, “The Rhetoric of Rank in Early Modern Drama from 1590 to 1642,”argues that early modern dramatic works pull from rhetorical theory to shape social status in a period that underwent significant social ...
• Idealism in Kant and Coleridge 

  Hawse, Doris Hartwell (University of Alabama Libraries, 1936)

  Given a vital contact with the daily life of man by his use of it as a constant moral touch-stone, it must yet be out of reach or his logic and his intellectual proving. If it exist in and or and for the soul, it may not ...
• The Mood of a Long-Seated Woman and Other Stories 

  Rousse, Justin (University of Alabama Libraries, 1978)

  A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in the Program of Creative Writing in the Graduate School of The University of Alabama.

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