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Gender and national identity in the American war narrative

Wade, Elizabeth Walton (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

My dissertation, "Gender and National Identity in American War Narratives," explores the intersection of gender and genre in American War narratives from the Vietnam War to the present day, focusing on the way that women's ...
Generic decay: the deadly problems of All's well and comic convention

Fuqua, John Benjamin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

Most often, critical concerns of comedy tend to overlook exactly what we mean by "comedy" or "the comic." Comedy is ill served primarily by the supposition that either the word itself refers to a genre or mode only, or ...
Ghostwrit(t)er(n)

Hurst, Aaron J. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

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God save the queens: interrogating “englishness” through allegory in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene and George Macdonald’s Phantastes

Bell, Haden L. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

In 1936, C.S. Lewis published a comprehensive study of medieval love allegory through the ages, culminating in an analysis of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1596). While Lewis’s methodological approach to Spenser’s ...
Hands and seals: ciphered politics in early modern women's writing

DeFurio, Laura (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

Ciphered Politics offers a history of women’s secret politicking in the early modern period by tracing the practice across literary genres and neglected archival materials. The book includes studies of more than forty ...
Hauntings

Kowalski, Steven Casimer (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

This thesis is a representation of my work in the creative writing program at the University of Alabama from 2006-2010.
Head down eyes lowered mouth open

Wingard, John (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

Matthew Mathers is an aging game show host for the local scholastic competition, In It to Win It. Faced with the prospect of being replaced by a younger host to boost ratings, Matthew loses both his public and personal ...
"Hear my voice": stories of black women and girls in a historic black town

Holloway, Margaret (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

This dissertation uses oral history methodology and grounded theory methods to analyze and examine the stories of Black women and girls from the historic Black town of Hobson City, Alabama with the purpose of recovering ...
Hemingway and the textual struggle of paternity

Schuver, Allison Rose (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

Ernest Hemingway bears the legendary reputation of a hyper-masculine hunter, drinker, and womanizer, though much criticism has sought to complicate notions of gender in the author's life and fiction. This research project ...
Heterotopia and early modern friendship within Shakespeare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona"

Morris, Sarah Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

Critics and scholars alike have often overlooked the role of the forest within Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona in reinforcing the play's focus on homosocial bonds. Viewing this setting according to Michel Foucault's ...
House home land loss

Runge, Justin David (University of Alabama Libraries, 2010)

Poetry written between March of 2009 and February of 2010, exploring conceptions of home, specifically the author's house in Tuscaloosa, his hometown of Lincoln, and his home state of Nebraska.
Howards end as a Heartbreak house: E. M. Forster, George Bernard Shaw, the Great War, and the condition of the empire

Barilar, Nicholas Patrick (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

This study focuses on E. M. Forster's Howards End (1910) and George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House (1919/20), the authors' relationship to contemporary liberal British imperialism, and the Great War. Both of the texts are ...
Hybrid aesthetics: ambivalence, blues, and spirituals in African American novels

Jones, Donnie (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

This dissertation, "Hybrid Aesthetics: Ambivalence, Blues, and Spirituals in African American Novels," examines the use of music in novels and its effect upon the lives of miscegenous and/or hybrid characters. The goals ...
"I don't know what I would do but for writing": authorship and the diary of Susan Warner (1850-3)

Lamar, Anne Franklin (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

Susan Bogert Warner is best known for her novel The Wide, Wide World (1850), a work of domestic fiction that was second only to Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) in its nineteenth-century popularity. In the months before ...
"I will not cease from mental fight": William Blake's Milton and the process of adaptation

Powell, Jared N. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Critics have long pondered William Blake's relationship to his literary predecessors. As both a visual and verbal artist, Blake had a bulk of precedence and tradition at his disposal. Many scholars focus on Blake's ...
"If the heart be moved": the triumph of the heart in Milton, Herbert, and Donne

Perdue, Cori Miller (University of Alabama Libraries, 2013)

John Milton, George Herbert, and John Donne all struggle to hold onto the heart as the center of man and the place of inspiration and volition. In the seventeenth century, four intertwined challenges to how people think ...
Images of race and the influence of abolition in jane eyre and wuthering heights

Tolbert, Laura (University of Alabama Libraries, 2018)

Charlotte and Emily Brontë’s masterpieces, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, respectively, reflect the sisters’ life-long investment in the abolitionist movement. Despite being written over a decade post-abolition, the ...
Imagining the South: the function of “Dixie” in the United States from 1960-2017

Murray, William P. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

This project takes an interdisciplinary approach and explores how the United States used the “South” to protect and project imagined white innocence from 1960-2017. The dissertation intersects with other Southern-focused ...
The Influence of Dorothy Wordsworth on the Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge During the Years 1797-1810

Mayfield, Sara (University of Alabama Libraries, 1931)

"Say quick,"quoth he, "I bid thee say – What manner of man art thou?"
Intuition and authority: literary expression and scientific communication

Emerson, Daniel Geoffrey (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

In my dissertation, I investigate how images—whether pictorial, poetic, or narrative—determine and change human intuitions about the natural world. I argue that by adopting form and content from one another, literary and ...

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