This thesis demonstrates revenge tragedy's ongoing engagement with early modern law in its myriad forms during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. I begin by showing in the introduction the relevance of an ...

This thesis contends that Stevens is engaged in creative conversation. His poems generate conversations between each other and with earher poets. For Stevens is in conversation with Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Coleridge ...

This thesis examines the ways in which neoliberalism as a pervasive economic, political, and cultural discourse is represented, recreated, and subverted in contemporary short fiction by Claire Keegan, Nicole Flattery, Lucy ...

Through an analysis of American fiction, with a special focus on the writing of Richard Yates, Richard Ford, and Jonathan Franzen, this thesis argues that American men have always struggled with what it means to be an ...

The diary form affords multiple generations of women with a vehicle for expressing themselves, and is particularly germane to younger writers, developing a voice, and shaping a sense of self as they emerge from childhood. ...

This thesis argues that the Confessio Amantis is a study in the inadequacy of language and its constructs. It asserts that, like his fourteenth-century contemporary authors, Gower explores the mutable condition of language, ...

As humanity’s most evident other, at once deeply similar to and fundamentally different from the human, the animal is a valuable poetical trope. This thesis examines the representation and function of animals and animality ...

[From the introductory paragraphs] [...] Yeats’s image of post-Enlightenment mankind as “passive” before nature hints at his interest in magic and mysticism, as well as his desire to search in and through nature and its ...