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Flannery O'Connor and Mid-Century America 

Grant, Virginia (2014-12-12)
Though the fiction of Flannery O'Connor has most often been studied from theological or psychological perspectives, her work is deeply entrenched in, and reflective of, the culture of the mid-twentieth-century United States. ...

Huck Finn Rides Again: Reverberations of Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' in The Twentieth-century Novels of Cormac McCarthy 

Worthington, Leslie (2007-12-15)
This dissertation examines the intertextual significance of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the works of a major contemporary American writer: Cormac McCarthy. As many scholars have noted, Twain’s novel ...

Justice You Shall Pursue: Jewish American Pragmatism 

Ferriter, Courtney (2017-04-25)
Pragmatist thinkers like Jane Addams, W.E.B. Du Bois, and John Dewey advocated for greater inclusivity in our democracy, urging Americans to an understanding of democracy as process. Nevertheless, pragmatist philosophy has ...

"Reeled in and Warmly Socketed": Mass Mediated Identity of the Contemporary Literary Figure 

Shoop, Eva (2010-05-05)
In the literature of a globalized twenty and twenty-first century world, mass media help to shape characters’ perceptions of selfhood and agency. As media forms are incorporated into the daily lives of characters, important ...

“Strange Homecomings” Place, Identity Formation, and the Literary Constructions of Departure and Return in the Works of Sarah Orne Jewett, Mark Twain, and Ernest Hemingway 

Klauza, Matthew (2010-04-29)
This dissertation considers place identity theory to examine three American authors’ constructions of place. It examines the literature of Sarah Orne Jewett, Mark Twain, and Ernest Hemingway for what it might reveal about ...