Sökning: "David Watson"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden David Watson.
1. Reconfiguring Subjectivity : Experimental Narrative and Deleuzean Immanence
Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to re-think subjectivity in constructive rather than deconstructive terms of disintegration and dismantling. This shift is effected through a reading of Gilles Deleuze that brings together two concepts that are incompatible in his philosophy – immanence and subjectivity – and by my reading of three fictional texts that engage Deleuze in a generative dialogue. LÄS MER
2. From Frontline to Homefront : The Global Homeland in Contemporary U.S. War Fiction
Sammanfattning : Criticized for providing a simplified depiction of a post-9/11 United States, contemporary American “War on Terror” fiction has been largely neglected by critical discourse. In this dissertation, I argue that this fiction offers a vital engagement with how the War on Terror is waged, and how the fantasies and policies of the Global Homeland inform it. LÄS MER
3. Mad Pursuits : Therapeutic Narration in Postwar American Fiction
Sammanfattning : Mad Pursuits: Therapeutic Narration in Postwar American Fiction examines three mid-century American novels—J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952), and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963)—in relation to the rise and popularization of psychoanalytic theory in America. LÄS MER
4. The Woke Franchise : Representing and Co-opting Resistance in Young Adult, Superhero, and Speculative Fiction
Sammanfattning : In the last decade, U.S. popular literary culture has been under increasing pressure to include more racially and other marginalized groups. LÄS MER
5. Enchanting Irruptions : Wonder, Noir, and the Environmental Imaginary
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates narratives of re-enchantment and disenchantment in three contemporary U.S. novels, Lydia Millet’s Mermaids in Paradise, Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange, and Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice. LÄS MER
