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• 1. [Article] The gender of belief: Women and Christianity in T. S. Eliot and Djuna Barnes

  x, 175 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: The gender of belief: Women and Christianity in T. S. Eliot and Djuna Barnes Author: Pollard, Jacqueline Anne Year: 2010, 2009 x, 175 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. Title: The gender of belief: Women and Christianity in T. S. Eliot and Djuna Barnes Author: Pollard, Jacqueline Anne Year: 2010, 2009 x, 175 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. Close

• 2. [Article] Reviving kalliope: Four North American women and the epic tradition

  ix, 267 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Reviving kalliope: Four North American women and the epic tradition Author: Spann, Britta, 1979- Year: 2010, 2009 ix, 267 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. Title: Reviving kalliope: Four North American women and the epic tradition Author: Spann, Britta, 1979- Year: 2010, 2009 ix, 267 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. Close

• 3. [Article] Midcentury American Poetry and the Identity of Place

  This dissertation argues that the midcentury period from 1945-1967 offers a distinct historical framework in American poetry that bears further study. This position counters most other literary history ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Midcentury American Poetry and the Identity of Place Author: Rinner, Jenifer Year: 2014 This dissertation argues that the midcentury period from 1945-1967 offers a distinct historical framework in American poetry that bears further study. This position counters most other literary history of this period wherein midcentury poets are divided into schools or coteries based on literary friendships and movements: the San Francisco Beats, the New York School, the Black Mountain poets, the Confessionals, the Black Arts poets, the Deep Image poets, and the New Critics, to invoke only the most prominent designations. Critics also typically share a reluctance to cross gender or racial lines in their conceptualizations of the period. Of the few books that survey this period as a whole, most propose the defining features of midcentury poetry as formal innovation (or lack thereof) and a renunciation of the past. By contrast, I argue that such divisions and limiting categories do not attend to some of the most important features of midcentury poetry. I suggest that midcentury poetry most often demonstrates a renewed interest in locating a particular identity in a specific place. To illustrate this point, I explore depictions of identity and place in the works of three poets who are rarely studied together, Gwendolyn Brooks, Theodore Roethke, and Elizabeth Bishop. Each chapter examines the changes in poets' careers by focusing on how the relationship between place and identity differs in their early and late work. I contend that the few generalizations we have about the trajectory of this period (that poets moved from using more traditional forms to more open forms, for example) are not entirely accurate and, even more, that the accounts that we have of the poets' individual careers could be enhanced by a comparison between their early and late depictions of identity and place. I argue that the concerted exploration of the intersection of place and identity calls for a reconsideration of midcentury poetry: not just the categories we have but the poets and poems we read. Title: Midcentury American Poetry and the Identity of Place Author: Rinner, Jenifer Year: 2014 This dissertation argues that the midcentury period from 1945-1967 offers a distinct historical framework in American poetry that bears further study. This position counters most other literary history of this period wherein midcentury poets are divided into schools or coteries based on literary friendships and movements: the San Francisco Beats, the New York School, the Black Mountain poets, the Confessionals, the Black Arts poets, the Deep Image poets, and the New Critics, to invoke only the most prominent designations. Critics also typically share a reluctance to cross gender or racial lines in their conceptualizations of the period. Of the few books that survey this period as a whole, most propose the defining features of midcentury poetry as formal innovation (or lack thereof) and a renunciation of the past. By contrast, I argue that such divisions and limiting categories do not attend to some of the most important features of midcentury poetry. I suggest that midcentury poetry most often demonstrates a renewed interest in locating a particular identity in a specific place. To illustrate this point, I explore depictions of identity and place in the works of three poets who are rarely studied together, Gwendolyn Brooks, Theodore Roethke, and Elizabeth Bishop. Each chapter examines the changes in poets' careers by focusing on how the relationship between place and identity differs in their early and late work. I contend that the few generalizations we have about the trajectory of this period (that poets moved from using more traditional forms to more open forms, for example) are not entirely accurate and, even more, that the accounts that we have of the poets' individual careers could be enhanced by a comparison between their early and late depictions of identity and place. I argue that the concerted exploration of the intersection of place and identity calls for a reconsideration of midcentury poetry: not just the categories we have but the poets and poems we read. Close

• 4. [Article] Narratives of a Fall: Star Wars Fan Fiction Writers Interpret Anakin Skywalker's Story

  viii, 94 p.

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Narratives of a Fall: Star Wars Fan Fiction Writers Interpret Anakin Skywalker's Story Author: Carpenter, Sarah Gerina Year: 2012, 2011 viii, 94 p. Title: Narratives of a Fall: Star Wars Fan Fiction Writers Interpret Anakin Skywalker's Story Author: Carpenter, Sarah Gerina Year: 2012, 2011 viii, 94 p. Close

• 5. [Article] The ecological other: Indians, invalids, and immigrants in U.S. environmental thought and literature

  xi, 233 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: The ecological other: Indians, invalids, and immigrants in U.S. environmental thought and literature Author: Ray, Sarah Jaquette, 1976- Year: 2010, 2009 xi, 233 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. Title: The ecological other: Indians, invalids, and immigrants in U.S. environmental thought and literature Author: Ray, Sarah Jaquette, 1976- Year: 2010, 2009 xi, 233 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. Close

• 6. [Article] Locating the butt of ridicule: Humor and social class in early American literature

  x, 196 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Locating the butt of ridicule: Humor and social class in early American literature Author: Coronado, Teresa Marie Freeman, 1975- Year: 2009, 2008 x, 196 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. Title: Locating the butt of ridicule: Humor and social class in early American literature Author: Coronado, Teresa Marie Freeman, 1975- Year: 2009, 2008 x, 196 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. Close

• 7. [Article] Divine heresy: Women's revisions of sacred texts

  ix, 226 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Divine heresy: Women's revisions of sacred texts Author: Brassaw, Mandolin R. Year: 2009, 2008 ix, 226 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. Title: Divine heresy: Women's revisions of sacred texts Author: Brassaw, Mandolin R. Year: 2009, 2008 ix, 226 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. Close