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• 1. [Article] Second nature: Literature, capital and the built environment, 1848--1938

  x, 255 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: Second nature: Literature, capital and the built environment, 1848--1938 Author: Sipley, Tristan Hardy, 1980- Year: 2010 x, 255 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. Title: Second nature: Literature, capital and the built environment, 1848--1938 Author: Sipley, Tristan Hardy, 1980- Year: 2010 x, 255 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] Vico's More than Human Humanism

  This essay considers how in Vico the alterity of nature plays a role in the formation of humanity, as part of the complexity and interconnectivity of life, resisting acritical historicization and reduction ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Vico's More than Human Humanism Author: Lollini, Massimo, 1954- Year: 2012, 2011 This essay considers how in Vico the alterity of nature plays a role in the formation of humanity, as part of the complexity and interconnectivity of life, resisting acritical historicization and reduction to purely human paradigms. The theoretical implications of this problematic approach to Vico's humanism and making of history lead to a new understanding of Auerbach's idea that "our philological home is the earth," one in which philology and philosophy in a genuinely Vichian fashion return to interrogate not only the historical institutions but also their relationships to earth and the natural environment as a significant part in the formation of humanity. Thus, this essay proposes Vico's idea of "places of humanity" as the driving force of a new humanism, one that is "more than human," and finally pays attention to what has been excluded or not valorized from purely historicist interpretations of his philosophy. Title: Vico's More than Human Humanism Author: Lollini, Massimo, 1954- Year: 2012, 2011 This essay considers how in Vico the alterity of nature plays a role in the formation of humanity, as part of the complexity and interconnectivity of life, resisting acritical historicization and reduction to purely human paradigms. The theoretical implications of this problematic approach to Vico's humanism and making of history lead to a new understanding of Auerbach's idea that "our philological home is the earth," one in which philology and philosophy in a genuinely Vichian fashion return to interrogate not only the historical institutions but also their relationships to earth and the natural environment as a significant part in the formation of humanity. Thus, this essay proposes Vico's idea of "places of humanity" as the driving force of a new humanism, one that is "more than human," and finally pays attention to what has been excluded or not valorized from purely historicist interpretations of his philosophy. Close

• 3. [Article] "A Strangely Organic Vision": Postmodernism, Environmental Justice, and the New Urbanist Novel

  My dissertation examines critical engagements with the "new urbanist" movement in late 20th and early 21st century U.S. novels, including Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange, Helena María Viramontes's ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: "A Strangely Organic Vision": Postmodernism, Environmental Justice, and the New Urbanist Novel Author: Platt, Daniel Year: 2015 My dissertation examines critical engagements with the "new urbanist" movement in late 20th and early 21st century U.S. novels, including Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange, Helena María Viramontes's Their Dogs Came with Them, and Colson Whitehead's Zone One. I argue that these novels reflect new urbanism's valorization of neighborhoods that are walkable, green, and diverse, even as they critique the movement's inattention to environmental injustice and the long history of urban rights movements. Moreover, I argue that contemporary fiction's engagement with new urbanism has driven formal and stylistic innovation in the novel. The "new urbanist novel," I argue, blends elements of the postmodern literary mode, such as metafiction and narrative fragmentation, with elements that are arguably anti-postmodern, such as representations of stable collective identity and utopian visions of organic urban community. Title: "A Strangely Organic Vision": Postmodernism, Environmental Justice, and the New Urbanist Novel Author: Platt, Daniel Year: 2015 My dissertation examines critical engagements with the "new urbanist" movement in late 20th and early 21st century U.S. novels, including Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange, Helena María Viramontes's Their Dogs Came with Them, and Colson Whitehead's Zone One. I argue that these novels reflect new urbanism's valorization of neighborhoods that are walkable, green, and diverse, even as they critique the movement's inattention to environmental injustice and the long history of urban rights movements. Moreover, I argue that contemporary fiction's engagement with new urbanism has driven formal and stylistic innovation in the novel. The "new urbanist novel," I argue, blends elements of the postmodern literary mode, such as metafiction and narrative fragmentation, with elements that are arguably anti-postmodern, such as representations of stable collective identity and utopian visions of organic urban community. Close

• 4. [Article] Nature Industries: U.S. Environmental Fictions after Fordism, 1971-2011

  This dissertation recontextualizes literary, critical, and popular models of nature in contemporary American fiction, and argues that the transformations in the post-Fordist economy reframe environmental ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Nature Industries: U.S. Environmental Fictions after Fordism, 1971-2011 Author: Krieg, Charles Year: 2016 This dissertation recontextualizes literary, critical, and popular models of nature in contemporary American fiction, and argues that the transformations in the post-Fordist economy reframe environmental concepts and their uses in a new light. Scholars in the environmental humanities have long recognized that understanding changes in the political economy are a key way to understanding our ideas and representations of the natural world. These ideas serve as metaphysical models that relate individuals to society and to the broader world described by the sciences. However, much environmental criticism only goes so far as to historicize, either arguing that images of nature are wholly determined by structures and institutions of power, or, by privileging certain ideas of nature as absolute, critics lay claim to an imagined oppositional, but no less normative, space outside of society. Nature Industries intervenes in this dilemma by drawing on pragmatist and cultural studies methods to reconstruct the experience of American life in the aftermath of Fordism. Constructing this historical conjuncture enables interpretive practices which foreground the diverse political articulation of environmental figuration. The title is a play on Horkheimer and Adorno’s 1944 essay on “the culture industry,” which announced that cultural production had been subsumed into monopoly capitalism. Following culture, nature has undergone a similar loss of perceived autonomy. From the affective to the biogenetic, informational to the atmospheric, post-Fordist technologies and economies intervene in the world at scales that previous vocabularies struggle to describe without the help of fiction. Contemporary capitalism not only produces new natures—new combinations of nature and culture, or new “natural-history”—but, given the ecological consequences of industrialism, environmentalists too are forced to intervene in ways that would give pause to previous generations of conservationists. Rather than announcing the “death of Nature,” as the fictionalized Immanuel Kant does in the final moments of Mary McCarthy’s Birds of America (1971), we encounter a proliferation of natures, each with their own political valence, and each mobilizing a different set of social and natural referents in the public sphere. Title: Nature Industries: U.S. Environmental Fictions after Fordism, 1971-2011 Author: Krieg, Charles Year: 2016 This dissertation recontextualizes literary, critical, and popular models of nature in contemporary American fiction, and argues that the transformations in the post-Fordist economy reframe environmental concepts and their uses in a new light. Scholars in the environmental humanities have long recognized that understanding changes in the political economy are a key way to understanding our ideas and representations of the natural world. These ideas serve as metaphysical models that relate individuals to society and to the broader world described by the sciences. However, much environmental criticism only goes so far as to historicize, either arguing that images of nature are wholly determined by structures and institutions of power, or, by privileging certain ideas of nature as absolute, critics lay claim to an imagined oppositional, but no less normative, space outside of society. Nature Industries intervenes in this dilemma by drawing on pragmatist and cultural studies methods to reconstruct the experience of American life in the aftermath of Fordism. Constructing this historical conjuncture enables interpretive practices which foreground the diverse political articulation of environmental figuration. The title is a play on Horkheimer and Adorno’s 1944 essay on “the culture industry,” which announced that cultural production had been subsumed into monopoly capitalism. Following culture, nature has undergone a similar loss of perceived autonomy. From the affective to the biogenetic, informational to the atmospheric, post-Fordist technologies and economies intervene in the world at scales that previous vocabularies struggle to describe without the help of fiction. Contemporary capitalism not only produces new natures—new combinations of nature and culture, or new “natural-history”—but, given the ecological consequences of industrialism, environmentalists too are forced to intervene in ways that would give pause to previous generations of conservationists. Rather than announcing the “death of Nature,” as the fictionalized Immanuel Kant does in the final moments of Mary McCarthy’s Birds of America (1971), we encounter a proliferation of natures, each with their own political valence, and each mobilizing a different set of social and natural referents in the public sphere. Close

• 5. [Article] Hollywood at the Tipping Point: Blockbuster Cinema, Globalization, and the Cultural Logic of Ecology

  x, 180 pages

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Hollywood at the Tipping Point: Blockbuster Cinema, Globalization, and the Cultural Logic of Ecology Author: Rust, Stephen A. Year: 2012, 2014 x, 180 pages Title: Hollywood at the Tipping Point: Blockbuster Cinema, Globalization, and the Cultural Logic of Ecology Author: Rust, Stephen A. Year: 2012, 2014 x, 180 pages 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