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1. Ingrisani, Emma. "An irresistible propensity to play with him": Torment and Delight in Our Mutual Friend.

Degree: MA, English, 2011, Vanderbilt University

► Charles Dickens’s novels are full of instances of parental inversion, in which cruel or hapless (and usually male) parents are cared for by their far… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: victorian heroines; psychoanalysis

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Ingrisani, E. (2011). "An irresistible propensity to play with him": Torment and Delight in Our Mutual Friend. (Thesis). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12758

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ingrisani, Emma. “"An irresistible propensity to play with him": Torment and Delight in Our Mutual Friend.” 2011. Thesis, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12758.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ingrisani, Emma. “"An irresistible propensity to play with him": Torment and Delight in Our Mutual Friend.” 2011. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Ingrisani E. "An irresistible propensity to play with him": Torment and Delight in Our Mutual Friend. [Internet] [Thesis]. Vanderbilt University; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12758.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Ingrisani E. "An irresistible propensity to play with him": Torment and Delight in Our Mutual Friend. [Thesis]. Vanderbilt University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12758

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Vanderbilt University

2. Hines, Andrew Joseph. Understanding Criticism: An Institutional Ecology of USAmerican Literary Criticism.

Degree: PhD, English, 2015, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12446

► "Understanding Criticism" argues that the dominant narrative of the disciplinary history of literary studies has thwarted an analysis of the entanglement of anti-blackness and literary… (more)

▼ "Understanding Criticism" argues that the dominant narrative of the disciplinary history of literary studies has thwarted an analysis of the entanglement of anti-blackness and literary criticism. In the 1940s and 1950s, the New Critics defined literary criticism and its history as an ongoing progression of critical theories. In doing so, however, the New Critics created a disciplinary object that covered over the relationship of theory to material, social, and institutional practices. As such, it became difficult to evaluate and to track modes of literary critical activity that neither hewed to this narrative, nor manifested in the institutionally endorsed forms of literary theory. In recovering this narrative with methods informed by science studies, ecocriticism, and critical university studies, "Understanding Criticism" illustrates how our sense of the history of literary criticism has been narrowed by the New Critical narrative of disciplinary development and, in particular, how that narrative has concealed practices of literary criticism employed by black intellectuals in the mid-century. By recognizing criticism that did not rely on the cultural capital levied upon institutionally endorsed methods of literary reading, "Understanding Criticism" highlights writers that are not normally associated with the history of literary theory. This dissertation puts Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, Parker Tyler, and Ann Petry into conversation with those who have long been understood to have a pivotal role in formulating literary criticism, such as Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Cleanth Brooks, and Robert Penn Warren. This broader network of critics and critical practices delivers access to an expanded archive of approaches to the interpretation of literature. Ultimately, to apprehend criticism from the interdisciplinary perspective of ecology means to redefine the discipline with renewed attention to activity and unlikely collaboration across social spheres. Advisors/Committee Members: Houston A. Baker Jr. (committee member), Dana D. Nelson (committee member), Jonathan Flatley (committee member), Michael Kreyling (Committee Chair).

Subjects/Keywords: modernism; afro-pessimism; sociology of literature; black literary criticism; New Criticism; critical university studies; literary criticism and theory

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Hines, A. J. (2015). Understanding Criticism: An Institutional Ecology of USAmerican Literary Criticism. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12446

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Hines, Andrew Joseph. “Understanding Criticism: An Institutional Ecology of USAmerican Literary Criticism.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12446.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Hines, Andrew Joseph. “Understanding Criticism: An Institutional Ecology of USAmerican Literary Criticism.” 2015. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Hines AJ. Understanding Criticism: An Institutional Ecology of USAmerican Literary Criticism. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12446.

Council of Science Editors:

Hines AJ. Understanding Criticism: An Institutional Ecology of USAmerican Literary Criticism. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12446

Vanderbilt University

3. Ross, Donika DeShawn. Reading against genre: contemporary westerns, and the problem of white manhood.

Degree: PhD, English, 2013, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13756

► This project argues that white American manhood has generic conventions that obscure the nuances of contemporary white manhood. I turn to contemporary westerns where I… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: masculinity studies; whiteness; westerns; film; American literature

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Ross, D. D. (2013). Reading against genre: contemporary westerns, and the problem of white manhood. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13756

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ross, Donika DeShawn. “Reading against genre: contemporary westerns, and the problem of white manhood.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13756.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ross, Donika DeShawn. “Reading against genre: contemporary westerns, and the problem of white manhood.” 2013. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Ross DD. Reading against genre: contemporary westerns, and the problem of white manhood. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2013. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13756.

Council of Science Editors:

Ross DD. Reading against genre: contemporary westerns, and the problem of white manhood. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13756

Vanderbilt University

4. McInnis, Tatiana Danielle. Missing Miami: Anti-Blackness and the Making of the South Florida Myth.

Degree: PhD, English, 2017, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12926

► Missing Miami: Anti-Blackness and the Making of the South Florida Myth presents an investigation of Miami, Florida’s cultural topography, with specific attention to how anti-Blackness… (more)

▼ Missing Miami: Anti-Blackness and the Making of the South Florida Myth presents an investigation of Miami, Florida’s cultural topography, with specific attention to how anti-Blackness has shaped the city. In this dissertation, I problematize narratives of Miami as a diverse, immigrant-friendly, and global city by analyzing state-sanctioned disenfranchisement of Afro-descended inhabitants. I have structured this project around the following questions: What circumstances, issues, and cultures shape the city, its inhabitants, and representations? What is at stake in the overabundance of descriptions of Miami as “diverse,” “not Southern,” “Caribbean,” “Latin American”? What do these descriptors reveal about the city’s racial politics and cultural climate? What do they hide? The answers to these questions shore up my argument that the construction of Miami as a diverse extension of the Caribbean and/or Latin America validates narratives of the US as an inclusive nation and belies the global prevalence of anti-blackness. Missing Miami draws on and departs from work in literary and cultural studies, cultural geography, critical race theory, migrant studies, and Afro-Diasporic studies to complicate the celebration of Miami’s demographic. In particular, this project pinpoints a popular and scholarly tendency to displace widespread iterations of racism, xenophobia, and other similarly repressive ideologies onto allegedly “racist,” “backward,” and “unsafe” regions, i.e., the mythic South. I suggest that the myths of Miami’s inclusivity and the exclusionary South are codependent, and that the constitution of Miami as an inclusive space is necessarily dependent on the erasure of ongoing anti-Blackness that is disproportionately displaced onto the South. Rather than seeking to define, or categorize, Miami as either Southern or Caribbean, my project aims to investigate how authors, journalists, and filmmakers both reify and write against claims of Miami’s diversity. I focus on representations of Afro-Diasporic populations set in Miami ranging from the 1950s to the 2000s. My methodological approach, which uses Miami as a microcosm to discuss transnational racial hierarchies, facilitates an intersectional analysis of cross cultural interaction, and tension, and treats antiblackness as not only a global phenomenon, but also a transnational problem. Advisors/Committee Members: Dr. Alex Stepick (committee member), Dr. Candice Amich (committee member), Dr. Michael Kreyling (committee member), Dr. Vera Kutzinski (Committee Chair).

Subjects/Keywords: Black Studies.; Haitian Studies; Cuban Studies; cultural geography; urban planning; equity; immigration; Civil Rights; diversity; cultural studies; anti-Blackness; Miami

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McInnis, T. D. (2017). Missing Miami: Anti-Blackness and the Making of the South Florida Myth. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12926

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

McInnis, Tatiana Danielle. “Missing Miami: Anti-Blackness and the Making of the South Florida Myth.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12926.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

McInnis, Tatiana Danielle. “Missing Miami: Anti-Blackness and the Making of the South Florida Myth.” 2017. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

McInnis TD. Missing Miami: Anti-Blackness and the Making of the South Florida Myth. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12926.

Council of Science Editors:

McInnis TD. Missing Miami: Anti-Blackness and the Making of the South Florida Myth. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12926

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5. Harris, Eugenia Kay. “Speak softly and carry a big stick”: female appropriation of the phallus in Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski series.

Degree: MA, Liberal Arts and Science, 2006, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10977

► In this thesis, I examine novelist Sara Paretsky’s use of voice as power in the V.I. Warshawski series. The series gives Paretsky the opportunity not… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: detective fiction; female detective

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Harris, E. K. (2006). “Speak softly and carry a big stick”: female appropriation of the phallus in Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski series. (Thesis). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10977

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Harris, Eugenia Kay. ““Speak softly and carry a big stick”: female appropriation of the phallus in Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski series.” 2006. Thesis, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10977.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Harris, Eugenia Kay. ““Speak softly and carry a big stick”: female appropriation of the phallus in Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski series.” 2006. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Harris EK. “Speak softly and carry a big stick”: female appropriation of the phallus in Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski series. [Internet] [Thesis]. Vanderbilt University; 2006. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10977.

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Harris EK. “Speak softly and carry a big stick”: female appropriation of the phallus in Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski series. [Thesis]. Vanderbilt University; 2006. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10977

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6. Krause, Jennifer A. From Classical to Postmodern: Madness in Inter-American Narrative.

Degree: PhD, English, 2009, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13058

► The advent of the popular culture phenomenon allowed the definition and therefore the confinement and treatment of madmen, in the literary sense, to change, evolving… (more)

▼ The advent of the popular culture phenomenon allowed the definition and therefore the confinement and treatment of madmen, in the literary sense, to change, evolving into a complicated interaction within the cultural structures introduced by Foucault in Madness and Civilization. In his work, Foucault promotes the triptych of society at large, a mediator, and the madman, wherein society creates the mediator, usually the doctor or asylum, in order to come to terms with madness. At the end of the 20th century, however, postmodernism’s interaction with popular culture blurred this triptych. This suggests that in the latter half of the twentieth century the recognition of the culture industry as an important cultural phenomenon also changed the way in which society reacts to, defines, and deals with madness and the madman. In the postmodern age, the madman retains many of the stigmas he received during the Enlightenment. Yet, he is also a product of the culture industry, an entity who defines his world by mass-market strictures and standards. Like the rest of the postmodern world, the postmodern madman lives and dies by his relationship to popular culture illusions. I therefore argue that postmodern madness is the confusion created when the euphoria of living in a mass-produced fantasy world clashes with the need to retain one’s individual nature within such a realm. In this environment, the postmodern madman becomes the source of any mediators that may be placed between society and madness. The mediator, in this case, is a result of the individual’s need to conform, not to society’s rules, but to society’s illusions. The novels analyzed in this dissertation, Carlos Fuentes’s Zona sagrada [Holy Place], Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer, Manuel Puig’s El beso de la mujer araña [Kiss of the Spider Woman], Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions, Caio Fernando Abreu’s Onde andará Dulce Veiga? [Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga?], and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho present nuanced readings of the postmodern condition and its propensity toward madness, suggesting an evolutionary progression of Foucault’s structures which continuously alters the form of the mediator. Advisors/Committee Members: Earl Fitz (committee member), William Luis (committee member), Jason Borge (committee member), Michael Kreyling (Committee Chair).

Subjects/Keywords: classical Hollywood cinema; Inter-American; postmodernism; madness; science fiction; culture industry; popular culture

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Krause, J. A. (2009). From Classical to Postmodern: Madness in Inter-American Narrative. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13058

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Krause, Jennifer A. “From Classical to Postmodern: Madness in Inter-American Narrative.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13058.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Krause, Jennifer A. “From Classical to Postmodern: Madness in Inter-American Narrative.” 2009. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Krause JA. From Classical to Postmodern: Madness in Inter-American Narrative. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2009. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13058.

Council of Science Editors:

Krause JA. From Classical to Postmodern: Madness in Inter-American Narrative. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2009. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13058

Vanderbilt University

7. Hagood, Charlotte Amanda. The domestication of U.S. environmentalism, 1945-1962.

Degree: PhD, English, 2010, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13678

► This project links the modern American environmental movement, typically thought to have its origins in the social upheaval of the 1970’s, with the earlier postwar… (more)

▼ This project links the modern American environmental movement, typically thought to have its origins in the social upheaval of the 1970’s, with the earlier postwar period. I argue that the same domestic “turn” which characterized the expanding middle class’s movement toward the suburbs, automobile culture, and other hallmarks of the modern lifestyle paralleled a new belief that modern technology, armed with such innovations as the atomic bomb, had once and for all conquered—or “domesticated”—nature. This new perceived condition generated a powerful anxiety about the role of science in society which is reflected in the literature of the period, taking forms as diverse as cinematic fantasies of mutant insects taking ecological revenge on human cities, pedagogical texts which advised parents to help their children reconnect to the natural world, and wildly popular books and films which used modern photographic techniques to reveal the nebulous depths of the world’s oceans. Most importantly, this popular interest laid the groundwork for environmentalism to be understood as a matter of consumer choice and individual behavior. This project engages at length the work of Rachel Carson, whose 1962 bestseller Silent Spring is often cited as the beginning of modern environmentalist thought, but uses Carson’s writing as a lens for reading early environmentalism in a variety of texts and genres. I also consult children’s texts such as Charlotte’s Web, childcare manuals, science fiction films and novels, popular science writing, fictional accounts of suburban life, contemporary social criticism, cartoons, and advertisements to understand, broadly, the dimensions of the environmental impulse. My work is driven by the assumption, garnered from social theorists such as Michel de Certeau, that readers’ consumption of these popular genres, the stuff of everyday life, not only gives vital insight into the ideas which govern historical change, but also, in subtle ways, helps to shape it. Advisors/Committee Members: David Wood (committee member), Teresa Goddu (committee member), Cecelia Tichi (committee member), Michael Kreyling (Committee Chair), Vera Kutzinski (Committee Chair).

Subjects/Keywords: environmentalism; rachel carson; Silent Spring; science fiction; atomic bomb

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Hagood, C. A. (2010). The domestication of U.S. environmentalism, 1945-1962. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13678

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Hagood, Charlotte Amanda. “The domestication of U.S. environmentalism, 1945-1962.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13678.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Hagood, Charlotte Amanda. “The domestication of U.S. environmentalism, 1945-1962.” 2010. Web. 14 Apr 2021.

Vancouver:

Hagood CA. The domestication of U.S. environmentalism, 1945-1962. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2010. [cited 2021 Apr 14]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13678.

Council of Science Editors:

Hagood CA. The domestication of U.S. environmentalism, 1945-1962. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13678

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