• Establishing a stylometric baseline for micro-attributions of Shakespeare's apocrypha with 'On a day, alack the day' 

  Swaim, Chance (Wichita State University, 2017-04-28)

  With the digitization of the Early Modern dramatic canon nearly complete, the contemporary understanding of authorship is rapidly changing. Utilizing digital databases such as LION (Literature Online), which makes ...

• The Quietude of Conscience and the magnetism of sound: listening to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables 

  Bechtold, Rebeccah B. (MIT Press, 2017-03)

  In :The House of the Seven Gables" Nathaniel Hawthorne employs a soundscape particularly attuned to the modern dissonances and spiritual soundings of antebellum America. His novel interrogates the impact of these ...

• Reconciling pragmatism and literary theory: Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy and its ethics pragmatically considered 

  McKnight, Joshua Alan (Wichita State University, 2016-05)

  Seeking to find a way forward for literary theory in the face of the slow dissolution of the postmodern era, this research project draws from the philosophy of pragmatism and investigates a play with the purpose of ...

• Book review: Why we left: untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants 

  Bechtold, Rebeccah B. (University of California Press, 2016-09)

  North America in the seventeenth century was far from a "land of opportunity" to early Anglo-American peasant migrants, or so Joanna Brooks argues in Why We left: Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants. The ...

• What words have to say and the benefits of text analysis in adolescents 

  Crawford, Johnna; Connor, Francis X. (Wichita State University, 2016-04-29)

  In 2015 Researchers used text analysis software to examine the writings of six school shooters. Ultimately, the shooters' texts scored higher in the dimensions of Revenge, Narcissism, and Humiliation. In the past, the ...

• Middle-class identity and corporeal attachments in The Wide, Wide World 

  Dejmal, Rachel (Wichita State University, 2015-12)

  Early nineteenth century industrialization and capitalism stimulated growth in public labor forces and consumer markets. Though largely conceived as a male-centered history, industrialization upended the lives of women; ...

• The Victorian masculine woman in Wives and Daughters, Middlemarch, and Jude the Obscure 

  Bartlett, Christina Nichole (Wichita State University, 2015-07)

  According to Judith Butler, both today's progressive society and the industrialized British Victorian era use binary genders to create a system of heterosexual reproduction that ensures the survival of the species. In ...

• A black hole moved into the neighborhood 

  Gorman, Taylor P. (Department of English at Loyola University New Orleans, 2015)

  I took with me everywhere else I’d been before. I’d bought a house on a corner and dismantled it like a stage-hand. When I spoke, my voice sounded like everything. When my neighbors asked if they should be worried, I said ...

• You better watch out...: White myths and matrices of oppression in Invisible Man 

  Warren, Xavia (Wichita State University, 2015-05)

• Walden and A New Home, Who'll Follow?: Recovering Eve in nineteenth-century nature writing 

  Wynn, Victoria Leigh (Wichita State University, 2015-05)

  Canonization of nineteenth-century American authors often separates Caroline Kirkland's A New Home, Who'll Follow? and Henry David Thoreau's Walden into diverse literary genres. Although the authors wrote in different but ...

• Prankster narrative in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 

  Dryden, Nick (Wichita State University, 2015-05)

  The opening lines of Ken Kesey's 1962 novel recall the title imagery and central metaphor of psychiatrist Frantz Fanon's 1952 book Black Skin, White Masks: [t]hey're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to ...

• A revolutionary soundscape musical reform and the science of sound in early America, 1760-1840 

  Bechtold, Rebeccah B. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015-10)

  American colonists initially encountered music in community settings, during worship services and public performances, as well as at dances and other social functions. The rise of singing schools in the 1720s and the growing ...

• In praise of the Bathos 

  Goldbarth, Albert (1994)

• Book review: The Cambridge edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online 

  Connor, Francis X. (University of Chicago Press, 2015-06)

  Ian Donaldson made the first published announcement of what would become the Cambridge Works of Ben Johnson in his brief 1995 article "A New Edition of Ben Johnson?" The rhetorical question in the title captures the tenor ...

• Chapter 9 -- Shakespeare, poetic collaboration and The Passionate Pilgrim 

  Connor, Francis X. (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

  Any literary endeavour requires collaboration, but not all collaborators deserve topline or title-page credit. To read a literary text may mean we engage intellectually with a publisher, typesetter, actor or any other agent ...

• The silences of Annie Dillard 

  Sims, Robynn (Wichita State University, 2014-05)

  This research began as an investigation into Annie Dillard's An American Childhood with the intention of discovering if her memoir could be considered nature writing. Though I had intended to limit myself to her memoir, ...

• Yeatsian nationalism: A progression of heroic paragons in W.B. Yeats's Irish Literary Theatre 

  McClure, Molly Erin (Wichita State University, 2014-05)

  A surge of Irish nationalism in the late nineteenth century inspires W. B. Yeats to devote his life to contributing to the Irish Literary Renaissance. At the beginning of Yeats's playwriting career, he co-founds the National ...

• Book review: Bluestockings displayed: portraiture, performance and patronage, 1730-1830 

  Waters, Mary A. (Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2014)

  The twenty-first century has witnessed a surge of interest in eighteenth-century women’s intellectual life. Propelled by such books as Harriet Guest’s Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750–1810 and Anne Mellor’s ...

• How archetypal images in a Dan Deacon music video are a reflection of Deacon's values 

  Russell, Jake (Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2014-04-25)

  The video for Dan Deacon's song "Woof Woof" demonstrates the dangers of grandiosity and how to battle grandiosity through relationships. Based on research - including Carl Jung's works "Man and His Symbols," "Psychology ...

• Memorials of absence in post 9/11 Anglo-expression 

  Johnson, Bronwen R. (Wichita State University. Graduate School, 2014-04-25)

  Depictions of 9/11 have often obscured narratives of individual suffering; while there was great loss of life, this loss of life is generally imagined not as individual narratives, but narratives en masse. My presentation ...

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