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Finding the Faces of our Mothers: Every Day Feminism in Stephen King's 'Dolores Claiborne and Gerald's Game': Author: Turnage, Rachel Anne; Date: 2006-05-15; Program: English; Abstract: The historical validity, feminist aspects, and social implications of Stephen King's Dolores Claiborne and Gerald's Game are analyzed to demonstrate how the novels reflect the nature of women's rights and struggles from the 1950's until the early 1990's. The patterns of survivor abuse stories are unearthed through both social science research and feminist literary criticism. By drawing connections between the two novels and their connection to the larger world of feminist issues, the argument is made that these and other popular novels are fruitful for cultural analysis because popular fiction...; Download File | View full details

Other Spaces, Other Voices: Heterotopic Spaces in Island Narratives: Author: Storment, Ryan Lee; Date: 2007-05-15; Program: English; Abstract: Islands periodically reappear and manifest themselves within our cultural texts as locations for fantasy and the exotic. On the surface they are often remote locations that simply serve as interchangeable backgrounds, but their reoccurrence is usually due to their unique ability to be molded. They are served up as blank slates, much like early visions of the western United States, where we meet the Other or encounter exotic voices. Because of this, islands are perceived as spaces with no Western historical narrative or structure so it becomes simply to move Western structures and complex issue...; Download File | View full details

I'm so bored with the U.S. - and beyond: theorizing the emergence of postmodern slackers and global Generation X culture: Author: Paliobagis, Ariana Jade; Date: 2008-05-15; Program: English; Abstract: The generation which came of age in the late 1970s through the 1980s has often been described as a cohort of slackers, lazy layabouts who shamelessly rejected the previous generation's passionate attempts at revolution. I argue instead, however, that Generation X, as Canadian writer Douglas Coupland termed it, is responsible for a revolution of its own, but its lack of resemblance to any previous social upheavals has caused it to be misunderstood by many. The failure of the youthful rebellions of the sixties and the shallow response to this of the eighties - selfish materialism - prompted thi...; Download File | View full details

The alienated human being and the possibility of home: a comparative analysis of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' and Jack Kerouac's 'Desolation Angels': Author: Beideman, Carl Ross; Date: 2009-05-15; Program: English; Abstract: This thesis addresses the state of human alienation as a consciousness that pervades our destructive, perverse tendencies. This consciousness is readily viewable from the perspective of current environmental crisis. As such, it is proposed that an investigation into the alienated consciousness might reveal both why we dominate and destroy our environment and ourselves, as well as how we might resolve alienation and, by extension, begin to live harmoniously within our surroundings and neighbors on earth. Two texts, Crime and Punishment and Desolation Angels, by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Jack Keroua...; Download File | View full details