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Embattled Landscapes: Regionalism and Gender in Midwestern Literature, 1915-1941 (Ruth Suckow, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Paul Corey, Eleanor Blake, the Midl and ).
(1985)
In this dissertation, I define regionalism in literature as the effort to define and defend a region. It has these characteristics: it affirms the image of the region it creates; it uses local details to characterize the ...
Irreversibility, Statistical Mechanics and the Nature of Physical States.
(1987)
I. Prigogine has proposed, and the writings of N. S. Krylov to some extent suggest, a novel and unorthodox solution to foundational problems in statistical mechanics. In particular, the view claims to offer new insight ...
Micro-Determinism, Micro-Explanation and Concepts of Emergence.
(1982)
Contemporary scientific theories assume a predominantly micro-deterministic view of the world. This thesis examines the philosophical problems inherent in such a world-view. I begin with a characterization of micro-determination ...
The Life and Work of T. E. Hulme.
(1985)
The Life and Work of T. E. Hulme reappraises the contribution to twentieth-century literature of the man preceded his friend Ezra Pound in Imagist theory, helped to introduce the philosophy of Henri Bergson into Engl and ...
Reading Hart Crane By Metonymy (Lacan, Metaphor, Riffaterre).
(1986)
I read Hart Crane's poetry metonymically in order to explore both stylistic effects and what language reveals about desire. Critics have usually read Crane by his similarities or dissimilarities with romanticism and ...
On piranhas, narcissism and mental representation: An essay on intentionality and naturalism.
(1989)
This dissertation is motivated by the following question: Is the portrayal of mind/brain processes as representations--as entities that in some sense reflect, correspond with, or symbolize the world--particularily apt? ...
Sociolinguistic Aspects of Jakarta Dialect Switching in Bahasa Indonesia in Eight Indonesian Novels.
(1985)
This dissertation examines the influence of Jakarta Dialect on Bahasa Indonesia, the national st and ard of Indonesia. As the formal language of communication, Bahasa Indonesia is often felt to be unsuitable for casual ...