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# Items where Subject is "PS American literature"

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    - **PS American literature** (48)

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Jump to: [A](#group_A) | [B](#group_B) | [C](#group_C) | [D](#group_D) | [E](#group_E) | [F](#group_F) | [H](#group_H) | [J](#group_J) | [K](#group_K) | [L](#group_L) | [M](#group_M) | [N](#group_N) | [P](#group_P) | [R](#group_R) | [S](#group_S) | [T](#group_T) | [V](#group_V) | [W](#group_W)

Number of items at this level: **48**.

## A

Aguilar Vazquez, Antonio
(2020)
[*“Are You Suffering?”: Reading David Foster Wallace’s democratic literature through the vocabularies of Richard Rorty.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/81755/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Armstrong, John Patrick
(2008)
[*'Lyric realism' to 'Epic consciousness' : poetic subjectivity in the work of Edward Dorn.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/502/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## B

Bird, Darlene L.
(2003)
[*(Extra)Ordinary evenings in New H(e)aven: the religious element in the poetics of Wallace Stevens.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/1675/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Brauer, Kristen D.
(2007)
[*The religious roots of postmodernism in American culture: an analysis of the postmodern theory of Bernard Iddings Bell and its continued relevance to contemporary postmodern theory and literary criticism.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/6264/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## C

Collignon, Fabienne
(2009)
[*Rocket states - an analysis of US missile culture.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/936/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Cowe, Jennifer
(2016)
[*Killing the Buddha: Henry Miller's long journey to Satori.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/7105/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## D

Davidson, Ryan J.
(2014)
[*Affinities of influence: exploring the relationship between Walt Whitman and William Blake.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/5590/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## E

El-Haddad, Mohamed I.
(1999)
[*An analytical study of some aspects of literary translation: two Arabic translations of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/2053/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

El-Komy, Amir
(2004)
[*Irony and distance in John Crowe Ransom's poetry : a computer-assisted study.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/7221/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Elliott, Clare Frances
(2009)
[*William Blake's American legacy: transcendentalism and visionary poetics in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/753/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## F

Finnigan, Johnny
(2008)
[*The New York hieroglyphs: Urban ekphrases in New York novels of Edith Wharton.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/71114/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## H

Hawthorn, Ruth
(2012)
[*'Then came a departure': writing loss in the Middle Generation.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3712/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Howe, Chiara
(2024)
[*Walt Whitman’s post-transcendentalist poetics of New York.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/84349/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## J

Jackson, Lucia Kate
(2020)
[*Finding the fangirl in DC’s New 52 Batgirl and Harley Quinn.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/81667/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## K

Kamran, Shezra
(2014)
[*Fantastic languages: C.S. Lewis and Ursula K. Le Guin.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/5749/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Kerper, Allison Pauline
(2021)
[*Pale hairs reach between us.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/81941/)
MFA thesis, University of Glasgow.

Klotz, Kurt
(2011)
[*'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine': Edgar Allan Poe, Native Americans and property.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/2647/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## L

Lander, Joshua
(2019)
[*Philip Roth and the "Jewish Body".*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/75172/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Lawrence, Heidi A.
(2022)
[*Continuums of fantasy, reality, and kinship: an ecopsychological reading of Madeleine L’Engle’s children’s and adolescent fiction.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/82805/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## M

MacDonald, Deneka C.
(2003)
[*Locating resistance/resisting location : a feminist literary analysis of supernatural women in contemporary fantastic fiction.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/5344/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

MacKenzie, John
(2021)
[*“Nature’s social union”: Robert Burns, John Steinbeck and early twentieth-Century America.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/82549/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

MacKenzie, Valerie Hawthorn
(2023)
[*To see myself reflected: reader response to Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/83399/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Mai, Chih-Yuan
(2008)
[*Sacrificial form: the libretti in English 1940-2000.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/437/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

McAra, Catriona Fay
(2012)
[*'Some parallels in words and pictures': Dorothea Tanning and visual intertextuality.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/3722/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

McGinley, Rory Mackay
(2016)
[*Richard Yates: re-writing postwar American culture.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/7797/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

McGregor, Roy
(2018)
[*A Funny Thing/Gordon Burn and 'New British Journalism'.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/30617/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

McLennan, Rachael
(2006)
[*'Something dark': Metaphor and first-person narratives of female adolescence in American literature, post-1950.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/70995/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Muscolino, Stephen J.
(2017)
[*Writing in real-time, fictions of digitization: the novels of Don DeLillo and Dave Eggers.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/8276/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## N

Naito, Hiroaki
(2014)
[*Vietnam fought and imagined: the images of the mythic frontier in American Vietnam War literature.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/5101/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Najemy, Phil
(2014)
[*"Sully": a sequence of poems exploring the Eastern New England accent, and an essay examining them in context.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/5054/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Napier, Kathryn Frances
(1999)
[*Family ties and generic transgression in Louise Erdrich's fiction.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/71611/)
MPhil(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.

Napier, Will
(2008)
[*The haunted house of memory in the fiction of Stephen King.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/516/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Nixon, James Alexander
(2018)
[*American political stand-up comedy as a subversive and conservative cultural form in the Obama era.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/8786/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## P

Percak, Eric Charles
(2015)
[*Dealing with the devil: a critical and creative look at the diabolical pact.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/7378/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Pesce, Elisa
(2025)
[*Race, gender, maximalism: counter-portraits of the U.S. in the contemporary “big” American novel.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/85061/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Petersen, Daniel Otto Jack
(2020)
[*‘You Are the Old Entrapped Dreams of the Coyote’s Brains Oozing Liquid Through the Broken Eye Socket’: Ecomonstrous poetics and weird bioregionalism in the fiction of R. A. Lafferty (with a comparative reading of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian).*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/81615/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Power, Mairi Rachel 
(2023)
[*Technology and embodiment in Jennifer Egan’s fiction: the digitisation of bodies, brains, and books.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/83627/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## R

Rauls, Ashley
(2019)
[*Saving Sam Seymour.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/72984/)
MFA thesis, University of Glasgow.

Redgate, Jamie Peter
(2017)
[*Wallace and I: cognition, consciousness, and dualism in David Foster Wallace’s fiction.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/8635/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## S

Shea, Amy
(2021)
[*Not all deaths are created equal: essays on the intersection of death, homelessness, and inequality.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/82199/)
DFA thesis, University of Glasgow.

Stewart, Katie Jennifer
(2007)
[*'A kind of singing in me' : a critical account of women writers of the Beat generation.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/2805/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

São Bento Cadima, Margarida 
(2021)
[*“The world is a welter”: Gardens, mountains and ruins in Edith Wharton’s fiction.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/82503/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## T

Taylor, Stuart J. 
(2019)
[*Encyclopedic architectures: mathematical structures in the works of Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, & David Foster Wallace.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/72460/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Thomas, Florence
(2021)
[*The American classic: classical influence in contemporary epic.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/82551/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Thomas, Sara Ann
(2009)
[*Subjectivity In American popular metal:
contemporary gothic, the body, the grotesque, and the child.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/644/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## V

Vogel, Molly
(2016)
[*Florilegium.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/7743/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

## W

Wallace, Brendan
(1998)
[*The origins of British modernism: A study of literary theory and practice from Walter Pater and Ezra Pound.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/71297/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

West, Mark Peter
(2014)
[*Between times: 21st century American fiction and the long sixties.*](https://theses.gla.ac.uk/5621/)
PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

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