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dc.contributor.advisorRobbins, Sarah R.
dc.contributor.authorClarke, Josiah Johnen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-22T18:48:28Z
dc.date.available2014-07-22T18:48:28Z
dc.date.created2012en_US
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.identifierUMI thesisen_US
dc.identifieretd-05042012-133316en_US
dc.identifierumi-10308en_US
dc.identifiercat-001821183en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/4386
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores questions of national identity in American and British fiction in the 20th- and early 21st-century. To allow for a project focused on reading a vast array of texts, I implemented a non-traditional thesis format that focused on taking exams. My final product contains an introduction that details the parameters for the project and offers conclusions on my findings and corrections of my essays, the exam essays themselves including a revision, a detailed annotated bibliography of each primary and secondary work studied, as well as an appendix with the reading lists and the original request to try a non-traditional thesis. My readings in the American Literature list point to an opening up of our definition of "American Literature" to include historically silenced voices and contemporary minority voices. At the intersections of culture that happen all over the country, literature dealing with identity and journeys into acceptance abound. My British Literature list leads to a similar yet historically more complicated solution. Writers have expressed the increasingly divided British society (in the United Kingdom and all over the globe) by employing new aesthetic modes that both respond to the past and point to the future. By engaging both American and British perspectives, this project also serves as an example of transatlantic scholarship, not simply looking at one through the eyes of the other, but recognizing the interrelatedness historically and culturally of the two identities. The boundaries between the two identities, as well as shifting aesthetic and literary traditions, provide the context for this projecten_US
dc.format.mediumFormat: Onlineen_US
dc.publisher[Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University,en_US
dc.relation.ispartofTCU Master Thesisen_US
dc.relation.requiresMode of access: World Wide Web.en_US
dc.relation.requiresSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader.en_US
dc.titleCrossing borders and breaking boundaries : American and British fiction in the 20th century and beyonden_US
dc.typeTexten_US
etd.degree.departmentDepartment of English
etd.degree.levelMaster
local.collegeAddRan College of Liberal Arts
local.departmentEnglish
local.academicunitDepartment of English
dc.type.genreThesis
local.subjectareaEnglish
etd.degree.nameMaster of Arts


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