Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Keyword "Ecocriticism"

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    • Fake Originals. Collecting Latin America 

      Mertehikian, Lucas (2022-09-07)
      Fake Originals: Collecting Latin America offers a new lens on narratives of regional identity through studying material culture and literature. My central argument is that the circulation of these Latin American objects ...

    • Shakespeare Grounded: Ecocritical Approaches to Shakespearean Drama 

      Grossman, Joanna Rebecah (2014-10-21)
      Using the "Great Chain of Being" -- which was integral to the Elizabethan understanding of the world -- as a starting point, this dissertation examines the sometimes startling ways in which Shakespeare's plays invert this ...

    • The American Silverscape: Art, Extraction, and Sovereignty (1848–1893) 

      Garnier, Christine Reneé (2022-06-30)
      Silver has long operated as the aesthetic medium of empire within the Americas, mediating geographical, economic, and political discourses of territory and extraction. This study reconsiders the fraught tension between the ...