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I Do... Let's Eat! is a documentary series that showcases the weddings and banquets of diverse cultures. This is about food in all its splendor and colour–but it is also about the emotion, anxiety and excitement of the wedding day.
Each episode features one couple's wedding and banquet, the chef that prepares it, and the demands and pressures which they all face leading up to and including the main event.
Food is never more central, or more scrutinized, than at a wedding banquet. For most people, it is the biggest party they ever throw in their lives. It must be more than good–it must make memories for a lifetime.
The chef knows this is a referral business based on the events of one emotional rollercoaster of a day.
For the bride and groom, this is the day they start their lives together, and of course, they want it to be perfect! Will it be? Stay Tuned!
Agnes is 26 years old and works in purchasing. Born in Poland, she moved to Canada with her family at the age of 9. She now lives with her parents and two younger sisters in Aurora, near Toronto. Mauriece, 25, works as a conference and meeting scheduler for a hotel. Born in the Philippines, he also moved to Canada at age 9. He lives with his parents in Toronto. Both families are Roman Catholic.
The couple first met in high school but only began dating three years ago when they ran into each other by chance. "I was completely shocked at how much she'd changed," says Mauriece with a grin. "She's gorgeous and you look at me and think – 'no chance'! But somehow it worked out."
For Arezou's Persian family and Haris' Afghani family, the food at their wedding banquet has to be excellent. So they've hired a great caterer. Only one problem…the couple and the caterer are in different cities, five hours apart!
Christine and Jonathan are both 29. She is a software test analyst, and he is a data marketing manager. Christine's family is originally from the Philippines, while Jonathan's family is Chinese. The couple have actually known each other since high school. Christine says "I had a huge crush on him….but he didn't even know I was alive." Years later, they met again, and this time Jonathan took notice. The couple have been dating now for six years.
In Dauphin, Manitoba, Dawn and Cary host their traditional Prairie Ukrainian wedding banquet, complete with perogies, cabbage rolls, and lots of small town pride.
Janice is 26 years old and works as a donor relations coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières Canada and Geoff Geoff, 25, is a former football player with a degree in kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario in London, where he met Janice. The couple got engaged in May, 2005 and are planning on getting married in Newcastle. Working with a small budget they are counting on the whole family to help them plan their dream wedding. With the help of Geoff's father's tea shop and his staff they are hoping that they day will go off with out a hitch.
Kirsty and Ken didn't want a conventional wedding. Instead, they've planned a surprise wedding at Fort Gibraltar in Winnipeg. Their guests think they are attending a birthday party. Hopefully, their secret is safe.
Mary and Philip have traveled all over the world, and want to share their experience with their wedding guests. At Grouse Mountain Resort in North Vancouver, they will have an outdoor ceremony, followed by lunch and dinner, featuring dozens of international dishes.
Maureen and Shawn plan to showcase the best of Banff, their adopted home. They'll say their vows on a mountain top, and host a true Rocky Mountain feast at the Juniper Lodge, right in Banff National Park.
Natalia is 32 and about to embark on a PHD in psychoanalysis. She was born and raised in Indonesia, and educated in Hawaii and England. Jason is 33, born and raised in Iowa. He is ex-military, and a security consultant. Jason and Natalia met in Hawaii, on the beach. Natalia was at university in Hawaii, and Jason was consulting as a government analyst, based in Honolulu. That was over three years ago. In March 2006, Jason got permission from Natalia's father and proposed to Natalia at a Buddhist temple in Central Java.
Nicole is West Indian and Daniel hails from the southern United States. At their mostly Caribbean-style wedding banquet, they want to serve their guests some authentic southern-fried catfish. Can the Jamaican-born chef satisfy Daniel's "down home" tastes?
For their wedding, Stephanie and Lloyd are returning to Lloyd's home province, Nova Scotia. At Oceanstone Inn and Cottages, they'll tie the knot next to the seashore, then host a maritime feast with a twist. Along with local lobster and scallops, they'll also serve Arctic Musk Ox!
Vanessa is 22 years old, and works part-time at Huff Estates Winery. She was raised in Grafton, Ontario, a small town on Lake Ontario about 90 minutes from Toronto. Matt, who is 25, grew up nearby, in Cobourg, Ontario. He now works as a sales rep, but had spent several years in the food and hospitality industry. In fact, the couple met when they both worked in the same restaurant, Matt as the cook, and Vanessa as a server.
Although the couple knew in each other in high school, they didn't start dating until a few years after graduation. They've been together eight years now, and say they have been planning their wedding for seven. "We started planning and talking about it really early on, once we knew we were serious" says Natalie, "but, when he actually proposed last year, it was still a surprise!
Natalie and Paolo have chosen something unusual for their culture - a wedding outside of a church. The wedding ceremony will be held right at the Paramount at 3 pm. "We decided that it would be easier for us and our guests to be in one location instead of driving all over town from location to location" says Natalie. At first it didn't go over well with some of their relatives but now most of them understand.
Fanny is a 29-year-old marketing specialist born and raised in the small city of Chateauguay, Quebec south of Montreal. She lives there with her seven-year-old son Alexy, and her fiancé. Martin is also 29 years old and works as a computer programmer. Fanny and Martin are both French-speaking Quebecers who are fluent in English.
The couple met three years ago on the Internet and last Christmas, Martin surprised Fanny by proposing in front of both of their families. In lieu of a present, he got down on one knee and asked for her hand in marriage. "She was very emotional and started crying," Martin says. "But she said yes!"
Heather is a 38-year-old hair stylist who lives in Vancouver with David, a 36-year-old who owns a roofing company. The couple's courtship has been longer than most: they met 14 years ago and have been engaged for 5 years. Along the way, there have been several twists and turns in their relationship.
Thirty-year-old Jasdeep is Indian and works as a payroll administrator. Brendan is also 30 years old. He works as a teaching assistant, while completing his Ph.D. in Italian History. He is Canadian, originally from Saskatchewan. They met online on a dating website. Jas and Brendan are both very open to each other's cultures. For their dinner reception for 400 guests, Jas and Brendan have chosen a popular Indian banquet hall, La Suhaag. They have both been to other weddings at this hall, and always liked it. Jas explains "Indian weddings are all about the food. That's why we chose La Suhaag. It's a very large hall, with great food."
It's a mix of old world and new, for Jessica (whose family originates from China) and Jason (of Korean background). They met at a mutual friends' party and now six years later are ready to have the perfect wedding - as well as delicious traditional food from both of their backgrounds.
Jill is 29 and works for a financial services company. Alain is 27, a marine mechanic. He owns "Offshore Obsessions", a marina that specializes in offshore power boats. They live in Milton, Ontario, about an hour west of Toronto. The couple met less than a year ago, but the chemistry was instant. In January, Alain proposed while they were visiting New York City. Jill says,"It was like a movie. We were in Central Park. It started to rain, and he got down on one knee…I was totally shocked!"
Karla and Louie first met four years ago when he started attending the naturopathic clinic where she worked. When he discovered that Karla had recently split up with her boyfriend, Louie decided to take the plunge. He asked her out for tea – and the rest is history. "On our very first date, I knew early into the night that I was going to marry her," says Louie, still smiling. "She was beautiful, intelligent, very kind and thoughtful."
Mariana is a 31-year-old fashion designer. She was born and raised in Canada, and is of Chinese descent. At the age of 18, Mariana left Canada to attend the Parsons School of Design in New York City. Adam is 37, the Director of Facilities for a media/advertising company in New York. He met Mariana back in 1998, at a pub in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan. After a few false starts, Adam proposed in November of 2005, presenting Mariana with a cake topped with a fortune cookie. Inside the cookie was the message "Will you marry me?" This is a first wedding for both families.
Marsha is 31 years old and works as a director of a large staffing agency. She lives in Brampton, Ontario with Chad, who is 33 years old and works as an operating room technician. Both Marsha and Chad are proud of their Jamaican heritage and this will be reflected in their wedding ceremony and meal. Chad surprised Marsha by proposing on a Maid of the Mist boat ride in Niagara Falls. The boat pulled close to the falls and Chad pulled out the ring just as Marsha was hit with a big spray of water. "I was so shocked," she says, "I just froze." When she accepted his proposal, a boatload of tourists cheered.
Melanie is 24 years old and has a Bachelor of Science in physiology. Born and raised in Montreal, Melanie is of Moroccan descent. Serge is a 26 year old dentist who also lives in Montreal and is also of Moroccan descent. They met four years ago at a Jewish youth group and became good friends. In August 2005, Serge proposed in a park near his family's home.Melanie and Serge decided to take advantage of a growing trend in Montreal in which historic synagogues are remodeled into elegant wedding venues. Couples can enjoy 'one-stop shopping' with a traditional religious ceremony and beautiful dinner reception all in one building.
Olivia is a market researcher who lives in Toronto. She is of Korean descent. Rowan is 33 years old and works in information technology development for a large consulting firm. The couple met five years ago on the job. She was working as an intern while he was a senior executive at a financial firm. In August 2004, on a trip to London, Rowan proposed on the historic Tower Bridge overlooking the Thames River. The wedding is a big event for both families and the couple has been planning intently for almost two years.
Sofia and Dan are both Italian, from very traditional, close-knit families. Sofia lives with her family in Oro, a small community 90 minutes north of Toronto. Dan lives with his family in Brampton, Ontario. They have bought a house and will move in together after their wedding. The wedding party is large, 14 people, and there are 500 hundred invited guests. Sofia shrugs, "That's the Italian way – everyone and their grandmother are invited."
Stanka is so excited about her wedding she is a walking exclamation mark. "I am marrying an amazing man! The location is so beautiful! The food will be wonderful!" John, the groom, grins, "She's very enthusiastic. I'm a lucky guy, I think she likes me." Stanka certainly does love John, but she also loves John's 14-year-old daughter, Natalie. She says, "I'm marrying both of them."Stanka's family is Slovenian, while John's is "Old School Italian." The ceremony will be at the Slana family's Slovenian church in Hamilton.
"When it comes to planning this wedding, I'm a bridezilla," says Tammy with a grin, "Jake is lucky if he has any say at all." Tammy and Jake, both 30 years old, have been together for over a decade, and live together with Tammy's 12-year-old son Dillon. But they've known each other since childhood. Tammy and Jake both grew up in Picton, and their wedding is a first for both families. Tammy says she was immediately intrigued with Jake because his family lived on their own exotic animal sanctuary. So it's quite fitting that the sanctuary will be the site of their wedding ceremony.
Amy was born and raised in Ontario while Chris was born in Hong Kong, and moved to Canada when he was a teenager. For both Amy and Chris, food is extremely important and expectations to respect Chinese traditions are high for Chris and Amy's wedding banquet.
Beatrice and Yves are both in their mid-twenties. They first met in high school and have been together ever since. Both are of Haitian descent—Beatrice was born in Haiti, Yves in Montreal, and both grew up in Quebec.
Along with their Haitian roots, Beatrice and Yves also wish to express their Canadian citizenship. That's why they chose Bean Town Ranch, just outside Ottawa, to hold their wedding and reception. "To me, Bean Town is typically Canadian, with its log houses and woods surrounding the property. And we chose June 30 so our party would continue into Canada Day on July 1st. That way our wedding shows both our sides—Haitian and Canadian," says Beatrice.
Charmaine's family came from Jamaica when she was a little girl. Steven grew up in the Bahamas, but left to go to university in the United States. Wanting a Caribbean feel to their wedding, they are having Jamaican-born chef Selwyn Richards to present a meal with all the flavour and fun of the islands.
Emily Ingersoll is an event planner who says she has been planning her wedding for 10 years. She met her groom, Markian Shafranasky, in Ottawa, while she was in university, and he was in chef school. They now live in St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, a picture postcard town on the Bay of Fundy, NS. Markian is co-chef at the Rossmount Inn, and Emily is excited to have their dinner reception there. But with Mark planning to prep and cook his own banquet will this husband-to-be keep his cool on the big day?
Peter and Gina are both 37, although they both look younger. He's a dentist with his own practice, she teaches French to grades 2 to 6. They met just a year ago, and got engaged last September. They've planned their wedding in just 4 months. Peter and Gina will have a traditional Portuguese wedding feast at the Pearson Convention Center, a venue well-known for its' Portuguese banquets.
Jennifer and Manuel are both 26. They met in Cancun, Mexico. Manuel, who was born and raised in Mexico, was living in Cancun and working as a DJ in a club when Jennifer, who was on vacation, came into his bar where it was love at first sight for both of them. With Manuel deciding to move to Canada, she wants to make their wedding as Mexican as possible to give him a taste of home.
Meet Jennifer and William.The couple are both ethnically Chinese, but come from very different backgrounds. Jennifer was born in the Philippines, and has very strong ties to Filipino culture. William was born in Canada, to Cantonese parents. They have different traditions and ideas that all need to be sorted out by the wedding.
Karen and Pierre have been together for 10 years, and have a daughter who is about to turn three. They live in the country on a lovely five-acre wooded property. Karen and Pierre plan an out-door, medieval themed wedding. Watch this modern-day couple plan a wedding that's straight out of a story filled with knights, lords, ladies - and the odd surprise as well.
Jim and Kim are both in their forties. This is a first marriage for both of them. They confess, a little sheepishly, that they met online. "We're not really the generation that's used to that" Kim says, and Jim interjects, "but look what I got as a result!" Kim and Jim wanted to do things a little differently for their wedding. "We both waited for so long, so we want it to be perfect—perfect setting, perfect food, a perfect experience," says Jim.
Monica and Raj are both of Indian descent and are planning a traditional Hindu ceremony, followed by a vegetarian South Asian/Thai banquet. Since Monica and Raj are so busy, it is Monica's mother Anju who is really in charge of the wedding planning - and she has very high standards, is passionate about food, and accustomed to getting what she wants.
Seema met Navdeep in Winnipeg five years ago, when they were both students at university and are now getting married. Seema is a cotrol freak and has planned to have everything perfect for her special night. With so many extras, and so much at stake, this wedding is a recipe for disaster!
Sophia and Pino are both in their mid-20s. They have been dating for seven years, since they first started high school. With both of their families flying in from Italy, watch as the fun unfolds with the celebration of traditional Italian culture and this modern-minded couple!
Tammy and Aaron are engaged to be married. Tammy's parents are very traditional and her mother had made almost all decisions concerning the wedding, right down to the $6000 wedding gown! Aaron's family is most concerned about the food and want to ensure that their Russian heritage is reflected in the banquet. Will this mesh with Tammy's moms request that a Rabbi perform the ceremony and that the meal be kosher?
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2. Get trained on structured design and development processes with good standard operating procedures (The documents and spreadsheets are there to follow, even if implementation is not always executed as per the prescribed process).
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5. Different brands, different price points. Can switch between different HNI OpCo's for quick exposure.
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Advice to freshers: Get a job here, work your behind off, learn all you can and leave. Do not plan on staying more than 2-3 yrs or you WILL get pigeonholed in your career.
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I really want to see this too. I tried to find listings for the UK yesterday but couldn't find anything.
Great artwork, it'll sure fire up a few people.
Wonder if we will see protests against it?
I do hope so, as any publicity is good publicity...
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This one is gona be great!
Maher is just super fun :)
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Comment 10 by Thor25
Tough crowd.
Going to see it in 2hrs, its received some great reviews and I'm sure it will be immensely entertaining.
Permalink Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:54:00 UTC | #245927
I just checked our local listings, and it is showing in my area. I have not been to a movie in a while, so I think I will go see it tomorrow. From the clips that I have seen on YouTube, it should be good.
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Strange, it's not showing here in East Texas. Of course, if it were the Christians would burn the theater down.
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Comment 15 by SASnSA
Looks like only one theater carrying it in all of San Antonio. Of course there were several theaters carrying Expelled when it came out. Go figure.
Permalink Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:13:00 UTC | #245946
Permalink Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:20:00 UTC | #245952
I wonder just what bile and hate and calls for censorship are going to emerge from the fundamentalists over this film?
Permalink Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:23:00 UTC | #245954
Keep in mind that the methods he used to get interviews were very similar to those employed by the Discovery Institute puppet Ben Stein in his documentary Expelled. No one knew the true nature of the interview or that Bill Maher would be hosting.
With that said, I don't see the likelihood of anyone being asked to leave any of the showings, like PZ Myers. I'm curious to see how tactfully Bill was able to expose the ignorance of those interviewed.
Permalink Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:25:00 UTC | #245956
Not everybody likes Bill Maher. I've heard some less than favorable comments about him, especially from the science-based medicine folks.
Permalink Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:25:00 UTC | #245955
My wife and I are seeing this tonight in Hollywood... Our first night out using a babysitter since we had our little girl.. Woohoo!
I am not much of a Maher fan either, but the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
With all of the buzz surrounding this film, hopefully it will allow a decent number of people to feel more comfortable with the idea of "coming out" by making the act of scrutinizing religion more mainstream.
Perhaps I am being optimistic. At the very least, it looks pretty entertaining.
Permalink Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:30:00 UTC | #245958
Seeing this tonite. It needs to outgross Expelled.
Good point DiveMedic. I think this might help a lot of people ditch religion or even prevent some from being "born-again". Also, I think it will make atheism look cool and edgy for the younger crowd.
Permalink Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:41:00 UTC | #245965
I saw this last weekend at the Vancouver International Film Festival and it was great! Bill Maher seems to hit harder in this movie than in other stuff I've seen of him. I think it was very well done and everyone in the audience laughed through the whole movie. Everyone should see it!
Permalink Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:45:00 UTC | #245967
Comment 23 by Captain Kendrick
I'm kinda worried about this movie, and anticipate myself lowering my head and covering my eyes in embarrassment while watching.
While I appreciate Maher's stab at it, and appreciate even more that someone of his status is championing reason, skepticism, and disbelief, I'm worried that somebody like Maher might hurt more than help. I've watched him off and on since he started Politically Incorrrect on HBO, then the networks, and now Realtime, and while I appreciate his gregarious attitude towards religion, he has a strong natural tendency to come off as very smug and smarmy.
So I predict that myself and other non-believers will watch and think "right on!" and even relish the ridicule and scorn I suspect Maher will heap on, and the believers will be predictable in their own scorn and offense at this movie. I doubt it will shed much light or enlighten any potential skeptics.
Healthy ridicule is good, but bullying ridicule done with a sophomoric Michael Moorish technique doesn't serve anybody except those who who feel the same way anyway.
We'll see....I still want to see it.
Permalink Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:46:00 UTC | #245968
Comment #259356 by a non e-moose
I am not sure I like Maher either. I think he can be quite funny, but there is a core of arrogance to him I think. He feels happy to express views on everything from politics to medicine, including areas in which he has no qualifications. He also dismisses atheism as "the same kind of certainty as religion". That seems a tired old argument to me.
Permalink Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:48:00 UTC | #245971
Comment 26 by Elli
I adore Bill Maher for his comic writing and delivery and think he is doing superlative work not just on the anti-religion front but also on the important role of calling out US political BS. His Real Time show is genuinely funny and his guests vary from irritating to brilliant and everything inbetween, but always provide for a fascinating and thought provoking hour of television in a country which is desolate in regards to quality intellectual programming. I should add that I have been here a couple of years now so my frame of reference is only recent.
I happened to catch Bill on morning television discussing religion and his new movie and he was very adamant to say he is NOT as atheist. His reason was that he feels anyone that is completely certain in the other direction is just as bad as the religious who are completely certain of their theism. As can be expected, I took great umbrage with this position. Firstly, it painted to the gargantuan viewership of this particular morning show that all Atheists are 100% certain god(s) don't exist, which is completely not the case, and it continued to perpetuate the stereotype that the word Atheist is a dirty word. The reality is that very few Atheists will claim to intellectually have arrived at a position of [any possibility of any god(s) = 0] preferring the intellectually honest position of [probability of any god(s) is extremely close to 0 and therefore live life as if there isn't] and the stronger case of [probability of capital G god (biblical god) is even more remote so as to arrive at a practical certainty of God's non existence]. The reality is that this is Maher's position himself. So essentially he *is* an atheist but just prefers to use a different nomenclature, because he mistakenly has associated the notion of Atheism with being absolutely certain any kind of god can not possibly exist.
I find Maher to be a fairly smart guy, but his comic genius vastly outweighs his actual intelligence. He has the tendency to be a little weak on certain rational positions (some famously so) although from his incredibly fast comedic wit it is often difficult to sense. I think his vigilance in maintaining he is agnostic and not atheist in spite of the fact that he is just as atheistic as virtually all other atheists who call themselves such is evidence of him not really giving adequate thought on the subject.
Anyhow - I am excited for the movie, and if his softer then desirable stance on atheism is what makes it to Main Street (a popular phrase right now in the US) then this is a good thing. Many people will be instantly turned off by a strong atheism so perhaps his weaker position will be a more successful approach at first instance. One thing he does champion, which ultimately is the right approach, is to question everything and not ever take anything as true just because it is told to you. Inquiry is the first step, and it is a great thing that Bill champions this so strongly.
Permalink Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:48:00 UTC | #245973
I'm going to try and catch it this weekend. Maher is more funny than not. He seems to be a bit of a misogynist, but I agree with him 99% of the time on religion (he is agnostic, says atheism is too sure of itself).
All the criticism of his methods really doesn't matter anyway, it's not like he changed what the people said or is trying to intentionally misrepresent anyone. He's just asking questions to which they have either no answer or the most retarded answer you can possibly imagine.
Permalink Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:48:00 UTC | #245972
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Comment 28 by Chrysippus_Maximus
Permalink Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:54:00 UTC | #245979
I'm gonna have to wait until Dec. 4 for it to come out in my country.
I really want to watch this in a cinema, with the big screen, to see other people's reactions and to see if I can hear their opinions afterwards.
Permalink Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:55:00 UTC | #245980
Comment 30 by Elli
For those that have pointed out that Maher is not the brightest chap in the world, I think it important to note that you can't convince the "ignorant masses" by throwing out intellectuals one after the other at them. The average Joe in the US will just switch off instantly to the sensible and intelligent voice of Harris or Dennett or Dawkins and the like. Only the smart people will be receptive to this and to be honest, many smart people are sypathetic to these views in the first place (although not clearly enough). So there is definitely a need for people like Maher, people that may be a little dumb at times, but who the average Joe in the street can relate to a little bit more. I too wish he wasn't so smarmy but so be it. We need more people from different walks of life being public about these topics. Carlin was a brilliant man, and in now way does Maher come close to his level of genius, but it is good that someone is taking up the mantle of combating irrational nonsense with everyday humour. There are better comedians out there doing this, but none as high profile as Maher. It is his fame, in a country that adores fame (worships it, dare I say!) that makes him a useful spokesperson, not his intellect or lack thereof.
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Coronado, Teresa Marie Freeman, 1975- (University of Oregon, June , 2008)[more][less]Coronado, Teresa Marie Freeman, 1975- 2009-01-16T02:14:27Z 2009-01-16T02:14:27Z 2008-06 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8309 x, 196 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. This project critiques the performance of class identity through the works of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonial and early national period authors using the lens of humor, primarily as posed by Elliot Oring and Henri Bergson's theories of laughter and the ridiculous. My argument is that under the guise of laughter these works conceal the underpinnings of an American class system which can be revealed through close reading and historical research. In my dissertation, I examine the performance of each author in his or her own autobiography and the reflection of that performance within the larger frame of the development of American status structures. The characters in the texts of the authors I work with in this project demonstrate the use of the comic persona to, as scholar Robert Micklus states, "locate the butt of ridicule anywhere but in their own mirrors"; however, in my project I examine this within the context of class. Chapter I examines the work of Madame Sarah Knight, The Journal of Madame Knight, and William Byrd II's The Secret History of the Line --both of whom use humor to disguise their class insecurities. In Chapter II, I examine the performance of class hierarchy, as seen through Franklin's Autobiography and John Robert Shaw's John Robert Shaw: An Autobiography of Thirty Years, 1777-1807. In Chapter III, I examine the complications of race involved in class relations, using John Marrant's autobiography, A Narrative of the Life of John Marrant, a Free Black. Chapter IV examines David Crockett's humorous performance of the middle landscape frontiersman as part of a valorized national identity in The Narrative of David Crockett. The ideology that prompts the so-called invisibility of class in United States society today requires us to examine it under a critical lens; this project uses humor as that lens. In questioning the laughter of early American texts, we can see the class divides of early American society being created--an important step to realizing how these divides are maintained in our world today. Adviser: Gordon Sayre en_US University of Oregon University of Oregon theses, Dept. of English, Ph. D., 2008; American literature American studies Gender Politics Ecocriticism Social class Humor Autobiography Locating the butt of ridicule: Humor and social class in early American literature Thesis
Schubert, Layla A. Olin, 1975- (University of Oregon, June , 2010)[more][less]Schubert, Layla A. Olin, 1975- 2010-12-21T00:30:44Z 2010-12-21T00:30:44Z 2010-06 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10909 x, 208 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. The scattered instances depicting material literature in Anglo-Saxon poetry should be regarded as a group. This phenomenon occurs in Beowulf, The Dream of the Rood, and The Husband's Message. Comparative examples of material literature can be found on the Ruthwell Cross and the Franks Casket. This study examines material literature in these three poems, comparing their depictions of material literature to actual examples. Poems depicting material literature bring the relationship between man and object into dramatic play, using the object's point of view to bear witness to the truth of distant or intensely personal events. Material literature is depicted in a love poem, The Husband's Message, when a prosopopoeic runestick vouches for the sincerity of its master, in the heroic epic Beowulf when an ancient, inscribed sword is the impetus to give an account of the biblical flood, and is also implied in the devotional poem The Dream of the Rood, as two crosses both pre-and-post dating the poem bear texts similar to portions of the poem. The study concludes by examining the relationship between material anxiety and the character of Weland in Beowulf, Deor, Alfred's Consolation of Philosophy, and Waldere A & B. Concern with materiality in Anglo-Saxon poetry manifests in myriad ways: prosopopoeic riddles, both heroic and devotional passages directly assailing the value of the material, personification of objects, and in depictions of material literature. This concern manifests as a material anxiety. Weland tames the material and twists and shapes it, re-affirming the supremacy of mankind in a material world. Committee in charge: Martha Bayless, Chairperson, English; James Earl, Member, English; Daniel Wojcik, Member, English; Aletta Biersack, Outside Member, Anthropology en_US University of Oregon University of Oregon theses, Dept. of English, Ph. D., 2010; Material literature Anglo-Saxon poetry Poetry Beowulf Dream of the rood Husband's message Weland the Smith Medieval literature Cultural anthropology Folklore British literature -- History and criticism English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism Material culture Irish literature -- History and criticism Material literature in Anglo-Saxon poetry Thesis
Melodramas of Ethnicity and Masculinity: Generic Transformations of Late Twentieth Century American Film GangstersEnnis, Larissa (University of Oregon, 2012)[more][less]Karlyn, Kathleen Ennis, Larissa Ennis, Larissa 2012-10-26T01:42:15Z 2012-10-26T01:42:15Z 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12333 Larissa Ennis Doctor of Philosophy Department of English March 2012 Title: Melodramas of Ethnicity and Masculinity: Generic Transformations of Late Twentieth Century American Film Gangsters The gangster film genre in America has enjoyed a long history, from the first one-reelers en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. ethnicity gangster genre masculinity melodrama victimhood Melodramas of Ethnicity and Masculinity: Generic Transformations of Late Twentieth Century American Film Gangsters Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Kaplan, Stacey Meredith, 1973- (University of Oregon, March , 2010)[more][less]Kaplan, Stacey Meredith, 1973- 2010-08-03T22:43:38Z 2010-08-03T22:43:38Z 2010-03 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10574 ix, 182 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. My dissertation analyzes the overlooked short works of authors and auteurs who do not fit comfortably into the conventional category of modernism due to their subtly experimental aesthetics: the versatile British author Vita Sackville-West, the Anglo-Irish novelist and short-story writer Elizabeth Bowen, and the British emigrant filmmaker Charlie Chaplin. I focus on the years 1920-1923 to gain an alternative understanding of modernism's annus mirabulus and the years immediately preceding and following it. My first chapter studies the most critically disregarded author of the project: Sackville-West. Her 1922 volume of short stories The Heir: A Love Story deserves attention for its examination of social hierarchies. Although her stories ridicule characters regardless of their class background, those who attempt to change their class status, especially when not sanctioned by heredity, are treated with the greatest contempt. The volume, with the reinforcement of the contracted short form, advocates staying within given class boundaries. The second chapter analyzes social structures in Bowen's first book of short stories, Encounters (1922). Like Sackville-West, Bowen's use of the short form complements her interest in how class hierarchies can confine characters. Bowen's portraits of classed encounters and of characters' encounters with class reveal a sense of anxiety over being confined by social status and a sense of displacement over breaking out of class groups, exposing how class divisions accentuate feelings of alienation and instability. The last chapter examines Chaplin's final short films: "The Idle Class" (1921), "Pay Day (1922), and "The Pilgrim" (1923). While placing Chaplin among the modernists complicates the canon in a positive way, it also reduces the complexity of this man and his art. Chaplin is neither a pyrotechnic modernist nor a traditional sentimentalist. Additionally, Chaplin's shorts are neither socially liberal nor conservative. Rather, Chaplin's short films flirt with experimental techniques and progressive class politics, presenting multiple perspectives on the thematic of social hierarchies. But, in the end, his films reinforce rather than overthrow traditional artistic forms and hierarchical ideas. Studying these artists elucidates how the contracted space of the short form produces the perfect room to present a nuanced portrayal of class. Committee in charge: Paul Peppis, Chairperson, English; Michael Aronson, Member, English; Mark Quigley, Member, English; Jenifer Presto, Outside Member, Comparative Literature en_US University of Oregon University of Oregon theses, Dept. of English, Ph. D., 2010; Short stories, English -- History and criticism Short films Modernism Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation Great Britain Modern literature British and Irish literature Film studies English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism The modern(ist) short form: Containing class in early 20th century literature and film Thesis
Hensel, Marcus (University of Oregon, 2012)[more][less]Earl, James Hensel, Marcus Hensel, Marcus 2012-12-07T23:14:41Z 2012-12-07T23:14:41Z 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12552 Demon, allegory, exile, Scandinavian zombie—Grendel, the first of the monsters in the Old English Beowulf, has been called all of these. But lost in the arguments about what he means is the very basic question of what he is. This project aims to understand Grendel qua monster and investigate how we associate him with the monstrous. I identify for study a number of traits that distinguish him from the humans of the poem--all of which cluster around either morphological abnormality (claws, gigantism, shining eyes) or deviant behavior (anthropophagy, lack of food preparation, etiquette). These traits are specifically selected and work together to form a constellation of transgressions, an embodiment of the monstrous on which other arguments about his symbolic value rest. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Beowulf food studies Grendel monsters morphology philology De Monstro: An Anatomy of Grendel Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Vasavada, Megan (University of Oregon, October 3, 2013)[more][less]Spillman, Deborah Vasavada, Megan 2013-10-03T23:31:47Z 2013-10-03T23:31:47Z 2013-10-03 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13240 This dissertation draws on studies of gift exchange by cultural anthropologists and social theorists to examine representations of gifts and gift giving in nineteenth-century British novels. While most studies of the economic imagination of nineteenth-century literature rely on and respond to a framework formulated by classical political economy and consequently overlook nonmarket forms of social exchange, I draw on gift theory in order to make visible the alternate, everyday exchanges shaping social relations and identity within the English novel. By analyzing formal and thematic representations of gifting over the course of the nineteenth century, in novels by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot, I consider the way that gift exchange relates and responds to the emergence of capitalism and consumer culture. I trace two distinct developments in nineteenth-century gift culture: the first, the emergence of an idealized view of the gift as purely disinterested, spontaneous, and free, and the second, the emergence of a view of charity as demoralizing to the poor. These developments, I contend, were distinct ideological formations of liberal economic society and reveal a desire to make the gift conform to individualism. However, I suggest further that these transformations of the gift proceeded unevenly, for in their attention to the logic and practice of giving, nineteenth-century writers both give voice to and subvert these cultural formations. Alongside the figure of the benevolent philanthropist, the demoralized pauper, and the quintessential image of altruism, the selflessly giving domestic woman, nineteenth-century novels present another view of gift exchange, one that sees the gift as a mix of interest and disinterest, freedom and obligation, and persons and things. Ultimately, by reading the gift relations animating nineteenth-century novels, I draw attention to the competing conceptions of selfhood underlying gift and market forms of exchange in order to offer a broader history of exchange and personhood. In its recognition of expansive conceptions of the self and obligatory gifts, this dissertation recovers a history of the gift that calls into question the ascendency of the autonomous individual and the view of exchange as an anonymous, self-interested transaction. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Austen Jane Dickens Charles Eliot George Gift exchange Nineteenth-century British Novel Novel Gifts: The Form and Function of Gift Exchange in Nineteenth-century England Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of English University of Oregon
Howard, Robert Glenn (University of Oregon, 2001)[more][less]Howard, Robert Glenn 2008-02-10T03:23:08Z 2008-02-10T03:23:08Z 2001 0-493-36010-7 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/149 Adviser: Daniel Wojcik. xiii, 299 leaves A print copy of this title is available through the UO Libraries under the call number: KNIGHT BL37 .H69 2001 Since the advent of the public World-Wide-Web in 1992, networked computer communication has rapidly become integral to the daily lives of many North Americans. Many researchers in the humanities and social sciences debate the potential power and nature of the effects of these new forms of communication. Some scholars see dangers in the changing forms of "media literacy," but others see the Internet engendering new levels of democratic debate at grassroots and personal levels. However, much of this research still lacks the basic methodological rigor necessary to make reasonable claims about actual individual human communicative behavior on the Internet. By melding the behavioral ethnographic methods of folklore studies and socio-linguistics to postmodern methods of rhetorical analysis, this dissertation explores the general hypothesis that Internet media encourage the use of negotiative rhetorical strategies in the everyday expression of vernacular religious belief. By participating in the specific Christian Fundamentalist discourse known as Dispensationalism, this dissertation establishes methods for locating and classifying particular Internet expressions based on their revelatory, experiential, and/or negotiative rhetorical strategies. The hypothesis is explored through a series of five cases related to Protestant Dispensationalism: early American Puritan and Quaker autobiography, 1994 and 1995 Christian e-mail lists, the 1996 and 1997 e-mail campaign of the "Heaven's Gate" religious group, and 1999 and 2000 amateur Dispensationalist web-site builders. Based on e-mail, web-site, questionnaire, and face-to-face interview data, the results of this research have shown that the hypothesis overestimated the power of the Internet to encourage negotiative attitudes in deeply religious individuals. Although the Internet expressions of belief seem to have taken on a style of negotiation, little actual negotiation about religious beliefs or values occurred on the Internet among those documented. Instead, there was a constant exchange of similar ideas which seem to primarily function as attitudinal posturing. Though strong positions were taken and expressed to large and diverse audiences, only a very few individuals were willing to adjust their previously held beliefs as a result of their experiences with Internet communication. 16056809 bytes 1473 bytes 621373 bytes application/pdf text/plain text/plain en_US University of Oregon University of Oregon theses, Dept. of English, Ph. D., 2001 Internet -- Religious aspects Religion -- Computer network resources Dispensationalism Passages divinely lit : revelatory vernacular rhetoric on the Internet Thesis
The Pen, the Scaffold, and the Sword: Representations of Labor and Class Conflict in American Historical Fiction After 1945Henson, Nicholas Allan (University of Oregon, 2012)[more][less]Henson, Nicholas Allan 2012-10-26T18:35:26Z 2012-10-26T18:35:26Z 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12478 279 pages The Pen, the Scaffold, and the Sword traces sympathetic representations of class, labor, and radicalism in American literature from post-war modernism through the rise of postmodernism. I investigate two distinct but interrelated questions: How have authors writing after 1945 used history to represent labor and radicalism in their work? Furthermore, how have these historical representations explored avenues for resistance by exploited workers and their supporters? I use critical approaches to postmodern literature that have emphasized the proliferation of previously unheard narratives focused on race, gender, and sexuality as they are presented against dominant white male representations. However, I turn to class and labor as complementary avenues for critically investigating similar unheard historical narratives. I argue that by depicting specific labor conflicts each of these texts present counter histories to standard or popular historical narratives that have ignored the breadth and importance of class conflict in U.S. history. These texts retell the stories of historic labor struggles to rejuvenate an awareness of class and labor issues in contemporary readers. In doing so, they establish counter narratives meant to be read against common conceptions of the past. I contend they change reader perceptions of history and contemporary social and political issues by demanding we abandon totalizing conceptions of history and emphasize contingent or limited representations instead. Chapter I establishes the parameters of the project. Chapter II turns toWallace Stegner's Joe Hill (1951) and its often ignored sympathetic portrayal of labor. Chapter III focuses on the 1954 film Salt of the Earth and its communication of historical lessons as a basis for future social reforms. Chapter IV compares Denise Giardina's coal mining novels Storming Heaven (1987) and The Unquiet Earth (1990) with Upton Sinclair's work in King Coal (1917) to examine the former's emphasis on agency and environmentalism. Chapter V compares Thomas Pynchon's exploration of history through the motifs of the frontier and families in Against the Day (2006) and Vineland (1990) with Owen Wister's work in The Virginian (1902). Finally, Chapter VI examines historical fiction in the age of postmodernism though an examination of E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime (1974). Committee in charge: Elizabeth Wheeler, Chair; Forest Pyle, Member; Suzanne Clark, Member; James Earl, Member; Daniel Pope, Outside Member en_US University of Oregon University of Oregon theses, Dept. of English, Ph. D., 2012; rights_reserved The Pen, the Scaffold, and the Sword: Representations of Labor and Class Conflict in American Historical Fiction After 1945 Thesis
Luttrell, Eric G. (University of Oregon, September , 2011)[more][less]Luttrell, Eric G. 2012-03-28T00:07:43Z 2012-03-28T00:07:43Z 2011-09 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12089 xi, 266 p. This dissertation employs recent developments in the cognitive sciences to explicate competing social and religious undercurrents in Beowulf. An enduring scholarly debate has attributed the poem's origins to, variously, Christian or polytheistic worldviews. Rather than approaching the subject with inherited terms which originated in Judeo-Christian assumptions of religious identity, we may distinguish two incongruous ways of conceiving of agency, both human and divine, underlying the conventional designations of pagan and Christian. One of these, the poly-agent schema, requires a complex understanding of the motivations and limitations of all sentient individuals as causal agents with their own internal mental complexities. The other, the omni-agent schema, centralizes original agency in the figure of an omnipotent and omnipresent God and simplifies explanations of social interactions. In this concept, any individual's potential for intentional agency is limited to subordination or resistance to the will of God. The omni-agent schema relies on social categorization to understand behavior of others, whereas the poly-agent schema tracks individual minds, their intentions, and potential actions. Whereas medieval Christian narratives, such as Bede's Life of St. Cuthbert and Augustine's Confessions, depend on the omni-agent schema, Beowulf relies more heavily on the poly-agent schema, which it shares with Classical and Norse myths, epics, and sagas. While this does not prove that the poem originated before the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons, it suggests that the poem was able to preserve an older social schema which would have been discouraged in post-conversion cultures were it not for a number of passages in the poem which affirmed conventional Christian theology. These theological asides describe an omni-agent schema in abstract terms, though they accord poorly with the representations of character thought and action within the poem. This minimal affirmation of a newer model of social interaction may have enabled the poem's preservation on parchment in an age characterized by the condemnation, and often violent suppression, of non-Christian beliefs. These affirmations do not, however, tell the whole story. Committee in charge: James W. Earl, Chairperson; Louise Westling, Member; Lisa Freinkel, Member; Mark Johnson, Outside Member en_US University of Oregon University of Oregon theses, Dept. of English, Ph. D., 2011; rights_reserved Medieval literature British and Irish literature Comparative Philosophy, religion and theology Language, literature and linguistics Pagan Beowulf Cognition Monotheism Polytheism Religion Persistent Mythologies: A Cognitive Approach to Beowulf and the Pagan Question Cognitive Approach to Beowulf and the Pagan Question Thesis
Wardell, Kathryn Brenna (University of Oregon, June , 2010)[more][less]Wardell, Kathryn Brenna 2011-07-28T17:02:50Z 2011-07-28T17:02:50Z 2010-06 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11457 viii, 261 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. My dissertation analyzes the rake, the libertine male, a figure whose liminal masculinity and transgressive appetites work both to stabilize and unsettle hegemony in the texts in which he appears. The rake may seem no more than a sexy bad boy, unconnected to wider social, political, and economic concerns. However, my project reveals his central role in reflecting, even shaping, anxieties and desires regarding gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity. I chart the rake's progress from his origins in the Restoration era to the early twenty-first century. Chapter II examines William Wycherley's comedy The Country Wife in concert with John Dryden's Marriage à la Mode and Aphra Behn's The Rover to analyze the rake's emergence in seventeenth-century theatre and show that his transgression of borders real and figurative plays out the anxieties and aspirations of an emerging British empire. Chapter III uses John Gay's ballad opera The Beggar's Opera, a satiric interrogation of consumerism and criminality, to chart the rake in eighteenth-century British theatre as Britain's investment in global capitalism and imperialism increased. My discussion of Opera is framed by Richard Steele's early-century sentimental comedy The Conscious Lovers and Hannah Cowley's late-century The Belle's Stratagem, a fusion of sentiment and wit. Chapter IV hinges the project's theatre and film sections, analyzing Oscar Wilde's fin-de-siècle comedy The Importance of Being Earnest as a culmination of generations of theatre rakes and an anticipation of the film rakes of the modern and post-modern eras. Dion Boucicault's mid-century London Assurance is used to set up Wilde's queering of the rake figure Chapter V brings the rake to a new medium, film, and a new nation, the United States, as the figure catalyzes American tension over race and gender in early twentieth-century films such as Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat, George Melford's The Sheik, and Ernest Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise. My final chapter reads contemporary films, including Jenniphr Goodman's The Tao of Steve, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz's About a Boy, and Gore Verbinski's trilogy Pirates of the Caribbean for Disney Studios, to assess the ways in which millennial western masculinity is in stasis. Committee in charge: Dianne Dugaw, Co-Chair; Priscilla Ovalle, Co-Chair; Kathleen Karlyn; John Schmor en_US University of Oregon University of Oregon theses, Dept. of English, Ph. D., 2010; Rake Film Gender Men Restoration Homoerotic Masculinity Theater British and Irish literature Gender studies Film studies British and Irish literature Masculinity in literature Masculinity in motion pictures English drama -- History and criticism English literature -- Themes, motives Masculinity -- History The rake's progress: Masculinities on stage and screen Masculinities on stage and screen Thesis
Spann, Britta, 1979- (University of Oregon, September , 2009)[more][less]Spann, Britta, 1979- 2010-05-10T21:59:14Z 2010-05-10T21:59:14Z 2009-09 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10356 ix, 267 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. In English literary studies, classical epic poetry is typically regarded as a masculinist genre that imparts and reinforces the values of dominant culture. The Iliad , Odyssey , and Aeneid , after all, were written by men, feature male heroes, and recount the violent events that gave rise to the misogynistic societies of ancient Greece and Rome. Yet, in the twentieth century, women poets have found inspiration for their feminist projects in these ostensibly masculinist poems. The four poets in this study, for example, have drawn from the work of Homer and Virgil to criticize the ways that conventional conceptions of gender identity have impaired both men and women. One might expect, and indeed, most critics argue, that women like H.D., Gwendolyn Brooks, Louise Glück, and Anne Carson invoke their classical predecessors only to reject them and the repressive values that they represent. Close readings of these poets' work, however, demonstrate that, far from dismissing the ancient poems, Helen in Egypt , Annie Allen , Meadowlands , and Autobiography of Red are deeply invested in them, finding in them models for their own social critiques. The work of these four poets emphasizes that the classical epics are not one-dimensional celebrations of violence and traditional masculinity. Indeed, the work of Homer and Virgil expresses anxiety about the misogynistic values of the heroic code to which its warriors adhere, and it urges that war and violence are antithetical to civilized society. In examining the ways that modern women poets have drawn from these facets of the ancient works to condemn the sexism, racism, and heterocentrism of contemporary culture, my dissertation seeks to challenge the characterization of classical epic that prevails in English literary studies and to assert the necessity of understanding the complexity of the ancient texts that inspire modern poets. Taking an intertextual approach, I hope to show that close readings of the classical epics facilitate our understanding of how and why modern women have engaged the work of their ancient predecessors and that this knowledge, in turn, emphasizes that the epic genre is more complex than we have recognized and that its tradition still flourishes. Committee in charge: Karen Ford, Chairperson, English; Paul Peppis, Member, English; Steven Shankman, Member, English; P. Lowell Bowditch, Outside Member, Classics en_US University of Oregon University of Oregon theses, Dept. of English, Ph. D., 2009; H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961 Carson, Anne, 1950- Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 Gluck, Louise, 1943- Classical tradition Epic tradition North American Women Classical studies Canadian literature American literature Gender identity in literature Reviving kalliope: Four North American women and the epic tradition Thesis
Sipley, Tristan Hardy, 1980- (University of Oregon, June , 2010)[more][less]Sipley, Tristan Hardy, 1980- 2010-12-22T01:18:26Z 2010-12-22T01:18:26Z 2010-06 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10911 x, 255 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. This dissertation examines transatlantic, and especially American, literary responses to urban and industrial change from the 1840s through the 1930s. It combines cultural materialist theory with environmental history in order to investigate the interrelationship of literature, economy, and biophysical systems. In lieu of a traditional ecocritical focus on wilderness preservation and the accompanying literary mode of nature writing, I bring attention to reforms of the "built environment" and to the related category of social problem fiction, including narratives of documentary realism, urban naturalism, and politically-oriented utopianism. The novels and short stories of Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and Mike Gold offer an alternative history of environmental writing, one that foregrounds the interaction between nature and labor. Through a strategy of "literal reading" I connect the representation of particular environments in the work of these authors to the historical situation of actual spaces, including the western Massachusetts forest of Melville's "Tartarus of Maids," the Virginia factory town of Davis's Iron Mills, the Midwestern hinterland of Sinclair's The Jungle, and the New York City ghetto of Gold's Jews without Money. Even as these texts foreground the class basis of environmental hazard, they simultaneously display an ambivalence toward the physical world, wavering between pastoral celebrations and gothic vilifications of nature, and condemning ecological destruction even as they naturalize the very socio-economic forces responsible for such calamity. Following Raymond Williams, I argue that these contradictory treatments of nature have a basis in the historical relationship between capitalist society and the material world. Fiction struggles to contain or resolve its implication in the very culture that destroys the land base it celebrates. Thus, the formal fissures and the anxious eruptions of nature in fiction relate dialectically to the contradictory position of the ecosystem itself within the regime of industrial capital. However, for all of this ambivalence, transatlantic social reform fiction of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century provides a model for an environmentally-oriented critical realist aesthetic, an aesthetic that retains suspicion toward representational transparency, and yet simultaneously asserts the didactic, ethical, and political functions of literature. Committee in charge: William Rossi, Chairperson, English; Henry Wonham, Member, English; Enrique Lima, Member, English; Louise Westling, Member, English; John Foster, Outside Member, Sociology en_US University of Oregon University of Oregon theses, Dept. of English, Ph. D., 2010; Capital Built environment Ecocriticism Marxism Realism and naturalism Fiction Urban space Transatlantic studies Modern literature Environmental studies American literature -- History and criticism British literature -- History and criticism Irish literature -- History and criticism Second nature: Literature, capital and the built environment, 1848--1938 Literature, capital and the built environment, 1848--1938 Thesis
Hart, Hilary, 1969- (University of Oregon, March , 2004)[more][less]Hart, Hilary, 1969- 2008-02-10T03:22:56Z 2008-02-10T03:22:56Z 2004-03 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/297 Advisor: Mary E. Wood. xii, 181 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm. Print copy also available for check out and consultation in the University of Oregon's library under the call number: PS374.S714 H37 2004. The nineteenth-century American sentimental novel has only in the last twenty years received consideration from the academy as a legitimate literary tradition. During that time feminist scholars have argued that sentimental novels performed important cultural work and represent an important literary tradition. This dissertation contributes to the scholarship by placing the sentimental novel within a larger context of intellectual history as a tradition that draws upon theoretical sources and is a source itself for later cultural developments. In examining a variety of sentimental novels, I establish the moral sense philosophy as the theoretical basis of the sentimental novel's pathetic appeals and its theories of sociability and justice. The dissertation also addresses the aesthetic features of the sentimental novel and demonstrates again the tradition's connection to moral sense philosophy but within the context of the American elocution revolution. I look at natural language theory to render more legible the moments of emotional spectacle that are the signature of sentimental aesthetics. The second half of the dissertation demonstrates a connection between the sentimental novel and silent film. Both mediums rely on a common aesthetic storehouse for signifying emotions. The last two chapters of the dissertation compare silent film performance with emotional displays in the sentimental novel and in elocution and acting manuals. I also demonstrate that the films of D. W. Griffith, especially The Birth of a Nation, draw upon on the larger conventions of the sentimental novel. 6583129 bytes 2272 bytes 255584 bytes 8801 bytes application/pdf text/plain text/plain text/plain en_US University of Oregon University of Oregon theses, Dept. of English, Ph. D., 2004; Griffith, D. W. (David Wark), 1875-1948 -- Criticism and interpretation Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Criticism and interpretation American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women and literature -- United States -- 19th century Sentimentalism in literature Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- History Speech -- Study and teaching -- History Motion picture acting Silent films -- United States -- History and criticism Sympathy in literature Emotion in literature Race in literature Sentimental spectacles : the sentimental novel, natural language, and early film performance Thesis
Nicholl, Kaila (University of Oregon, 2012)[more][less]Pyle, Forest Nicholl, Kaila Nicholl, Kaila 2012-12-07T23:10:21Z 2012-12-07T23:10:21Z 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12504 I explore Wordsworth and Byron's use of a mediating "other Being," or a third-person narrative voice, that functions as a "guide" through their autobiographical texts. After establishing this poetic voice, both poets employ their "other Being" to navigate spaces of ruin. Founded on fragments of memory and experience, as well as mediatory gaps, the poetry of Wordsworth and Byron illuminates the autobiographical poet's struggle with textual self-representation and the sustention of a poetic subjectivity that often substitutes for the poet's own. Through the rhetorical device of prosopopoeia, Wordsworth and Byron find distinct ways to create a voice that will continue to "speak" for them in the lines of their text. While The Ruined Cottage represents a version of Wordsworth's understanding of breakdowns and poetic subjectivity, Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage III and IV push Wordsworth's boundaries even to their limits and turn the autobiographical "other Being" into a "tyrant spirit." en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Lord Byron William Wordsworth Some Other Being: The Autobiographical Phantom in Wordsworth and Byron Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Evans, Meagan (University of Oregon, July 11, 2013)[more][less]Ford, Karen Evans, Meagan 2013-07-11T19:57:27Z 2013-07-11T19:57:27Z 2013-07-11 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12946 Traditional feminist readings have valued women's writing that voices silenced experiences. In contrast, other twentieth-century theoretical formulations regard absences, refusals, and silences as constitutive of aesthetic practice rather than as imposed upon it. This dissertation attends carefully to how U.S. women writers approach the nonlinguistic, accounting for how they have been silenced as well as for the kinds of silencing that women poets themselves perform. It argues that U.S. women's experimental poetry is driven by contradictory relationships to language and silence: in one strain, gendered cultural repression spurs American women poets to push language into new territory, often figured as speaking out. But in another mode, female identification with the nonrational or nonlinguistic, whether externally enforced or strategically inhabited, impels women to develop poetic silences in order to resist the impositions of language on a feminized other. Meeting these simultaneous and opposed goals--creating poetic forms capable of greater expressive range while signaling the inadequacy of linguistic expression--necessitates formal experimentation. My primary claim that an unresolved ambivalence toward the nonlinguistic drives innovation dictates an emphasis on formal technique, including syntax, rhyme and meter, sentence and stanza structure, and figuration. This attention to poetic particulars grounds my contextualization of the work of each poet I consider--Emily Dickinson, Lorine Niedecker, and Gwendolyn Brooks--in relation to her own life, to broader literary and cultural histories, and to poststructuralist theories of language. The first chapter of my dissertation explores the role that early American, particularly Puritan and Transcendental, attitudes toward wilderness shape poetic motivations both to extend and limit the reach of language throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In subsequent chapters, I evaluate how those motivations change in the context of Dickinson's nineteenth-century spirituality, Niedecker's modernist and postmodernist anxieties about the role of the poet, and Brooks's engagement with the politics and aesthetics of black nationalism. Reading U.S. women's poetic innovation as simultaneously breaking and cultivating silences opens a dialogue among historically feminist understandings of silence as oppressive, theories that put silence at the heart of poetic impulse, and avant-garde theoretical conceptions of linguistic experimentation as a feminist project. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Emily Dickinson experimental Gwendolyn Brooks Lorine Niedecker poetry women Sounding Silence: American Women's Experimental Poetics Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of English University of Oregon
Speaking, Silently Speaking: Thomas Shepard's "Confessions" and the Cultural Impact of Puritan Conversion on Early and Later AmericaYoung, Alexander (University of Oregon, 2012)[more][less]Sayre, Gordon Young, Alexander Young, Alexander 2012-10-26T01:42:43Z 2012-10-26T01:42:43Z 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12337 My dissertation reappraises the Puritan conversion narrative's influence on early and later American literature. It centers around the accounts recorded by the Reverend Thomas Shepard, minister to Cambridge's first church, and looks at how New England's earliest settlers represented their spiritual encounters. My study argues for Puritanism's continued cultural relevance by explaining how the inter-personal, social, and expressive energies that informed Puritan spiritual confession is both sustained and evolves in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Chapter I accounts for the social, historical, and intellectual contexts in which the Puritan conversion narrative took place and outlines the scholarship it has received. Amid this scholarship I offer my analysis in Chapter II, pointing to the performance's formal, doctrinal, and expressive requirements to explain how believers delivered successful narratives and how they pushed the bounds of the religious doctrine that informed their accounts. Chapter III re-imagines the experience of Puritan conversion. It considers the performance from an affective framework and argues that the ambivalence endemic to spiritual assurance provoked in believers a psychogenic and narratological discord that promoted a form of self-understanding in which believers were unsure of themselves even as their spiritual communities were certain that their conversions were complete. Chapter III concludes by assessing the literary consequences of this relationship with reference to Benjamin Franklin's en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. America Conversion Culture Narrative New England Puritan Speaking, Silently Speaking: Thomas Shepard's "Confessions" and the Cultural Impact of Puritan Conversion on Early and Later America Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Stoeckl, Sarah (University of Oregon, 2012)[more][less]Peppis, Paul Stoeckl, Sarah Stoeckl, Sarah 2012-10-26T03:59:13Z 2012-10-26T03:59:13Z 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12377 The Great War was unprecedented both in its devastation and in the significance people attached to it, which this dissertation contends led to a crisis of representation that manifested in literary tropes and discourses of sterility. Some authors used sterility to represent the war as a cultural and historical apocalypse, others as a basis for questioning how literature, Western civilization, and humanity itself could continue after such a catastrophe. "Static Chaos" theorizes how thematic renderings of sterility work alongside modernist formal experimentation to sever reproductive literary traditions. The widespread instances of sterility reveal the deep effects of the war on non-combatants as well as combatants, as demonstrated through analysis of novels by a diverse group of authors from Britain and United States--Rebecca West, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Claude McKay, and Ford Madox Ford. The study moves chronologically yet it also follows a narrative logic of thwarted human sexual experience beginning with novels focused upon problematic virginity, then those depicting the inability or unwillingness to procreate, and then one preoccupied with pregnancy overshadowed by illegitimacy and stillbirth. This dissertation draws upon trauma theory and grief and mourning theory, which reveal how, in addition to individual experiences of psychological trauma, the war disabled traditional means of coping, leading to a widespread inability to mourn that was traumatizing in itself. I name this state "traumatic grief" and argue that its pervasiveness led authors to break with a longstanding interconnection between making war and making babies. "Static Chaos" also expands theories that diagnose narrative's mimetic relationship to human sexual intercourse and sexuality, particularly those of Judith Roof and Lee Edelman who assert narrative's heterosexuality based on its traditional logic of continuation. I argue that post-war formal experimentation in modernist literature renders narrative metaphorically sterile by disrupting reproductive traditions and conventions. These formal components include generic manipulation, representations of inversion and paradox, ambiguous or inconclusive endings, and parodic or circular plot structures. Together with themes of sterility, these formal elements work to depict the post-war world as fixed in a barren wasteland, trapped in static chaos. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Great War Grief Narrative Reproduction Sterility Trauma Static Chaos: The Great War and Modern Novels of Sterility Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Edford, Rachel Lynn, 1979- (University of Oregon, September , 2011)[more][less]Edford, Rachel Lynn, 1979- 2012-02-29T20:12:11Z 2012-04-28T17:07:09Z 2011-09 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11981 x, 237 p. We have too frequently approached American World War II poetry with assumptions about modern poetry based on readings of the influential British Great War poets, failing to distinguish between WWI and WWII and between the British and American contexts. During the Second World War, the Holocaust and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki obliterated the line many WWI poems reinforced between the soldier's battlefront and the civilian's homefront, authorizing for the first time both civilian and soldier perspectives. Conditions on the American homefront--widespread isolationist and anti-Semitic attitudes, America's late entry into the war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese internment, and the African American "Double V Campaign" to fight fascism overseas and racism at home--were just some of the volatile conditions poets in the US grappled with during WWII. In their poems, war shapes and threatens the identities of civilians and soldiers, women and men, African Americans and Jews, and verse form itself becomes a weapon against war's assault on identity. Charles Reznikoff, Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Richard Wilbur mobilize and challenge the authority of traditional poetic forms to defend the self against social, political, and physical assaults. The objective, free-verse testimony form of Reznikoff's long poem Holocaust (1975) registers his mistrust of lyric subjectivity and of the musical effects of traditional poetry. In Rukeyser's free-verse and traditional-verse forms, personal experiences and public history collide to create a unifying poetry during wartime. Brooks, like Rukeyser, posits poetry's ability to protect soldiers and civilians from war's threat to their identities. In Brooks's poems, however, only traditionally formal poems can withstand the war's destruction. Wilbur also employs conventional forms to control war's disorder. The individual speakers in his poems avoid becoming nameless war casualties by grounding themselves in military and literary history. Through a series of historically informed close readings, this dissertation illuminates a neglected period in the history of American poetry and argues that mid-century formalism challenges--not retreats from--twentieth-century atrocities. Committee in charge: Karen Jackson Ford, Chairperson; John Gage, Member; Paul Peppis, Member; Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, Outside Member en_US University of Oregon University of Oregon theses, Dept. of English, Ph. D., 2011; rights_reserved American literature African American poetry American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism Holocaust poetry Poetic form War poetry World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war War literature Holocaust literature Language, literature and linguistics Reznikoff, Charles, 1894-1976 Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-1980 Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 Wilbur, Richard, 1921- "The Step of Iron Feet": Formal Movements in American World War II Poetry Formal Movements in American World War II Poetry Thesis
Bronstein, Phoebe (University of Oregon, October 10, 2013)[more][less]Stabile, Carol Bronstein, Phoebe 2013-10-10T23:18:32Z 2013-10-10T23:18:32Z 2013-10-10 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13412 This dissertation traces the emergence of the U.S. South and the region's role in primetime television, from the post-World War II era through Reagan's election in 1980. These early years defined, as Herman Gray suggests in Watching Race, all subsequent representations of blackness on television. This defining moment, I argue, is one inextricably tethered to the South and the region's anxiety ridden and complicated relationship with television. This anxiety was rooted in the progress and increasing visibility of the Civil Rights Movement, concern over growing white southern audiences in the wake of the FCC freeze (ended in 1952), and the fear and threat of a southern backlash against racially progressive programming. From the short-lived drama Bourbon Street Beat to the success of Andy Griffith, these concerns structured and policed the content of television, producing puzzling and often contradictory visions of the South. The representational maneuvers enacted by these shows attempted to render that threatening South safe for national consumption, while simultaneously invoking southern manners and downhome southern living as emblematic of all that is good about America. That is, the South was both the threat to the democratic nation and the cure for all that ailed a nation in crisis. In returning to the South during the formative years of primetime and at a moment where the region visibly and visually contested narratives of a democratic nation, my dissertation provides a foundation for thinking through a contemporary landscape saturated in problematically post-racial southern imagery. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Gender Race Television History the South Televising the South: Race, Gender, and Region in Primetime, 1955-1980 Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of English University of Oregon
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The Origins, Evolution and Cultural Embeddedness of Online TrollingPhillips, Whitney (University of Oregon, 2012)[more][less]Stabile, Carol Phillips, Whitney Phillips, Whitney 2012-12-07T23:12:32Z 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12528 Ethnographic in approach, this dissertation examines trolling, an online subculture devoted to meme creation and social disruption. Rather than framing trolling behaviors as fundamentally aberrant, I argue that trolls are agents of cultural digestion; they scour the landscape, repurpose the most exploitable material, then shove the resulting monstrosities into the faces of an unsuspecting populace. Within the political and social context of the United States, the region to which I have restricted my focus, I argue that trolls on 4chan/b/ and Facebook perform a grotesque pantomime of a number of pervasive cultural logics, including masculine domination and white privilege. Additionally, I argue that the rhetorical and behavioral tactics used by trolls, including sensationalism, spectacle, and emotional exploitation, are homologous to tactics routinely deployed by American corporate media outlets. In short, trolling operates within existing systems, not in contrast to them, immediately complicating knee-jerk condemnations of trolling behaviors. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Anonymous internet culture online anonymity transgressive humor trolling subculture trolls This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The Origins, Evolution and Cultural Embeddedness of Online Trolling Electronic Thesis or Dissertation 2014-12-07
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