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Thesis (M. A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2006. / Title from title screen (site viewed on Mar. 30, 2007). PDF text: 228 p. ; 7.06Mb. UMI publication number: AAT 3221293. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Tulsa, 1987. / Bibliography: leaves 230-235.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 389-418).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1998. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 317-329).

This essay stresses the importance of the visual and material aspects of these manuscripts. By examining her work in relation to collage practices, it highlights Dickinson's role as an avant-garde figure in both American poetry and material culture. Rather than write interlocking theses that connect each reading, I aim to demonstrate the ways in which an art historical consideration of Dickinson's envelope manuscripts complicates the already open-ended nature of her poetry through associating the texts with the cultural phenomena of the scrapbook. Additionally, I will foreground the importance of the materiality of these works through emphasizing the role of correspondence in Dickinson's life.

My dissertation argues that changes in the structures and orientations of religious thought, changes commonly understood as secularization, have provided the intellectual underpinnings for the modern exploitation and ongoing destruction of the non-human world, which extend to the underwriting the devaluing and dehumanization of marginalized groups such as Native Americans. My work makes visible the secular assumptions of ecocriticism, which tends to blame Christianity for environmental problems. It also unwittingly relies on state-legitimating constructions of religion, simplistic religious-secular binaries, and outdated, false narratives of secularization. I theorize an ecocriticism “with/out the secular” to analyze secularity in both “secular” and “religious” settings, using the category of “religious orientation,” a tacit, pre-theoretical commitment that directs ultimate trust, structures meaning as it coheres in everyday life, and shapes ontological, epistemological, ethical, and other theories. I examine how certain nineteenth-century authors, including Henry Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and Pequot minister William Apess, resisted this secularization within contemporaneous American culture and Christianity because of its epistemic devaluing of the natural world. Each of these authors has been read as an exemplar of secularization, but such interpretations reveal more about the secular commitments of literary critics than about the authors and their contexts. I show instead how modern religious constructions do not necessarily correlate with the deeper religious orientation of an author or the secularity or non-secularity of his or her arguments. Dickinson’s poetry and Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers challenge dogmatic conceptions of heaven and Sabbath that are structured dualistically so as to devalue everyday earthly life. Yet they do so in non-dualistic ways that accord with a biblically rooted religious orientation of creation-fall-redemption-consummation. Their struggles against the church were against the church’s acceptance of dominant secularist ideologies that are ultimately at odds with Christianity and sustainable lifeways. Similarly, William Apess’ environmental justice work as a Native Christian against institutions dominated by white nationalist ideology demonstrate the how dualistic structures of secularity legitimate racism in conjunction with an anthropocentric that devalue the natural world.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-12T18:37:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 arquivo8283_1.pdf: 1199432 bytes, checksum: b3226ecbf790b659bcae6df5a32710fb (MD5) license.txt: 1748 bytes, checksum: 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Esta dissertação aborda a leitura e interpretação da obra poética de Emily Dickinson, focalizando certos aspectos ligados à sua auto-reclusão e subseqüente exclusão dos círculos literários da época, as quais tiveram decisiva influência em sua escrita. No embasamento teórico deste trabalho, valho-me da noção de biografema , idealizada por Roland Barthes, além de recorrer a outros conceitos literários mais atuais. Concentro-me sobretudo no aspecto poético que denomino estrangeirização , o qual permeia, a meu ver, toda a obra de Emily Dickinson, e não foi, ao que parece, estudado até agora, seja nos Estados Unidos, seu país natal, seja no Brasil, onde os seus poemas sempre mereceram atenção, tanto do público quanto da crítica literária