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Body language: The material bodily lower stratum in the poetry of Walt Whitman, Frank O'Hara, and Charles Bukowski	The promised future: The (un)interrupted dialogue in William Carlos Williams' "Yes, Mrs. Williams"

Louisa May Alcott's performative femininity	Narratives of consumption: Postmodern American fiction's engagement with consumer culture

Role reversal: Female self-interest and male sacrifice in the novels of Louisa May Alcott	Towards a poetics of the supraliminal body: Merleau-Ponty's 'embodied perception' and resultant philosophical commentary in relation to the artistic works of Lance Phillips and Mike Patton

Bridging the gap: Writing, reading, and critiquing digital poetry	The Madeleine Effect

Eastern past, Western present, and back again: Emerson, Thoreau, and Eastern philosophy	A myth made flesh: Representing female-to-male transsexual desire in visual and textual print

When the other writes back: "Poaching," "bargain shopping," and rewriting the vampire narrative in Jewelle Gomez's "The Gilda Stories" and Octavia Butler's "Fledgling"	Geometries of desire: Carole Maso's "The Art Lover", Rikki Ducornet's "The Fan-Maker's Inquisition", and Joanna Scott's "The Manikin"

Hawthorne's sacramental vision of nature: Moving beyond Eden to the ecological	The influence of Edgar Allan Poe and Frances Sargent Osgood on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," and the introduction of a previously unknown tale by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Snowstorm"

Romancing the mind: A look at Nathaniel Hawthorne's romances in light of "The Haunted Mind"	Dedoxifying gender identity through language and sexuality: Kathy Acker's abjection of western phallocentric traditions and the feminist Utopian sublime

Clothing, history, and narrative in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie"	Memento matria: Patterns of maternity, memory, memento, immigration, cooking and community in Willa Cather's "My Antonia", Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club", and Susan Power's "The Grass Dancer"

Restoring Washington Irving into the national American canon	"You can't get there from here": Identity, autobiography, and self-reflection in the travel writings of Edith Wharton, Emma Hart Willard, and Ida Tarbell in France

Chaotic whiteness: Race, narrative, and the erotics of fear	Threatening narratives of community: Fear, incongruity, and performative values in American culture and literature

"Strange and unfunny jokes": Folly and satire in the works of James Joyce and Nathanael West	"Reality, woven in fictions": Making the world by remaking stories, mythology as metanarrative in Ezra Pound's "Canto II," John Gardner's "Grendel" and Anne Carson's "Autobiography of Red"

On some motifs in Herman Melville	Green place: Sustaining historic buildings

Deaths and entrances: The influence of spectrality and death in Sylvia Plath and Dylan Thomas	"You're a vampire... Was that an offensive term? Should I say 'undead American'?"* The evolution of the vampire in popular culture

Women of the beat generation Joyce Johnson, Diane di Prima, and Carolyn Cassady: Female agency in transitional times	Flannery O'Connor and the irony of self-creation

Literary Theory and Pedagogical Praxis: De Man, Barthes, Jameson, and "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"	Anarcho-feminism and permanent revolution in Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Dispossessed"

Competing narratives of Christian womanhood in Sarah Grimke's "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman"	"We the People Do Not Know what Kind of World We Should Imagine": Archibald MacLeish and Democracy in the 1930's

"Cut the word lines": The evolution of the cut-up method as revolutionary weapon in William S. Burroughs's "Nova" trilogy	Miseducation, the Page and the Stage: Seduction, Education and Theatricality in 19th Century American Literature

'The subject become really-real': Idealism and materialism in Laura (Riding) Jackson	Seeking hopelessly to fill the void: Postmodern subjectivity in Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" and "The Crying of Lot 49

Urban solution from the literary examples of "Love in the Time of Cholera" and "The Jungle": The human body and the bios in ethics, politics, and the biopolis	David Foster Wallace's Work and the Theory of Criticism in German Romanticism and Postmodernity

Hounded beyond all bounds of reason: Morality and the sublime in American literary naturalism	"A circle within a circle. A series of concentric circles": Cha's poetics of process in "Dictee" and other texts

Tragic investigations: The value of tragedy in American political and ethical life	Things, politics, and the future: Propositions for an American new

The naked Communist: Anti-Communist popular fiction, 1945--1963	Architect of excess: Robert Duncan and the American pragmatist sublime

The underside of politics: Postmodernism, political mythology and the Cold War	Becoming American in Sam Shepard's West and Asian American West

From emigration to immigration: A transpacific reading of Korean and Korean American literature and film	A nation unchurched: The Apocalyptic community in Massachusetts Bay, 1620--1713

Apocalyptic incarnations: The aesthetics of fear and catastrophe in the nineteenth-century literary imagination	Indians and the national unconscious: Discourses of nationalism and democracy in the United States and Bolivia, 1780--1850

Agencies and associations: Women writing Indian reform in nineteenth-century America	Beginning again then: History, progress, and American modernism

Over the river and through the woods: Miscegenation and the American experiment	A covenant in fiction: Legacies of Puritanism in the post-war American novel

"A song along the keyboard": Popular music and literature in postwar American culture	Landscape as poem: Poem as landscape. Space, place, and the visual in the poetry of Kamau Brathwaite and Susan Howe

Sidewalks of desire: Paradoxes of the postmodern flaneur in contemporary queer fiction	Queer comedy: Laughter and stigma; fear and rebellion in modern and contemporary drama

The rematerialization of poetry: From the bookbound to the digital	"And sympathy unites, whom fate divides": Reading and social bonds in early America

The poetics of exception: Contemporary North American poetry and the ghosts of relation	Tracing the maternal: Memory and writing in contemporary American women writers of the diaspora

The turn of the ear: Reading for speech in Henry James	The shadow and the veil: Imagining the self in nineteenth-century American literature

The virtues of our defects: Social critique in nineteenth-century American literature	Individualism and the sectional crisis: Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and their responses to slavery and racism

Unhomely spaces: US Latinas, empire, nation	Serviceable selves: Antislavery, autobiography, and the postidealist critique of moral reform, 1841--1901

The logic of earth: Nineteenth-century precursors to the poetics of Robert Duncan	The beginning of feminism in the South: An examination of southern women writing Civil War and Reconstruction novels, Augusta Jane Evans to Ellen Glasgow

'Vulnerability as armor': Embodied spiritual commitments of Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, and Toni Cade Bambara	Sublime responsibilities: Form as ethic

An ethics of waste: Twentieth-century American literature and excremental culture	American movement: Nature and civilization in Turner, Cooper, Twain, and Cather

Dark articulations: Nation and narration in the colonial and postcolonial gothic	Pure potential being as a new American subject in Herman Melville's "Bartleby" and Pierre

The hazard of sympathy, race, and gender in antebellum American women's writing	A fragile frame?: The Beat Generation and the development of postwar culture in America, 1945--1965

Material sites of modernism	Entropy and rest: Louis Zukofsky and the futures of poetry

Politics out of trauma: Asian American literature and the subject formation of Asian America	Embodied language: Deaf Theory, visual poetics, and American Modernism

Yearning for redemption: The lost cause narratives and violent hopes of the American South	Kant with Melville: Freedom, enthusiasm, and the novel

Paper cuts: The material page and the body of writing	Minding the gaps: A cannulated reading process developed through the works of bpNichol, Chris Ware, and Art Spiegelman

Modern vision and theatricality in the novels of Dreiser, Wharton, and Fitzgerald	Lockjaw of the brain: "Moby-Dick" and aesthetic experience, petrified

Aesthetics, Slavery, and Sentiment: The Discourses and Practices of Mastery in the American Renaissance	"The black tide of mud" Reference and transference in Ishmael Reed's "Mumbo Jumbo"

The politics of necessity: Negotiating the future in American literary naturalism	Human menageries: Freak show legacies in contemporary American literature and popular culture