Browsing Department of English Literature Graduate Theses by Author "Snediker, Michael"

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Compassion and its Contiguities: Witness Poetry and Metonymic Reponse

Tracy, Dale (2013-06-18)

I read witness poetry as a model of response to suffering. Compassion is feeling together with another. Compassion is, then, opposed to empathy’s feeling as another. Compassion can be better understood through the witness ...
The Procession and the Wayside in Nineteenth-Century American Writing

Gaboury, Jonathan (2012-08-03)

I argue that the procession is a deliberate, desirable, and destabilizing social formation. In scholarship of the American nineteenth century, the procession is lost among the clutter of other urban assemblies—crowds, ...