* Apologies should files automatically download to your computer upon opening. Essays Outsiders, Outcasts, and Outlaws: Postmodernism and Rock Music as Countercultural Forces in Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet (M.A. thesis in English @ Kansas State University, 2007. Includes in-depth analysis of the Beach Boys' Smile and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper albums and a new interview with noted Beach Boys author and film documentarian David Leaf. Can also be found at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/8851) Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, and the Beach Boys' Smile: Cubist Aesthetics, Modular Democracy, and the Writerliness of the Unreleased Masterpiece From "Romantic Gospel" to "Adequate Response": Trading Essentialism for Audience Empowerment in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and the Beach Boys' Smile The Issue of Intellectual Property in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Don DeLillo's Great Jones St. The Postmodern Disposition Toward Originality in Live Performance v. Recorded Text Faceless in the Crowd: The Dangers of Lost Individuality through Group Designation in John Sayles' Hombres Armados and Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan Uses of WWI Imagery in the Late 60s Pop Music of the Zombies and the Royal Guardsmen Album Reviews Review of Fourward by The/Return, Kalki Records 2011 -- 1/1/12 Views on Illegal Music Downloading DHFR Statement on Intellectual Property
