Theaters Of Voice, Body, And Page: Beckett, Sophocles, Homer, Joyce,
2017
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Theaters Of Voice, Body, And Page: Beckett, Sophocles, Homer, Joyce, Barry A. Spence
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation makes a comparative study of Homeric Greek, Classical Greek, Modernist, and late modern works of storytelling with particular attention to strategies and techniques that achieve an exceptional degree of performative immediacy. As such, theater (the dramatic mode) forms a central concern, viewed as the fulfillment of direct performative embodiment—building on Aristotle’s idea of mimesis. An analysis examining multiple media demonstrates how oral epic poetry, Athenian tragedy, modern theater, the short story, and the novel can make use of seemingly disparate storytelling methods that share underlying mechanisms whose effects are decidedly theatrical. Four authors—Sophocles, Samuel Beckett, Homer, and …
Review Of Laura Engel And Elaine Mcgirr, Eds., Stage Mothers: Women, Work, And The Theater, 1660-1830,
2017
Carnegie Mellon University
Review Of Laura Engel And Elaine Mcgirr, Eds., Stage Mothers: Women, Work, And The Theater, 1660-1830, Kristina Straub
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
Stage Mothers is a collection of essays that complicate the binary between female professional and domestic mother, contributing to theater history and the history of female professionalization and maternity.
Review Of Kathryn E. Davis, Liberty In Jane Austen's Persuasion,
2017
Macquarie University
Review Of Kathryn E. Davis, Liberty In Jane Austen's Persuasion, Stephanie Russo
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
No abstract provided.
Review Of Locating London's Past And London Lives 1690 To 1800: Crime, Poverty And Social Policy In The Metropolis,
2017
Florida SouthWestern State College
Review Of Locating London's Past And London Lives 1690 To 1800: Crime, Poverty And Social Policy In The Metropolis, Shawn W. Moore
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
Review of Locating London's Past and London Lives 1690 to 1800: Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
Review Of Heteronormativity In Eighteenth-Century Literature And Culture,
2017
Elon University
Review Of Heteronormativity In Eighteenth-Century Literature And Culture, Kevin Bourque
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
No abstract provided.
Wwabd? Intersectional Futures In Digital History,
2017
Marymount University
Wwabd? Intersectional Futures In Digital History, Tonya L. Howe
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
WWABD: What would Aphra Behn—world traveler and spy, playwright and poet of scandal, innovator of novelistic forms—do, were she to imagine a future for digital humanities in period-specific scholarship? This essay outlines a vision for the DH section of Aphra Behn Online: An Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830. In particular, I see three important and interrelated places for development: theorizing the feminized labor of digital recovery, editing, and textual preparation; offering thoughtful and feminist approaches to digital pedagogy that are specific to the work we do in the period; and critically assessing the absences in existing …
Highest Form Of Public Scholarship,
2017
Wittenberg University
Highest Form Of Public Scholarship, Cynthia Richards
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
No abstract provided.
Women, Gender And The Arts: Intersections, Differences And Connections,
2017
Texas Christian University
Women, Gender And The Arts: Intersections, Differences And Connections, Mona Narain
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
No abstract provided.
What's In A Name? New Vision For Abo,
2017
University of South Florida
What's In A Name? New Vision For Abo, Laura Runge
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
Introduction to the new vision statements for the journal.
Virtus Vs. Virtue: The Role Of Honor In Shakespeare’S Coriolanus,
2017
University of Southern Mississippi
Virtus Vs. Virtue: The Role Of Honor In Shakespeare’S Coriolanus, John D. Rimann
The Catalyst
An analysis of Shakespeare's Coriolanus with an emphasis on the juxtaposition of the concepts of English Christian and Roman honor.
Was T. S. Eliot's "Tantalus Jar" Actually A Leyden Jar?,
2017
Syracuse University
Was T. S. Eliot's "Tantalus Jar" Actually A Leyden Jar?, Eric A. Schiff
Physics - All Scholarship
T. S. Eliot wrote the introduction to the volume of Ezra Pound’s Selected Poems that was published in 1928. In an important and oft-cited passage, he used the term “tantalus jar”. In the present paper, we show that this term was a coinage. It likely refers to the Leyden jar, which was an early device invented in the 1700s for storing electrical charge. Eliot may have become acquainted with it through The Golden Bough (1912), which he refers to in later work. We speculate as to whether Eliot’s coinage was intentional or not.
The Hermetic Enigma Of A Protean Poet: Gnosis And The Puritanical Error In Shakespeare's Venus And Adonis,
2017
The University of Western Ontario
The Hermetic Enigma Of A Protean Poet: Gnosis And The Puritanical Error In Shakespeare's Venus And Adonis, Luke Jennings
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This thesis offers a study of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis (and by extension Lucrece) that builds on Ted Hughes’s claim that they function as two halves of a binary whole.[1] Tracing a contrapuntal surface symmetry between the poems, Hughes argues that Venus and Adonis encodes the founding myth of Catholicism and Lucrece that of Puritanism; the poems together convey the great metaphysical war between these two oppositional forces that so haunted Elizabethan England.[2] Critics have dismissed Shakespeare’s mythological references as mere “poet’s argot,” yet I shall build on Hughes’s reading of this ‘argot’ as “a sacred symbolic …
Exorcising Power,
2017
City University of New York (CUNY)
Exorcising Power, John Jarzemsky
Theses and Dissertations
This paper theorizes that authors, in an act I have termed “literary exorcism,” project and expunge parts of their identities that are in conflict with the overriding political agenda of their texts, into the figure of the villain. Drawing upon theories of power put forth by Judith Butler, I argue that this sort of projection arises in reaction to dominant ideas and institutions, but that authors find ways to manipulate this process over time. By examining a broad cross-section of English-language literature over several centuries, this phenomenon and its evolution can be observed, as well as the means by which …
Taverns, Theaters, Publics: The Intertheatrical Politics Of Caroline Drama,
2017
City University of New York (CUNY)
Taverns, Theaters, Publics: The Intertheatrical Politics Of Caroline Drama, Allison Deutermann
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
What About Susan? Gender In Narnia,
2017
Gettysburg College
What About Susan? Gender In Narnia, Emma G. Schilling
Student Publications
Critics of C.S. Lewis argue that his misogyny is present in his portrayal of female characters. While Lewis himself was self-contradictory in his attitudes towards women, his depictions of female characters in The Chronicles of Narnia are both realistic and progressive. Both the male and female characters throughout the series demonstrate individual strengths and weaknesses that are not dependent on their gender. The criticism against Lewis focuses on his treatment of Susan, especially regarding her being the only child not to return to Narnia at the end of the series. Unlike what the critics argue, however, Susan is not excluded …
Neurasthenia, Robert Graves, And Poetic Therapy In The Great War,
2017
Gettysburg College
Neurasthenia, Robert Graves, And Poetic Therapy In The Great War, Juliette E. Sebock
Student Publications
Though Robert Graves is remembered primarily for his memoir, Good-bye to All That, his First World War poetry is equally relevant. Comparably to the more famous writings of Sassoon and Owen, Graves' war poems depict the trauma of the trenches, marked by his repressed neurasthenia (colloquially, shell-shock), and foreshadow his later remarkable poetic talents.
The Poetry Of Christina Rossetti And Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Same Femme, Different Fate,
2017
Gettysburg College
The Poetry Of Christina Rossetti And Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Same Femme, Different Fate, Carolyn A. Kirsch
Student Publications
Siblings Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti both lived during the Victorian era and wrote poetry which epitomizes the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Although they were related, these two poets were drastically different, and their differences are evident in their poetry. Dante Gabriel was infatuated with beautiful women and many of his poems express sexual desire, while Christina was intensely devoted to God and many of her poems provide moral instruction. However, these poets both make femme fatales the subjects of their poems “Body’s Beauty,” “The Card-Dealer,” “The World,” and “Babylon the Great.” This paper analyzes the different ways in which Dante …
Shame, Darwin, And Other Victorian Writers,
2017
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Shame, Darwin, And Other Victorian Writers, Aaron Khai Han Ho
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The dissertation explores shame and how shame shapes identities in the nineteenth century. While many scholars examine Darwin in terms of narrativity, how he attempts to counter the theological language in Victorian evolutionary discourses, and the influences he has on his contemporary writers, I argue that his writing on shame, which is part of his long argument on evolution, secularizes the concept of shame, opposing the notions of many Victorians that shame is God-given. Both God-given shame and secular shame are rooted in sexuality, as this dissertation will show, and thus shame, sexuality, and identity are interconnected. Using Darwin as …
Mel Gibson. Remembered Reading: Memory, Comics And Post-War Constructions Of British Girlhood. Leuven: Leuven Up, 2015.,
2017
University of Leuven
Mel Gibson. Remembered Reading: Memory, Comics And Post-War Constructions Of British Girlhood. Leuven: Leuven Up, 2015., Kristof Van Gansen
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Mel Gibson. Remembered Reading. Memory, Comics and Post-War Constructions of British Girlhood. Leuven: Leuven UP, 2015.
Beren And Lúthien (2017) By J.R.R. Tolkien, Edited By Christopher Tolkien,
2017
Valparaiso University
Beren And Lúthien (2017) By J.R.R. Tolkien, Edited By Christopher Tolkien, Douglas Charles Kane
Journal of Tolkien Research
Book review of Beren and Lúthien (2017) by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, reviewed by Douglas Charles Kane
