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The Man In The Tree: The Fantastic As A Bridge Between The Ideal And The Real, Weber Griffiths
The Man In The Tree: The Fantastic As A Bridge Between The Ideal And The Real, Weber Griffiths
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This thesis explores the effect of genre on storytelling, specifically the effect of the Fantastic in creating, within narrative, intrinsic meaning. In life and fiction, there exists a gap between what is ideal and what is real, a gap of mortality. Human’s struggle with this gap results in many forms of creation and meaning making. The Fantastic, as defined by literary critic Tzvetan Todorov, seeks to bridge this gap. In this examination, we take Todorov’s literary critique and apply it to four films of modern fantasy, showcasing the language and mechanics of the genre and its effectual way of bridging …
Poetic Maturity, Identity, And A Troublesome Future In “Personal Helicon”, Taylor Bitton
Poetic Maturity, Identity, And A Troublesome Future In “Personal Helicon”, Taylor Bitton
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
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Seamus Heaney And The Role Of The Political Poet, Alex Coleman
Seamus Heaney And The Role Of The Political Poet, Alex Coleman
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
"Was Is Not Is": "Give Unto Them Beauty For Ashes" (Isaiah 61.1-3), Katey Workman
"Was Is Not Is": "Give Unto Them Beauty For Ashes" (Isaiah 61.1-3), Katey Workman
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
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Humorous Spaces And Serious Magic In William Baldwin’S Beware The Cat, Ashley Jeanette Ecklund
Humorous Spaces And Serious Magic In William Baldwin’S Beware The Cat, Ashley Jeanette Ecklund
Quidditas
When spaces transform in William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat, the transition is marked with humor, consistently signaling magic to follow. As an amalgamation of folklore, including magic that manifests around, for, and through cats, Baldwin’s work offers adventure, laughter, and danger alike. Some cats are diabolical, worshiping or holding the soul of a witch; however, their wit constitutes a jocular contrast to that of our interior narrator, Maister Streamer, whose quotation above demonstrates a serious misunderstanding of St. Augustine’s beliefs. Though Beware The Cat was published at the start of the early modern period, the folklore it contains speaks …