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Oscar Wilde And The Invention Of A Life-Creating Fiction, Michael Lackey
Oscar Wilde And The Invention Of A Life-Creating Fiction, Michael Lackey
English Publications
When discussing the origins, rise, and contemporary legitimization of biofiction, Oscar Wilde is a crucial figure. This is not just because he authored one of the first and most important reflections about the aesthetic form, but also because he became the subject of many biofictions, most notably Desmond Hall's I Give You Oscar Wilde: A Biographical Novel {1965), Peter Ackroyd's The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983), Louis Edwards's Oscar Wilde Discovers America (2003), and Colm Toibin's The Master (2004). Some, of course, would question and challenge my decision to include Toibin's novel in this list, as many would say …
Physicality And Spirituality In Riddle 26, Corinne Mccumber
Physicality And Spirituality In Riddle 26, Corinne Mccumber
Honors Capstone Projects
Riddle 26, an otherwise-unnamed poem in the 10th-century Old English collection known as The Exeter Book, suggests tension and interplay between its physical form and its meaning. Scholars accept that the riddle’s speaker describes the creation of a religious manuscript, but while physical processes drive the poem’s narrative structure, the speaker ends by focusing on the knowledge that the described religious text contains. As John Hines summarizes, the Old English riddles “demonstrate a keen eye for and dramatically imaginative appreciation of the real world in which the authors and readers lived: both its natural and its manufactured components” (974). …
The Agency Aesthetics Of Biofiction In The Age Of Postmodern Confusion, Michael Lackey
The Agency Aesthetics Of Biofiction In The Age Of Postmodern Confusion, Michael Lackey
English Publications
Olga Tokarczuk, Rosa Montero, Laurent Binet, Anchee Min, Colm Toibin, Colum McCann, Stephanus Muller, Emma Donoghue, David Ebershoff, Chika Unigwe, and Hannah Kent are just some of the global luminaries whose interviews are contained in this new book of conversations with contemporary biographical novelists, which Bloomsbury released on October 18th. Here is the introduction to the book, which should give a clear sense of the interviews.
Defining The Genre Of Environmental Literature, Liam Kiehne
Defining The Genre Of Environmental Literature, Liam Kiehne
Honors Capstone Projects
Environmentalists try to make the world a better place, each in their own way. This is particularly true of the arts, in which sculptors and painters and film enthusiasts try to capture modern struggles within their respective mediums. This is less obvious in written works of fiction, where anthropomorphic narratives are dominant; in fact, it’s difficult to imagine a novel that could be wholly dedicated to the natural world’s story. But writers still want to contribute to environmentalist causes in their medium. How can this be done? To find out, I decided to read four works of fiction which I …
The Ethical Benefits And Challenges Of Biofiction For Children, Michael Lackey
The Ethical Benefits And Challenges Of Biofiction For Children, Michael Lackey
English Publications
No abstract provided.
When In Spain: Intercultural Competence In Hemingway’S The Sun Also Rises, Alexa Barta
When In Spain: Intercultural Competence In Hemingway’S The Sun Also Rises, Alexa Barta
Honors Capstone Projects
An analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises through the lenses of modern-day intercultural competence studies.
Female Insanity: The Portrayal Of A Murderess In Alias Grace, Maria Medlyn
Female Insanity: The Portrayal Of A Murderess In Alias Grace, Maria Medlyn
Honors Capstone Projects
In this paper, I analyze Margaret Atwood’s biographical novel Alias Grace which is based on the life of Grace Marks, a servant who was convicted of murdering her employer and his housekeeper. I use feminist and psychological perspectives to recount Atwood’s interpretation of the 1800s social hierarchy and the use of labels in controlling individuals. First, I explain the severe oppression of women in the 19th century. For example, women in this era were financially controlled by men, held to high moral standards, expected to be chaste yet submissive, and restricted to domestic roles. Next, I describe the changing …
The Scandal Of Jewish Rage In William Styron's Sophie's Choice, Michael Lackey
The Scandal Of Jewish Rage In William Styron's Sophie's Choice, Michael Lackey
English Publications
Scholars have suggested that William Styron’s Nathan in Sophie’s Choice is insane or depraved—a character whose motivations lack rationality at best and are unambiguously evil at worst. Elie Wiesel, the author of the famous Holocaust memoir Night, has been very critical of Styron’s novel. Ironically, by using the Yiddish version of Wiesel’s memoir Night, it is possible to demonstrate that Nathan’s behavior is more “logical” than scholars have previously understood. This approach offers us a new way of reading and interpreting Styron’s novel by clarifying how Nathan’s character functions within a well-established tradition of sociopolitical outrage about racial oppression, …
An Anthropological Exploration Of Latino Immigrant Identity In Contemporary Migration Literature, Laura Hoppe
An Anthropological Exploration Of Latino Immigrant Identity In Contemporary Migration Literature, Laura Hoppe
Honors Capstone Projects
Immigration remains one of the hottest topics of debate in the United States. As a country constructed by immigrants and home to over one million newly admitted immigrants each year, the immigration phenomenon has contributed extensively to the multiculturalism seen in the United States today. While many immigrant groups have historically lived in marginalization, the 21st century has proven especially difficult for Latino immigrants--those from Spanish and Portuguese-speaking Latin America. As the current largest immigrant group, Latinos have received a lot of backlash and discrimination in the U.S. Many of these immigrants, whether they immigrate to the U.S. temporarily or …
Prefacing Texts, Authorizing Authors, And Constructing Selves: The Preface As Autobiographical Space, Julie A. Eckerle
Prefacing Texts, Authorizing Authors, And Constructing Selves: The Preface As Autobiographical Space, Julie A. Eckerle
English Publications
The preface is a unique textual space, one that demands very particular kind of rhetoric because of its generic constraints and yet allows ample room for an author's manipulation and creativity. Perhaps the best articulation of the prefaces paradoxical nature appears in Barbara Johnson's playful response to Jacques Derrida's Dissemination. The autobiographical details summarized here paradoxically depict Speght as the heroic defender of all people and, simultaneously, a woman who clearly knows her place. In her work on French Renaissance women writers, Anne R. Larsen reveals the value of this kind of study: Early women writers exploited the prefaces marginality …
The Rise And Legitimization Of The American Biographical Novel, Michael Lackey
The Rise And Legitimization Of The American Biographical Novel, Michael Lackey
English Publications
No abstract provided.
Introduction: Better Men, Bradley Deane
Introduction: The Rise Of The American Biographical Novel, Michael Lackey
Introduction: The Rise Of The American Biographical Novel, Michael Lackey
English Publications
No abstract provided.
Virginia Woolf And British Russophilia, Michael Lackey
Virginia Woolf And British Russophilia, Michael Lackey
English Publications
Roberta Rubenstein convincingly demonstrates that England was infatuated with all things Russian between the years 1912 and 1922. These were some of the most formative years in the development of Woolf ’s writing and thinking, and consequently, Rubenstein argues that prominent Russian writers heavily influenced Woolf the writer and Woolf the critic. Given the degree to which Russian writers influenced Woolf in particular and England more generally, Rubenstein suggests that the Russian influence had a decisive impact in determining the shape of British Modernism.
Intertextuality And The Collaborative Construction Of Narrative: J.M. Coetzee's Foe, Tisha Turk
Intertextuality And The Collaborative Construction Of Narrative: J.M. Coetzee's Foe, Tisha Turk
English Publications
No abstract provided.
Imperial Boyhood: Piracy And The Play Ethic, Bradley Deane
Imperial Boyhood: Piracy And The Play Ethic, Bradley Deane
English Publications
Representations of perpetual boyhood came to fascinate the late Victorians, partly because such images could naturalize a new spirit of imperial aggression and new policies of preserving power. This article traces the emergence of this fantasy through a series of stories about the relationship of the boy and the pirate, figures whose opposition in mid-Victorian literature was used to articulate the moral legitimacy of colonialism, but who became doubles rather than antitheses in later novels, such as R. L. Stevenson's Treasure Island and Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim. Masculine worth needed no longer to be measured by reference to transcendent, …
Flarr Pages #67: The Understanding Of The Concept Fact In Modern English (The Research Is Based On The English-Language Textbooks), Roza Rokhvadze
Flarr Pages #67: The Understanding Of The Concept Fact In Modern English (The Research Is Based On The English-Language Textbooks), Roza Rokhvadze
FLARR Pages
Linguistics in a narrow sense is always interested in language. The language can be observed from different levels: level of text, sentence and word. These levels in their tern are considered from the viewpoint of pragmatics, semantics, cognitive meaning, syntax, grammar, etc. The word, according to Ferdinand de Saussure, is the smallest speech unit It seems to be nothing confusing with words, as their meanings are given in dictionaries and their syntactical functions are defined even by Aristotle. But we know that language has its dynamic process - it changes in all aspects. With the technical progress and cutting-edge society …
A.S. Byatt's "Morpho Eugenia": Prolegomena To Any Future Theory, Michael Lackey
A.S. Byatt's "Morpho Eugenia": Prolegomena To Any Future Theory, Michael Lackey
English Publications
The traditional view holds that love and knowledge are only possible if a person can transcend the human—love is that which overcomes biological urges like lust, while knowledge is that which gets beyond self-interested perception. In the nineteenth century, when theories about anthropomorphism came to dominate, the traditional views of love and knowledge were exposed as incoherent. In "Morpho Eugenia," A.S. Byatt brilliantly dramatizes how these intellectual developments impacted the lives of a wide range of nineteenth-century characters—some sunk into nihilistic despair, some became dogmatic scientists, some became tortured existentialists, and some tried to build a new and more reasonable …
Kipling's Poems, Michael Lackey
Kipling's Poems, Michael Lackey
English Publications
In this 1909 lecture, E.M. Forster develops a critique of Kipling, alternately praising and criticizing the Nobel Laureate's political agenda as well as his aesthetic vision. This lecture is extremely valuable in that it gives us insight into an early critique of Kipling thepoet and Kipling the man, but it is also valuable insofar as it sheds light on Forster's method and approach to interpreting poetry as a literary andpolitical critic.
E.M. Forster's Lecture "Kipling's Poems": Negotiating The Modernist Shift From "The Authoritarian Stock-In Trade" To An Aristocratic Democracy, Michael Lackey
E.M. Forster's Lecture "Kipling's Poems": Negotiating The Modernist Shift From "The Authoritarian Stock-In Trade" To An Aristocratic Democracy, Michael Lackey
English Publications
In 1909, Forster delivered a scathing lecture about Rudyard Kipling, which outlines the political dangers implicit in Kipling's aesthetic. This introduction to the lecture briefly examines Forster's critique of Kipling's politics and aesthetic found in both the lecture and subsequent reviews of Kipling's work. Central to Forster's critique is his conviction that contemporary culture is and should be moving from authoritarian to democratic political systems. While Forster acknowledges Kipling's power and skill as a writer, he suggests that Kipling's aesthetic genius belongs to an earlier stage in the world's development, when authoritarian political models dominated. Within Forster's aristocratic democracy, Kipling's …
Genetic Memory And Hermaphroditism: Trans-Realism In Eugenides's Middlesex, Edith Borchardt
Genetic Memory And Hermaphroditism: Trans-Realism In Eugenides's Middlesex, Edith Borchardt
Faculty Working Papers
No abstract provided.
Modernist Anti-Philosophicalism And Virginia Woolf's Critique Of Philosophy, Michael Lackey
Modernist Anti-Philosophicalism And Virginia Woolf's Critique Of Philosophy, Michael Lackey
English Publications
Woolf was one of many modernists who led an assault on philosophy. Given her anti-philosophical orientation, those scholars who use philosophy to interpret Woolf, I argue, are implicitly at odds with her aesthetic. Crucial to my argument is Woolf's conception of what I refer to as the semiotic unconscious, which predetermines the conceptual systems we use to systematize our experiences of the world. Based on my findings, I suggest an alternative frame for understanding Woolf's treatment of philosophy and, more generally, modernist anti-philosophicalism. Instead of assuming that philosophy signifies intellectual depth, as many scholars do, I suggest approaching Woolf, as …
D.H. Lawrence's Women In Love: A Tale Of The Modernist Psyche, The Continental "Concept," And The Aesthetic Experience, Michael Lackey
D.H. Lawrence's Women In Love: A Tale Of The Modernist Psyche, The Continental "Concept," And The Aesthetic Experience, Michael Lackey
English Publications
No abstract provided.
Conrad Scholarship Under New-Millennium Western Eyes, Michael Lackey
Conrad Scholarship Under New-Millennium Western Eyes, Michael Lackey
English Publications
No abstract provided.
Atheism And Sadism: Nietzsche And Woolf On Post-God Discourse, Michael Lackey
Atheism And Sadism: Nietzsche And Woolf On Post-God Discourse, Michael Lackey
English Publications
In the western world, twentieth-century literature has been an extended experience of atheism and sadism. Lest this claim not seem dogmatic enough, let me put it differently, more boldly: this century has been an attempt to ingest and digest Nietzsche, to cannibalize the Übermensch philologist, first in order to comprehend the strength and depth of his vision, but second to enact his philosophy. Were this a standard academic essay, I would define atheism and sadism, identify and analyze a few texts that best corroborate my thesis, and draw some conclusions about the twentieth century. But sadism and atheism are not …
Criminal Artists And Artisans In Mysteries By E.T.A. Hoffman, Dorothy Sayers, Ernesto Sábato, Patrick Süskind, And Thomas Harris, Edith Borchardt
Criminal Artists And Artisans In Mysteries By E.T.A. Hoffman, Dorothy Sayers, Ernesto Sábato, Patrick Süskind, And Thomas Harris, Edith Borchardt
German Publications
Much has been written on the subject of genius and neurosis, and psychobiographies of the artistic personality are numerous; however, literature on the artist as criminal is scarce. In real life, there are probably no artists who murder for their art or whose art is murder. In literature, such figures are also relatively rare. There are, however, several fictional artists with psychopathic disorders that cause them to murder. E.T.A. Hoffmann's Cardillac in Das Fraulein von Scuderi is a goldsmith in seventeenth-century Paris who kills the recipients of the jewelry he creates. Loder in "The Abominable History of the Man with …