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That This Silent Tomb Might Speak: History As Poetic Experience In Three Medieval English Poems, Michael A. Brown Jr. Jan 2023

That This Silent Tomb Might Speak: History As Poetic Experience In Three Medieval English Poems, Michael A. Brown Jr.

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


Poetics Of Finitude: Time And Death In The Poetry Of R.M. Rilke And T.S. Eliot, Isabel James Greene Jan 2023

Poetics Of Finitude: Time And Death In The Poetry Of R.M. Rilke And T.S. Eliot, Isabel James Greene

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


The Other Side Of Silence: The Productive Limits Of Human Awareness And The Novel, Aven Elaina Williams Jan 2022

The Other Side Of Silence: The Productive Limits Of Human Awareness And The Novel, Aven Elaina Williams

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


How To Be An Artist: An Investigation In Dialogue With Rainer Maria Rilke And Virginia Woolf, Amber Nicole Junker Jan 2020

How To Be An Artist: An Investigation In Dialogue With Rainer Maria Rilke And Virginia Woolf, Amber Nicole Junker

Senior Projects Spring 2020

In 1929, Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet was published, a text which quickly became one of his most renowned works. 1932 saw the publication of Virginia Woolf’s “A Letter to a Young Poet,” a text which is not held by critics as one of her best. Yet Woolf’s letter should not be ignored, as it allows for a comparison between herself and Rilke, two modernists who are rarely put into conversation. Though this comparison originates from the surface level—the curious similarity between the titles of these works—I have found that it is their nearness in content that …


The Game At The Green Chapel: A Game-Oriented Perspective On Chivalry In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, Joshua David Maldonado Jan 2020

The Game At The Green Chapel: A Game-Oriented Perspective On Chivalry In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, Joshua David Maldonado

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Like many things in life, the very idea of a game contradicts itself. A game is so many conflicting things at once. All in good fun, but with the focused goal of winning. A closed space with no consequences, yet personally affecting outside its boundaries. Often playful, yet deathly serious. The games we make and play often have a hand in deciding our identities. What kinds of games do we play, and how often? Who do we play them with? How seriously do we take them, and how do we react to certain outcomes? Do we learn from our mistakes …


Floral Personification In James Joyce’S A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Noah Z. Gichan Jan 2020

Floral Personification In James Joyce’S A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Noah Z. Gichan

Senior Projects Spring 2020

In Richard Ellmann's influential biography on James Joyce he describes Joyce's transformation from a pious schoolboy to a secular modernist artist as a type of “transmutation.” When it comes to Joyce’s fiction this transformation translates to a famous moment when Stephen Dedalus describes a “magical moment” where he will “meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld.” Once this moment happens Stephen will have become “transfigured.” While there are many such moments of transfiguration, there is one such moment when Stephen chooses the vocation of the artist and describes his soul as an “opening …


Penman Contra Patriarch: Reimagining The Central Conflict Of Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Gabriel Beauregard Egset Jan 2020

Penman Contra Patriarch: Reimagining The Central Conflict Of Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Gabriel Beauregard Egset

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


Narrative Control In Chaucer's Troilus And Criseyde, Liam Ainslie Mayo Jan 2020

Narrative Control In Chaucer's Troilus And Criseyde, Liam Ainslie Mayo

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


The Greater Torment: Religious And Secular Desire In The Poetry And Criticism Of T.S. Eliot, Katie Buonanno Jan 2019

The Greater Torment: Religious And Secular Desire In The Poetry And Criticism Of T.S. Eliot, Katie Buonanno

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


'A Most Splendid Soldier': The Life Of My Great-Grandfather Major General George Bruce, Orson Fry Jan 2017

'A Most Splendid Soldier': The Life Of My Great-Grandfather Major General George Bruce, Orson Fry

Senior Projects Spring 2017

When he was twenty-six years old, my grandfather John Aspinall discovered that his real father was a soldier who had fought and been decorated in both world wars. Thrilled, he began to track his father down and catch up on the lost years. Being a great raconteur, stories at once began trickling down the family line about this illustrious figure ‘Bruce’, each one more wonderful than the last. But a lot remained missing: who was this young man who had picked up four wounds on the Western Front and won medals for his leadership and gallantry? Who later commanded 28,000 …


The Temptation Of Sherlock Holmes: Aesthetics, Expectations, And The Gothic, Sarah M. Davin Jan 2016

The Temptation Of Sherlock Holmes: Aesthetics, Expectations, And The Gothic, Sarah M. Davin

Senior Projects Spring 2016

This thesis will be concerned with challenging the preconceptions of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels and stories, and how different readings of the text are revealed when those preconceptions are challenged. While the character of Sherlock Holmes is often considered as very scientific in nature, this thesis will attempt to challenge this, suggesting alternative readings of Holmes that might situate the character within a literary tradition rather than pretending that the Holmes character can somehow be psychoanalyzed or that his work as a detective in a text somehow directly interacted with the real world. By focusing on the …


Where Imagination Runs Riot: A Defense Of Modern Fantasy, Annarose D. Stewart Jan 2016

Where Imagination Runs Riot: A Defense Of Modern Fantasy, Annarose D. Stewart

Senior Projects Spring 2016

This project serves as a defense of Modern Fantasy as a worthy topic for academic consideration.


Time, Distance, And Epic Memory In The Tempest, Andrew Nathan Kaplan Jan 2013

Time, Distance, And Epic Memory In The Tempest, Andrew Nathan Kaplan

Senior Projects Spring 2013

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


The Pull Of The Earth: Thomas Hardy, Willa Cather And Writing The Land, Eliza Holmes Jan 2012

The Pull Of The Earth: Thomas Hardy, Willa Cather And Writing The Land, Eliza Holmes

Senior Projects Spring 2012

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


"I Is An Other": An Exploration Of The Development Of Childhood And Adolescent Self-Concept, Jessica Lebovits Jan 2012

"I Is An Other": An Exploration Of The Development Of Childhood And Adolescent Self-Concept, Jessica Lebovits

Senior Projects Spring 2012

A multidisciplinary project that combines original empirical research with an analysis of two Modernist novels, The Waves by Virginia Woolf and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.


Poor Old Horse: Tragicomedy And The Good Soldier, Matthew Christian Jan 2011

Poor Old Horse: Tragicomedy And The Good Soldier, Matthew Christian

Senior Projects Spring 2011

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.