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From Court To Collar: Post-Elizabethan Poetics And The Submissive Stance, Timothy J. Duffy
From Court To Collar: Post-Elizabethan Poetics And The Submissive Stance, Timothy J. Duffy
Fenwick Scholar Program
This project was created out of one key observation about the English Renaissance: that the poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth-centuries had to deal with social pressures, influences, and expectations far more directly than their eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth-century, or contemporary counterparts. The struggle to establish an individual and innovative identity was as much a motivation for these poets as for any artists, yet the unique political circumstances that surrounded them called for a clever strategy, one inspired by continental models, the taking on of the submissive stance.
James Joyce And His Other Language: The "Abnihilization Of The Etym", Lisa J. Fluet '96
James Joyce And His Other Language: The "Abnihilization Of The Etym", Lisa J. Fluet '96
Fenwick Scholar Program
This thesis proposes to say something new about Joyce's female characters that would in a sense redeem Joyce from the sharp criticism his texts encounter from feminist theorists. To achieve this, I have worked to dismantle the notion of literal, primary-word meanings to expose the etymon's origin from nothing. By tracing points in various works of Joyce where the word, the basis for most patriarchal literary representation, is not revered, but instead is dismantled, proven inadequate, and ultimately "abnihilizated," I attempt to demonstrate that female characters kept outside active participation with the word warrant serious consideration, as harbingers of a …