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Disillusioned Identity--Not So Funny: The Influence Of Other Selves In "Funnyhouse Of A Negro", Amanda Recupido '07
Disillusioned Identity--Not So Funny: The Influence Of Other Selves In "Funnyhouse Of A Negro", Amanda Recupido '07
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Living in a country that prides itself on its citizens' rich blend of cultural backgrounds, one may underestimate the uneasiness some have fitting into the greater society-an idea that is explored in "Funnyhouse of a Negro." The play depicts a damaged relationship between Negro-Sarah and the broader society; she becomes isolated through her other selves and enters into an altered state of reality that is established by her self-hatred generated from denial of her heritage and an inability to reach her aspiration of whiteness. Her self-hatred accumulates in direct relation to the surmounting influence of her self-created identities, causing her …
"You Find Us Much Changed": The Great War In To The Lighthouse, Megan Mondi '06
"You Find Us Much Changed": The Great War In To The Lighthouse, Megan Mondi '06
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Had human character not already changed "[on] or about December 1910" as Virginia Woolf claimed, it would have changed on June 28, 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo (qtd. in Bradbury, "Modem World" IS). Like Modernism, the Great War demanded a new kind of writing. Because old assumptions about the past did not fit the postwar world, the survivors of World War I-both veterans and civilians-struggled to find new ideologies about the world and human nature in the aftermath. Virginia Woolfs solution, set down in "Modem Fiction," was to convey the "luminous halo" of life (154). In …
Something Fishy Is Going On: The Misapplication Of Interpretive Communities In Literary Theory, Erie Martha Roberts '06
Something Fishy Is Going On: The Misapplication Of Interpretive Communities In Literary Theory, Erie Martha Roberts '06
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When the New Critical theoretical paradigm began to dissolve in the 1980s, the theories that challenged it were, in many ways, completely antithetical to the New Critic paradigm. These new theories legitimized that which the New Critic rejected as invalid. Marxists inserted ideology into theory; Feminists added women. Some of the more acute challenges came from reader-response critics, who supplanted the text for the reader. It is the reader, they argue, who holds interpretive power, not the text. However, reader-response critics have always been susceptible to the charge of relativism. How can one avoid complete subjectivity? How can one stabilize …
The Structure Of Interlace In Chrétien's Cligès, Katie Greenock '06
The Structure Of Interlace In Chrétien's Cligès, Katie Greenock '06
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It has been said that genre is a sprawling literary inclusion that defies definition. Although there are no hard and fast rules for categorization, it is possible to find conventions shared by a group of works, and while these are generally subjective, this is commonly how a work finds its generic "affiliation" (Fowler 265). Within the genre of romance, there are multiple examples of narratives that use interpolated or interwoven tales to create a cohesive narrative by their insertion in a larger plot or their connection to a series of shorter tales. The relation of disparate tales to one another, …
"No More Than A Heap Of Letters": The Cognitive Mapping Of Hypertext Literature, Molly M. Mclay '06
"No More Than A Heap Of Letters": The Cognitive Mapping Of Hypertext Literature, Molly M. Mclay '06
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If you have ever wanted to cut up a narrative and patch it back together in a new order; if you have ever thought about the implications of singular linearity on literature and the thought process; or if you have ever wondered if the mind might favor a more associative, linkage based form of reading literature, then you may know of hypertext. Through a discussion of criticism ranging from post-structuralism to constructivism, I will argue that hypertext literature, specifically Michael Joyce's afternoon, a story and Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, maps narratives like those the mind creates when forming and …
Eliot's Masterpiece And Downfall: New Poetics And The Waste Land, Lindsay Hawley '06
Eliot's Masterpiece And Downfall: New Poetics And The Waste Land, Lindsay Hawley '06
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In the early 1900s, T.S. Eliot aimed to create a poetry that relied on the creation of images rather than rhetoric, that denied complete unity of theme in favor of individual feelings, and that acted as a medium for the communication of the poet's subconscious. Additionally, he desired that after its creation poetry be criticized not in terms of its ideological content or meaning, but rather its artistic value and its ability to create emotion in the reader. Eliot's method both succeeded and failed in his poetic work, The Waste Land. Although this work aptly followed each of Eliot's …