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An Annotated Critical Edition Of "The Show Folks!" By Pierce Egan, Audrey Saxton
An Annotated Critical Edition Of "The Show Folks!" By Pierce Egan, Audrey Saxton
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This is a critical edition of Pierce Egan’s 1831 Poem, “The Show Folks!” It includes an introduction written which grounds Egan’s poem in the tradition of Victorian England’s burlesque theater and circus acts. It also includes selected footnotes and appendices in order to further explore the text. At the end is included a list of sources for further reading and research regarding Pierce Egan and “The Show Folks!”
An Annotated Critical Edition Of Wild Mike And His Victim By Florence Montgomery, Kristen Evans
An Annotated Critical Edition Of Wild Mike And His Victim By Florence Montgomery, Kristen Evans
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This paper is a critical edition of Wild Mike and His Victim by Florence Montgomery, a novel first published in 1875. This critical edition includes a critical introduction, footnotes, and appendices, as well as the original text.
All The Light We Choose Not To See, Hayley C. Campbell
All The Light We Choose Not To See, Hayley C. Campbell
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Throughout history, society's winners have selectively altered history to best fit the needs of a given population or political regime. Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See seeks to uncover the truth about selective remembrance and blindness as his characters traverse the complicated European landscape of WWII. This paper seeks to unlock this conversation that Doerr introduces through his 2015 novel.
The Shadowland Of Shakespeare: Christianity And The Carnival, Micah E. Cozzens
The Shadowland Of Shakespeare: Christianity And The Carnival, Micah E. Cozzens
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The moral complexity of Shakespeare’s work is created by balancing carnival elements such as subversion of authority, plays within plays, and ascension of thrones, with Christian elements such as repentance, the supernatural, and forgiveness. Far from being didactic or moralizing, Shakespeare’s plays—specifically King Lear, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Hamlet—frequently inhabit an ethical shadowland, in which right becomes wrong and wrong becomes right. This intricacy renders even the simplest of his plots an interesting exploration of human consciousness. But Shakespeare never exalts Christianity at the expense of the carnival nor the carnival at the expense of Christianity—rather, …
Dangerous Fictions In Shakespeare's Richard Ii, Terence D. Wride
Dangerous Fictions In Shakespeare's Richard Ii, Terence D. Wride
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In Shakespeare's Richard II, Shakespeare deposes monarchy by exposing the dangerous fictions of The King’s Two Bodies, Carl Schmitt's definition of sovereignty as expounded in Political Theology, and the English tradition of the divine right of kings and royal prerogative. By examining Ernst Kantorowicz's explication of the king's body politic and body natural as found his book The King's Two Bodies, I argue that Shakespeare critiques the popular political theology of his time by exposing the negative political repercussions of an ill-defined body politic. What past scholars have overlooked and failed to do is provide a concrete definition of …