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Movin' On Up: Sodomy In Service In The White Devil, Kevin Brown, Joanne Diaz, Faculty Advisor
Movin' On Up: Sodomy In Service In The White Devil, Kevin Brown, Joanne Diaz, Faculty Advisor
John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference
Renaissance England was marked by change. From the late 15th century through the early 17th century, the social atmosphere in England was thrown out of order. The rise of the middle class gave people money who weren’t supposed to have money. This deteriorated the established hierarchies of the time, blurring the lines between classes. Critics of John Webster’s The White Devil (1612) have yet to address these issues in conjunction with the homoerotic tones throughout the play. Webster is using sodomy as a trope to illuminate how mobility in service is a destructive, chaotic force. By exploring these …
Only Dull Readers Escape: Navigating Contextual Frames In Stephen Crane's The Black Riders, Andrew Dorkin, Michael Theune, Faculty Advisor
Only Dull Readers Escape: Navigating Contextual Frames In Stephen Crane's The Black Riders, Andrew Dorkin, Michael Theune, Faculty Advisor
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Ulysses: The Human Bodyssey, Travis Williams, Daniel Terkla, Faculty Advisor, Kathleen O'Gorman, Faculty Advisor
Ulysses: The Human Bodyssey, Travis Williams, Daniel Terkla, Faculty Advisor, Kathleen O'Gorman, Faculty Advisor
John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference
"Among other things my book is the epic of the human body." -James Joyce Ulysses by James Joyce is a paragon of modernist literature. Taking place over the course of a single day, June 16, 1904, Joyce allegorically retells Homer's The Odyssey for the modern age. In a chart published in Stuart Gilbert's James Joyce's Ulysses: a Study, each of the eighteen episodes of Ulysses are shown to correspond to an episode or character of The Odyssey and, with the exception of three episodes, to a specific organ of the human body. Using this systematic diagram as my guide, …