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Reason, Conflict, And Psychological Haunting: Considering The Turn Of The Screw As An Adapation Of Wieland, Elisa A. Findlay
Reason, Conflict, And Psychological Haunting: Considering The Turn Of The Screw As An Adapation Of Wieland, Elisa A. Findlay
Theses and Dissertations
Recent decades have seen heightened interest in Charles Brockden Brown and his contribution to American literature. Scholars have worked to reclaim Brown from the margins of literary history, but he remains on the outskirts of literature classrooms and conversations. In an effort to further map Brown's influence and significance in the American literary tradition, I discuss his most famous novel, Wieland, in relation to Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. Brown has not previously been linked to James or The Turn of the Screw in any significant way, but the similarities between the texts provide plenty of …
"Not For An Age, But For All Time": Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies On Film, Kelly A. Rivers
"Not For An Age, But For All Time": Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies On Film, Kelly A. Rivers
Doctoral Dissertations
From Sam Taylor’s 1929 Taming of the Shrew to Kenneth Branagh’s 2000 Love’s Labour’s Lost, nine comedies have been filmed and released for the mainstream film market. Over the course of the twentieth century a filmic cycle developed. By the late 1990s, the films of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies included cinematic allusions to films produced and distributed in the 1930s. This cycle indicates an awareness of and appreciation for the earlier films. Such awareness proves that the contemporary films’ meaning and entertainment value are derived in part from the consciousness of belonging to a larger tradition of Shakespeare comedy on film. …
The Presence Of Jacques Lacan's Mirror Stage And Gaze In Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde And In Rouben Mamoulian's 1931 Film, Enoch Shane Smith
The Presence Of Jacques Lacan's Mirror Stage And Gaze In Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde And In Rouben Mamoulian's 1931 Film, Enoch Shane Smith
English Theses
For many years, theorists have turned to popular movies and books to help interpret the difficult principles of Jacques Lacan. However, one story that has gotten very little attention is Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and its derivative body of film adaptations. Both the novella and Rouben Mamoulian’s 1931 film are a small part of an intertextual body of work which contains scenes that play out the Lacanian principles of the mirror stage and the gaze very well. Since art imitates life, an in depth exploration of the way that these scenes play out …