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Not (Just) Donne: Alchemical Transmutation As Immortality In Shakespeare’S Sonnets, Brandi L. Moody
Not (Just) Donne: Alchemical Transmutation As Immortality In Shakespeare’S Sonnets, Brandi L. Moody
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Shakespeare, in his sonnets, employs alchemical references in the sonnets that ultimately fail, in order to show how fruitless it is to pursue immortality. The poet urges the fair friend, who himself is like the self-consuming ouroboros, to father a child that will continue his legacy and allow the fair friend to live on via the child. Language associated with the child is alchemical, referencing distillation, vials, flasks, and the renewing power of the philosopher’s stone. The dark lady, the opposite of the fair friend in every way, can be explained as fulfilling alchemy’s union of opposites needed for a …
Questing The Beast: From Malory To Milton, Malorie A. Sponseller
Questing The Beast: From Malory To Milton, Malorie A. Sponseller
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The Questing Beast is a Medieval creature that has received little scholarly attention. Because of her labile nature, she is difficult to identify and therefore challenging to study. When previously analyzed, she has been considered only in her Medieval context. By comparing the Questing Beast from Perlesvaus, the Post-Vulgate Cycle, and the Prose Tristan, four identifying characteristics can be found: she is symbolic, she is multi-formed, she is a mother that gives birth, and she produces a barking noise most often made by her unborn young. Of these four signs, the last is the most prevalent and identifiable. …
Creating Socialization And Empathy Through Athletics In Chris Crutcher’S Fiction, Joseph P. Korwin
Creating Socialization And Empathy Through Athletics In Chris Crutcher’S Fiction, Joseph P. Korwin
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This thesis aims to highlight the ways participation in athletics promote greater physical, psychological, and social health for adolescents in Chris Crutcher’s fiction. In his novels, Ironman and Whale Talk, published in 1995 and 2001 respectively, Crutcher uses athletically minded protagonists and the teams which form around them to display the benefits of being involved in athletics, especially team sports. In Ironman, a mandatory high school anger management group embodies all the aspects of team support and camaraderie in their attempt to assist Bo in achieving his athletic goals. Crutcher’s Whale Talk depicts the ways that official team …
Eye For The Gap: Frenzy, Liberty, And The Nietszchean Chorus In Conor Mcpherson's The Weir And Shining City, Frances Krieg
Eye For The Gap: Frenzy, Liberty, And The Nietszchean Chorus In Conor Mcpherson's The Weir And Shining City, Frances Krieg
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This study situates The Weir and Shining City by Conor McPherson as embodying elements of Dionysian aesthetics as elucidated by Friedrich Nietzsche. Working through the lenses of Samuel Beckett’s linguistic philosophy and the premium of theater as established by Nietzsche, Artaud, and Brecht, the aim of this paper is to demonstrate how McPherson pierces the boundaries of language in drama by establishing his audience as chorus. Background information on Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy and McPherson’s own comments on the plays are included with the research on the plays themselves. This work articulates the chorus itself but also the choral, …
Blood As A Binding Agent In Cormac Mccarthy's _The Crossing_, Erin M. Martin
Blood As A Binding Agent In Cormac Mccarthy's _The Crossing_, Erin M. Martin
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In Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing, one of the most important aspects of blood is the way it connects Billy Parham to his family and the world around him. Billy's actions are driven largely by his desire to maintain his moral code and his connections to nature and his maternal grandmother. His link to nature begins with an encounter with a wolf pack and continues with an attempt to return a she-wolf to her homeland. The connection to his grandmother provides him with the means to do so when he crosses the border from New Mexico into Mexico. Billy's ability …
“For He Contained Within Him A Largenesss Of Spirit:” The Duality Of Billy’S Spirit, The Hope For Humanity In Cormac Mccarthy’S Border Trilogy, Jessica Y. Spearman
“For He Contained Within Him A Largenesss Of Spirit:” The Duality Of Billy’S Spirit, The Hope For Humanity In Cormac Mccarthy’S Border Trilogy, Jessica Y. Spearman
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This paper focuses on the contradictory merging of the differentiating forces that drive the natural world and the people in McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, with the most prominent being Billy’s persistent naïve view of the world as he grows from a boy to a man on his journey. The Border Trilogy chronicles the coming of age journey of John Grady Cole and Billy Parham. The second installment, The Crossing, focuses on the various dichotomies that construct the natural world—all of which are mirrored in Billy’s relationships with the mystical she-wolf, his brother, Boyd, the various people that he meets on his …
Narrating Literary Transnationalism In Zake Smith And Dave Eggers, Nelson Shake
Narrating Literary Transnationalism In Zake Smith And Dave Eggers, Nelson Shake
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This work argues for a greater reception of transnationalism in literary studies. Though the steady rise of transnationalism has already been studied in many areas of academia, literary studies has only begun to pay attention to it, and scholars appear to remain largely rooted in postcolonial or nationalistic thought. Refusing to read current texts through the lens of transnationalism hinders the literary academy's relevancy since creative writers today are addressing changes to the national structure in their fictive works. This study suggests why a new theoretical construct is needed to understand those texts, and it uses two representative examples: Zadie …
Nothing More Delicious: Food As Temptation In Children's Literature, Mary A. Stephens
Nothing More Delicious: Food As Temptation In Children's Literature, Mary A. Stephens
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Although many critics and theorists, including Roland Barthes, have discussed food in literature, little attention has been paid to the food-as-temptation story in children’s literature. In Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Neil Gaiman’s Coraline food is used as temptation for child protagonists, a tool to lure them into doing evil deeds or being generally mischievous. Some characters, like Alice, act as the tempters as well as the tempted, while others, like Edmund, wait passively for rescue. Coraline breaks this …
"What Shall We Use To Fill The Empty Spaces?": Displacement In Frank Norris's Mcteague, Jennifer Bugna Lambeth
"What Shall We Use To Fill The Empty Spaces?": Displacement In Frank Norris's Mcteague, Jennifer Bugna Lambeth
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Author's abstract: McTeague, Frank Norris's Naturalistc text written in 1899, depicts the corruption of a California couple due to influences outside of their control. In positioning Trina McTeague as a woman unable to identify with either of the two major feminine ideologies of the day, the Angel in the House and the New Woman, this paper examines her identity as conflicted because of this lack of autonomy. Her failure to identify herself leads to a mental break that is reflected in the domestic spaces she inhabits. The places she lives each become smaller and dirtier reflecting her diminished mental capacity. …
Scouting For A Tomboy: Gender-Bending Behaviors In Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, Laura Hakala
Scouting For A Tomboy: Gender-Bending Behaviors In Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, Laura Hakala
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In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch challenges gender stereotypes in her determination to remain a tomboy. Scout interacts with five parental characters (Atticus, Calpurnia, Aunt Alexandra, Miss Maudie, and Boo Radley), who offer models for Scout's behaviors. Though primarily unconventional in terms of gender, these parental figures fluctuate between ideals, demonstrating that gender is an unstable standard that alters according to each individual. Lee depicts characters who resist conforming to the paradigms of masculinity and femininity and instead fill middle positions between the stereotypes, as Scout's tomboyism exemplifies. After encountering different models, Scout consistently exhibits these genderbending …
Cultural Power And Utopianism In Laurie Halse Anderson's Prom And M.T. Anderson's Feed, Leah Dinatale
Cultural Power And Utopianism In Laurie Halse Anderson's Prom And M.T. Anderson's Feed, Leah Dinatale
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Author's abstract: Resourcefully and responsibly obtaining a sense of power is central to quality young adult literature. Laurie Halse Anderson's Prom and M.T. Anderson's Feed show their adolescent protagonists' struggles with identity formation, consumerism, and the adult world. In order to address power relationships, the two novels address the rise of a global electronic and print media system that collapses traditional notions of time and space and the excessive consumption associated with the culture such a system creates. However, these two novels explore postmodern consumer culture from different perspectives. Prom functions as a utopian, revisionist fairy tale in which the …
The Meaning Of The Meaningless In The Plays Of Suzan-Lori Parks, Andrea J. Goto
The Meaning Of The Meaningless In The Plays Of Suzan-Lori Parks, Andrea J. Goto
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"Creating Power:" Social Mobility And The Transformative Vision In Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Modern Chivalry, Jon D. Blackstock
"Creating Power:" Social Mobility And The Transformative Vision In Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Modern Chivalry, Jon D. Blackstock
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Rhetoric And Romanticism In Charles Darwin's Origin Of Species, James Zarrello
Rhetoric And Romanticism In Charles Darwin's Origin Of Species, James Zarrello
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Charles Darwin's fame and success as a scientist were undoubtedly based on the reception of the evolutionary paradigm he articulated in Origin of Species. Although many of Darwin's ideas were only ideas at the time of Origin's publication, they indubitably fostered the widespread acceptance of the evolutionary worldview among scientists and non-scientists. And this phenomenon took place in a relatively short period of time. The fact that much of Darwin's evolutionary thesis was well received and yet was clearly, and by his own admission, hypothetical, may seem to be a curious development. This thesis project will center on two …
The Path To Equilibrium: Melville, Emerson, And Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Ingrid D. Lelos
The Path To Equilibrium: Melville, Emerson, And Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Ingrid D. Lelos
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The Comic Hero And Heroine In David Lodge's Later Fiction, Gayle Grimmell Whitaker
The Comic Hero And Heroine In David Lodge's Later Fiction, Gayle Grimmell Whitaker
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Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses: A Faith-Affirming Tragedy, Bradley Hunter Swope
Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses: A Faith-Affirming Tragedy, Bradley Hunter Swope
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By So Many Threads: Mary Johnston's Diary And The Civil War Novels, Sudy Vance Leavy
By So Many Threads: Mary Johnston's Diary And The Civil War Novels, Sudy Vance Leavy
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Saying Grace: A Collection Of Short Stories, Tina Floyd Whittle
Saying Grace: A Collection Of Short Stories, Tina Floyd Whittle
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(En)Gendered Performances And The Problematics Of Identity Construction In Contemporary Gay Literature, William Paul Banks
(En)Gendered Performances And The Problematics Of Identity Construction In Contemporary Gay Literature, William Paul Banks
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Contemporary Gothicism: Straub's Shadowland, Rhonda Lee Brock
Contemporary Gothicism: Straub's Shadowland, Rhonda Lee Brock
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John Dryden: Persuasive Principles In "Absalom And Achitophel" And "Religio Laici", Kathy Seymour Albertson
John Dryden: Persuasive Principles In "Absalom And Achitophel" And "Religio Laici", Kathy Seymour Albertson
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A Womanist Reading Of Selected Novels By Black Women, Georgene Bess
A Womanist Reading Of Selected Novels By Black Women, Georgene Bess
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The Literary Lincoln, James Andrew Stevenson
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: Ezra Pound's Condensation Of The Henry James Novel, Delores Lamb Belew
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley: Ezra Pound's Condensation Of The Henry James Novel, Delores Lamb Belew
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Setting And Scene As Narrative Technique In The Raj Quartet, Barbara Knight Degyansky
Setting And Scene As Narrative Technique In The Raj Quartet, Barbara Knight Degyansky
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Form And Meaning: Distance And Isolation In The Fiction Of David Storey, Susan E. Degange
Form And Meaning: Distance And Isolation In The Fiction Of David Storey, Susan E. Degange
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Early And Late Patterns Of The Search Motif Contrasted In John Updike's Fiction Rabbit, Run And The Coup, Carolyn Anne Mckinney Afshar
Early And Late Patterns Of The Search Motif Contrasted In John Updike's Fiction Rabbit, Run And The Coup, Carolyn Anne Mckinney Afshar
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Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Chronology Of Conflict And Reconciliation, Donna Newcomer Shriver
Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Chronology Of Conflict And Reconciliation, Donna Newcomer Shriver
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Fantasy: The Evolution Of A Modern Literary Mode, Byron Breedlove
Fantasy: The Evolution Of A Modern Literary Mode, Byron Breedlove
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