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Not Just Pretty Clothes: Fashion's Progressive Operationalization As Seen In Baudelaire And Benjamin; Addendum: Anna Karenina's Appropriation Of Her Mortality Through Dress, Serena Laine Trainor Apr 2020

Not Just Pretty Clothes: Fashion's Progressive Operationalization As Seen In Baudelaire And Benjamin; Addendum: Anna Karenina's Appropriation Of Her Mortality Through Dress, Serena Laine Trainor

Senior Theses and Projects

Throughout this double thesis, the author investigates the philosophical significance of fashion. Through her pursuit, she works through the reformulations of the experience of the beautiful as constructed by French poet Charles Baudelaire, then expands her findings with insights from Walter Benjamin and Georg Simmel in their fashion theories. In working through these conceptualizations, as analyzed by fashion and philosophy scholar Philipp Ekardt, fashion's mechanics emerge as a model for time, history, and the human life. To more deeply understand these insights, and for a more insightful reading of Leo Tolstoy's famed novel, the author applies her analysis to the …


Once Upon A Time To Happily Ever After: Enduring Themes And Life Lessons Of Fairy Tales In “Snow White” And “Beauty And The Beast”, Alexandra J. Deluse Apr 2015

Once Upon A Time To Happily Ever After: Enduring Themes And Life Lessons Of Fairy Tales In “Snow White” And “Beauty And The Beast”, Alexandra J. Deluse

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An investigation of fairy tales through case studies of two versions of “Snow White”, one by the Brothers Grimm and one by The Merseyside Fairy Story Collective, and three versions of “Beauty and the Beast", one by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s two by Angela Carter: “The Courtship of Mr Lyon” and “The Tiger’s Bride”.


Edna St. Vincent Millay: Artisan Of Violent Feminine Agency, Carolina Galdiz Apr 2014

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Artisan Of Violent Feminine Agency, Carolina Galdiz

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For decades, scholars have understood Edna St Vincent Millay in two fairly distinctive patterns as either a classical romanticist or ephemeral rebel. This dual reputation has been crafted from the obvious presence of natural imagery, sexual dynamism, feminine voice, and romantic yearning in her work. What critics have failed to see in her poetry are the potent sinister undertones that claim violence as a means to power. I will argue that Millay narrates the gendered struggle that takes place in this violence, in order to ultimately assert feminine agency in the process of forming a cultural identity. Thus, rather than …


The Unstable Narrative: An Explication Of Ambiguity In Works By Henry James, Thomas Mann, And Richard Wright, Kristen E. Elia Apr 2014

The Unstable Narrative: An Explication Of Ambiguity In Works By Henry James, Thomas Mann, And Richard Wright, Kristen E. Elia

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Explication of ambiguity in the narration of Henry James's The Bostonians, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, and Richard Wright's Native Son.