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Looking Butch Through The Years: Intergenerationality And Gazing In Lesbian Literature And Photography, Miriam Harrow
Looking Butch Through The Years: Intergenerationality And Gazing In Lesbian Literature And Photography, Miriam Harrow
English Honors Theses
This thesis uses literature and photography by butch lesbian artists and writers to argue that there is a particular mode of being as well as gazing for butches. It explores female masculinity in various contexts, with one chapter dedicated to Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) and Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues (1993) and the second chapter studying Alison Bechdel's Fun Home (2005). Making a nuanced argument about the relationship between image and text, this thesis brings the politics of gazing into a queer context following theorists like Paul Preciado and Jack Halberstam.
Relandscaping Eden: Northern European Topography As Theology In Auden’S Poems, Merrill Brouder
Relandscaping Eden: Northern European Topography As Theology In Auden’S Poems, Merrill Brouder
English Honors Theses
This paper explores the contradiction Auden creates in his simultaneous description of the European North (The English and Scottish Highlands, Scotland, Iceland, and northern Norway) as an “Eden” and his awareness of the violent and pagan history of these places. It proposes that these dialectically opposed visions of the European landscape can be reconciled through a synthesis rooted in Auden’s eclectic version of history—both theological and secular—and his own desire for an Eden that is informed by the spontaneity of the Homeric Arcadia, the gravity of the Christian Eden, and apophatic theology.
Pascal And Fermat: Religion, Probability, And Other Mathematical Discoveries, Adrienne E. Lazes
Pascal And Fermat: Religion, Probability, And Other Mathematical Discoveries, Adrienne E. Lazes
MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019
This final project primarily discusses how Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, two French seventeenth century mathematicians, founded the field of mathematical Probability and how this area continued to evolve after their contributions. Also included in this project is an analysis of how Pascal and Fermat were affected, or not, in their mathematical work by the widespread impact that the Catholic Church had on life in France during this time period. I further discuss two other central discoveries by these theorists: Pascal’s Triangle and Fermat’s Last Theorem. Lastly, the project analyzes how all of these aspects: the influence of the …
Althusser ’S Scientism And Aleatory Materialism, William S. Lewis
Althusser ’S Scientism And Aleatory Materialism, William S. Lewis
Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Is There Less Bullshit In For Marx Than In Reading Capital?, William S. Lewis
Is There Less Bullshit In For Marx Than In Reading Capital?, William S. Lewis
Philosophy
This paper explores G. A. Cohen’s claim that Althusser’s Marxist philosophy is bullshit. This exploration is important because, if we are persuaded by Cohen’s assertion that there are only three types of Marxism: analytic, pre-analytic, and bullshit and, further, that only analytic Marxism is concerned with truth and therefore “uniquely legitimate” then, as political philosophers interested in Marxism’s potential philosophical resources, we may wish to privilege its analytic form. However, if Cohen’s attribution is misplaced, then we may wish to explore why Cohen was so insistent in this ascription and what this insistence reveals about his own political philosophy. The …
Evolutionary Psychology In The Service Of Moral Psychology: A Possible Future For Ethics, William S. Lewis
Evolutionary Psychology In The Service Of Moral Psychology: A Possible Future For Ethics, William S. Lewis
Philosophy
No abstract provided.
Art Or Propaganda? Dewey And Adorno On The Relationship Between Politics And Art, William S. Lewis
Art Or Propaganda? Dewey And Adorno On The Relationship Between Politics And Art, William S. Lewis
Philosophy
Examines how philosophers John Dewey and Theodor Adorno distinguishes between art and propaganda. Suggestion of the two platonists regarding real art; Effect of art on individuals and the society; Analysis on the characterization of the film "Triumph of the Will."
The Under-Theorization Of Overdetermination In The Political Philosophy Of Ernesto Laclau And Chantal Mouffe, William S. Lewis
The Under-Theorization Of Overdetermination In The Political Philosophy Of Ernesto Laclau And Chantal Mouffe, William S. Lewis
Philosophy
No abstract provided.