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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Play Dead, Ann Hackett
Play Dead, Ann Hackett
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Wonders For The Dead, Sarah Cook
Wonders For The Dead, Sarah Cook
Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones
This capstone project presents the first five chapters of a novel entitled Wonders for the Dead, which follows the lives of two sets of brothers whose lives intersect in an unexpected way. Ep Fairfax and his brother Francis are estranged, but when Ep finds himself in trouble and on the run he relies on Francis for help. Tom Mersy is a dangerous man, and when his brother Isaac is killed, Tom decides that Ep is to blame. He sets out to find Ep and have his revenge, but along the way both men learn more about themselves and the …
Railways And Regret: Revising Mobility Myths In Victorian Literature And Culture, 1857-1891, Kathryn Winslow Powell
Railways And Regret: Revising Mobility Myths In Victorian Literature And Culture, 1857-1891, Kathryn Winslow Powell
Doctoral Dissertations
Since 1979 when Wolfgang Schivelbusch applied Marx’s phrase “annihilation of time and space” to the nineteenth-century railways, the idea that locomotives revolutionized mobility and restructured life has undergirded historical analysis. Recent scholarship challenges this long-standing assumption, countering that transportation networks expanded through evolutionary change and that cultural adaptation occurred by resisting the imposing forces of modernity. My study joins this critical departure but proposes a new conceptual model defined by regret and revision. This dissertation argues that fiction written between 1857-1891 illustrates railway growth as a recursive and participatory process. I show through the writing of Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Riddell, …
Hollowend, Hayley M. Fitz
Hollowend, Hayley M. Fitz
All NMU Master's Theses
Hollowend is a novel set in the small town of, surprise, Hollowend. This is a place where the supernatural is ordinary. The story is told by two narrators: Hettie, a crime scene cleaner whose eye has gone missing; and Harlan, a "private investigator" who isn't actually a private investigator. He's a serial killer—the Widowmaker, according to the local press. He's been terrorizing Hollowend for the past three years, only getting away with it because of his influence magic, which allows him to convince anyone of anything. It even allows him to scrub Hettie's memory after his many failed attempts to …
"History Real Or Feigned": Tolkien, Scott, And Poetry's Place In Fashioning History, Kaleigh Jean Spooner
"History Real Or Feigned": Tolkien, Scott, And Poetry's Place In Fashioning History, Kaleigh Jean Spooner
Theses and Dissertations
Most critics of The Lord of the Rings correlate Tolkien's work to ancient texts, like Beowulf, the Elder Edda, and medieval romances. While the connection between these traditional materials and Tolkien is valid, it neglects a key feature of Tolkien's work and one of the author's desires, which was to fashion a sort of history that felt as real as any other old story. Moreover, it glosses over the rather obvious point that Tolkien is writing a novel, or at any rate a long work of prose fiction that owes a good deal to the novel tradition. …
Things We Dare Not See: Media Revisions Of Incestuous Relationships, Mattheus M. Oliveira
Things We Dare Not See: Media Revisions Of Incestuous Relationships, Mattheus M. Oliveira
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Nowadays we can see a steadily growing acceptance of queer relationships in our films and novels, whether they are romance films or violent war movies. What we don’t get to see are examples of incestuous relationships that are consensual and harmless. For example, when Luke and Leia accidentally share some romantic feelings in Star Wars, that bond is suppressed. We don’t get an acknowledgment of a brother and sister’s emotional support in the movie adaptation of V.C Andrews’ Flowers in the Attic. This erasure stems from a long history of cultural and legal censorship of incest that only discusses …
37 Clauses: Instructions Ignore The Narrative Voice, Jonathan L. Hall
37 Clauses: Instructions Ignore The Narrative Voice, Jonathan L. Hall
Undergraduate Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
The Montagnards, Jarred J. Marlatt
The Montagnards, Jarred J. Marlatt
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Safe Passage, John Molina
Safe Passage, John Molina
Theses and Dissertations
Safe Passage is a novel detailing life in the RGV. The novel is a bildungsroman that follows a group of friends and their experiences in the RGV. The novel sheds light on a region that is rarely examined, and uses flashbacks and flash forwards to show what it is like to age in the RGV.
The novel deals with life growing up near the Texas/Mexico border and relates experiences from the group of friends mentioned in the previous paragraph. The novel describes political and police corruption, drug and alcohol abuse, poverty, and assimilation along the Rio Grande Border. The novel …
Frida's Daughter, Myrta Vida
Frida's Daughter, Myrta Vida
Theses
The purpose of my creative writing is to highlight a group of U.S. citizens still woefully underrepresented in literature proper: the Latinx middle class. I’m keenly interested in exploring Puerto Rican and first- and second-generation Latinx immigrant stories. Even though some of the experiences from these groups have been elegantly visited by writers such as Giannina Braschi, Sandra Cisneros, Junot Diaz, Julia Alvarez, and others, there are nuances to the Latinx middle class experience that are yet to be uncovered. Being stuck in the cultural, linguistic, socio-economic, and political middles in a country that has recently taken a largely nationalist …
Marathon, Tristan Durst
Marathon, Tristan Durst
Graduate Thesis Collection
Marathon is a novel about a young girl who is not born into the best family, who sets out to make a family for herself.
Servant Voices And Tales In The British Gothic Novel, 1764-1847, Reema Barlaskar
Servant Voices And Tales In The British Gothic Novel, 1764-1847, Reema Barlaskar
Wayne State University Dissertations
Servant Voices and Tales in the British Gothic Novel, 1764-1847 explores the intersectionality of class, race, and gender positions in the Gothic novel’s portrayal of lower-class identity, constructing an argument framed on the following questions: how do servant voices manifest in the marginal spaces surrounding the dominant narrative of rational discourse; in what ways do servants’ discourse resist and negotiate the narrative of individual experience; how do servants subvert dominant narratives; and what ideological implications do such subversions and resistance entail? The argument emphasizes servants’ discourse within the context of domestic ideology, and as a result, analyzes class, gender, and …
The Manor House: A Novel, Cleo Rose Egnal
The Manor House: A Novel, Cleo Rose Egnal
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
(In)Authenticité: De Brûler À La Manière De La Glace, Elizabeth Jane Israel
(In)Authenticité: De Brûler À La Manière De La Glace, Elizabeth Jane Israel
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
The Geometry Of Loss: A Novel, Elidio La Torre La Torre
The Geometry Of Loss: A Novel, Elidio La Torre La Torre
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
In the year 2025, Orlando Aniello, nicknamed Or, a Puerto Rican poet with a broken life, becomes a consciousness in virtual space. Tricked by a couple of goons that devote most of their duties to bootleg memories for people who lead dull and meaningless lives, Orlandos personality splits into fragments. As consequence, his actual experiences blend the hosts own recollections, which accidentally upload to Orlandos brain. If bootleg mnemonic technologies glitch, Orlando does not know who he is anymore. Indeed, Orlando/ Gogo/ Alejandro suffers anterograde memory loss, and the narrator becomes merely a voice without a body. A geometry of …