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The Faustian Deal: What Is Good And Evil?, Jaclyn Elmquist
The Faustian Deal: What Is Good And Evil?, Jaclyn Elmquist
English Honors Theses
How is the “deal with the devil” is portrayed in contemporary films? This essay compares how the original Faustian deal informs modern-day portrayals. Thus, I examine how devils were first represented in early works such as The Faustbuch, Mary of Nijmegen, and Goethe’s Faustus. These depictions and their historical context provide the basis for my research. I compare these works to the films, Rosemary’s Baby, Wall Street, and Sweet Smell of Sucess. In the mentioned films, the main characters make deals with a devil or demon for wealth, success, or fame. I explore how the Faustian character of each film …
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.
Twistin’ The Night Away: Perverted Nostalgia In How I Learned To Drive, Coco Mcneil
Twistin’ The Night Away: Perverted Nostalgia In How I Learned To Drive, Coco Mcneil
English Honors Theses
This paper situates Paula Vogel's 1997 play How I Learned to Drive as an American memory play that is representative of 1990s cultural and political discourses rooted in nostalgia for the 1960s. By examining each character--the Greek Chorus, Peck, and Li'l Bit--within Lauren Berlant's 'intimate public sphere,' 1960s iconography, and memory practices, I argue that Vogel offers an allegory in Drive that characterizes this nostalgia as perverted and traumatizing rather than idyllic.
Embodying Everyman: Allegory In Medieval And Contemporary Performance, Cara Geser
Embodying Everyman: Allegory In Medieval And Contemporary Performance, Cara Geser
English Honors Theses
Many scholars and theater artists accuse the Middle English morality play Everyman of being "tedious," "dry," or just plain "boring" due to its overt literal, religious, and dramatic allegory. However, when allegorical modes are placed in the theatrical sphere, an inherently fictional space curated for the purposes of exploration, allegory can yield discovery through personal interpretation achieved through theatrical meaning-making. This paper provides a deep examination of allegory, specifically in performance and in Everyman, arguing in favor of its relevance through prompting reevaluations and yielding subsequent revelations.
She's Right On Time: Dorothy Love Coates And The Transformation Of Gospel Music In The Service Of The Civil Rights Movements, Randal Fippinger
She's Right On Time: Dorothy Love Coates And The Transformation Of Gospel Music In The Service Of The Civil Rights Movements, Randal Fippinger
MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019
Dorothy Love Coates' obituary in the New York Times declared that she provided "a subtle but substantial role in the civil rights movement" ("Dorothy Love Coates"). While widely acknowledged, this fact has scant documentation in the major literature on gospel music. I will examine how the efforts of gospel singer and civil rights activist Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002) worked as a catalyst to activate modern gospel music to support the American Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and early 1960s. I will argue that Dorothy Love Coates acted as a vital link in the development of gospel music, taking it …
Empathy, Social Intelligence And Critical Thinking: What Can Theatre Education Offer?, Jane Dewey
Empathy, Social Intelligence And Critical Thinking: What Can Theatre Education Offer?, Jane Dewey
MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019
This study examines the relationship of theatre, education, and emotional and social intelligence. The applied research component explores what theatrical processes can offer the efforts to address the issues of bullying by developing skills (focusing on empathy) to help deal with that issue in a substantive way. In this study, I provide a selected review of literature with regards to: how theatre has historically addressed social issues, the current state of bullying with an emphasis on bullying in schools, and how theatre is currently addressing the issue of bullying in both school and theatrical settings. The role that emotional and …
The Application Of The Matching Hypothesis To The Group Theater And The Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Kaela M. Altman
The Application Of The Matching Hypothesis To The Group Theater And The Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Kaela M. Altman
MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019
Understanding the motivations behind volunteerism is a crucial part of building an arts organization. Engaging volunteers requires a particular management style in order to ensure the enlistment of the appropriate people to engage in activities best suited to their skill set. This approach is called the matching hypothesis, and it is defined as matching volunteers' responsibilities to their interests and motivations. Identifying the appropriate volunteers and matching them to their interests can help maintain engagement in the work required to build an organization. Using this approach, it is hypothesized that volunteers will be more likely to fulfill the tasks and …
A Comparison Of The Washington Square Players And Mortimer J. Alder's Paideia Group, Liza Mcmahon
A Comparison Of The Washington Square Players And Mortimer J. Alder's Paideia Group, Liza Mcmahon
MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019
The Washington Square Players evolved as a reaction to the formulaic art of the theater industry. Mortimer Adler led educational reform by creating the Paideia Group. Both the Players and Adler arise from New York during the Progressive Era. Similar to the Washington Square Players' declaration to produce "art for art's sake", the Paideia Group looked at education for education's sake. This paper is a comparison of the Washington Square Players and Mortimer J. Adler, the Chairman of the Paideia Group, as nonconformists grounded in democracy, who initiated reform amidst controversy.
Theatre-In-Action: Participatory Drama For Bullying Prevention, Kimberly M. Jordan
Theatre-In-Action: Participatory Drama For Bullying Prevention, Kimberly M. Jordan
MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019
As school bullying, harassment, relational aggression, and cyberbullying gain recognition for their far-reaching, negative effects on youth development, Vermont school administrators have begun to take pro-active steps toward statewide anti-bullying education. Although guidance and behavioral supports link naturally with drama, Vermont's most commonly utilized bullying prevention programs do not include practical intervention tools with which students can practice being actors, participants, and critical observers. This thesis identifies and articulates the need for practical applications of participatory theatre within anti-bullying curricula in order to strengthen prevention plans already in place in Vermont schools. The author's research has led to the creation …
Theater Study And The Power Of Possibility, Jill Rafferty-Weinisch
Theater Study And The Power Of Possibility, Jill Rafferty-Weinisch
MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019
My experience as an Arts Educator, working with a particular group of at-risk students has led me to question the manner in which the Arts are primarily utilized in K-12 education. Specifically, their use as a delivery system for academic curriculum, while highly effective, may be at the expense of, and ultimately may limit, other far more significant benefits. In my experience as both a student and a teacher of theater, I have observed a correlation between certain habits of mind developed through theater work and modes of thinking, which are widely believed to support healthy adolescent development. This paper …
Defining The Spiritual Aspects In The Pure Dance Of Bharata Natyam, Bevin Stark
Defining The Spiritual Aspects In The Pure Dance Of Bharata Natyam, Bevin Stark
MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019
Bharata natyam is herald as a sacred art. The goal of all traditional Indian arts is to evoke rasa (a tasting of spiritual bliss) in the artist as well as the spectator. I have personally experienced a spiritual power while performing and practicing this ancient dance form. Bharata natya has two main aspects to its dance presentation: natya (story-telling), and nrtta (pure dance technique). The natya portion clearly nurtures devotional feelings and religious contemplation by retelling stories of the gods, of the great Hindu epics and of myths. This study focuses on the subtle role that the nrtta portion of …
Mythological Intertextuality In Nineteenth Century Ballet Repertory, Liane Fisher
Mythological Intertextuality In Nineteenth Century Ballet Repertory, Liane Fisher
MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019
This paper will posit the idea that, while nineteenth century ballet purported to tum away from the mythological librettos that had graced the ballet stages of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, they actually maintained ties to their mythological heritage. After a brief review of a few pertinent classical Greek myths, we will look at two ballets from the early Romantic period: La Sylphide and Giselle, and finish with two from the late nineteenth century: Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake to discover what ties they retain to mythology.
Modern Drama And Culture: A Dramaturgy Of August Strindberg's A Dream Play, Stephen Aiello
Modern Drama And Culture: A Dramaturgy Of August Strindberg's A Dream Play, Stephen Aiello
MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019
The primary objective of this paper is to show a connection between a revolution in thought, a "new consciousness," of young intellectuals at the turn of the nineteenth century and the ideas of their forefathers that preceded them. The phrase, "new consciousness,'' to which this paper frequently refers, is somewhat of a misnomer in that the development of these revolutionary ideas was intimately related to the philosophical, scientific, political and aesthetic traditions from which the generation of 1900 sought to separate themselves. In their eagerness to find an identity, what those of that era chose to define as "new" was …