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Hidden Histories And Collections: Discovering The Underbelly Project, Kelsey Perreault
Hidden Histories And Collections: Discovering The Underbelly Project, Kelsey Perreault
2015 Undergraduate Awards
Below the bustling streets of New York City is a collection of artwork unlike any other. Hidden in an abandoned subway station is the work of one hundred and three street artists from around the world. It is widely known as The Underbelly Project and it took over eighteen months to complete. The location is a closely guarded secret and the exhibition itself closed on the very same night it opened. The unique nature of this project opens up our understanding of the museums’ purpose and function within society. The Underbelly Project seemingly rejects every norm of the traditional museum …
Peter Pan And Coraline: Gender’S Impact On Mapping Psychoanalysis Onto Physical Spaces, Theresa Bailie
Peter Pan And Coraline: Gender’S Impact On Mapping Psychoanalysis Onto Physical Spaces, Theresa Bailie
2015 Undergraduate Awards
In this essay I show the complications that arise when psychoanalytical theory is imposed onto a child’s secondary world. In both J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and Neil Gaiman’s Coraline the child’s unconscious desires are displayed in the way the child either dominates over or is threatened by the physical space he or she is in. As a boy who will never have to grow up, Peter dominates over both Hook’s masculine threat of patriarchal authority and the crocodile’s feminine threat of consumption. As a girl who will grow into a woman Coraline has to learn to both defy the …
Two Kinds Of Ends In Themselves In Kant’S Moral Theory, David Hakim
Two Kinds Of Ends In Themselves In Kant’S Moral Theory, David Hakim
2015 Undergraduate Awards
Immanuel Kant argues that rational beings are bound by an unconditional moral requirement to treat humanity always as an end and never as mere means. Kant derives this requirement from the principle that humanity is an end in itself. The purpose of my essay is to provide an interpretation of Kant’s concept of an end in itself that is consistent with the other features of his moral theory and that does not have morally repugnant consequences. To be consistent, Kant must identify a good will with an end in itself. I provide two independent arguments to demonstrate that this follows …
The Impersonal Is Personal: Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women Through The Lens Of Roberto Esposito’S Third Person, Claire Windsor
The Impersonal Is Personal: Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women Through The Lens Of Roberto Esposito’S Third Person, Claire Windsor
2015 Undergraduate Awards
This essay explores the issue of Missing and Murdered Women (MMIW) in Canada from a perspective that problematizes not only the racializing and gendering of indigenous women, but the normative conception of the human ascribed to settler Canadians as well. By examining these processes as part of a greater juridical-biological constitution of ‘the human,’ the ways in which this differentiation works to valorize the lives of some humans whilst simultaneously devaluing the lives of ‘others’ are revealed. This hierarchy is explored through the lens of Roberto Esposito’s book Third Person in order to illustrate how the subject-formations that have occurred …
The Play The Critics Could Not See: Djuna Barnes’S The Dove, Luke Jennings
The Play The Critics Could Not See: Djuna Barnes’S The Dove, Luke Jennings
2015 Undergraduate Awards
Literary criticism on Djuna Barnes’s The Dove has hitherto been lacking, both in quantity and quality. At least, if an astute observation has been made of the play, it has hidden itself as deftly as has The Dove its meanings from the majority of critics. Partly to blame for this is the fact that few critics have even attempted to analyze it in any depth. But any critic who has read The Dove and dismissed it as a witty but nonsensical exercise in anarchistic sadomasochism, has, to put it kindly, not read it closely enough. While exemplary literary writing is …
As Lauce Leues Of Pe Boke: Cleanness And The Perils Of Vernacular Reading, Michelle Harder
As Lauce Leues Of Pe Boke: Cleanness And The Perils Of Vernacular Reading, Michelle Harder
2015 Undergraduate Awards
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Childhood Innocence, Childhood Complicity, And Questions Of The Future In Mother Courage And Far Away, Tamara Spencer
Childhood Innocence, Childhood Complicity, And Questions Of The Future In Mother Courage And Far Away, Tamara Spencer
2015 Undergraduate Awards
Drawing primarily on the theoretical works of Sara Ahmed and Robin Bernstein, this paper explores how children’s complicity and victimhood in the wars within Caryl Churchill’s Far Away and Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children become symbolic of humanity’s demise. The essay uses Far Away and Mother Courage as case studies to examine broader social scripts on childhood. The paper argues that the children in each play are characterized by social expectations that children are meant to be ignorant to the worlds around them, as well as embodiments of the hope that the future will be better than the …
A “New Harmony”: Intertextuality And Quotation In Toru Takemitsu’S Folio Iii, Rebecca Shaw
A “New Harmony”: Intertextuality And Quotation In Toru Takemitsu’S Folio Iii, Rebecca Shaw
2015 Undergraduate Awards
The last in a set of three pieces, Folio III (1974) by Toru Takemitsu (1930–1996) was the composer’s first foray into solo classical guitar composition. Although Takemitsu’s guitar works are often overlooked or examined sparingly at best, Folio III is a complex composition that warrants exploration. It combines aspects of chromatic saturation and octatonicism with Baroque-era tonality via the quotation of Chorale No. 72 “O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden” from the St. Matthew Passion (1727) by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). This essay blends theoretical analysis with aspects of Takemitsu’s philosophy to clarify the significance of the chorale’s quotation to …
Not In My Name, Brittany Lynn Cartwright
Not In My Name, Brittany Lynn Cartwright
2015 Undergraduate Awards
In exploring discourse regarding religious groups, the term ‘radical’ comes up frequently. Furthermore the term ‘radical’ comes up relative to both ideas and groups. Although it may be presumed that groups or individuals who are radical are so because they embody an ideology defined as such, this is not always the case. The “Not In My Name” social movement is called radical because it stands opposite to the ideology held by ISIS. This debate though, for once, does not exist on a spectrum; there is no ‘extreme right’ and ‘extreme left’. Through past examples of similar situations and scholarly analogy …