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Write It Slant: Queerness And Form In The Argonauts And Time Is The Thing A Body Moves Through, Eleanor Linafelt Jan 2020

Write It Slant: Queerness And Form In The Argonauts And Time Is The Thing A Body Moves Through, Eleanor Linafelt

Senior Independent Study Theses

This project analyzes two books of contemporary creative nonfiction: The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson (2015) and Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann (2019). Both writers centrally deal with queerness in their texts as a concept that is ineffable, or unable to be fully explained in words. I explain how to think about queerness as ineffable through the work of queer theorists Judith Butler and José Esteban Muñoz. In their books, Nelson and Fleischmann recognize that language is insufficient or even harmful in maintaining the ineffability of queerness, which poses a significant paradox for their works …


Greenbean Comics: An Independent Study!!!, Samantha Green Jan 2020

Greenbean Comics: An Independent Study!!!, Samantha Green

Senior Independent Study Theses

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Awake, Waverly Swan Hart Jan 2020

Awake, Waverly Swan Hart

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Revolutionary Possibilities: Anarchist Philosophy And Its Influence On The Work Of Thomas Pynchon, Addison R. Wanner Jan 2020

Revolutionary Possibilities: Anarchist Philosophy And Its Influence On The Work Of Thomas Pynchon, Addison R. Wanner

Senior Independent Study Theses

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