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The Museum, Julie Yucai Jarema Jan 2016

The Museum, Julie Yucai Jarema

Senior Projects Spring 2016

The Museum takes the form of a novel. It has a window carved into its steel garage door for the viewer to observe and puzzle over the assortment of ephemera inside the small space. Mia, a girl who does not know her roots, ends up working as a research assistant for the reclusive author who owns the museum. Her life becomes increasingly more chaotic and unstable as the author, Mr. E, sends her and her newborn daughter on an absurd scavenger hunt through Manhattan. Mr. E constructs each of Mia’s assignments around the plot of the novel that he is …


Piecing Together The Puzzle Of Contemporary Spanish Fiction: A Translation And Critical Analysis Of Fricciones By Pablo Martín Sánchez, Madeleine Renee Calhoun Jan 2016

Piecing Together The Puzzle Of Contemporary Spanish Fiction: A Translation And Critical Analysis Of Fricciones By Pablo Martín Sánchez, Madeleine Renee Calhoun

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


Reading Playfully: A New Branch Of Criticism For The Digital Age, Enzo Cnop Jan 2016

Reading Playfully: A New Branch Of Criticism For The Digital Age, Enzo Cnop

Senior Projects Spring 2016

This senior project applies the tools of traditional literary analysis to video games. Through this frame, it seek to foster a type of video game literacy amongst its readers. Each chapter corresponds to what it’s author sees as a foundational aspect of literature. The first chapter, ‘Perspective’, puts Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness into contact with The Last of Us (2013), and explores how each work uses medium specific mechanisms to alienate their protagonists. The second chapter, ‘Setting’, surveys the relationship between Thief (1999) and Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’. The final chapter, …


Trompe L'Oeil: A Collection Of Stories Derived From Art History, Emily Christine Degeyter Jan 2016

Trompe L'Oeil: A Collection Of Stories Derived From Art History, Emily Christine Degeyter

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College


O Is For Olive, Anna Rose Kornfeld Jan 2016

O Is For Olive, Anna Rose Kornfeld

Senior Projects Spring 2016

The suicide of a young woman’s brother results in her return home to mourn his loss. She is forced to reconnect with family members as she explores the past and tries to grapple with the future.


Painting The Smokestack, Ian David Mcelfresh Jan 2016

Painting The Smokestack, Ian David Mcelfresh

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


The Enduring Ones, Alec Martin Montecalvo Jan 2016

The Enduring Ones, Alec Martin Montecalvo

Senior Projects Spring 2016

After a cataclysmic event destroys his home, Balian must lead a ragged group of survivors into a world they know nothing about, a world that has almost entirely forgotten about them.


Lost Women, Recently Found, Maya Moverman Jan 2016

Lost Women, Recently Found, Maya Moverman

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College