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"Playing Superhero": Agency And The Role Of The Teenaged Superhero, Jessica R. Saunders
"Playing Superhero": Agency And The Role Of The Teenaged Superhero, Jessica R. Saunders
Theses & Honors Papers
The discussion of agency within Young Adult Literature is an extensive topic that includes various criteria, such as power in various types of relationships and social ideologies. In the media form of graphic novels, the concept of agency is taken to a separate level because the primary teenagers depicted in graphic novels are titled as superheroes with abilities that surpass the norm. The role of being a teenaged superhero becomes conditional, depending on whether the teenager demands agency in the form of controlling his/her abilities or are assigned the role by their adult prototypes and society. The texts that this …
We're All Monsters Here And Other Stories, Lindsey Jones
We're All Monsters Here And Other Stories, Lindsey Jones
Theses & Honors Papers
The purpose of this thesis is to examine characters caught up in a transformation of identity: either a transfiguration or a transmogrification. Through the lens of fantasy, I sought to explore the trials of these characters in an exaggerated fashion that allowed me to take familiar questions and themes and attempt to make them new. All of my characters face a realization of identity: either they are startled into understanding that they are not who they thought they were, or they struggle to assert their version of self against pressure to be what others want. In “Marked”, Dwire has his …
Beasts And Other Stories, Amanda Walton
Beasts And Other Stories, Amanda Walton
Theses & Honors Papers
The purpose of the short story is to create characters who reveal the theme of hope in dire circumstances in short story form. The interest being in unlovable characters who are considered unlovable because of their actions. The author views unlovable characters as more loveable. She is interested in the backstory of each unlovable character and how they face life’s hardest moments. The author gives each character a history and individual qualities so that the reader can understand the reasoning behind their actions. The author created an understanding of perspectives. She shed light on the idea that characters who commit …
All Rivers Run Into The Sea, Anne Hunt
All Rivers Run Into The Sea, Anne Hunt
Theses & Honors Papers
As the reader will see both the stories and poems which follow draw from everyday experiences , occurrences , and thoughts , They are not designed to fictionalize life as much as to portray it realistically. In doing so the purpose of my writing is to awaken in the reader a sense of the poignancy of everyday experience--not only of others but also of his own . They are an attempt , then, to expand not only my own consciousness but also the personal consciousness of my readers.
The Concept Of The Renaissance In Modern Historical Fiction, Elizabeth A. Stone
The Concept Of The Renaissance In Modern Historical Fiction, Elizabeth A. Stone
Theses & Honors Papers
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