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The Dutch Smuggler's Story [Abstract Only], Devin Murphy
The Dutch Smuggler's Story [Abstract Only], Devin Murphy
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The Dutch Smuggler’s Story, is a novel about Jacob Jonker, a Sea Captain, whose secret, early life comes to light in the wake of his arrest for human trafficking. Jacob grew up in a fishing family in Holland, and was conscripted into the German Navy as a teenager in 1943. Due to his seafaring ability, he was used as a test dummy for a new Nazi weapon, a one person midget submarine. When Jacob has success as a midget sub operator, he is bestowed The Knight’s Cross by the Germans as a propaganda ploy to lore more Dutch youth …
Review Of A Return To The Common Reader: Print Culture And The Novel, 1850-1900, A. Buckland And B. Palmer Eds., Rachel Buurma
Review Of A Return To The Common Reader: Print Culture And The Novel, 1850-1900, A. Buckland And B. Palmer Eds., Rachel Buurma
Rachel S Buurma
http://www.nbol-19.org/view_doc.php?index=186
Signifying Ruins: The Wreck And Rebirth Of Modernity, Language, And Representation, Audrey Farley
Signifying Ruins: The Wreck And Rebirth Of Modernity, Language, And Representation, Audrey Farley
Theses and Dissertations
This study explores formal and thematic representations of ruins in twentieth century literary texts, including James Joyce’s Ulysses, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, and Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck.” Analyzing these texts and concepts of ruins in the theoretical work of Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin, and Julia Kristeva, I argue that ruins underscore the arbitrariness—and, thus, the fragility—of symbolic systems of signification. Ruins, by virtue of their fragmentation, invite nostalgic projections of totality only to betray totality as an illusion. Thus, the imagination of wholeness that the ruin incites allows—only to disallow—meaning. Modernity and …
Up Too Late: A Novel Excerpt, Peter Bayless
Up Too Late: A Novel Excerpt, Peter Bayless
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Tyler Sexton is a male in his mid-twenties whose life seems to have ground to a halt before it truly began. Despite the opportunities afforded him by a successful college education and an upper-middle-class family background, Tyler's life since the death of his father from heart disease has become one dominated by malaise, living alone and working a dead-end job as a grocery store customer-service manager, clinging to the family members he has left. Now, with his mother suffering from a debilitating fight with cancer and his sisters either starting their own families or withdrawing even further into episodes of …
Film Review: Gulliver's Travels, Karen Gevirtz
Film Review: Gulliver's Travels, Karen Gevirtz
Department of English Publications
No abstract provided.
Poor Old Horse: Tragicomedy And The Good Soldier, Matthew Christian
Poor Old Horse: Tragicomedy And The Good Soldier, Matthew Christian
Senior Projects Spring 2011
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
Al Cuerpo Lo Que Pida, Lucia Sanchez-Llorente
Al Cuerpo Lo Que Pida, Lucia Sanchez-Llorente
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
Al cuerpo lo que pida, is a novel that addresses the old topic of disloyalty in contemporary Mexico City society. It narrates in first person the inner-conflict of the protagonist, Mercedes Santamaria, who tries to lead a double life. On one hand she is in love with her husband, Fernando, and on the other hand, she is incapable of stopping her impulses with other men, which puts her marriage in jeopardy. She turns to her late grandmother, as an alter ego, for advice.
And Then It Clicked, Tanya Marie Robertson
And Then It Clicked, Tanya Marie Robertson
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
And Then It Clicked is a crime fiction novel about an African-American female detective from Louisville, Kentucky who accepts a case centered on the issue of domestic violence. It tells the story of an abused woman murdered in her home. Her husband, initially suspected of the crime, has an air-tight alibi and the family asks Adrienne, the detective, to find out who killed her and why. Adrienne has had past experiences with domestic violence and the new case causes her trauma to resurface.
Film Review: Gulliver's Travels, Karen Gevirtz
Film Review: Gulliver's Travels, Karen Gevirtz
Karen Bloom Gevirtz
No abstract provided.