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Images For A Nation: The Role Of Conservation Photography In American Environmentalism, Nathaniel W. Yale
Images For A Nation: The Role Of Conservation Photography In American Environmentalism, Nathaniel W. Yale
Pomona Senior Theses
Photographs have long been integral in revealing American values, ideals, and identity. Accordingly, a study of environmental, or "conservation," imagery offers insight into America’s relationship with the natural world. In an examination of key figures and their conservation photography work, this thesis explores how the national conservation dialogue has been shaped by powerful images that, in some cases, even led to crucial acts of federal conservation. The first section highlights four photographers and their context and influence in this dialogue: W.H. Jackson’s photographs from Hayden’s 1871 survey of Yellowstone, Carleton Watkins’ work at Yosemite and Mariposa Grove in the 1860s, …
Magical Me: Self-Insertion Fanfiction As Literary Critique, Melody Strmel
Magical Me: Self-Insertion Fanfiction As Literary Critique, Melody Strmel
Scripps Senior Theses
This thesis examines the traditions of textual interaction that impact the forms of reading engaged in with fanfiction. This thesis continues by exploring how self-insertion fanfiction functions as a medium through which authors express their reading of the text primary through the emotional impact of the text through wish fulfillment, and the interaction of their cultural moment and the text. Furthermore, it argues that self-insertion fanfiction is a mode of literary critique in which the author acknowledges the effect of a mediated world on their perception of self and reality. Through this recognition of a constructed self, the author rejects …