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Maidens In Maizes: Johnson, Grimms, D'Aulnoy, Hannah M. Johnson
Maidens In Maizes: Johnson, Grimms, D'Aulnoy, Hannah M. Johnson
Senior Projects Spring 2019
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College. A German Studies and Written Arts joint project, with a collection of original fairy tales as well as an in-depth analysis of female agency, female mutilation, religious influence, and language within the fairy tales of Grimms and Madame d'Aulnoy.
Chutes And Ladders: John Ashbery's Poetics As Experience, Alexander Ibo Zondervan
Chutes And Ladders: John Ashbery's Poetics As Experience, Alexander Ibo Zondervan
Senior Projects Spring 2019
I’ve always found it difficult to say just what I think is happening in John Ashbery’s poetry, even when I recognize that I’ve undergone something through the course of reading. With Ashbery, I find myself becoming conscious of how I construct meaning from language, and I understand this self-reflexivity as a “poetics as experience.” Ashbery had read or at least been aware of the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens—all of which explore how consciousness manifests through language. I read these figures through American pragmatism, which views writing as an activity that follows perception …
Framing The Superheroine: Form And Character In Contemporary Comics And Manga, Dana Elizabeth Lubow
Framing The Superheroine: Form And Character In Contemporary Comics And Manga, Dana Elizabeth Lubow
Senior Projects Spring 2019
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
The Dimensions Of Miracle: An Ethics Of Mediation In Simone Weil, Ludwig Wittgenstein, And Virginia Woolf, Collin (Lin) Michael Pritchard
The Dimensions Of Miracle: An Ethics Of Mediation In Simone Weil, Ludwig Wittgenstein, And Virginia Woolf, Collin (Lin) Michael Pritchard
Senior Projects Spring 2019
This project is concerned with an ethics of mediation, as might allow us to see the existence of the world as miraculous. To contextualize these terms, as involve the constraints of personal autonomy and understanding, this first chapter of this inquiry is a comparison of Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophies; from this comparison comes a recognition of the importance of 'mediation' in one's understanding of value, of an "absence that is felt," which argues for an attention constituted by one's relation to the world and to others. The second chapter introduces how Weil's concept of 'reading'—that is, her …