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To Kill A Vampire?: Through The Hearth, Charlsie Lamos

All Theses

Long before Dracula was terrorizing English families, Emily Brontë's Heathcliff captivated Victorian audiences. Critics such as James Twitchell propose that Emily Brontë carefully creates the possibility of Heathcliff as a metaphorical vampire, using his unknown parentage and his physical descriptions throughout the novel as evidence for this claim. Indeed, my thesis examines how Heathcliff exhibits characteristics of the vampire in his decimation of the English families in the novel by consuming the Earnshaw's and Linton's properties, monies, and women. In Brontë's and Bram Stoker's novels, the vampires prey upon humanity, consuming property, lives, and bloodlines. However, although vampires are often …

Building The New Rome: Charles Cameron As The Architect Of Catherine The Great's New Eternal City, Inna A. Bell

Theses and Dissertations

Catherine the Great, The Empress of Russia, considered herself to be an enlightened ruler. Like many enlightened minds of the eighteenth century, she was fascinated with classical antiquity, especially with ancient Rome. In 1779, she invited a Scottish architect named Charles Cameron to complete a series of building projects for her that would create a "second Rome" in Tsarskoye Selo and in Pavlovsk, Russia. Cameron, an expert on classical antiquity because of his studies of the Roman ruins and the publication of his book, The Baths of the Romans, had a special interest in and a dedication to classical …

Haunting The Imagination: The Haunted House As A Figure Of Dark Space In American Culture, Amanda Bingham Solomon

Theses and Dissertations

In contemporary America the haunted house appears regularly as a figure in literature, film, and tourism. The increasing popularity of the haunted house is in direct correlation with the disintegration of the home as a refuge from the harsh elements of the world. The mass media populates society with dark images and subjects, portraying America as a dark place to live. Americans create fictional narratives of terror and violence as a means of coping with their own modern horrors. Their horrors are psychologically displaced within these narratives. The haunted house is therefore a manifestation of contemporary anxieties surrounding the dissolution …

When The Virtual Meets The Real: An Assessment Of The Benefits And "Costs" Of Open Access Texts For First Year Writing Courses At Cuny, Johannah Rodgers

Publications and Research

An assessment of the advantages, drawbacks, and costs of Open Access / OER texts for First Year Writing courses at CUNY.

Blood, Organs And Other Tissues For Sale: Diamela Eltit's Impuesto A La Carne And The Afterwards Of The Neoliberal Development In Latin America., Wanda I. Ocasio- Rivera

Hispanic Studies Publications

Abstract

Blood, organs and other tissues for sale: Diamela Eltit's Impuesto a la carne and the afterwards of the neoliberal development in Latin America.

As Marx elaborated in Capital: Volume I at the moment human labour is sold, the subject participates in an ominous plot where she/he becomes a commodity. In a capitalist mode of production, the subject’s alienation from his/her humanity occurs because the individuals can only express labor through a privately-owned system of production in which he/she is an instrument, an object. This dehumanization process submits the subject under the exchange transactions of the market, where labor value …

Review: Stranger In The Woods, Janice A. Delong, Rachel Schwedt

All Children's Book Reviews

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Review: One Leaf Rides The Wind, Janice A. Delong, Rachel Schwedt

All Children's Book Reviews

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Review: Alphabet Under Construction, Janice A. Delong, Rachel Schwedt

All Children's Book Reviews

Character Themes: Determination, Imagination, Knowledge

Review: Thanks For Thanksgiving, Janice A. Delong, Rachel Schwedt

All Children's Book Reviews

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Review: Sylvia Jean: Scout Supreme, Janice A. Delong, Rachel Schwedt

All Children's Book Reviews

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Review: Wilfred Gordon Mcdonald Partridge, Janice A. Delong, Rachel Schwedt

All Children's Book Reviews

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Review: The Lion & The Mouse, Janice A. Delong, Rachel Schwedt

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Review: Elsie’S Bird, Janice A. Delong, Rachel Schwedt

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Review: Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, Janice A. Delong, Rachel Schwedt

Ages 3-6

Character Traits: Diligence, Knowledge, Work Ethic

Review: Mercy Watson To The Rescue, Janice A. Delong, Rachel Schwedt

Ages 3-6

Character Themes: Citizenship, Duty, Humor, Inquisitiveness

Review: The Berenstain Bears Show God's Love, Janice A. Delong, Rachel Schwedt

Ages 3-6

Character Themes: Acceptance, Cooperation, Discernment, Discipline, Duty, Faith, Family love, Forgiveness, Friendliness, Friendship, Humility, Humor, Inspiration, Love, Neighborliness, Obedience, Respect, Spunk, Trustworthiness, Wisdom, Work ethic

Review: I Can Be Anything, Janice A. Delong, Rachel Schwedt

Ages 3-6

Character Themes: Ambition, Creativity, Enthusiasm, Imagination, Individuality, Inspiration, Joyfulness

Review: Mary Englebreit's Nursery Tales, Janice A. Delong, Rachel Schwedt

Ages 3-6

Character Themes: Creativity, Knowledge, Diligence, Spunk

The World Of The Landscape, Bart Verschaffel

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "The World of the Landscape" Bart Verschaffel analyzes the visual logic of the landscape genre in painting as it was developed from the sixteenth century onward. He argues that the structure of a minimal foreground, a middle ground cut off from the foreground, and a background that gives way to the distant, corresponds to a meditative attitude, proper to the nature of the image as such. The landscape is essentially a calm image. Second, Verschaffel puts forward that the middle ground in landscape images is not, as in history painting, a waiting room adjacent to the action …

The Avatar As A Methodological Tool For The Embodied Exploration Of Virtual Environments, Kris Pint

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "The Avatar as a Methodological Tool for an Embodied Exploration of Virtual Environments" Kris Pint proposes a theoretical framework for the analysis of environments which cannot be entered physically because they are fictional, inaccessible, or destroyed. As phenomenology has already emphasized, the analysis of space has to take into account the bodily involvement of the researcher. Pint introduces the notion of the avatar to compensate for the impossibility of actually accessing the aforementioned spaces. Borrowed from game design, the avatar allows us to include this bodily aspect in the exploration of virtual environments, without neglecting the specific …