J.R.R. Tolkien And His Influence On Modern Fantasy Writer Tamora Pierce,
2015
Marquette University
J.R.R. Tolkien And His Influence On Modern Fantasy Writer Tamora Pierce, Alexandria Curry
4610 English: Individual Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien’s writing of female and racial minority characters has been criticized as misogynistic and racist by many critics of Tolkien. However, these critics come to these conclusions due to the limited quantity of these characters overall, especially those of the female sex, and their involvement in the overall story’s plot. Tolkien uses women sparingly and because of this, each one has important characteristics and roles that they play. Therefore, if not invalidating the critics position on his supposed misogynistic views, then, at least, dissolving some of their support platforms. However, the roles that the women play are important in understanding …
Tolkien, Fandom, And Priorities,
2015
Marquette University
Tolkien, Fandom, And Priorities, Melissa Conroy
4610 English: Individual Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien
No abstract provided.
Songs In Middle-Earth,
2015
Marquette University
Songs In Middle-Earth, Ellory Busch
4610 English: Individual Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien
No abstract provided.
Eowyn As Queen,
2015
Marquette University
Eowyn As Queen, Brian Scheidt
4610 English: Individual Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien
No abstract provided.
The Inherent Goodness Of Gardens And Their Stewards,
2015
Marquette University
The Inherent Goodness Of Gardens And Their Stewards, Dj Castillo
4610 English: Individual Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien
No abstract provided.
The Role Of Realism And Idealism In Decision-Making: A Case Study Of Tolkien’S And Jackson’S Ents And Elves,
2015
Marquette University
The Role Of Realism And Idealism In Decision-Making: A Case Study Of Tolkien’S And Jackson’S Ents And Elves, Max Bertelotti
4610 English: Individual Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien
Attempting to fight Sauron without the Ring of Power is, of course, fruitless. Nearly all the characters in the Lord of the Rings understand this. While many readers debate the reasoning and logic behind sending Frodo and Sam alone into Mordor, few debate the reasoning for each specific race of Middle Earth to become involved in the fight against Sauron. Given Sauron’s impeccability and resilience, any non-destruction-of-the-Ring attempt at defeating Sauron must categorically be deemed infeasible. It fails logic then that, with a few exceptions, each race that the reader encounters in the Lord of the Rings finds it necessary …
The Prominence Of Pippin,
2015
Marquette University
The Prominence Of Pippin, Jasmine Sunderlage
4610 English: Individual Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien
When building a fictional world as involved and vast as that of J.R.R. Tolkien’s multiple drafts are a must in order to work out the exact details and to make sure that all the possible loose ends are tied up and addressed. Characters can come and go, change in temperaments and in how involved they are when it comes to the story itself. Whereas some characters may start of as highly involved in the plot, they may become nothing other than a supporting character after going through multiple drafting processes. For other characters, however, they may start as a walk-on/walk-off …
The Anti-War Adoption Of Lord Of The Rings,
2015
Marquette University
The Anti-War Adoption Of Lord Of The Rings, Kayla Spencer
4610 English: Individual Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien
Ten years after Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy was first published in 1954, an unexpected party discovered Middle-earth. America’s counterculture adopted the series, despite its largely conservative, patriarchal, and militant ideologies. Tolkien himself was not fond of the hippie movement, calling them his “deplorable cultus” (Helms 7). Although always adamant that his books were not allegory, the hippies found it anyway and applied his art to their own agendas. Second-wave feminists understood Eowyn’s refusal to let her romantic interest and her father determine her fate, as well as her fear of being kept in a cage and unable to …
Dominion: Examining The Subject Of Power In Tolkien,
2015
Marquette University
Dominion: Examining The Subject Of Power In Tolkien, Kieran Moriarty
4610 English: Individual Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien
The discussion of power and one’s use of it in literature is far from a novel one. This is especially so regarding how one uses power to rule others. Two notable and conflicting ways to rule are using one’s power over the ruled, to keep control of them, and using one’s power for the ruled, by helping and supporting them. The clash between these two can be seen as early as the first book of the Jewish and Christian bibles, wherein God gives humans “dominion over…all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth,” asking them …
The Heir And The Treasure: The Grammatical Construction Of Aragorn And Arwen,
2015
Marquette University
The Heir And The Treasure: The Grammatical Construction Of Aragorn And Arwen, Rachel Landsem
4610 English: Individual Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien
No abstract provided.
Recovering The Beauty Of Medusa,
2015
CUNY John Jay College
Recovering The Beauty Of Medusa, Alexander M. Schlutz
Publications and Research
This essay presents a close analysis of P.B. Shelley’s fragmentary ekphrastic poem “On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery.” It places Shelley’s text in its aesthetic, mythological and historico-political contexts to demonstrate how Shelley aims to undo the ideological and representational structures of power that inform human language, art, and history, and which turn Medusa into the monstrous Other as which she appears. In Shelley’s text by contrast, Medusa becomes a figure for a revelatory beauty that cannot become visible in the distorting parameters of a discourse of power that informs our very perception of what …
Brotherly Love In Twelfth Night,
2015
Liberty University
Brotherly Love In Twelfth Night, Sara Heist
The Kabod
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night draws an intriguing contrast between brotherly love and romantic love. Through the relationships of Sebastian-Antonio and Viola-Orsino, the playwright illustrates these two types of love in the lives these characters, showing that the two distinct types of love may conflict or harmonize, depending on the situation. An analysis of these two relationships provides insight into the tension between the two types of love in the play. The comparison of the motives, characteristics, expectations, and transience of the four characters’ amicable relationships illustrates the benefits and shortcomings of amity.
'We Are All Greeks:' Sympathy And Proximity In Shelley‘S Hellas,
2015
University of Minnesota, Morris
'We Are All Greeks:' Sympathy And Proximity In Shelley‘S Hellas, Kyle J. Klausing
Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal
The outbreak of the Greek Revolution of 1821 against the Ottoman Empire animated the radical European intelligentsia in a way unseen since the French Revolution 30 years before. The British Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley joined the chorus of philhellenes (meaning one who loves Greece) by extolling the Greek cause in his epic poem, Hellas. Scholarship has traditionally seen Shelley’s representation of the revolution either as an overly classicized literary indulgence or as a purely polemical defense of a political event. By identifying ways in which Shelley uses the classical past to engage the reader with the subject, I will …
Eco-Joyce: The Environmental Imagination Of James Joyce Edited By Robert Brazeau And Derek Gladwin,
2015
Kent State University - Kent Campus
Eco-Joyce: The Environmental Imagination Of James Joyce Edited By Robert Brazeau And Derek Gladwin, Rebekah A. Taylor
The Goose
Rebekah A. Taylor reviews Eco-Joyce: The Environmental Imagination of James Joyce edited by Robert Brazeau and Derek Gladwin.
The Oxford Handbook Of Ecocriticism Edited By Greg Garrard,
2015
Schumacher College
The Oxford Handbook Of Ecocriticism Edited By Greg Garrard, Camilla Nelson Dr
The Goose
Camilla Nelson reviews The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism, edited by Greg Garrard
Perfecting Pamela: Samuel Richardson's Final Revisions To His Earliest Novel,
2015
Longwood University
Perfecting Pamela: Samuel Richardson's Final Revisions To His Earliest Novel, Jennifer S. Elliott
Theses & Honors Papers
This author details Richardson’s revision process as he edits his first novel Pamela as the last thing he does before dying. There are three chapters detailing Richardson’s motives behind revising his first novel and his actual revision process, which included three main techniques—substitution, addition, and deletion. Motives considered and argued were: moral purpose and criticism received from others—especially analyzing Shamela, a satire of Pamela—which undermines the morality that Richardson had hoped Pamela accomplished. At the end of the essay, there is an extensive chart complied by the author, spanning a total of 55 pages, of all of Richardson’s …
The Prayer Of Holy Willie: A Canting, Hypocritical, Kirk Elder,
2015
University of South Carolina - Columbia
The Prayer Of Holy Willie: A Canting, Hypocritical, Kirk Elder, Patrick G. Scott
Faculty Publications
Robert Burns wrote this famous satire on religious hypocrisy in 1785, but he did not include it in his first book Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786) or in any edition published in his life-time. This edition makes accessible for the first time the locally-produced chapbook in which the poem was first printed, in 1789. The introduction discusses why the poem was written, the controversial background to the poem's first printed version, and the reasons for thinking the 1789 chapbook version was printed by John Wilson of Kilmarnock, who had printed Burns's first book three years before. An appendix …
Cronstadt Castle [Supplemental Material],
2015
Marquette University
Cronstadt Castle [Supplemental Material], Sarah Crompton, Wendy Fall
Gothic Archive Supplemental Materials for Chapbooks
No abstract provided.
The Literary Unconscious: Ideology And Utopia In The Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel In England And Russia,
2015
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
The Literary Unconscious: Ideology And Utopia In The Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel In England And Russia, Isra Ahmed Daraiseh
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In this volume, I have examined a number of works of nineteenth-century realist fiction from England and Russia, using the double interpretive method recommended by Fredric Jameson in The Political Unconscious. In particular, I have employed the dialectical double hermeneutic suggested by Jameson, who argues that the most productive approach to literary texts is to consider them from the double perspective of ideology and utopia. That is, critics should approach literary texts by seeking out the ideological roots that lie beneath the textual surface and from which the texts grow, while at the same time keeping a careful eye out …
Touching Brains,
2015
CUNY Queens College
