Shadows On The Wall,
2013
University of Texas at El Paso
Shadows On The Wall, Daniel Bruce Greenhalgh
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
Thom Roth has spent his entire life in the Refuge, a secure and fundamentally hierarchical facility which protects the remnants of human civilization. Under the tutelage of Minister Trask, Thom has risen to become a primary contender for an administrative appointment, as well as secured the affections of Dee McKay, Trask's granddaughter. However, when Thom's best friends, Geoff and Scott, discover a small, secret tunnel underneath the Refuge, the three friends' learn that the foundation of their home was decidedly messier than they had been taught. On the other side of the tunnel they find another, smaller Refuge, with fewer …
Gender, Nature, And The Fairytale Structure In Robin Mckinley's Works,
2013
Colby College
Gender, Nature, And The Fairytale Structure In Robin Mckinley's Works, Molly Rogers
Honors Theses
Robin McKinley is an American fantasy author who uses fairytale structure to explore themes of gender and nature. Her first book, Beauty, a retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” was published in 1978. She continues to write fairytales and other fantastic fiction, utilizing the fairytale form and structure. She has won a few awards, including the Newbery Award in 1985 for her novel The Hero and the Crown. Her latest book, Pegasus, was published in 2010. Jack Zipes describes McKinley’s heroines as "self-confident, courageous young women who take the initiative in a world which they help to define with men…it …
Kings Of Infinite Space: Cartography And Identity In Literature, 1599 - 1914,
2013
Connecticut College
Kings Of Infinite Space: Cartography And Identity In Literature, 1599 - 1914, Caroline Mills
English Honors Papers
Mapping and writing are both attempts to describe some truth about the human experience. While maps may seem utilitarian, or at best art objects with aesthetic value, I believe that the maps we create for ourselves also function as maps of ourselves. I am primarily concerned with the places where maps and literature intersect — where literature employs the logic and rhetoric of cartography, and maps have narrative value. Where the two overlap, ideas of national identity and individual identity merge. Formally, there is a distinct difference between the “God’s-eye view” that a map provides and the linear nature of …
Creating Room For A Singularity Of Our Own: Reading Sue Lange's "We, Robots",
2013
CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College
Creating Room For A Singularity Of Our Own: Reading Sue Lange's "We, Robots", Marleen S. Barr
Publications and Research
The accessibility of Lange’s text might mitigate against recognizing its importance. Lange’s simple sentence structure and direct communicative mode convey a presently overlooked logical moral assertion: the impending Singularity is not a male-dominated patriarchal domain. The Singularity, in other words, should not be construed in a manner which excludes women and feminism. This assertion is patently obvious. But, nonetheless, it is often ignored. Before I read Lange’s novella as a description of the Singularity which feminists can embrace, I include the following background information: 1) a discussion about why the discourse relating to the Singularity needs to be expanded and …
Front Matter,
2013
University of South Carolina Aiken
Front Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D.
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Contents,
2013
University of South Carolina Aiken
Contents, Tom Mack, Ph.D.
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Seen, Not Heard: William Faulkner’S Narrative Style In The Creation Of African American Characters,
2013
Ursinus College Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Seen, Not Heard: William Faulkner’S Narrative Style In The Creation Of African American Characters, Dixon Speaker
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
A Single Day: Isolation And Connection In Virginia Woolf’S Mrs. Dalloway And Christopher Isherwood’S A Single Man,
2013
Shepherd University Shepherdstown, West Virginia
A Single Day: Isolation And Connection In Virginia Woolf’S Mrs. Dalloway And Christopher Isherwood’S A Single Man, Hannah Williams
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Back Matter,
2013
University of South Carolina Aiken
Back Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D.
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 15 Fall 2013,
2013
University of South Carolina
The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 15 Fall 2013
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
No abstract provided.
Southern Fiction: Southern Small-Town Culture And Its Landmarks,
2013
Columbus State University
Southern Fiction: Southern Small-Town Culture And Its Landmarks, Candice W.N. Lawrence
Theses and Dissertations
Southern small-town culture is marked by a close-knit community's strict societal expectations and hierarchy, the undeniable familiarity of all the residents and their business in a particular small town such as Bloomingdale, Georgia; and a resistance or inability to be affected by time. The second element—familiarity—functions not always as a means of nosiness but as a direct result of the unavoidable interconnectivity that is formed by generations of neighbors and relatives growing up together and never leaving their hometown. A final characteristic of the small-town culture is the significance of landmarks—both in a geographical and manmade sense. These elements and …
"Ego Te Baptizo": The Typology Of Baptism In Moby-Dick,
2013
Pepperdine University
"Ego Te Baptizo": The Typology Of Baptism In Moby-Dick, Kathryn Mogk
Global Tides
This paper examines baptismal imagery and themes in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick through the ancient exegetical practice of typology. This method of reading sees events, characters, and rituals as "types" or foreshadows of Christ's life, linking apparently disparate stories as an interdependent group. Melville simultaneously draws upon the typological associations of baptism and subverts them. Baptism appears in the novel as the washing away of sins, initiation into a new identity and community, second birth, initiation into mysteries, consecration for a holy purpose, and death and resurrection. However, Melville's baptisms are reversed, incomplete, or uncertain. The characters are not baptized into …
Storytelling In Comics: Who, When, And Where In “Here”,
2013
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Storytelling In Comics: Who, When, And Where In “Here”, Michael W. Hancock
Comics and Graphic Novels
Richard McGuire’s groundbreaking short comic “Here” (1989) revolutionized storytelling possibilities in comics. It may be used within a short story unit to demonstrate familiar elements of fiction, including setting, plot, and character. Moreover, its inventive use of panels within panels to juxtapose past, present, and future can serve as a model for students’ visual rendering of multiple points in time within a single location.
Pecan Grove Review Volume 14,
2013
St. Mary's University
Pecan Grove Review Volume 14, St. Mary's University
Pecan Grove Review
Creative writings by students, faculty, and staff of the St. Mary's University community.
Lights And Shadows - 2013,
2013
University of North Alabama
Lights And Shadows - 2013, University Of North Alabama
Lights and Shadows
Art and Literature Magazine
Into The Heart Of The Great Wilderness: Understanding Baldwin’S Quarrel With Négritude,
2013
CUNY Queens College
Into The Heart Of The Great Wilderness: Understanding Baldwin’S Quarrel With Négritude, Christopher Winks
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
Imprisonment, Punishment, And Progress In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter,
2013
Eastern Illinois University
Imprisonment, Punishment, And Progress In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Ashley Breanne Waggoner
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Narcissistic Intertextuality In The Works Of Bret Easton Ellis,
2013
Eastern Illinois University
Narcissistic Intertextuality In The Works Of Bret Easton Ellis, Jennifer Grindstaff
Masters Theses
This thesis examines the works of Bret Easton Ellis, specifically his three latest novels: Glamorama, Lunar Park, and Imperial Bedrooms, and identifies the metafictional and intertextual elements in these texts. For my purposes, I am defining metafiction as fiction that draws attention to itself and makes the reader aware that he or she is reading fiction. Intertextual will be defined as elements in the novels that appear in other works of fiction. In the case of Ellis, he is drawing upon and reusing elements from his own fiction. These elements include characters that reappear in novels other than the text …
She's A Brick House: August Wilson And The Stereotypes Of Black Womanhood,
2013
Gettysburg College
She's A Brick House: August Wilson And The Stereotypes Of Black Womanhood, Amelia Tatum Grabowski
Student Publications
In his Century Cycle of plays, August Wilson tells ten distinct stories of families in or linked to the Hill District, an African American community in Pittsburgh; one play taking place in each decade of the twentieth century. Through these plays, Wilson's audience sees the Hill District and America evolve, while prejudice, oppression, and poverty remain constant. Many scholars argue that sexism provides a fourth common factor, asserting that Wilson portrays the female characters in the male-fantasized, stereotypical roles of the Mammy or the Jezebel figure, rather as realistic, empowered, and complex women. However, close examination of the women with …
Animals,
2013
University of Texas at El Paso
Animals, Maria Alicia Gomez
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
Animals tells the stories of various characters and their lives within the neighborhood of Shadow and Anima Streets. The novel is structured in fragments that cycle through multiple characters from the local bar owner, to the homeless men roaming the alleys, a horse that befriends and old blind widow, a lion that roams the streets and a woman who slowly turns to stone. The novel treats themes of friendship, isolation, and community.
