Alchemical Transformation And The Grief-Threshold In H.D.'S Helen In Egypt,
2012
University of Denver
Alchemical Transformation And The Grief-Threshold In H.D.'S Helen In Egypt, Eliza C. Bennett
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In H.D's lyric epic, Helen in Egypt, Helen of Troy experiences a phenomenological transformation in the brazier of the heart, which burns both on the beach of her new home in Egypt and in the depths of her psychic life. I have envisioned a process by which Helen psychologically enters into the brazier's flames to begin an alchemical process, so that she might see the beauty of the earth emerge and understand the rhythmic significance of the heart's perception. I call the brazier's (or the heart's) place of alchemical transformation the grief-threshold, which balances Helen on the edge …
Found Ipod Poem 1.0, Found Ipod Poem 2.0,
2012
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
Found Ipod Poem 1.0, Found Ipod Poem 2.0, William Lamberts
Headwaters
No abstract provided.
Palabras, A Home Body,
2012
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
Pussy Willows, Right Temperature,
2012
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
October Blast, Musings,
2012
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
Poetic License: The Past In Creative Writing,
2012
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
Poetic License: The Past In Creative Writing, Mara Faulkner Osb, Cynthia N. Malone, Karen L. Erickson, Scott Richardson
Headwaters
No abstract provided.
Short Story: "Young Soldier, The Taxi Driver",
2012
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
Short Story: "Young Soldier, The Taxi Driver", Sophia Geng
Headwaters
No abstract provided.
Verse, Fall Migration,
2012
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
The Pleasures Of Prayer,
2012
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
A Flight Of Quiet Necessities, Autumn Harvest, Boy Child Lies Upon Autumn Leaves,
2012
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
A Flight Of Quiet Necessities, Autumn Harvest, Boy Child Lies Upon Autumn Leaves, Willard Marwitz
Headwaters
No abstract provided.
Short Story: "Celery's Dream",
2012
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
The Action Of Grace In Territory Held By The Devil: Flannery O’Connor And Cormac Mccarthy,
2012
Kennesaw State University
The Action Of Grace In Territory Held By The Devil: Flannery O’Connor And Cormac Mccarthy, Scott A. Singleton
The Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research
This paper compares the lives and work of Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy. The two authors share similarities in their backgrounds, careers, and work. The paper begins with an examination of biographical information of both authors to contextualize their work and note commonalities in their lives and careers. The central idea is that Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy both create grotesque characters to reveal the depraved condition of humanity in order to highlight the need for redemption and the possibility of divine grace. To prove this, examples are discussed from multiple pieces of work by O’Connor and McCarthy including The …
House Of Leaves: The End Of Postmodernism,
2012
SUNY Buffalo State University
House Of Leaves: The End Of Postmodernism, Joseph B. Noah
English Theses
Mark Z. Danielewski’s debut 2000 novel House of Leaves is written in part as an essay titled The Navidson Record by Zampanò. Within this essay, Zampanò includes footnotes and citations to many works both real and fictional. Through investigating some of his footnotes and allusions in The Navidson Record, certain connections to the postmodern movement may be drawn. By interpreting Zampanò’s allusions to Freud, Derrida, and Einstein, elements from Fredric Jameson’s Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late-Capitalism change the reception of Danielewski’s novel. Thorough investigation of a few allusions within the novel House of Leaves reveal many foundations …
Mothers, Sons, And The Gothic Family In Brown, Poe, And Wharton,
2012
Scripps College
Mothers, Sons, And The Gothic Family In Brown, Poe, And Wharton, Elizabeth Lain Lyon
Scripps Senior Theses
Within Gothic literature, the mother is frequently missing. In Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly, Edgar Allan Poe’s “Morella,” “Ligeia,” and “Eleonora,” and Edith Wharton’s “Bewitched,” men are left without parents, and they attempt to recuperate a mother-figure. To do so, the men in these texts psychologically project the role of their mother onto other women. Wives, sisters, and daughters all have the potential to become mothers to these men. This is a catastrophe for the women involved, for male perception fails to distinguish females as autonomous, unique beings. By conflating roles in the family structure, men destroy women and …
Exploring The Morality Of Arthur Miller And Elia Kazan To Show How It Affected Their Work, Friendship And Society,
2012
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Exploring The Morality Of Arthur Miller And Elia Kazan To Show How It Affected Their Work, Friendship And Society, Dale D. Parry
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
The purpose of this study is to explore the moral convictions, or the lack of same, in the personal character of Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan and to show how those convictions affected not only their work and personal friendship but society as well. They first met in 1946 when Harold Clurman of the Group Theater passed to Kazan a Miller play that he had read entitled All My Sons. With the success of the play, the two became fast friends and collaborators in profession and ideology. Each had in common the Great Depression, problem fathers, marital instability and Communism. …
Humor Me To Heaven: Humor's Redemptive Role In The Works Of Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, And Marilynne Robinson,
2012
Liberty University
Humor Me To Heaven: Humor's Redemptive Role In The Works Of Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, And Marilynne Robinson, Stephanie Johnson
Masters Theses
Humor is the topic of many psychological, social, and cultural studies, but this project examines humor under a new lens. Humor's unique qualities explored in this study prove that humor is capable of more than just causing laughter; the nature of humor allows it to unveil truths about humanity, both spiritual and physical, through exposing man's flaws. This quality is especially important to consider when analyzing humor in the context of literature, in which humor also works as an aesthetic element. This study searches several short stories by Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor along with Marilynne Robinson's Gilead to reveal …
"Robert Frost Blues”,
2012
University of Southern Mississippi
"Robert Frost Blues”, Gregory Arthur Weiss
Dissertations
Robert Frost Blues collectively argues, stylistically and thematically, that apprehending the world is difficult. If one is able to know the world to some degree, the efficacy of that knowledge will be significantly affected by whether other people agree that that apprehension of the world is correct. But beyond that, Robert Frost Blues, with its casual sestinas and villanelles, colloquial language, found language, prose poems, dialogues, and iambic narratives, implicitly argues that the most important aspect of knowing the world is not the form that knowledge fits into or the literary devices it employs. Instead apprehending the world requires both …
Tiny Animals Made To Do Unnatural Things,
2012
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Tiny Animals Made To Do Unnatural Things, Ashley Mary Siebels
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
The stories in this collection revolve around a central theme which is expressed by my titleTiny Animals Made To Do Unnatural Things. All my characters feel guilt about decisions and experiences that haunt their past. In the present, they have come to a crossroads and are trying to decipher between what they were made to do as in vocation and evolution and what they are being made to do by the authorial pressures that loom over them (e.g. bosses, parents, loan officers, prison guards.)
In this way, my thesis pivots on the word made. Made (or to make) has many …
On Our Way Out: And Other Stories,
2012
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
On Our Way Out: And Other Stories, Benjamin Champlin Wright Morris
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
On Our Way Out and other stories is a collection of short fiction banded together with themes of the darkened strange, the missing and the moving, and a sense of place. The characters in these stories try to claw their way to newfound identities, whether it's through a financial transaction, saving a life, or putting a body in the ground. An action with a result is what's needed in these characters' lives. Though, often, the results are not intended. Despite the oddity inherent in these stories and characters, there is something familiar about their plight as ordinary people, something in …
James Jones's Codes Of Conduct,
2012
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
James Jones's Codes Of Conduct, Matthew Samuel Ross
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Though his work was celebrated by his contemporaries and remains highly lauded by scholars of war fiction, James Jones's novels are already at risk of falling outside the mainstream canon of 20th Century American literature. My dissertation project proposes an intensive examination of James Jones' three volume war trilogy, From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and Whistle, collectively considered by eminent critic Paul Fussell to be the finest work to emerge from the Second World War. Jones' trilogy is a mainstay within the overall genre of war fiction, yet it has been afforded relatively little critical attention by …
