The Invisible Universe And Other Screenplays, 2011 Longwood University
The Invisible Universe And Other Screenplays, Edward Howarth
Theses & Honors Papers
In the science fiction classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Roy Neary sacrifices everything, his job, his friends, his family, to pursue an answer that he believes will provide him with a new and better life. With nothing but hazy visions of alien spaceships, and a five note tune lingering in his memory, Roy is nevertheless willing to step outside of his emotional security and risk everything. Science fiction cinema is full of these characters, from Roy in Close Encounters, Truman in The Truman Show (1998), to Evan in The Butterfly Effect (2004), these are people not content …
Encompassing The Intolerable: Laughter, Memory, And Inscription In The Fiction Of John Mcgahern, 2011 Marquette University
Encompassing The Intolerable: Laughter, Memory, And Inscription In The Fiction Of John Mcgahern, John Keegan Malloy
Dissertations (1934 -)
Encompassing the Intolerable examines John McGahern's depiction of individual consciousness struggling with postcolonial Ireland's three dominant and interconnected institutions: nation, family, and the Catholic Church. While McGahern's work, especially the early fiction, is often considered unremittingly bleak, this study argues that his exposure of abuse, repression, and disillusionment within these institutions does not finally entail a pessimistic vision. Instead, through close readings emphasizing character and epiphany, I contend that his texts use the motifs of laughter, memory, and inscription to demonstrate how consciousness can accommodate intolerable realities such as violence and loss rather than becoming defined or controlled by them. …
Old Made New: Neil Gaiman's Storytelling In The Sandman, 2011 Rhode Island College
Old Made New: Neil Gaiman's Storytelling In The Sandman, Sara Reilly
Honors Projects
An exploration of the narrative and storytelling of Neil Gaiman in his DC Comics series, The Sandman.
Thrifting, 2011 Marquette University
Thrifting, Angela Sorby
English Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Amitav Ghosh And The Aesthetic Turn In Postcolonial Studies, 2011 Marquette University
Amitav Ghosh And The Aesthetic Turn In Postcolonial Studies, John Su
English Faculty Research and Publications
This essay explores the "aesthetic turn" in postcolonial studies in light of the literary works of Indo-Burmese author Amitav Ghosh. While a renewed interest in aesthetic theories is apparent throughout the humanities in the past decade, it is particularly striking in postcolonial studies, where it holds out the possibility of blending the materialist/historicist and culturalist/textualist strands of postcolonial scholarship. Recent studies by Deepika Bahri, Nicholas Brown, Ato Quayson and others have been enormously promising; this essay argues for bringing their Frankfurt School-influenced aesthetic theories into conversation with other theories of aesthetics. Particular attention in this essay is given to the …
Scout's Daughters : Race And Creative Development In Contemporary Adolescent Literature, 2011 University of Richmond
Scout's Daughters : Race And Creative Development In Contemporary Adolescent Literature, Amanda Malloy
Honors Theses
At the heart of what Roberta S. Trites titles ―adolescent literature‖ – works written both for and about young adults—is a question of agency (Disturbing 7). In Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature, Trites asserts that adolescent novels attempt to answer the question of young adults who wonder if they ―should or even can affect the world in which they live‖ (1). Trites‘ argument is based on the idea that the distinguishing characteristic of adolescent literature is its focus on ―the social forces‖ that …
"The Stuff Of Thought" : Virginia Woolf's Object Lessons, 2011 University of Richmond
"The Stuff Of Thought" : Virginia Woolf's Object Lessons, Sam Mitchell
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Regional Consciousness In American Literature, 1860-1930, 2011 Marquette University
Regional Consciousness In American Literature, 1860-1930, Kelsey Louise Squire
Dissertations (1934 -)
This study establishes a conversation between regional literary theory, ecocriticism, and places studies as a necessary component of a more nuanced understanding of regionalism as depicted by mobile American authors in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Between 1860 and 1930, regional writers faced the challenge of making place relevant in an increasingly mobile world. In contrast to scholarly studies that situate the relevance of regionalism as a vehicle for a larger cause (for example, nationalism or feminism), or conversely, studies that focus on articulating an overly rigid "regional identity" of places or authors, I employ the term "regional …
My Secret Life In Film: A Memoir, 2011 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
My Secret Life In Film: A Memoir, Kelly Grey Carlisle
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This creative dissertation is an original work in the genre of memoir, and consists of the first two sections of my book, My Secret Life in Film. I believe that my book speaks to contemporary experiences of childhood, violence, sexuality, and faith, and complicates conceptions of a ‘normal’ family. When I was three weeks old, my mother, who worked as a prostitute, was murdered near downtown Los Angeles. Her case remains unsolved, and I do not know my father. Her own parents were unwed. At first I lived with my maternal grandmother and the woman I believe to have been …
Up Too Late: A Novel Excerpt, 2011 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Up Too Late: A Novel Excerpt, Peter Bayless
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Tyler Sexton is a male in his mid-twenties whose life seems to have ground to a halt before it truly began. Despite the opportunities afforded him by a successful college education and an upper-middle-class family background, Tyler's life since the death of his father from heart disease has become one dominated by malaise, living alone and working a dead-end job as a grocery store customer-service manager, clinging to the family members he has left. Now, with his mother suffering from a debilitating fight with cancer and his sisters either starting their own families or withdrawing even further into episodes of …
After The Rainbow, 2011 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
After The Rainbow, Rachel Hruza
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This thesis contains a multi-genre collection featuring fiction and memoir. It explores characterization through relationships by focusing on the external and internal forces that influence a person’s connection to herself or another. Some pieces verge on the plane of magical realism while others are factually based. While most of this collection is serious in tone, the author hopes the reader will find joy in the small moments as well as the momentous.
"What's A Goin' On?" People And Place In The Fiction Of Edythe Squier Draper, 1924-1941, 2011 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"What's A Goin' On?" People And Place In The Fiction Of Edythe Squier Draper, 1924-1941, Aubrey R. Streit Krug
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This essay is devoted to looking back into the life and fiction of Edythe Squier Draper, a twentieth-century writer in Oswego, Kansas. Many of Draper’s stories are set in southeastern Kansas. Through them, we gain a sense of how she attempted—and at times failed—to perceive, articulate, and adapt to her place on the Great Plains. Draper claimed the identity of a rural woman writer by writing herself into narratives of colonial, agricultural settlement, and she both complicated and perpetuated stereotypes of class and race in her fiction. By examining her and her characters’ perspective on their place in the Great …
Women On The Ground: Bringing Theory And Activism Together Through Domestic Violence Narratives, 2011 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Women On The Ground: Bringing Theory And Activism Together Through Domestic Violence Narratives, Kacey J. Barrow
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This thesis works toward bringing domestic violence activism and feminist theory together by refuting that these two approaches are necessarily in binary opposition. It is centered on changing the way we make sense of violence against women by addressing why the authors that include personal narrative in their writing should be help up as examples of theory. By analyzing literary domestic violence narratives, the author demonstrates that narrative is itself theory. In addition, this essay creates a third space where the author‘s own domestic violence narratives complement the literary narratives. The author shows how we can analyze victimized characters in …
Piracy, Slavery, And Assimilation: Women In Early Modern Captivity Literature, 2011 University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Piracy, Slavery, And Assimilation: Women In Early Modern Captivity Literature, David C. Moberly
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This thesis examines a hitherto neglected body of works featuring female characters enslaved in Islamicate lands. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, many Englishmen and women were taken captive by pirates and enslaved in what is now the Middle East and North Africa. Several writers of the time created narratives and dramas about the experiences of such captives. Recent scholarship has brought to light many of these works and pointed out their importance in establishing what was still a young, unsure, and developing English identity in this early period. Most of this scholarship, however, has dealt with narratives of the …
Poe's Mythologies: Transatlantic Nineteenth Century Hellenism As World Literature, 2011 University of South Carolina - Columbia
Poe's Mythologies: Transatlantic Nineteenth Century Hellenism As World Literature, David Greven
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Performing The Audience: Constructing Playgoing In Early Modern Drama, 2011 Marquette University
Performing The Audience: Constructing Playgoing In Early Modern Drama, Eric Dunnum
Dissertations (1934 -)
This dissertation argues that early modern playwrights used metadrama to construct the experience and concept of playgoing for their audiences. By staging playgoing in front of playgoers, playwrights sought to teach their audiences how to attend a play and how to react to a performance. This type of instruction was possible, and perhaps necessary, because in early modern London attending a professionally produced play with thousands of other playgoers was a genuinely new cultural activity, so no established tradition of playgoing existed. Thus, playwrights throughout the era from John Lyly to Richard Brome attempted to invent playgoing through their performances. …
Paule Marshall's Critique Of Contemporary Neo-Imperialisms Through The Trope Of Travel, 2011 Marquette University
Paule Marshall's Critique Of Contemporary Neo-Imperialisms Through The Trope Of Travel, Michelle Miesen Felix
Dissertations (1934 -)
This study examines Marshall's use of the trope of travel within and between the United States and the Caribbean to critique ideologies of Development, tourism, and globalization as neo-imperial. This examination of travel in Marshall's To Da-Duh, In Memoriam; The Chosen Place, The Timeless People; Praisesong for the Widow; and Daughters exposes the asymmetrical structures of power that exist between the two regions. In so doing, my study locates Marshall's concern about the imposition of power in the post-colonial period rather than exclusively in the Caribbean's colonial past. My close reading of these texts draws upon the vexed tradition of …
Hermeneutics, Poetry, And Spenser: Augustinian Exegesis And The Renaissance Epic, 2011 Marquette University
Hermeneutics, Poetry, And Spenser: Augustinian Exegesis And The Renaissance Epic, Denna Iammarino-Falhamer
Dissertations (1934 -)
One of the major claims this study makes is that Spenser desires to teach and cultivate a poetic reader--a reader who will employ interpretation and contemplation to expand the possibilities and places of textual meaning according to the tutelage of Spenser's text. The basis for Spenser's exegetical schema derives in large part from the works of St. Augustine and Richard Hooker. In works such as On Christian Doctrine and the Confessions, Augustine erects a Scriptural interpretative model founded upon charity and faith--a model interested in the process of exegesis as much as the end products of the analysis. Similarly, in …
Satori 2011, 2011 Winona State University
Satori 2011, Winona State University
Satori Literary Magazine
The Satori is a student literary publication that expresses the artistic spirit of the students of Winona State University. Student poetry, prose, and graphic art are published in the Satori every spring since 1970.
Mulk Raj Anand: Moving India Forward, 2011 Governors State University
Mulk Raj Anand: Moving India Forward, Sandy Wheeler
All Student Theses
Mulk Raj Anand is an innovator in literature. He is one of the first Indian authors to write in English about the humanitarian dilemmas facing India during the mid-twentieth century. His compassionate objective is to produce an awareness of the cruelty and inhumane practices of untouchability and social class distinctions and to seek the enlightening prospects of progress and modernity. In his three novels Coolie, Two Leaves and a Bud, and Untouchable, Anand explores the lives of of the down-trodden. The first chapter of this project defines and discusses the Hindu caste system of India as well as its unfavorable …