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Passive And Active Masculinities In Disney's Fairy Tale Films, Grace Dugar

ETD Archive

Disney fairy tale films are not as patriarchal and empowering of men as they have long been assumed to be. Laura Mulvey's cinematic theory of the gaze and more recent revisions of her theory inform this analysis of the portrayal of males and females in Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. This study reveals that many representations of males in these films actually portray masculinity as an object of female agency. Over time, Disney's representations of masculinity have become more supportive of male agency and individuality, but this development has been inconsistent …

Invoking The Incubus: Mary Shelly's Use Of The Demon-Lover Tradition In Frankenstein, Christopher M. Lamphear

ETD Archive

The image and behavior of Shelley's infamous creature is similar to that of the mythical Incubus demon. By presenting Victor's hideous progeny as a reproduction of the Incubus myth, Shelley seems to provide her nineteenth-century reader with the image of demons, who for many, already haunted their nightmares. Shelley would likely have been familiar with the Incubus myth. Her fascination with her dead mother led her to the artist Henry Fuseli, whose painting "The Nightmare" depicts the Incubus Demon. Shelley wrote during a time in which medical scholars such as Dr. Bond and Dr. Waller explored a malady that they …

The Cyborg Griffin: A Speculative Fiction Literary Journal, Hollins University

Cyborg Griffin: a Speculative Fiction Literary Journal

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copyrighted

Hollins Student Publication

Scope: short stories, artwork, poetry, essays, and comics

Paper copies shelved in University Archives.

Jane Austen, The Prose Shakespeare, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner

Faculty Publications

This essay explores the connection between Shakespearean drama and the novel’s representation of interiority. Jane Austen’s celebrated use of free indirect discourse, I argue, is linked to Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare, which turned dramatic soliloquies into prose narration, rendering a character’s thought and idiom in a third-person voice. Heralded as a “prose Shakespeare” by nineteenth-century critics, Austen also developed an inverse free indirect discourse, the infusion of the narrative voice into characters’ dialogue. Scenes from Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion offer mini-Shakespearean plays of attention, for Shakespearean technique and quotation script Austen’s dramas of reading.

Blowin' In The Wind: The Contribution Of The Weather Underground To The Canon Of Trauma Literature, Caitlin D. Bishop

Departmental Honors Projects

The literature of the Weather Underground Organization is, to a large degree, a single and superfluous voice in an outpouring of other texts drafted by those who directly experienced the horror of the American War in Vietnam. Declarations, statements, and communiqués penned by the organization, later revised into compilations and memoirs, attempted to rile and rouse a generation of activists. Relying heavily on the notion of Vergangenheitsbewaltigung, a German concept of confronting historical trauma, literature of the WUO is shrouded in an intense morality that not only challenges criticisms of the organization, but complicates the designation of domestic terrorism …

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.

Bread-Winning And Bread-Baking: On Being A Provider, Abigail Rine

Faculty Publications - Department of English

No abstract provided.

No Rape Victim, Male Or Female, Deserves To Be Blamed, Abigail Rine

Faculty Publications - Department of English

No abstract provided.

The Pros And Cons Of Abandoning The Word 'Feminist', Abigail Rine

Faculty Publications - Department of English

No abstract provided.

The Child Is The Father Of The Man - Mad Men, Episode 8, Abigail Rine

Faculty Publications - Department of English

No abstract provided.

Why Some Evangelicals Are Trying To Stop Obsessing Over Pre-Marital Sex, Abigail Rine

Faculty Publications - Department of English

No abstract provided.

The Postfeminist Mystique - Or, What Can We Learn From Betty Draper?, Abigail Rine

Faculty Publications - Department of English

No abstract provided.

Review Of York's "Cold Spring Rising", Bill Jolliff

Faculty Publications - Department of English

No abstract provided.

Review Of Clabough's "Inhabiting Contemporary Southern And Appalachian Literature", Bill Jolliff

Faculty Publications - Department of English

No abstract provided.

Short Story, Volume 21, Number 2, Fall 2013 [Download Entire Issue]

Short Story

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Sheba: Pecola's Daughter, Brittany Basden

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is a tragic American story. We empathize with Pecola suffering as a little black girl who wanted blue eyes more than anything. She was born to a mother obsessed with a fantastical Hollywood ideal and a father who was abandoned in a trash heap as a baby. Pecola’s father rapes her and she becomes pregnant. In The Bluest Eye, Pecola’s baby does not survive, but it is possible to imagine a world that includes her.

This work imagines that Pecola’s baby survives and Claudia, a friend to Pecola in The Bluest Eye, names her …

Don't Toss That Novel! How To Read Benjy’S Bright Shapes In The Sound And The Fury And Rhoda's Watery Words In The Waves, Eleanor Gray

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

In their respective novels The Waves and The Sound and the Fury, Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner establish focal points in narration; each author uses narrative strategy to trace characters and voices’ mind processes, languages, and interactions. Each novel reads like a snapshot of these narrated worlds without omniscient authorial guidance, leaving the reader to decipher the language and codes on the page. Accordingly, the barrier these narrative languages face are both within the page and without, as translation requires a committed reader who wants to learn the language, a reader who, even when the voices spiral off the …

Street Sex Workers' Discourse: Realizing Material Change Through Agential Choice., Jill Mccracken

Faculty Books

Incorporating the voices and insights of street sex workers through personal interviews, this monograph argues that the material conditions of many street workers — the physical environments they live in and their effects on the workers’ bodies, identities, and spirits — are represented, reproduced, and entrenched in the language surrounding their work. As an ethnographic case study of a local system that can be extrapolated to other subcultures and the construction of identities, this book disrupts some of the more prevalent academic and lay understandings about street prostitution by providing a thorough analysis of the material conditions surrounding street work …

Willa Cather’S Two Modernisms, Richard H. Millington

English Language and Literature: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Short Story

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