Ars Poetica,
2021
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Longing, Wading,
2021
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Lucky Ones,
2021
University of Alabama at Birmingham
How To Forget That Night,
2021
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ex Machina,
2021
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Armstrong's Good Night,
2021
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Soon,
2021
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham Poetry Review 48 (Complete Issue),
2021
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham Poetry Review 48 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff
Birmingham Poetry Review
No abstract provided.
Yesterday, Here,
2021
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Chernobyl Fox Makes And Eats Six-Layer Sandwich,
2021
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Chernobyl Fox Makes And Eats Six-Layer Sandwich, Corey Marks
Birmingham Poetry Review
p. 110
Office,
2021
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Held Up,
2021
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Word You're Looking For,
2021
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Mutilated Masculinity: Intersections Of Disability, Gender, And Mental Health In Modernist Fiction,
2021
University of Central Florida
Mutilated Masculinity: Intersections Of Disability, Gender, And Mental Health In Modernist Fiction, Sara Thames
Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023
This thesis investigates the impact of the intersection of physical disabilities and mental health conditions on the masculine identities presented in modernist texts. Here, I analyze a collection of works by Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, Claude McKay, and Wilfred Owen. Utilizing a combination of theoretical approaches: trauma theory, gender and sexuality studies, narratology, disability studies, and insights from the medical humanities, I revisit well-known novels like The Sun Also Rises and Lady Chatterley's Lover and illuminate lesser-studied works like "A Natural History of the Dead" and the recently published Romance in Marseille. I recognize here the psychosocial struggles faced by …
Dickens’S Changing Perspective Towards Capitalism And The Bourgeoisie,
2021
Rollins College
Dickens’S Changing Perspective Towards Capitalism And The Bourgeoisie, Christina Oliveira
Honors Program Theses
Most scholars agree that author and social activist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) made keen observations on human behavior and societal problems through his works. However, scholars are divided over whether to categorize Dickens and his work as radically reformist or pro-bourgeoisie. Through an analysis of three of Dickens’s texts, A Christmas Carol (1843), Bleak House (1852), and Great Expectations (1861), this thesis demonstrates that Dickens’s works carry contradictory ideologies. As time passes, Dickens becomes disillusioned with capitalism but continues to promote capitalist and bourgeois values and ideologies. The trajectory of Dickens’s views shows the difficulties in imagining different realities outside of …
Imagining An Asian American Superhero Of North Korean Origin: A Design Fiction,
2021
CUNY Queens College
Imagining An Asian American Superhero Of North Korean Origin: A Design Fiction, Seo-Young J. Chu
Publications and Research
My talk, a thought-experimental blend of literary criticism and speculative "design fiction," will introduce you to an Asian American superhero of North Korean origin. In this science-fictional superhero, whom I have tentatively named "구름"/"☁️"/"Ku-reum," Korea's elusive realities coalesce into legible form. More specifically, they become available for narrative experience and relatable to us as an anthropomorphic character, a person with whom we might identify, come face-to-face, sympathize, interact dynamically, and have a conversation. Ku-reum is designed to reflect Korea's complex past and hopes for the future. Existing beyond division systems, Ku-reum uses the non-binary pronouns "one"/"they." Neither "South" nor "North," …
"The Greek Gods Don't Exactly Show Up For Their Kids' Basketball Games": Adapting Epic Convention Through Family Dramas In Rick Riordan's The Last Olympian,
2021
Arcadia University
"The Greek Gods Don't Exactly Show Up For Their Kids' Basketball Games": Adapting Epic Convention Through Family Dramas In Rick Riordan's The Last Olympian, Hannah Mcginnis
Capstone Showcase
Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians saga bridges the gap between ancient myth and modern coming-of-age. In this article, the assertion that The Last Olympian is essentially an epic for the new generation invites an examination of the Homeric-heroic tropes and characteristics which are attributed to Riordan's characters. This analysis explains that through the combined motifs of time, age, and family, Riordan actively adapts and subverts these Classical conventions into a modern mythography for young readers.
“Gather Up The Reliques Of Thy Race” : Paynim Remains In Faery-Land,
2021
Smith College
“Gather Up The Reliques Of Thy Race” : Paynim Remains In Faery-Land, Tess Grogan
English Language and Literature: Faculty Publications
Placing Sansfoy’s death and the disappearance of his body alongside The Faerie Queene’s other defeated paynims—the Souldan and Pollente, Pyrochles and Cymochles—reveals that Spenser’s poem breaks from epic tradition in its treatment of the enemy dead. The corpse desecration and immoderate mourning habitually practiced by Spenser’s foreign characters makes visible early modern English anxieties about the limits placed on grief and the rites owed to the departed. In Book II, classical ideals of universal burial are gradually supplanted by treatment determined by racial and religious difference. Guyon’s evolving response to the question of burial discloses the racial stakes of paynim …
A Feminine Gothic Revival: The Haunting Of Shirley Jackson And Toni Morrison,
2021
Rollins College
A Feminine Gothic Revival: The Haunting Of Shirley Jackson And Toni Morrison, Mallory Danley
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
In the realm of Gothic literature, the main characters typically involve a helpless woman in the clutches of her male assailant. Critics have long established that the traditional Gothic genre is considered a male-dominated discipline fixated on ideas of power, control, and submission. This essay argues that Shirley Jackson and Toni Morrison separate from this trope and invent the haunted heroine, a leading lady so haunted by the past, relationships, and emotions that through unique character development, insidious use of dread, and malicious paranormal occurrences create a nouveau dichotomy within Gothic literature. This essay is a close reading of two …
‘I Have Had My Vision:’ Visions And The Escape From Expectations In The House Of Mirth And To The Lighthouse,
2021
Claremont Colleges
‘I Have Had My Vision:’ Visions And The Escape From Expectations In The House Of Mirth And To The Lighthouse, Madison Yardumian
Scripps Senior Theses
“I have had my vision,” Lily Briscoe declares in the triumphant culminating line of To the Lighthouse, indicating the fulfillment of her artistic vision on a project over ten years in the making. In her success, Lily Briscoe disproves those who have told her “women can’t write, women can’t paint” and actualizes her ability to create, all the while rejecting gendered and heteronormative expectations which prioritize heterosexual marriage over her artistic pursuits (Woolf, TL 86). Strikingly, this language of vision also recurs throughout The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, a text published 22 years after To the Lighthouse, …
