Septentrionalism: Whiteness And 19th Century Representations Of Scandinavia,
2020
University of South Carolina
Septentrionalism: Whiteness And 19th Century Representations Of Scandinavia, Madison Elisabeth Boland
Theses and Dissertations
During the nineteenth century, the British Empire grappled with a rapidly changing world, both in terms of the industrializing landscape at home and the multi-ethnic nature of their expanding empire. With native white British making up the privileged minority, the understanding of what a subject of the British Empire looked like began to change, contributing to racial anxieties and a rise in British nationalism. To consolidate and strengthen their sense of national identity, many white Victorians sought to define Britishness upon racially exclusive lines, prioritizing a Germanic or Anglo-Saxon ethnicity above all others, including other European ethnicities. One way the …
Innocent No More: How Child Vampires Challenge The Social Narrative Of Childhood,
2020
Grand Valley State University
Innocent No More: How Child Vampires Challenge The Social Narrative Of Childhood, Ashley Quinn
Masters Theses
The inclusion of children within Gothic and horror fiction has always been regarded as untoward because children are vulnerable to misrepresentation. However, excluding children from transgressive genres eliminates a space where childhood can be critically analyzed. Fortunately, authors such as Stephen King, Anne Rice, and John Ajvide Lindqvist break the taboo through the inclusion of children in vampiric narratives. These narratives encourage readers to question the social narrative of childhood within the context of vampire stories. Through an examination of ‘Salem’s Lot (King, 1975), “Popsy” (King, 1987), Interview with the Vampire (Rice, 1976), and Let the Right One In (Lindqvist, …
2020 Greenleaf Review (No. 33),
2020
Whittier College
2020 Greenleaf Review (No. 33), Sigma Tau Delta
The Greenleaf Review
No abstract provided.
I Know These Things & Other Lies,
2020
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
I Know These Things & Other Lies, Jordan Elliott Charlton
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
I KNOW THESE THINGS AND OTHER LIES is a thesis comprised of an Ars Poetica essay and a collection of poems. The essay addresses my history with poetry, thoughts on how I view the act of writing, my reading inspirations, and how this collection began to be formed. The poems in this collection delve into the realities of black identity to observe the tensions between speech and silence, between memory and perpetuity. These poems address my cultural and personal history and take aim at the silences attributed to masculinity, black masculinity specifically. A sample of these poems is included here. …
The Art Of The Game: Issues In Adapting Video Games,
2020
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Art Of The Game: Issues In Adapting Video Games, Sydney K. Baty
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
On the face of things, movies and video games are similar mediums. Both engage extensively in visuals and audio, both can indulge in speculative fiction, and there is a healthy amount of sharing of inspiration and content. However, this does not guarantee successful adaptations from one form to another. Movies adapted from video games are notorious for being simply terrible, but little academic attention has been paid as to why these adaptations in particular seem so unsuccessful in every way, from audience reception, critical response, and monetary returns. This issue is based on fundamental differences in the medium. Games are, …
Thresholds Of Curating: Literary Space And Material Culture In The Works Of Harriet Prescott Spofford, Edith Wharton, Isabella Stewart Gardner, And Willa Cather 1870–1920,
2020
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Thresholds Of Curating: Literary Space And Material Culture In The Works Of Harriet Prescott Spofford, Edith Wharton, Isabella Stewart Gardner, And Willa Cather 1870–1920, Lindsay N. Andrews
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This dissertation explores the polycentric intersections between material and literary culture in four case studies spanning 1870-1920. Harriet Prescott Spofford, Edith Wharton, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and Willa Cather are four women whose work reflects a capacity to defy the genre-specific boundaries for which they are canonically renown. Harriet Prescott Spofford was an important contributor to the interior design movement in the early Gilded Age following challenges to finding publication resources for her fiction within a male-dominated publishing community. Edith Wharton’s ties to material culture are well known, but less attention is granted to the ways in which her own expertise …
Friend Or Foe: Chaucer’S Depiction Of Women In Troilus And Criseyde,
2020
DePauw University
Friend Or Foe: Chaucer’S Depiction Of Women In Troilus And Criseyde, Vanessa Balis 20
Honor Scholar Theses
Often considered the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340s-1400 CE) produced a number of famous poems during his lifetime, the most famous arguably being The Canterbury Tales. But another of his works, Troilus and Criseyde, is often considered the best example of both his poetic ability and his creative use of sources.1 In this thesis, I will be considering whether Chaucer supports or subverts a patriarchal social structure, specifically by looking at his representation of women in Troilus and Criseyde in comparison to his source Giovanni Boccaccio’s Il Filostrato. Instead of resorting to the assumptive rhetoric of …
Text Mining Contemporary Popular Fiction: Natural Language Processing-Derived Themes Across Over 1,000 New York Times Bestsellers And Genre Fiction Novels,
2020
University of South Carolina
Text Mining Contemporary Popular Fiction: Natural Language Processing-Derived Themes Across Over 1,000 New York Times Bestsellers And Genre Fiction Novels, Morgan Lundy
Theses and Dissertations
This study endeavors to apply computational methods to a large dataset of popular fictional material, to see what topics emerge when viewed across genre lines and from a new, “machine” perspective. The dataset consists of 1,136 popular and commercially successful novels published between 2005 and 2016, including New York Times bestsellers and “genre fiction,” including science fiction, young adult, romance and mystery novels. Methods are discussed, including dataset preparation, LDA topic modeling and topic number optimization, qualitative topic interpretation, data analysis and visualization. The experiment was conducted in two parts, with the "document" or unit of analysis as each full …
Engl 110: College Writing (Cultural Identity),
2020
CUNY Graduate Center
Engl 110: College Writing (Cultural Identity), Margot Kotler
Open Educational Resources
No abstract provided.
Women’S Disabled Bodies In The Novels Of Agatha Christie,
2020
Louisiana State University
Women’S Disabled Bodies In The Novels Of Agatha Christie, Victoria Pfeifer
Honors Capstones
No abstract provided.
The Mosaic Of Aesthetics: The Manifestation Of Clive Bell's And Roger Fry's Theories In The Waves,
2020
Brigham Young University
The Mosaic Of Aesthetics: The Manifestation Of Clive Bell's And Roger Fry's Theories In The Waves, Nina Katarina Štular
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Clichéd Language And Commonplace Faith,
2020
Brigham Young University
Clichéd Language And Commonplace Faith, Gavin Wride
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Contributors List,
2020
Brigham Young University
Ireland In Double Vision: The Allegory Of Seamus Heaney's "Come To The Bower",
2020
Brigham Young University
Ireland In Double Vision: The Allegory Of Seamus Heaney's "Come To The Bower", Janaya Tanner
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Curing Beauty's Stockholm Syndrome,
2020
Brigham Young University
Curing Beauty's Stockholm Syndrome, Erin Lee
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
"She Was Never Property": The Underground Railroad And John Locke's Labor Theory Of Property,
2020
Brigham Young University
"She Was Never Property": The Underground Railroad And John Locke's Labor Theory Of Property, Samuel Christensen
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
A Poem On The Late Massacre In Virginia. With Particular Mention Of Those Men Of Note That Suffered In That Disaster,
2020
San Jose State University
A Poem On The Late Massacre In Virginia. With Particular Mention Of Those Men Of Note That Suffered In That Disaster, Christopher Brooke
English 144 Class Projects
No abstract provided.
Beowulf : A Translation In Blank Verse,
2020
University of South Carolina
Beowulf : A Translation In Blank Verse, Alexander Jones
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is a translation into modern English blank verse of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. The bulk of the thesis is the poem itself, which represents not only the academic work of Old English translation, literary interpretation, and the study of early Germanic culture, but also the artistic work of creating poetry and adapting the poem’s content to modern language and contexts. Included with the translation is an introduction placing it in conversation with other prominent modern translations of Beowulf, and analyzing the translation choices made at macro and micro levels. It is shown through this analysis that …
The Logic Of Capital And The Possibility Of Resistance In Chris Abani’S Graceland,
2020
University of South Carolina
The Logic Of Capital And The Possibility Of Resistance In Chris Abani’S Graceland, Caleb Smith
Theses and Dissertations
This paper argues that Chris Abani’s GraceLand, in the structuring both of the novel’s diegetic and non-diegetic materials and of the presence of labor in the narrative, offers a model of how particularity can effect resistance to capital through iterative survival. The argument begins with a close explication of Dipesh Chakrabarty’s deconstructive reading of Capital, demonstrating how the phenomenon of capital operates and proliferates through a logical structure that simultaneously necessitates and must eradicate the particular labors and histories that ‘precede’ any given instance of capital. With this theoretical framework in hand, the argument looks to James. M. …
“That Confusion Of Who Is Who, Flesh And Flesh”: Mothers, Daughters, And The Body In Postwar And Contemporary American Literature,
2020
University of South Carolina
“That Confusion Of Who Is Who, Flesh And Flesh”: Mothers, Daughters, And The Body In Postwar And Contemporary American Literature, Jennifer Renee Blevins
Theses and Dissertations
In “That confusion of who is who, flesh and flesh”: Mothers, Daughters, and the Body in Postwar and Contemporary American Literature, I investigate how the body limits, disrupts, ruptures, or recuperates the mother/daughter relationship in postwar and contemporary texts by twentieth-century US women writers. These narratives portray the construction of female subjectivity when the feminine self seems insufficiently distinct from the mother (or daughter). In four chapters arranged chronologically by decade, I examine texts by Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Jamaica Kincaid, and Edwidge Danticat. On the one hand, mothers in these texts …
