Appearances,
2017
University at Albany, State University of New York
Appearances, Samantha M.F. Loesch
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Appearances is a one-act memory play with a focus on temporality, language deficiencies, and allegorical depictions of the ambiguous relationships between men and women. Using dramatic techniques this autobiographically based play is a complex blend of doubled actors, stage directions, and surrealistic depictions of time reflecting the characteristics of absurdist plays. Using such devices creates a pastiche of female degradation, effacement, and feelings of worthlessness inspired by realistic depictions of male harassment. Elements such as the inadequacy of language, the role of autobiography, and the Cubist depiction of temporality performed with non-verbal motifs and recursive tendencies reveal a woman’s existential …
Novel Passions : Re-Reading English Fiction Through The History Of Emotion, 1689-1751,
2017
University at Albany, State University of New York
Novel Passions : Re-Reading English Fiction Through The History Of Emotion, 1689-1751, Joel P. Sodano
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
“The passions” were of paramount importance in the 18th century. Classical contexts established excessive emotions as potentially dangerous forces that could override the will and dictate human action, but they also perceived them as inessential to and even extirpable from human nature. With the advent of empiricism, the theoretical framework of emotion shifted from an external condition to an internal proposition. Thus, in the 18th century a conceptual symbiosis is formed between “the Gales of Passion” and “the Reins of Reason” (Spectator, no. 408, 1712). This seemingly archaic idea is actually being confirmed by contemporary neuroscience. For recently discovered neural …
Keats And Food : Language Of The Edible In John Keats's Letters And Poems,
2017
University at Albany, State University of New York
Keats And Food : Language Of The Edible In John Keats's Letters And Poems, Kaitlin Resler
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This thesis is an exploration of the language of food and drink in the letters and poetry of John Keats. In sifting through his letters, famous for his unselfconscious thoughts on the nature of poetry and poetic composition, it is possible to construct the details of his culinary life not only as it pertains to daily eating habits but also in how he uses the language of food to articulate the sensations achieved in the course of writing and reading poetry. Keats frequently adapted this language to describe these activities because for him, the way food is consumed and synthesized …
Consciousness Engendered Throughout Lena Dunham's "Girls" : Female Subjectivity Vs The Problem Of Post-Feminism,
2017
University at Albany, State University of New York
Consciousness Engendered Throughout Lena Dunham's "Girls" : Female Subjectivity Vs The Problem Of Post-Feminism, Heeyeon Kim
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The inequality between genders is an idea still endorsed in everyday life throughout media, political discourse, and relationships. Gender discrimination spurs feminists to strive for equity and has become the motivation for the changing and progressive message in their writings and artworks. Lena Dunham’s HBO TV series Girls is such a work and is distinctly unique when compared to Hollywood’s presentation of the standard image of women, and thus, has been used as an initiation into the study of post-feminism and the contemporary media. Dunham’s attitudes and ideas shown in Girls has the same vigorous feminist movement resembling the rebelliousness …
Bridging The Stereotypical Gap From The Past To The Present : An Analysis Of African American Stereotypes Through The Boondocks,
2017
University at Albany, State University of New York
Bridging The Stereotypical Gap From The Past To The Present : An Analysis Of African American Stereotypes Through The Boondocks, Tiffany Addo
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The purpose of this thesis is to discuss and identify African American stereotypes that contain both negative and positive connotations. These stereotypes have origins that date back to the Pre-Slavery Era. Regardless of the lapse in time, the stereotypes have only adapted and found a place in the world we live in today. I use these stereotypes and analyze them through a show called The Boondocks. Within the show, Aaron McGruder (the writer and producer of the first three seasons) makes it a point to present his audience with a satirical representation of all these known stereotypes through the main …
Goldman’S Paradox: Imperfect Perfection,
2017
Illinois Wesleyan University
Goldman’S Paradox: Imperfect Perfection, Aaron Manuel
Outstanding Gateway Papers
In The Paradox of Punishment, Alan Goldman argues that the mixed theory of punishment is inherently contradictory. Goldman explains that the mixed theory is a combination of two older theories of punishment: retributivism and utilitarianism. The combination of these two theories into a single mixed theory was intended to mitigate these theories’ flaws. However, Goldman asserts that the two theories are incompatible, as justification of one requires dismissal of the other, creating a paradox. While I agree that Goldman’s paradox exists, and that it is logically inescapable, I believe he has neglected several points of analysis which weaken the …
The New Face Of Civil Revolution,
2017
Illinois Wesleyan University
The New Face Of Civil Revolution, Kalen Gray
Outstanding Gateway Papers
"The New Face of Civil Revolution" explains how with changing times comes changing platforms of expressing disdain for modern oppression against Black people of the United States of America. By juxtaposing the Black Power Movement and the Black Lives Matter Movement, this article provides a history of the oppression Black people face in America, as well as the many ways that these separate movements operate. Based on diversity of populations served, leadership, and the ways in which these movements gain supporters, this paper ultimately shows that there is currently a call for a new method of achieving equality in the …
Reed Beds,
2017
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham Poetry Review 44 (Complete Issue),
2017
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham Poetry Review 44 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff
Birmingham Poetry Review
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Pied Beauty,
2017
University of Alabama at Birmingham
In A Warm Sea,
2017
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Time's Passage At Whiskey River,
2017
University of Alabama at Birmingham
[The Place I Love Is Burning],
2017
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Search & Rescue,
2017
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Promenade,
2017
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Bruce's Mood,
2017
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Lizzie Borden's Pears,
2017
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Seal 9,
2017
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Romantics,
2017
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Intimations,
2017
University of Alabama at Birmingham
