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The Death And Rebirth Of The Feminine Muse: Edgar Allan Poe And Sylvia Plath, Noha Ibrahim 2023 American University in Cairo

The Death And Rebirth Of The Feminine Muse: Edgar Allan Poe And Sylvia Plath, Noha Ibrahim

Theses and Dissertations

While drawing on mythology and a literary history that associated women with death as well as creativity, Edgar Allan Poe and Sylvia Plath experimented with binary oppositions such as masculine/feminine, composition/decomposition, and death/(re)birth. They gained inspiration from the same source, the dead muse, but how do they transform traditions that derive from classical and medieval literary precedent, perhaps in ways that are inherently critical of patriarchal modes of gender dynamics? Why is Poe fixated on a feminine dead muse while Plath is inspired by what she calls her “father-sea-god muse”? How do both authors represent the female body, and how …


Palestine Without Borders: A Study Of Arab And Western Voices In Theater, Bassem Mohsen Ahmed El-Sayed Ahmed Ibrahim 2023 The American University in Cairo AUC

Palestine Without Borders: A Study Of Arab And Western Voices In Theater, Bassem Mohsen Ahmed El-Sayed Ahmed Ibrahim

Theses and Dissertations

Theater has always been perceived as a way to link different cultures together and bring them under one large domain. Regardless, the genre does not give the needed attention to works written in certain regions that may otherwise fall outside the consensus. One good example is Palestine and any works that deal with it as a setting. The first thing that comes to mind whenever the word “Palestine” is brought up is almost always of a political nature, having to do with the Palestinians’ national conflict with Israel. This thesis undertakes to amend this by probing into plays written by …


The Visualist Ecology: Fear Of Sound & Word Materialism, Evelyn M. Malinowski 2023 Clemson University

The Visualist Ecology: Fear Of Sound & Word Materialism, Evelyn M. Malinowski

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Reading At Random, Mark Hussey 2023 Clemson University

Reading At Random, Mark Hussey

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Workingwomen-Volcano-Slag And Virginia Woolf’S Queer Inhumanisms, Chen Rupeng 2023 Clemson University

Workingwomen-Volcano-Slag And Virginia Woolf’S Queer Inhumanisms, Chen Rupeng

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Why Look At Fish? Virginia Woolf’S Piscine Aesthetics, Marlene Dirschauer 2023 Clemson University

Why Look At Fish? Virginia Woolf’S Piscine Aesthetics, Marlene Dirschauer

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Contemplating Reality: Unfolding The Ethics Of Attention In Mrs. Dalloway And To The Lighthouse, Krisztina Kitti Tóth 2023 Clemson University

Contemplating Reality: Unfolding The Ethics Of Attention In Mrs. Dalloway And To The Lighthouse, Krisztina Kitti Tóth

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Daoist Attunement To The Nonhuman: The Mysticism Of Mundane Objects In Virginia Woolf’S To The Lighthouse, Xueying Zhou 2023 Clemson University

Daoist Attunement To The Nonhuman: The Mysticism Of Mundane Objects In Virginia Woolf’S To The Lighthouse, Xueying Zhou

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Theories Of Making: Virginia Woolf Studies And Collaborative Feminist Art, Amy E. Elkins 2023 Clemson University

Theories Of Making: Virginia Woolf Studies And Collaborative Feminist Art, Amy E. Elkins

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


“The Sands Of Oblivion”: Confronting Catastrophe, Kim Sigouin 2023 Clemson University

“The Sands Of Oblivion”: Confronting Catastrophe, Kim Sigouin

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Virginia Woolf & Ecologies: Selected Papers From The 32nd Annual International Conference On Virginia Woolf - Table Of Contents, Shilo McGiff, Laci Mattison 2023 Cornell University

Virginia Woolf & Ecologies: Selected Papers From The 32nd Annual International Conference On Virginia Woolf - Table Of Contents, Shilo Mcgiff, Laci Mattison

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Woolf’S Ecologies Of Perception: Language And The “Panorama Of Life”, Teresa Prudente 2023 Clemson University

Woolf’S Ecologies Of Perception: Language And The “Panorama Of Life”, Teresa Prudente

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Virginia Woolf & Ecologies: Selected Papers From The 32nd Annual International Conference On Virginia Woolf, Full Issue, Shilo McGiff, Laci Mattison 2023 Cornell University

Virginia Woolf & Ecologies: Selected Papers From The 32nd Annual International Conference On Virginia Woolf, Full Issue, Shilo Mcgiff, Laci Mattison

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Ecologies Of Illness In The Voyage Out And Flush, Caylee Weintraub 2023 Clemson University

Ecologies Of Illness In The Voyage Out And Flush, Caylee Weintraub

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Seaweeding With Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Dubino 2023 Clemson University

Seaweeding With Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Dubino

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Ill, On Being: An Artist’S Book, Catherine Paul 2023 Clemson University

Ill, On Being: An Artist’S Book, Catherine Paul

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


“The Book Has Somehow To Be Adapted To The Body”: Woolf Words And Tactile Investigations, A Commonplace Book, Melissa Johnson 2023 Clemson University

“The Book Has Somehow To Be Adapted To The Body”: Woolf Words And Tactile Investigations, A Commonplace Book, Melissa Johnson

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Nonhuman Beings, Existential Anxiety, And Schopenhauer In Virginia Woolf’S Work, Yoshiki Tajiri 2023 Clemson University

Nonhuman Beings, Existential Anxiety, And Schopenhauer In Virginia Woolf’S Work, Yoshiki Tajiri

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Ecologies Of Madness: Reading Virginia Woolf’S Life And Work Through Deleuze And Guattari, Kimberly Jackson 2023 Clemson University

Ecologies Of Madness: Reading Virginia Woolf’S Life And Work Through Deleuze And Guattari, Kimberly Jackson

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Speculating On Obscurity: Virginia Woolf’S Fictionalization Of Real Lives As An Alternative To Hegemonic Tellings Of History, Mariana Muniz Pivanti 2023 Clemson University

Speculating On Obscurity: Virginia Woolf’S Fictionalization Of Real Lives As An Alternative To Hegemonic Tellings Of History, Mariana Muniz Pivanti

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


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