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Trauma, History, And Terror In The Poetry Of Yusef Komunyakaa And Sinan Antoon, Reema Binghadeer 2022 Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University (PNU)

Trauma, History, And Terror In The Poetry Of Yusef Komunyakaa And Sinan Antoon, Reema Binghadeer

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her comparative study “Trauma, History, and Terror in the Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa and Sinan Antoon,” Reema Binghadeer considers the work of the African American poet Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1941) and the (Arab) Iraqi poet Sinan Antoon (b. 1967) through the lens of trauma theory of some notable theorists including; Freud, Cathy Caruth, Jean Laplanche, Roger Luckhurst, and Shoshana Felman—have negotiated in this field. The article explores the literary manifestations of trauma in two distinct historical periods and geographical settings to show the specificities of each prototype and how the historical-cultural significance and textual meanings of trauma have intertwined …


Making A Monster: Queerness And Disability In Gothic Literature, Julien Draven 2022 Portland State University

Making A Monster: Queerness And Disability In Gothic Literature, Julien Draven

University Honors Theses

Scholars within the gothic genre have long been exploring the concept of the "other" within literature. Looking at the topics of queerness and disability through the lens of Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein it's clear that much of the rhetoric surrounding these identities in the 19th century is still very much present in modern society--even if it's worded a bit differently. This literature review covers how queerness and disability are related, disability, eugenics, sexuality, gender, and monstrosity all within the gothic genre of literature.


Hope And Wonder In The Wasteland: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction As Tolkienian Fairy Story, Alfredo J. Mac Laughlin 2022 St. Ambrose University

Hope And Wonder In The Wasteland: Post-Apocalyptic Fiction As Tolkienian Fairy Story, Alfredo J. Mac Laughlin

Journal of Tolkien Research

J. R. R. Tolkien’s four functions of fantasy stories, as developed in his Andrew Lang lecture “On Fairy Stories” (1939), have become a key conceptual tool for discussing human beings’ attraction to fantasy stories, particularly when attempting to push the analysis beyond the literary into the aesthetic, and beyond the aesthetic into the existential. Applying this interpretive key to an analysis of the expanding genre of post-apocalyptic fiction reveals that post-apocalyptic stories, despite superficial differences, are surprisingly close to fairy stories in their aesthetic core and orientation, and that post-apocalyptic stories are well-suited to fulfill—albeit with their own distinctive aesthetic …


Virginia Woolf, Jacques Derrida, Mysticism, And Ethics, Angela Harris 2022 Clemson University

Virginia Woolf, Jacques Derrida, Mysticism, And Ethics, Angela Harris

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


The Admirable Hugh: Force And Violence In Woolf’S Ethics, James T. Bowen 2022 University of Oxford

The Admirable Hugh: Force And Violence In Woolf’S Ethics, James T. Bowen

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Time & Tide, Form & Fold, Benjamin Hagen, Shilo McGiff, Laci Mattison 2022 University of South Dakota

Time & Tide, Form & Fold, Benjamin Hagen, Shilo Mcgiff, Laci Mattison

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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The Goddess Of Empire: Lady Bruton As An Athena Figure In Mrs. Dalloway, Kai Hinson 2022 Lamar University

The Goddess Of Empire: Lady Bruton As An Athena Figure In Mrs. Dalloway, Kai Hinson

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Possession Of The Angel In The House: A Dionysian Reading Of To The Lighthouse, Paola Brinkley 2022 Lamar University

Possession Of The Angel In The House: A Dionysian Reading Of To The Lighthouse, Paola Brinkley

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Flashes Of “The Charge Of The Light Brigade” In To The Lighthouse: The Ethics Of Intertextuality, Christine Darrohn 2022 University of Maine

Flashes Of “The Charge Of The Light Brigade” In To The Lighthouse: The Ethics Of Intertextuality, Christine Darrohn

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Meat Decadence: Lady Bruton’S Luncheon And The Ethics Of Appetite, Vicki Tromanhauser 2022 State University of New York, New Paltz

Meat Decadence: Lady Bruton’S Luncheon And The Ethics Of Appetite, Vicki Tromanhauser

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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“Floating Incidents”: The Ethics Of The Essay As A Life-Writing Form In “A Sketch Of The Past”, Julia Dallaway 2022 University of Oxford

“Floating Incidents”: The Ethics Of The Essay As A Life-Writing Form In “A Sketch Of The Past”, Julia Dallaway

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


The Ethics Of Wonder(Ing) In To The Lighthouse, Eret Talviste 2022 University of Tartu

The Ethics Of Wonder(Ing) In To The Lighthouse, Eret Talviste

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


The Ethics Of The Ending In Virginia Woolf’S Mrs. Dalloway, Anna Lindhé 2022 Østfold University College

The Ethics Of The Ending In Virginia Woolf’S Mrs. Dalloway, Anna Lindhé

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Woolfian Ethics, Heterotopias, And Nonviolence, Jeanette McVicker 2022 State University of New York, Fredonia

Woolfian Ethics, Heterotopias, And Nonviolence, Jeanette Mcvicker

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Unsolicited/Unrepresentative: The Ethics Of Virginia Woolf’S Portrayal Of The Transgender In Orlando, As Compared To Lili Ilse Elvenes’S Man Into Woman, Gwen Rose 2022 University of Saskatchewan

Unsolicited/Unrepresentative: The Ethics Of Virginia Woolf’S Portrayal Of The Transgender In Orlando, As Compared To Lili Ilse Elvenes’S Man Into Woman, Gwen Rose

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


On The Ethics Of Teaching: Virginia Woolf’S Essays, Beth Rigel Daugherty 2022 Otterbein University

On The Ethics Of Teaching: Virginia Woolf’S Essays, Beth Rigel Daugherty

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


“The World Is A Work Of Art”: The Weaving Of Fact And Fiction In Between The Acts, Lucas Leite Borba 2022 Escola de Idiomas

“The World Is A Work Of Art”: The Weaving Of Fact And Fiction In Between The Acts, Lucas Leite Borba

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


“As If She Wished That He Could Talk—As If She Expected Him Too To Feel What She Felt”: Cross-Species Translation In Virginia Woolf’S Flush, Oliver Case 2022 University of Worcester

“As If She Wished That He Could Talk—As If She Expected Him Too To Feel What She Felt”: Cross-Species Translation In Virginia Woolf’S Flush, Oliver Case

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Shakespeare’S Legacy In Virginia Woolf: A Feminist Revision, Maria Aparecida de Oliveira 2022 Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Shakespeare’S Legacy In Virginia Woolf: A Feminist Revision, Maria Aparecida De Oliveira

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


The Ethics Of Representation: Woolf Writing Working Women, Aili Pettersson Peeker 2022 University of California, Santa Barbara

The Ethics Of Representation: Woolf Writing Working Women, Aili Pettersson Peeker

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


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