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"Consuming Beauty: The Urban Garden As Ambiguous Utopia", Naomi M. Jacobs
"Consuming Beauty: The Urban Garden As Ambiguous Utopia", Naomi M. Jacobs
English Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Transformation Of Realism: Narrator’S Function And The Blending Of Dialogue And Stream Of Consciousness In To The Lighthouse And Between The Acts, Alyssa M. Mccluskey
Transformation Of Realism: Narrator’S Function And The Blending Of Dialogue And Stream Of Consciousness In To The Lighthouse And Between The Acts, Alyssa M. Mccluskey
Honors College
This Honors thesis analyzes two narrative works by Virginia Woolf: her seventh novel, To the Lighthouse, and her final novel, Between the Acts. My analysis consists of two major components: I look at Woolf’s post-impressionist poetics and I examine, by way of a critical approach based on narrative theory, the construction of these poetics. Throughout, my interest is that of showing the transformation of classic realist representation of reality in these two novels. This transformation, I argue, is very subtly constructed through the narrator’s function, and the blending of dialogue and stream of consciousness.
Nameless, Inscrutable, Unearthly: An Examination Of Obsession In Moby Dick, Sarah K. Lingo
Nameless, Inscrutable, Unearthly: An Examination Of Obsession In Moby Dick, Sarah K. Lingo
Honors College
In this project, I examine the operation of the sublime and the unconscious in Moby Dick. In the sublime, I locate the source of Ahab’s obsession with, and Ishmael’s interest in, Moby Dick. Through sublime experiences, these characters confront the limits of human understanding. Ishmael accepts this limitation, but Ahab rejects it, choosing to pursue Moby Dick in an effort to reassert order in an entropic universe. He blames his loss of control on the whale, which becomes his objet petit a: that object, according to Lacan, that distracts the obsessive from the true source of his anxiety. …
Occupy Horror: An Analysis Of Gothic Motifs And Malefic Technological Prostheses In Contemporary American Horror Films, Alexis L. Priestley
Occupy Horror: An Analysis Of Gothic Motifs And Malefic Technological Prostheses In Contemporary American Horror Films, Alexis L. Priestley
Honors College
My project explores the genre of Western contemporary horror films, with a focus on the way technological communication devices—the telephone, internet-connected computer, and the television—are given a life of their own and rendered maleficent. By staging the anxieties and ambivalences we as a society feel towards our technological prostheses alongside classic Victorian Gothic motifs, the films I analyze force us to confront ancient tensions through a 21st Century lens.
La Langue Est Gardienne’: French Language And Identity In Franco-American Literature, Susan Pinette
La Langue Est Gardienne’: French Language And Identity In Franco-American Literature, Susan Pinette
Franco-American Centre Franco-Américain Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.