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Mutilated Masculinity: Intersections Of Disability, Gender, And Mental Health In Modernist Fiction, Sara Thames Jan 2021

Mutilated Masculinity: Intersections Of Disability, Gender, And Mental Health In Modernist Fiction, Sara Thames

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

This thesis investigates the impact of the intersection of physical disabilities and mental health conditions on the masculine identities presented in modernist texts. Here, I analyze a collection of works by Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, Claude McKay, and Wilfred Owen. Utilizing a combination of theoretical approaches: trauma theory, gender and sexuality studies, narratology, disability studies, and insights from the medical humanities, I revisit well-known novels like The Sun Also Rises and Lady Chatterley's Lover and illuminate lesser-studied works like "A Natural History of the Dead" and the recently published Romance in Marseille. I recognize here the psychosocial struggles faced by …


Dickens’S Changing Perspective Towards Capitalism And The Bourgeoisie, Christina Oliveira Jan 2021

Dickens’S Changing Perspective Towards Capitalism And The Bourgeoisie, Christina Oliveira

Honors Program Theses

Most scholars agree that author and social activist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) made keen observations on human behavior and societal problems through his works. However, scholars are divided over whether to categorize Dickens and his work as radically reformist or pro-bourgeoisie. Through an analysis of three of Dickens’s texts, A Christmas Carol (1843), Bleak House (1852), and Great Expectations (1861), this thesis demonstrates that Dickens’s works carry contradictory ideologies. As time passes, Dickens becomes disillusioned with capitalism but continues to promote capitalist and bourgeois values and ideologies. The trajectory of Dickens’s views shows the difficulties in imagining different realities outside of …


Imagining An Asian American Superhero Of North Korean Origin: A Design Fiction, Seo-Young J. Chu Jan 2021

Imagining An Asian American Superhero Of North Korean Origin: A Design Fiction, Seo-Young J. Chu

Publications and Research

My talk, a thought-experimental blend of literary criticism and speculative "design fiction," will introduce you to an Asian American superhero of North Korean origin. In this science-fictional superhero, whom I have tentatively named "구름"/"☁️"/"Ku-reum," Korea's elusive realities coalesce into legible form. More specifically, they become available for narrative experience and relatable to us as an anthropomorphic character, a person with whom we might identify, come face-to-face, sympathize, interact dynamically, and have a conversation. Ku-reum is designed to reflect Korea's complex past and hopes for the future. Existing beyond division systems, Ku-reum uses the non-binary pronouns "one"/"they." Neither "South" nor "North," …


Margaret Atwood’S The Testaments As A Dystopian Fairy Tale, Karla-Claudia Csürös Jan 2021

Margaret Atwood’S The Testaments As A Dystopian Fairy Tale, Karla-Claudia Csürös

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


Back Matter, Douglas Higbee Jan 2021

Back Matter, Douglas Higbee

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


The Oswald Review Of Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 23, 2021, Douglas Higbee Jan 2021

The Oswald Review Of Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 23, 2021, Douglas Higbee

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


Contents, Douglas Higbee Jan 2021

Contents, Douglas Higbee

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


Peace, Love And War: Venus As A Pacifist, Warmonger, And Powerful Woman In Venus And Adonis And The Faerie Queene, Maia J. Janssen Jan 2021

Peace, Love And War: Venus As A Pacifist, Warmonger, And Powerful Woman In Venus And Adonis And The Faerie Queene, Maia J. Janssen

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


Andersen’S Fairy Tales And The Bildungsroman, Joseph Torres Jan 2021

Andersen’S Fairy Tales And The Bildungsroman, Joseph Torres

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


The Path To Piety In Anne Bradstreet’S “Here Follows Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House July 10, 1666”, Preston Thompson Jan 2021

The Path To Piety In Anne Bradstreet’S “Here Follows Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House July 10, 1666”, Preston Thompson

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Douglas Higbee Jan 2021

Front Matter, Douglas Higbee

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


The Seduction Novel’S Awakening, Julia Francis Jan 2021

The Seduction Novel’S Awakening, Julia Francis

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


Fracturing The Mirror: Girls Made Of Snow And Glass, Abigael Good Jan 2021

Fracturing The Mirror: Girls Made Of Snow And Glass, Abigael Good

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.


Animistic Poetics: William Carlos Williams' Paterson And Animistic Ecology, Kurtis Ebeling Jan 2021

Animistic Poetics: William Carlos Williams' Paterson And Animistic Ecology, Kurtis Ebeling

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.


"It's Odd, Isn't It?": Irony, Breakdown, And Self-Healing In Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, Rachel M. Goodner Jan 2021

"It's Odd, Isn't It?": Irony, Breakdown, And Self-Healing In Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, Rachel M. Goodner

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.


Lifeglows Through The Anthropocene: Development Of The Radical Imagination And Response-Ability Within Superhero Comics, Reed G. Puc Jan 2021

Lifeglows Through The Anthropocene: Development Of The Radical Imagination And Response-Ability Within Superhero Comics, Reed G. Puc

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Scholars such as Amitav Ghosh, Timothy Clark, and Timothy Morton emphasize the importance of and challenge within the task of representing the power, scope, and scale of climate change in art and literature. These interrogations often emphasize the failures of extant works to animate their viewers towards action in a time of environmental crisis, but struggle to find any work that meets their expectations. This ‘game-over’ attitude, I argue, is the direct result of the cruel optimism present in the current scholarship’s attachment to ‘traditional’ forms of art and literature. By interrogating the conclusions Ghosh reaches about the novel’s function …


A Personal History Of Invasive Hands And Endangered Lovers, Samuel Paul Boudreau Jan 2021

A Personal History Of Invasive Hands And Endangered Lovers, Samuel Paul Boudreau

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

I thought I could be ridden hard and put away wet, wet, wet. I thought death and rape and drunkenness and unrequited love were functions of a typical life, a this-is-how-it-goes kinda world. But, as I’ve emerged from hellish muck, there has been a realization: the way we treat each other and the soil, the aching earth, needs to change. “A Personal History of Invasive Hands and Endangered Lovers” explores the relationship between intimacy and pain through a history of ecology and consumption, a melancholy of sorts. It amplifies trauma as a call-to-action and refuses to sit and take it. …


Multimodal Analysis And The Composition Taship: Exploring Embodied Teaching In The Writing Classroom, Lillian Campbell, Jaclyn Fiscus-Cannaday Jan 2021

Multimodal Analysis And The Composition Taship: Exploring Embodied Teaching In The Writing Classroom, Lillian Campbell, Jaclyn Fiscus-Cannaday

English Faculty Research and Publications

Lillian Campbell and Jaclyn Fiscus-Cannaday gathered this research at the University of Washington (UW)—a large public institution in which most undergraduate students identify as STEM—while they were both graduate students in rhetoric and composition at UW. There are two writing programs at UW housed in the English department: the expository writing program (EWP), which is the larger of the two and adopts a writing-across-the-curriculum approach, and the interdisciplinary writing program (IWP), which adopts a writing-in-the-disciplines approach. This research draws on the experiences of first-and second-year TAs tasked with being instructors of record for one of the strains of the EWP …


Intersectional Feminism And Diverse Perspectives In Contemporary Romance, Abigail L. Nordstrom Jan 2021

Intersectional Feminism And Diverse Perspectives In Contemporary Romance, Abigail L. Nordstrom

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

The lack of intersectional feminism and diverse perspectives has long been a critique of the literary canon. While the Academy has shifted toward a more progressive course of literary study in recent decades, there are still some genres that are treated as undeserving of scholarly analysis in spite of their unique and diverse perspectives. The contemporary romance genre embodies the very intersectional feminism that the traditional literary canon lacks, yet it is still treated as unworthy of consideration. Contemporary romance novels such as The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang, Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert and The Bromance …


Debating Birds Upend The Hierarchy Of Nature In The Owl And The Nightingale And The Parliament Of Fowls, Caragh Vasko Jan 2021

Debating Birds Upend The Hierarchy Of Nature In The Owl And The Nightingale And The Parliament Of Fowls, Caragh Vasko

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


Into The Woods And Out Of The Woods And Home Before Dark: Beowulf, Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, And The Role Of The Monstrous Intruder In Upsetting Social Structures, Ellen Ulinski Jan 2021

Into The Woods And Out Of The Woods And Home Before Dark: Beowulf, Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, And The Role Of The Monstrous Intruder In Upsetting Social Structures, Ellen Ulinski

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.


Review: A Faraway Island (Revised), Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong Jan 2021

Review: A Faraway Island (Revised), Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Courage, Fairness, Family loyalty, Hope, Patience, Resilience, Responsibility


Review: The War That Saved My Life, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong Jan 2021

Review: The War That Saved My Life, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Caring, Compassion, Cooperation, Coping, Courage, Determination, Endurance, Fairness, Fear, Greed, Hope, Ingenuity, Kindness, Maturity, Perseverance, Resilience, Resolve, Responsibility, Self-respect, Selflessness, Spunk, Strength, Survival (Emotional), Trustworthiness


Review: Three Times Lucky, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong Jan 2021

Review: Three Times Lucky, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Caring, Confidence, Coping, Courage, Determination, Devotion, Diligence, Duty, Family love, Family loyalty, Greed, Hope, Humor, Kindness, Love, Manners, Neighborliness, Spunk, Trust, Trustworthiness, Work ethic


Review: What Elephants Know, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong Jan 2021

Review: What Elephants Know, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Appreciation of nature, Courage, Cunning, Determination, Family love, Initiative, Knowledge, Loyalty, Resolve, Self-acceptance


Review: Worth, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong Jan 2021

Review: Worth, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Community, Competition, Cooperation, Coping, Courage, Dependability, Duty, Encouragement, Ethnic pride, Family love, Friendship, Gratitude, Hope, Initiative, Jealousy, Knowledge, Leadership, Maturity, Neighborliness, Obedience, Patience, Resolve, Respect, Self-respect, Sharing, Spunk, Survival (Physical), Trustworthiness, Work ethic


Review: Frindle (Revised), Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong Jan 2021

Review: Frindle (Revised), Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Humor, Ingenuity, Leadership, Respect


Review: Emily Climbs (Revised), Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong Jan 2021

Review: Emily Climbs (Revised), Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Creativity, Friendship, Independence, Inspiration, Hope, Perseverance


Review: Isle Of Swords (Revised), Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong Jan 2021

Review: Isle Of Swords (Revised), Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Compassion, Courage, Loyalty, Respect


Review: A River Of Words: The Story Of William Carlos Williams (Revised), Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong Jan 2021

Review: A River Of Words: The Story Of William Carlos Williams (Revised), Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Ages 10-12

CHARACTER THEMES: Ambition, Caring, Compassion, Craftsmanship, Creativity, Dedication, Determination, Diligence, Discernment, Diversity, Duty, Flexibility, Friendliness, Hope, Imagination, initiative, Inspiration, Kindness, Originality, Patience, Perseverance, Resolve, Responsibility, Sacrifice, Steadfastness, Work ethic