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Toward A Rhetoric Of Scholar-Fandom, Tanya R. Cochran
Toward A Rhetoric Of Scholar-Fandom, Tanya R. Cochran
English Dissertations
Individuals who consider themselves both scholars and fans represent not only a subculture of fandom but also a subculture of academia. These liminal figures seem suspicious to many of their colleagues, yet they are particularly positioned not only to be conduits to engaged learning for students but also to transform the academy by chipping away at the stereotypes that support the symbolic walls of the Ivory Tower. Because they are growing in number and gaining influence in academia, the scholar-fans of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Buffy) and other texts by creator Joss Whedon are one focus of …
To Keep On Knowing More(?): Seminar Xvill, The Other Side Of Psychoanalysis, John Lowther
To Keep On Knowing More(?): Seminar Xvill, The Other Side Of Psychoanalysis, John Lowther
English Theses
This is an explication of Lacan’s Seminar XVII. The introduction situates the Seminar in its time and in relation to other theories of discourse. In part one I examine the changes which it brings to a variety of ideas already known in Lacan’s oeuvre such as Jouissance, Master Signifier(s) and Oedipus. Part two looks the four discourses in detail after considering the positions common to each. I provide accounts of each discourse as taking place internally to a subject and between subjects. The coda examines areas where further research is possible, reviews and critiques some scholarship on this seminar and …