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The Case Of Nemo Nobody: A Lacanian Study Of The Traumatic And Neurotic Relationships Of The Man Who Doesn't Exist, Brittany N. Sanders May 2021

The Case Of Nemo Nobody: A Lacanian Study Of The Traumatic And Neurotic Relationships Of The Man Who Doesn't Exist, Brittany N. Sanders

English Theses - Archive

Jaco Van Dormael’s 2009 film Mr. Nobody introduces us to Nemo Nobody, “the man who doesn’t exist.” Nemo is born with the impossible gift of omniscience and exercises this ability to know several of his possible lives before they occur. His childhood is characterized by ontological questions concerning time, existence, choices, and chance. Nemo’s inability to answer unanswerable questions sources the trauma that stems from the moment his life literally splits in two. Nemo’s parents separate when he is nine, and they leave it up to him to decide if he wants to leave with his mother or stay with …


Representation Matters: African American Female Readers’ Perceptions Of Young Adult Literature, Asia Harden May 2021

Representation Matters: African American Female Readers’ Perceptions Of Young Adult Literature, Asia Harden

Honors Theses

In 2019, only 6% of U.S. children’s books published were written by black authors. This portion of the publishing industry, and particularly the category of young adult literature (YA) has room for improvement when it comes to African American representation. To identify how this lack of representation affects readers, this study was broken into two parts which resulted in obtaining the African American female YA author perspective, as well as African American female readers. J. Elle and Kristina Forest were interviewed in the first portion of the study, and three focus groups were conducted in the second study with 13 …


Þorn: A Novel Excerpt Exploring Giantesses, Their Relation To Women's Bodily Expectations, And Patriarchal Control In The Literature Of Early Modern Britain And Contemporary America., Brady P Alexander May 2021

Þorn: A Novel Excerpt Exploring Giantesses, Their Relation To Women's Bodily Expectations, And Patriarchal Control In The Literature Of Early Modern Britain And Contemporary America., Brady P Alexander

College of Arts & Sciences Senior Theses

This thesis will analyze examples of women of size in the literature of the British Isles throughout history, focusing predominantly upon the Early Modern Period, and will create a fiction piece in response to such attitudes. I argue that one of the most clear ways to dissect contemporary cultural attitudes about powerful women and women who occupy more space than men is to examine giantesses and other examples of women of size within this period of literature. From this, a novel excerpt will be written from the perspective of a time-traveling woman of size who engages with these texts and …


Big Community In Little Chinatown: How Asian Americans (Re)Present Their Community Today, Meghan Morrison May 2021

Big Community In Little Chinatown: How Asian Americans (Re)Present Their Community Today, Meghan Morrison

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This paper looks at a series of modern Asian American pieces of media in order to analyze how women and LGBT+ depict and create their community, especially in relation to another marginalized ethnic group. By examining the relationship between these groups within popular media, we can uncover how Asian Americans choose to represent themselves and gain a deeper understanding on how marginalized groups choose to portray themselves.


Amanda Baldwin's Master's Portfolio, Amanda Baldwin Apr 2021

Amanda Baldwin's Master's Portfolio, Amanda Baldwin

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

This is the final portfolio for my Master's of Arts in the field of English. It includes an analytical narrative along with four projects that I feel best illustrate my knowledge, skills, and growth. These four pieces are entitled "Putting a Feminist Twist on Classic Literature," "Teaching Antigone in the Modern Classroom," “Feminism and Racial Studies in Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees,” and “Literacy Narrative Analysis.”


Chinese Peking Opera Anthology: A Text-Centered Study Of Peking Opera, Dongdong Li Apr 2021

Chinese Peking Opera Anthology: A Text-Centered Study Of Peking Opera, Dongdong Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Since 1880, Peking opera (jingju) anthologies have developed rapidly and collected a large number of plays. Therefore, the text-centered study of jingju based on anthologies has been established, which could fulfil the gap in existing jingju studies that focus on performance. Specifically, by outlining the basic forms and evolutionary rules of the selected texts, we can survey the full picture of text-centered anthologies in development. By foregrounding text-centeredness and literariness of playscripts, we can open up a new field of textual studies beyond the studies of performance. The major aspects of theoretical studies of jingju anthologies include theories of anthology, …


An Interdisciplinary Approach: Schizophrenia Derails Heteronormative Expectations In Psychological Narratives 2021, Bobbie Jo Weaver Apr 2021

An Interdisciplinary Approach: Schizophrenia Derails Heteronormative Expectations In Psychological Narratives 2021, Bobbie Jo Weaver

Master's Theses

Required introductory psychology courses teach students a general and oversimplified version of the immense number of subfields within Psychology studies, much like introductory literature classes compress different genera throughout history into a miniscule number of “representative” texts. Nevertheless, these footholds generate an entryway into a whole new world of (specialized) exploration. Reading a text such as The Quiet Room: A Journey out of the Torment of Madness by Lori Schiller and Amanda Bennett provides a window for many students to crawl into one of Psychology’s darkest shadows, the field of abnormal psychology. Schiller’s non-fictional memoir, The Quiet Room, tells readers …


Vol. Lviii, No. 2: "That Which Is The Case" The Novels Of Dashiell Hammett, R.H.W. Dillard Apr 2021

Vol. Lviii, No. 2: "That Which Is The Case" The Novels Of Dashiell Hammett, R.H.W. Dillard

The Hollins Critic

No abstract provided.


A British Health Seeker In Southern California: Beatrice Harraden (1864-1936), Molly Mcclain Apr 2021

A British Health Seeker In Southern California: Beatrice Harraden (1864-1936), Molly Mcclain

History: Faculty Scholarship

In the late nineteenth-century, health tourists travelled the globe in search of relief for tuberculosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and other ailments for which the medical profession had no cure. Some sought the mountain air of the Swiss Alps while others headed to the French and Italian Riviera. A smaller, more eclectic group made their way to San Diego, an up-and-coming tourist destination that promised plenty of sunshine, fresh air, and a mild, dry climate thought to be well-suited to damaged lungs and aching joints. Among them was the best-selling British novelist Beatrice Harraden who wrote several books about Southern California, including …


Asexual Protagonists: What Their Patterns Reveal About The Representation Of Asexuality In Current Literature, Jaclyn Hernandez Apr 2021

Asexual Protagonists: What Their Patterns Reveal About The Representation Of Asexuality In Current Literature, Jaclyn Hernandez

Audre Lorde Prize

This paper analyzes the most popular books with asexual protagonists and what patterns concerning their gender, race, and romantic orientations reveal about the state of asexual representation in current literature.


Visiting Jane: Jane Austen, Fan Culture, And Literary Tourism, Brianna Surratt Apr 2021

Visiting Jane: Jane Austen, Fan Culture, And Literary Tourism, Brianna Surratt

Senior Theses

People have been visiting sites associated with Jane Austen for two centuries now, and there have been fans of her work for even longer. Austen inspires unique devotion among her fans for an author about whose life we know very little. Furthermore, these fans have been fighting among themselves for as long as fans have existed over who loves her the right way – the academics or the amateurs? This work explores that unique fan culture in detail through the lens of literary tourism, going into detail about two sites in particular – Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, England, and …


Iraqi University Students’ Attitudes Towards Watching Dubbed Indian Series On Zee Alwan Satellite Channel: A Field Study On Baghdad University Students For The Period From 1/3/2018 To 31/3/2018, Mohammed Hussein Alwan Mar 2021

Iraqi University Students’ Attitudes Towards Watching Dubbed Indian Series On Zee Alwan Satellite Channel: A Field Study On Baghdad University Students For The Period From 1/3/2018 To 31/3/2018, Mohammed Hussein Alwan

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Mass media are regarded as an important source of information and a strong director of the behaviors of the masses and have become to have them everywhere. The existence has become a common thing. With the profess of sometimes it gets more and more complex and mass media become involved in the progress and the societies' need for it increase. That indicates the society's desire for development and keeping up with the civilization.


Great Lakes, Great Books Diverse Texts, Lynette Marten Suckow Mar 2021

Great Lakes, Great Books Diverse Texts, Lynette Marten Suckow

Michigan Reading Journal

Book reviews of juvenile and teen literature with themes of cultural diversity.


We Are Lysistrata, Amy Rubio, Srinidhi Subramanian Feb 2021

We Are Lysistrata, Amy Rubio, Srinidhi Subramanian

2021 Honors Council of the Illinois Region

Our presentation is focused on the play Lysistrata by Aristophanes in 411 B.C. It focuses on the themes presented in the play and what that reveals about the playwright as well as the period in history. We speak about the supposed role of women in that society, and how that play can be related to today. We further study how this play can be adapted to showcases themes of female empowerment.


The Globalgothic Vampire: Application Of And Benefits For The English Studies Model, David Lawrence Hansen Feb 2021

The Globalgothic Vampire: Application Of And Benefits For The English Studies Model, David Lawrence Hansen

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation utilizes canonical vampire texts interlaced with pop-culture story-worlds and international cultural remediations to demonstrate the flexibility of the Globalgothic as a viable and valuable research lens to facilitate skills-based learning in undergraduate students by utilizing each of the four branches of the English Studies Model; literature, linguistics, rhetoric, and pedagogy. For this dissertation, I will be using the term Globalgothic as suggested by Glennis Byron. The focus of this literary lens is not merely to look at the conventions traditionally associated with the gothic genre, such as crumbling houses, a sense of foreboding, dark omens, and damsels in …


Tinned Sardines And Putrefied Yellow-Fin In Equatorial Guinea: Regimes Of Food In The Novels Of Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo, Igor Cusack Feb 2021

Tinned Sardines And Putrefied Yellow-Fin In Equatorial Guinea: Regimes Of Food In The Novels Of Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo, Igor Cusack

European Journal of Food Drink and Society

In his semi-autobiographical novels, Las tinieblas de su memoria negra (Shadows of your black memory) and Los poderes de la tempestad (Power of the storm), the Equatoguinean writer Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo describes a boy’s, and then the man’s, life in colonial and postcolonial Equatorial Guinea, Spain’s only sub-Saharan colony. This paper argues that the numerous descriptions of the food encountered by the protagonist immerse the reader in four different worlds: that of his Fang ethnic group in the Hispanic colony; that of the colonial priests and emancipados of the protagonist’s youth; then the horrors encountered under the cruel postcolonial tyrant, Macías …


"Die Dichtenden Frauen", Robert Eduard Prutz Feb 2021

"Die Dichtenden Frauen", Robert Eduard Prutz

Essays

aus Die deutsche Literatur der Gegenwart 1848 bis 1858


A Bibliometric Analysis Of Journal Of International Women’S Studies For Period Of 2002-2019: Current Status, Development, And Future Research Directions, Rohail Hassan, Meghna Chhabra, Arfan Shahzad, Diana Fox, Sohail Hasan Feb 2021

A Bibliometric Analysis Of Journal Of International Women’S Studies For Period Of 2002-2019: Current Status, Development, And Future Research Directions, Rohail Hassan, Meghna Chhabra, Arfan Shahzad, Diana Fox, Sohail Hasan

Journal of International Women's Studies

This research paper aims to present a thorough overview of the Journal of International Women’s Studies (JIWS). The Scopus database has been used to study the most prolific writers and frequently cited papers of the JIWS. This article considered 907 papers, which offers a map of the knowledge produced and circulated by the JIWS. It offers insights into publication activities, prominent themes, citation trends, and the state of collaborations among the contributors to the JIWS and the journal’s aggregate contributions to the area of Women’s Studies. Moreover, by analyzing the correlation of keywords and how they are clustered together, the …


Review Of Writing The Black Decade: Conflict And Criticism In Francophone Algerian Literature (Forde, Joseph), Aoife Connolly Jan 2021

Review Of Writing The Black Decade: Conflict And Criticism In Francophone Algerian Literature (Forde, Joseph), Aoife Connolly

Other Resources

No abstract provided.


Hitchhike, David Kirby Jan 2021

Hitchhike, David Kirby

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 25-27


Cousins, Angela Ball Jan 2021

Cousins, Angela Ball

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 53


Eggs, Samatha Leigh Futhey Jan 2021

Eggs, Samatha Leigh Futhey

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 65-66


Wolf Trees, Katie Harstock Jan 2021

Wolf Trees, Katie Harstock

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 73-82


The Wolf Tree In Film, Katie Harstock Jan 2021

The Wolf Tree In Film, Katie Harstock

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 89


Plague, John Hodgen Jan 2021

Plague, John Hodgen

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 92


I’Ve Read That Lionesses After Miscarriages Occasionally Attempt To Suckle Cornered Prey, Eric Janken Jan 2021

I’Ve Read That Lionesses After Miscarriages Occasionally Attempt To Suckle Cornered Prey, Eric Janken

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 93-94


Inadequate Prayers, Daniel Lassell Jan 2021

Inadequate Prayers, Daniel Lassell

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 99-100


Drift, Corey Marks Jan 2021

Drift, Corey Marks

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 116-117


Carol Of Seeing Things From The Porch, Mary Moore Jan 2021

Carol Of Seeing Things From The Porch, Mary Moore

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 127-129


Two Of My Favorite Guitarists Named Their Dogs Django, Ralph Sneeden Jan 2021

Two Of My Favorite Guitarists Named Their Dogs Django, Ralph Sneeden

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 161-162