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Lizard Girl And Other Girl Stories, Melinda Beth Keefauver
Lizard Girl And Other Girl Stories, Melinda Beth Keefauver
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation addresses the notable lack of the comic mode in contemporary ecofiction and aims to integrate humor and ecological inflection through the female narrative voice. Comedy and ecology rarely intersect in literary fiction. Ecofiction tends to be unfunny because the category grows out of the nonfiction tradition of nature writing, a genre that yields solemn, reverent, meditative essays that lack humor. Also, works of ecofiction can seem didactic, lacking the complexity, richness, and ambiguity that characterize literary fiction. Furthermore, literary critics often view comedic stories as lacking in literary quality. However, comedy has an intensifying effect on narrative, imbuing …
Fire On The Mountain, Clear Light Of Day And Fasting, Feasting: An Exploration Of Indian Motherhood In The Fiction Of Anita Desai, Ashley N. Batts
Fire On The Mountain, Clear Light Of Day And Fasting, Feasting: An Exploration Of Indian Motherhood In The Fiction Of Anita Desai, Ashley N. Batts
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
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How Jane Austen Uses Marriage To Get What She Wants, Hannah Eberle
How Jane Austen Uses Marriage To Get What She Wants, Hannah Eberle
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
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An Implacable Force: Caryl Churchill And The “Theater Of Cruelty”, Kerri Ann Considine
An Implacable Force: Caryl Churchill And The “Theater Of Cruelty”, Kerri Ann Considine
Masters Theses
Churchill’s plays incorporate intensity, complexity, and imagination to create a theatrical landscape that is rich in danger and possibility. Examining her plays through the theoretical lens of Antonin Artaud’s “theater of cruelty” allows an open investigation into the way that violence, transgression, and theatricality function in her work to create powerful and thought-provoking pieces of theatre. By creating her own contemporary “theater of cruelty,” Churchill creates plays that actively and violently transgress physical, social, and political boundaries.
This paper examines three of Churchill’s plays spanning over thirty years of her career to investigate the different ways Churchill has used concepts …