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Ambassador Between Two Nations: Shakespeare In American Ideology, Nicholas Jaroma
Ambassador Between Two Nations: Shakespeare In American Ideology, Nicholas Jaroma
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
The purpose of this thesis was to examine William Shakespeare’s role in American ideology. Utilizing the theoretical approaches of Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, adaptation and appropriation theories, and Critical Race Theory, I argue that Shakespeare is an integral part of American history and culture by how his works factor into American ideologies, particularly within ideologies focusing on race and colonialism. Specific plays and Shakespeare’s texts are analyzed, and I also follow the literary history of Americans in response to these plays. My first chapter looks at the Revolutionary and early republic eras, with particular focus on John Adams, his son …
There Will Be Oil: The Celebration And Inevitability Of Petroleum Through Upton Sinclair And Paul Thomas Anderson, Sarah Mae Fleming
There Will Be Oil: The Celebration And Inevitability Of Petroleum Through Upton Sinclair And Paul Thomas Anderson, Sarah Mae Fleming
Honors Projects
An analysis of the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair and the film There Will Be Blood, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, with a focus on the presence of oil in these texts.
Superheros As Social Practice, Sara K. Reilly
Superheros As Social Practice, Sara K. Reilly
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
In this thesis, I investigate two representative examples of the superhero as teaching machine of nationalism and consumerism, Superman and Iron Man. In the Superman chapter, I trace the corporate use of superheroes through Superman’s history of appropriation by corporations to sell both abstract ideals and material products. I also consider the rise of the role of media technology and media corporations, beginning with the radio show in 1941 and ending with the first “serious” superhero film in 1978, to show how the viewing audience internalizes messages of nationalism and consumerism. In the Iron Man chapter, I focus on the …
An Opposing Self, Christine M. Gamache
An Opposing Self, Christine M. Gamache
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
People have always been both frightened and fascinated by the unknown, and themes touching on the existence of things beyond human understanding have longevity in the literary arena as well as in popular culture. One such theme is that of the doppelgänger, or double, which has been around for centuries but was first made popular by Jean-Paul’s (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter) work Hesperus in 1795. Due to a resurgence in the nineteenth century in the popularity of Gothic literature, doppelgängers, or variations of this double motif, found their way into some of the most famous works of literature …
"Sometimes Saying Nothing...Says The Most", Lawrence O'Brien
"Sometimes Saying Nothing...Says The Most", Lawrence O'Brien
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
After nearly one hundred years of publication and copious literary criticism, Emily Dickinson remains one of the most enigmatic figures in American literature and her poetry among the most inscrutable. In deceptively simple ballad stanza, Dickinson can be by turns, mysterious or playful or deadly serious or misleading or insightful or obscure, but, above all, puzzling. Her poems consistently and continually resist easy paraphrase or simple interpretation, very often towards the end of challenging accepted "truth" by revealing inherent contradictions. She has some clear affinities to both the methodologies of apophatic discourse and to différance, which Derrida himself has said …
Imagining Sri Lanka, Derick Kirishan Ariyam
Imagining Sri Lanka, Derick Kirishan Ariyam
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
Analyzes the works of three Sri Lankan expatriates, the writers, Shyam Selvadurai and Michael Ondaatje, and the artist, M.I.A., giving particular attention to Selvadurai's Funny Boy and Ondaatje's Running in the Family, Anil's Ghost, and The Cinnamon Peeler. Though all three have been charged as "inauthentic" due to their dislocated positions, uncovers the various productive and complicated ways Sri Lanka has been configured by those outside its shores.
Come Tomorrow, Annemarie C. Messier
Come Tomorrow, Annemarie C. Messier
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
Collection of five short stories : Foo Foo, Like Father, Birthday Girl, Omens, and Come Tomorrow.
Ordinary Apocalypse, Anthony Villella
Ordinary Apocalypse, Anthony Villella
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
Work of short fiction, in which a young man, struggling with contempt for his family and himself, makes a terrible mistake and is forced to deal with who and what he has become.
American Suburban, James Michael Ashworth
American Suburban, James Michael Ashworth
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
A collection of poetry that examines contemporary American suburban life through the author's reflections on his own working class consciousness and aspirations for a middle class lifestyle.
Fontana Hall And Other Stories, Vincenzo Lucciola
Fontana Hall And Other Stories, Vincenzo Lucciola
Honors Projects
Collection of short stories, including three pieces of flash fiction, three short stories, and one longer story. The author aims at developing a wider grasp of the craft of fiction writing and uses as a running theme the ways by which we choose to negotiate the imperfect life situations in which we find ourselves.
Waking Life, Dionne Irving
Waking Life, Dionne Irving
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
Collection of short fiction dealing with themes of isolation and self-discovery. Contents include: Waking Life, Rice and Peas, Weaving, and Collage.
Interrogating Identity, Daniel M. Scott
Interrogating Identity, Daniel M. Scott
Faculty Publications
Discusses the structures of identity and the role writing plays in the reconfiguration of the self in Charles Johnson's novel `Middle Passage.' Fundamental assumptions about human and literary identity; Allusion and appropriation of textual authority; Novel's debt to preceding Western writing; Complications of Afro-American experience; Johnson's reconfiguration of writing..