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Feasting At The Threshold: Transubstantiation, Queer Desire, And Homonationalism In Diane Duane’S The Tale Of The Five, Taylor Driggers Aug 2023

Feasting At The Threshold: Transubstantiation, Queer Desire, And Homonationalism In Diane Duane’S The Tale Of The Five, Taylor Driggers

Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)

Diane Duane’s ongoing pulp fantasy series The Tale of the Five (1979- ) is set in a world marked by constant bodily transgressions and surprises, where a human and dragon can occupy the same body and become lovers and a one-night stand can bring one face-to-face with God. This essay will argue that Duane’s series articulates eroticism in a manner comparable to Linn Marie Tonstad’s (2016) queer re-visioning of transubstantiation and bodily and spiritual transformation through the Eucharist. Acts of eating and drinking serve to highlight how characters’ pansexual, polyamorous relations with each other and the love of the Goddess …


The Underworld As The Heroine’S Journey Home: Marvel, Xena, And Mythic Reimaginings, Valerie Estelle Frankel Aug 2023

The Underworld As The Heroine’S Journey Home: Marvel, Xena, And Mythic Reimaginings, Valerie Estelle Frankel

Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)

Hell is traditionally a place of torment, where the young heroine, like Persephone or Eurydice, is kidnapped by the patriarchy, leaving others to rescue her. The last few decades, however, have offered a model closer to Sumerian Inanna, in which the heroine is enlightened by hell or even conquers it. Angela, Queen of Hel: Journey to the Funderworld by Marguerite Bennett (2016) gives its heroine this path. Winning back her beloved, Angela, sister of Thor and Loki, becomes queen of the underworld but then prefers to bring Sera back to earth in a flip on Eurydice. The Xena episode “Fallen …


Infernal Landscape In Jacob’S Ladder (1990) In Light Of Carl G. Jung’S Theory Of Individuation, Fryderyk Kwiatkowski Aug 2023

Infernal Landscape In Jacob’S Ladder (1990) In Light Of Carl G. Jung’S Theory Of Individuation, Fryderyk Kwiatkowski

Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)

Carl G. Jung’s conception of the human psyche as an inner realm that gives access to profound, numinous experiences inspired many artists and popular culture authors to portray heaven and hell as symbolic expressions of the opposite forces within the human psyche rather than cosmological or supernatural regions. In my paper, I will concentrate on how the Hollywood film Jacob’s Ladder (1990) directed by Adrian Lyne, by portraying the main character’s descent into a deathbed vision depicted as hellish reality, reflects Jung’s theory of individuation, a process of self-realization that aims at reconciling various elements of the psyche and achieving …


Hell On His Mind: Dean Winchester’S Journey To Hell And Back, Anna Caterino Aug 2023

Hell On His Mind: Dean Winchester’S Journey To Hell And Back, Anna Caterino

Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)

Season three of Supernatural (2005-2020) closes with a shot of Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) in Hell. The place has no discernible features and resembles neither the long waiting line nor the gothic castle of later seasons. The few elements that do characterize it, however, make it look like a brain, the labyrinth of ropes reminiscent of neurons. This association introduces Hell as a place that exists first and foremost in Dean’s dead. The lack of establishing shots and the abstract terms used to discuss Hell, damnation, and Dean’s experience further support this claim, working in its favor. After all, the …


The Righteousness Of The Damned In Jeffrey Konvitz’S The Sentinel, Raymond G. Falgui Aug 2023

The Righteousness Of The Damned In Jeffrey Konvitz’S The Sentinel, Raymond G. Falgui

Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)

The paper will examine the nature of the damned in Jeffrey Konvitz’s 1970s pulp horror novel The Sentinel by using a framework utilized by C.S. Lewis in The Great Divorce, wherein damnation involves a species of spiritual blindness that masquerades as righteousness and shields the damned (for a time) from an awareness of their ultimate condition. Specifically, the paper will provide a character analysis of the co-protagonist Michael, arguably one of Konvitz’s more complex literary creations, and the role he plays in briefly elevating a generic genre-contrived plot into the realm of true spiritual horror. While making such a …


Welcome And Announcements, Mythsoc Stewards Aug 2023

Welcome And Announcements, Mythsoc Stewards

Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)

Welcome and Announcements

Join us for a screening of the Welcome and Announcements video, and have a cup of coffee before we get started!



Dinesen’S Diana: The Transformative Power Of Symbols In Ehrengard, Aishwarya A. Marathe Jun 2023

Dinesen’S Diana: The Transformative Power Of Symbols In Ehrengard, Aishwarya A. Marathe

Anthós

This analysis of Dinesen's Ehrengard aims to illuminate the subversive transformation of the titular character of the novel, using the literal and symbolic application of artistic power.


Palestine Without Borders: A Study Of Arab And Western Voices In Theater, Bassem Mohsen Ahmed El-Sayed Ahmed Ibrahim Jun 2023

Palestine Without Borders: A Study Of Arab And Western Voices In Theater, Bassem Mohsen Ahmed El-Sayed Ahmed Ibrahim

Theses and Dissertations

Theater has always been perceived as a way to link different cultures together and bring them under one large domain. Regardless, the genre does not give the needed attention to works written in certain regions that may otherwise fall outside the consensus. One good example is Palestine and any works that deal with it as a setting. The first thing that comes to mind whenever the word “Palestine” is brought up is almost always of a political nature, having to do with the Palestinians’ national conflict with Israel. This thesis undertakes to amend this by probing into plays written by …


The Death And Rebirth Of The Feminine Muse: Edgar Allan Poe And Sylvia Plath, Noha Ibrahim Jun 2023

The Death And Rebirth Of The Feminine Muse: Edgar Allan Poe And Sylvia Plath, Noha Ibrahim

Theses and Dissertations

While drawing on mythology and a literary history that associated women with death as well as creativity, Edgar Allan Poe and Sylvia Plath experimented with binary oppositions such as masculine/feminine, composition/decomposition, and death/(re)birth. They gained inspiration from the same source, the dead muse, but how do they transform traditions that derive from classical and medieval literary precedent, perhaps in ways that are inherently critical of patriarchal modes of gender dynamics? Why is Poe fixated on a feminine dead muse while Plath is inspired by what she calls her “father-sea-god muse”? How do both authors represent the female body, and how …


The Visualist Ecology: Fear Of Sound & Word Materialism, Evelyn M. Malinowski Jun 2023

The Visualist Ecology: Fear Of Sound & Word Materialism, Evelyn M. Malinowski

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Reading At Random, Mark Hussey Jun 2023

Reading At Random, Mark Hussey

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Workingwomen-Volcano-Slag And Virginia Woolf’S Queer Inhumanisms, Chen Rupeng Jun 2023

Workingwomen-Volcano-Slag And Virginia Woolf’S Queer Inhumanisms, Chen Rupeng

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Why Look At Fish? Virginia Woolf’S Piscine Aesthetics, Marlene Dirschauer Jun 2023

Why Look At Fish? Virginia Woolf’S Piscine Aesthetics, Marlene Dirschauer

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Contemplating Reality: Unfolding The Ethics Of Attention In Mrs. Dalloway And To The Lighthouse, Krisztina Kitti Tóth Jun 2023

Contemplating Reality: Unfolding The Ethics Of Attention In Mrs. Dalloway And To The Lighthouse, Krisztina Kitti Tóth

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Daoist Attunement To The Nonhuman: The Mysticism Of Mundane Objects In Virginia Woolf’S To The Lighthouse, Xueying Zhou Jun 2023

Daoist Attunement To The Nonhuman: The Mysticism Of Mundane Objects In Virginia Woolf’S To The Lighthouse, Xueying Zhou

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Theories Of Making: Virginia Woolf Studies And Collaborative Feminist Art, Amy E. Elkins Jun 2023

Theories Of Making: Virginia Woolf Studies And Collaborative Feminist Art, Amy E. Elkins

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


“The Sands Of Oblivion”: Confronting Catastrophe, Kim Sigouin Jun 2023

“The Sands Of Oblivion”: Confronting Catastrophe, Kim Sigouin

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Virginia Woolf & Ecologies: Selected Papers From The 32nd Annual International Conference On Virginia Woolf - Table Of Contents, Shilo Mcgiff, Laci Mattison Jun 2023

Virginia Woolf & Ecologies: Selected Papers From The 32nd Annual International Conference On Virginia Woolf - Table Of Contents, Shilo Mcgiff, Laci Mattison

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Woolf’S Ecologies Of Perception: Language And The “Panorama Of Life”, Teresa Prudente Jun 2023

Woolf’S Ecologies Of Perception: Language And The “Panorama Of Life”, Teresa Prudente

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Virginia Woolf & Ecologies: Selected Papers From The 32nd Annual International Conference On Virginia Woolf, Full Issue, Shilo Mcgiff, Laci Mattison Jun 2023

Virginia Woolf & Ecologies: Selected Papers From The 32nd Annual International Conference On Virginia Woolf, Full Issue, Shilo Mcgiff, Laci Mattison

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Ecologies Of Illness In The Voyage Out And Flush, Caylee Weintraub Jun 2023

Ecologies Of Illness In The Voyage Out And Flush, Caylee Weintraub

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Seaweeding With Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Dubino Jun 2023

Seaweeding With Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Dubino

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Ill, On Being: An Artist’S Book, Catherine Paul Jun 2023

Ill, On Being: An Artist’S Book, Catherine Paul

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


“The Book Has Somehow To Be Adapted To The Body”: Woolf Words And Tactile Investigations, A Commonplace Book, Melissa Johnson Jun 2023

“The Book Has Somehow To Be Adapted To The Body”: Woolf Words And Tactile Investigations, A Commonplace Book, Melissa Johnson

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Nonhuman Beings, Existential Anxiety, And Schopenhauer In Virginia Woolf’S Work, Yoshiki Tajiri Jun 2023

Nonhuman Beings, Existential Anxiety, And Schopenhauer In Virginia Woolf’S Work, Yoshiki Tajiri

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Ecologies Of Madness: Reading Virginia Woolf’S Life And Work Through Deleuze And Guattari, Kimberly Jackson Jun 2023

Ecologies Of Madness: Reading Virginia Woolf’S Life And Work Through Deleuze And Guattari, Kimberly Jackson

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Speculating On Obscurity: Virginia Woolf’S Fictionalization Of Real Lives As An Alternative To Hegemonic Tellings Of History, Mariana Muniz Pivanti Jun 2023

Speculating On Obscurity: Virginia Woolf’S Fictionalization Of Real Lives As An Alternative To Hegemonic Tellings Of History, Mariana Muniz Pivanti

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Virginia Woolf And Deep Ecology, Kathryn Van Wert Jun 2023

Virginia Woolf And Deep Ecology, Kathryn Van Wert

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Tea In The Library: Leonard And Virginia Woolf And The Ecologies Of Tea, Diane F. Gillespie Jun 2023

Tea In The Library: Leonard And Virginia Woolf And The Ecologies Of Tea, Diane F. Gillespie

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Woolfs, Shaws, Webbs: The Political Ecology Of International Government And Heartbreak House, 1916–1919, Wayne K. Chapman Jun 2023

Woolfs, Shaws, Webbs: The Political Ecology Of International Government And Heartbreak House, 1916–1919, Wayne K. Chapman

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.