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Floral Personification In James Joyce’S A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Noah Z. Gichan
Floral Personification In James Joyce’S A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Noah Z. Gichan
Senior Projects Spring 2020
In Richard Ellmann's influential biography on James Joyce he describes Joyce's transformation from a pious schoolboy to a secular modernist artist as a type of “transmutation.” When it comes to Joyce’s fiction this transformation translates to a famous moment when Stephen Dedalus describes a “magical moment” where he will “meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld.” Once this moment happens Stephen will have become “transfigured.” While there are many such moments of transfiguration, there is one such moment when Stephen chooses the vocation of the artist and describes his soul as an “opening …
The Greater Torment: Religious And Secular Desire In The Poetry And Criticism Of T.S. Eliot, Katie Buonanno
The Greater Torment: Religious And Secular Desire In The Poetry And Criticism Of T.S. Eliot, Katie Buonanno
Senior Projects Spring 2019
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
All The World's Ashamed, Peter David Lane
All The World's Ashamed, Peter David Lane
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
This project is an analysis of three Shakespeare plays through three different ways of understanding shame. Othello, Coriolanus, and Measure for Measure are inspected through a social, bodily, and religious understanding of shame, respectively. The purpose of this tripartite view of shame is to reveal the many different ways in which shame makes itself a part of our lives. The first paradigm is based off of Erving Goffman’s 1956 sociology text, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, and explores how the ways social …