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Full-Text Articles in English Language and Literature
Nature In Heaven And Nature On Earth: Heaven’S Natural World In The Great Divorce, Joshua Richardson
Nature In Heaven And Nature On Earth: Heaven’S Natural World In The Great Divorce, Joshua Richardson
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Journey Into The Self: Essays On Biculturalism, Heidi Moe Graviet
Journey Into The Self: Essays On Biculturalism, Heidi Moe Graviet
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This thesis examines what it means to exist as a bicultural being and how one approaches creating and negotiating a multicultural identity in terms of names, war, religion, belonging, and loss. In Narrow Road to the Interior, Matsuo Bashō embarks upon a journey of transcendence and self-discovery into the interior regions of Japan. In doing so, he establishes a Japanese writing tradition that centers around introspective journey-taking and writing oneself into truth and being. This thesis examines, participates in, and expands upon this writing tradition as it follows one Japanese American woman’s attempts to selfhood. Ultimately, it proposes the idea …
The Face Of God: Imaginary Space In Pickle Green, Taylor Flickinger
The Face Of God: Imaginary Space In Pickle Green, Taylor Flickinger
Undergraduate Honors Theses
A foundational premise of adaptation theory is that novels, films, theater, and any other storytelling medium can tell the same story but must do so differently. That is, each medium has its own distinct “language” with varying strengths and weaknesses inherent to its form. However, adaptation theorists have recently started pushing back on the idea that a film “can’t” do the same things as a novel, for example, arguing instead that the language of film and literature is more a result of “habits that are grounded in the history of fashion, taste, and analysis rather than in any specific technical …
The Legacy Of Jazz Poetry In Contemporary Rap: Langston Hughes, Gil Scott-Heron, And Kendrick Lamar, Madison Brasher
The Legacy Of Jazz Poetry In Contemporary Rap: Langston Hughes, Gil Scott-Heron, And Kendrick Lamar, Madison Brasher
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Langston Hughes wrote in “Jazz as Communication that: “Jazz is a great big sea. It washes up all kinds of fish and shells and spume and waves with a steady old beat, or off-beat.” In this paper I assert that the rap music of Kendrick Lamar contains the steady off-beat of jazz and carries out the rhetorical legacy of Hughes’ jazz poetry. By marking the key elements of jazz poetry and tracing their presence in rap music, I will show how these elements create a powerful aesthetic experience for audiences that primes them for the rhetorical messages of the artist. …
Seeking The Feminine Divine: Mormon Women's Religious Authority, Power, And Presence In Rachel Hunt Steenblik's Mother's Milk, Kaitlin Hoelzer
Seeking The Feminine Divine: Mormon Women's Religious Authority, Power, And Presence In Rachel Hunt Steenblik's Mother's Milk, Kaitlin Hoelzer
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Literary theorists like Hélène Cixous and other French feminists have written about l’écriture feminine, a deconstructive force which allows female writers more freedom from male-dominated areas. Because Christianity has been historically male-dominated, Christian women have long used this idea to great effect, using their writing as a space in which they are free to assert power and authority. Mormonism, which arose in the 1830s during the Second Great Awakening, has grown to reinforce a patriarchal model for both family and church leadership, making Cixous’ separate space of writing necessary for Mormon women of the twenty-first century. The Mormon poet …
A New Oral Poetry: Improvisation And Performance In Robert Lowell's Poetry Readings, Madelyn Taylor
A New Oral Poetry: Improvisation And Performance In Robert Lowell's Poetry Readings, Madelyn Taylor
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This thesis examines elements of improvisation and performance in the poetry readings of Robert Lowell from 1955 to 1977 by analyzing audio recordings of Lowell’s readings and comparing them to his early drafts and published work. As a poet known for incessantly editing his poetry, Robert Lowell uses poetry readings as a venue for experimenting with his poetry before publication, for catering his work to specific audiences, and for memorializing his life in prose. The time period this thesis is concerned with correlates with a rise in New Oral Poetry in the U.S., which created popular new venues for poetry …
Power Struggles: Sovereignty And The Nonhuman In South Africa, Taelin Wilford
Power Struggles: Sovereignty And The Nonhuman In South Africa, Taelin Wilford
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This thesis uses the theoretical backbone of Jacques Derrida’s The Beast and the Sovereign to look at the theme of the nonhuman in connection with sovereignty in three novels representing three major time periods in South Africa. Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness uses the nonhuman in the form of the supernatural to reveal the limits of sovereignty in Colonial South Africa. J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace makes use of the nonhuman in the form of animals to talk about the transient nature of sovereignty in post-Apartheid South Africa. Lauren Beukes’ Zoo City is set in an alternate future South Africa and …
Anne Frank In Translation, Emily Cluff
Anne Frank In Translation, Emily Cluff
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Andersen Vs. Schaffert: Mermaids As A Symbol For Experience's Relationship To Gender, Krista Butts
Andersen Vs. Schaffert: Mermaids As A Symbol For Experience's Relationship To Gender, Krista Butts
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Peter, Pan, And Persephone: Keepers Of The Mythical Wild, Noelle Conder
Peter, Pan, And Persephone: Keepers Of The Mythical Wild, Noelle Conder
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Man-Maid Merchant: Rebellion And Otherness In Shakespeare's Othello And Merchant Of Venice, Taylor Flickinger
Man-Maid Merchant: Rebellion And Otherness In Shakespeare's Othello And Merchant Of Venice, Taylor Flickinger
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Full Issue Winter 2020
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Zitkala-Ša And The Holistic God: Redefining American Spirituality In "The Great Spirit", Jared Brockbank
Zitkala-Ša And The Holistic God: Redefining American Spirituality In "The Great Spirit", Jared Brockbank
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
On Waiters And Writers: Views Of Authorship In Charles Dickens's "Somebody's Luggage", Michela Miller Dickson
On Waiters And Writers: Views Of Authorship In Charles Dickens's "Somebody's Luggage", Michela Miller Dickson
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Torn By Tension: Modernism In Edith Wharton's The Age Of Innocence, Kathryn Taylor
Torn By Tension: Modernism In Edith Wharton's The Age Of Innocence, Kathryn Taylor
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
The Mosaic Of Aesthetics: The Manifestation Of Clive Bell's And Roger Fry's Theories In The Waves, Nina Katarina Štular
The Mosaic Of Aesthetics: The Manifestation Of Clive Bell's And Roger Fry's Theories In The Waves, Nina Katarina Štular
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Clichéd Language And Commonplace Faith, Gavin Wride
Clichéd Language And Commonplace Faith, Gavin Wride
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Ireland In Double Vision: The Allegory Of Seamus Heaney's "Come To The Bower", Janaya Tanner
Ireland In Double Vision: The Allegory Of Seamus Heaney's "Come To The Bower", Janaya Tanner
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Curing Beauty's Stockholm Syndrome, Erin Lee
Curing Beauty's Stockholm Syndrome, Erin Lee
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
"She Was Never Property": The Underground Railroad And John Locke's Labor Theory Of Property, Samuel Christensen
"She Was Never Property": The Underground Railroad And John Locke's Labor Theory Of Property, Samuel Christensen
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Who Owns The Bard?: P. T. Barnum, Charles Dickens, And The Shakespeare Birthplace Showdown Of 1847, Abigail Clayton
Who Owns The Bard?: P. T. Barnum, Charles Dickens, And The Shakespeare Birthplace Showdown Of 1847, Abigail Clayton
Undergraduate Honors Theses
In the twenty-first century age of globalization, debates over global versus national ownership of cultural heritage remain at the forefront of public consciousness. The cultural ownership of William Shakespeare, who is idealized as both a distinctly British icon and a global literary influence, has become contested ground; but, in fact, as I argue, this tension first boiled to the surface in 1847. In the spring of that year, newspapers advertised that Shakespeare’s birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon would soon go up for public auction. Rumors immediately began circulating that the American showman P. T. Barnum, who had recently barnstormed through England with …
Adaptations: The Graphic Novel And Shakespeare's Hamlet, Candice Boren
Adaptations: The Graphic Novel And Shakespeare's Hamlet, Candice Boren
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This thesis covers three main ideas. First, there is a discussion of how an adaptation should be studied, using the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings in comparison to the books written by J. R. Tolkien. This establishes what relationship an adaptation has to its original text and the capability of achieving fidelity. The second section focuses on graphic novels and the unique characteristics they possess, looking specifically at two graphic novels, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and March by John Lewis. This section ends with an analysis of how the graphic novel could prove to be beneficial to …
On The Rhetorical Grotesque: A Mode For Strange Times, Richard Benjamin Crosby
On The Rhetorical Grotesque: A Mode For Strange Times, Richard Benjamin Crosby
Faculty Publications
This essay argues that the successful political careers of certain populist leaders rhetorically enact what scholars have long recognized in art, literature, and entertainment as the grotesque. The grotesque provides a theoretically rich means for describing the vulgar and chaotic public behaviors that take strong hold among anti-elite audiences at certain points in history. By closely reading comments from political leaders cast in the grotesque mold, including Silvio Berlusconi, Hugo Chavez, and Donald Trump, this essay explains not only what the grotesque is, but also when and how it is likely to find traction in a political culture ripe for …
Head Fakes, Offensive Schemes And Counter Plays: Why Motivation Matters, Dawan Coombs
Head Fakes, Offensive Schemes And Counter Plays: Why Motivation Matters, Dawan Coombs
Faculty Publications
Dominic’s Oregon Ducks hat caught my eye as I entered his classroom. Although Autzen Stadium was more than 800 miles away, the Ducks were on the cusp of college football greatness and this kid knew it. He looked like a football player and, as we talked, football topped the list of things he loved—followed by wrestling, long boarding, biking, and the outdoors. When I asked if there was anything he didn’t like, he chuckled and said, “Reading.” Dominic (student names are pseudonyms) proceeded to explain that he never finished books because it felt hard to focus and because he read …
Preserving The Trauma Narrative Of The Hunger Games: As Based In The Novels, The Films, And Morality, Rio Turnbull
Preserving The Trauma Narrative Of The Hunger Games: As Based In The Novels, The Films, And Morality, Rio Turnbull
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This thesis discusses both the technical aspects and the moral aspects of preserving trauma when adapting a trauma novel to film, in specific relation to Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games. The thesis begins by arguing the Hunger Games story as a trauma narrative in its original form, but not so in its film adaptations, and supports this argument by defining the defining characteristics of the trauma narrative–which is voicelessness and an altered sense of self and society, embedded in the internal experience–and applying it to The Hunger Games trilogy, identifying where these occur in the novels and do not …
The Importance Of The Physical: Lucille Clifton's Poetry About Bodies, Kaitlin Hoelzer
The Importance Of The Physical: Lucille Clifton's Poetry About Bodies, Kaitlin Hoelzer
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Feminist Courtly Love In Marie De France, Summer Weaver
Feminist Courtly Love In Marie De France, Summer Weaver
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.
Shakespeare, Female Sexuality, And Consent, Bayley Goldsberry
Shakespeare, Female Sexuality, And Consent, Bayley Goldsberry
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
No abstract provided.