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A Swift Spin On Literature: Taylor Swift's Feminist Reimagination Of Male-Dominated Literature, Autumn Messier
A Swift Spin On Literature: Taylor Swift's Feminist Reimagination Of Male-Dominated Literature, Autumn Messier
Honors Projects
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Becoming Body In Euripides: Affect And Object In Bacchae, The Trojan Women, And Hecuba, Olivia Kulczycky
Becoming Body In Euripides: Affect And Object In Bacchae, The Trojan Women, And Hecuba, Olivia Kulczycky
Honors Projects
In this thesis, I explore the material and immaterial flux of bodies in three plays by Euripides as they attempt to reach the Deleuzian body without organs (BwO). The first chapter, “Flesh,” focuses on the corporeal body of Dionysus in Bacchae as he transcends its boundaries to reach the BwO. The next chapter, “(No)Thing,” examines presence, absence, and elements in The Trojan Women, drawing attention to the role of affective breath. In my thesis’ final chapter, “Sound,” I analyze the sonic body of lamentation that Hecuba builds in Hecuba to territorialize herself with a refrain and deterritorialize herself to reach …
"I Did Not Plant The Seeds Too Deeply": Intergenerational Trauma And Shame In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye And Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory, Grace Ann Kimmell
"I Did Not Plant The Seeds Too Deeply": Intergenerational Trauma And Shame In Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye And Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory, Grace Ann Kimmell
Honors Projects
When trauma‚Äôs genesis is in societal racism or the patriarchal power structure, it can leach its way into our intimate family relationships. Those damaged relationships can in turn create a profound loss or division within the self, as Freud explains in ‚ÄúMourning and Melancholia.‚Äù The trauma victim has lost what a parent or family should be and the security that comes with feeling accepted and loved. If trauma begins with systemic racism and sexism and gets passed down intergenerationally, what is its effect on a black female child‚Äôs identity? Is this trauma survivable? What is necessary to recover? My thesis …
Waving The Red Flag, Christopher Cassaday
Waving The Red Flag, Christopher Cassaday
Honors Projects
"Waving The Red Flag," is a collections of three fictional short stories written using both fragmented and linear narratives.
The Evil Mad: Villainous Neurosis In Batman, Chelsea C. Riordan
The Evil Mad: Villainous Neurosis In Batman, Chelsea C. Riordan
Honors Projects
An analysis of Batman media-- specifically, various cartoons and comic books-- with an eye towards the franchise's representation of mental illness and disability. This honors project examines Batman through the lens of multiple genres and understands it as a cultural artifact that reflects mainstream anxieties regarding the mentally ill and mental illness.
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.
Writing Voice And Character For The Page And Stage, Remson Dejoseph
Writing Voice And Character For The Page And Stage, Remson Dejoseph
Honors Projects
A collection of three stories consisting of a 10 minute Play, a One-Act Play, and an Expository Character piece in prose. All three pieces take advantage of voice in the particular medium to convey the characters and push the story.
Carmilla's Creampuffs, Amanda Irwin
Carmilla's Creampuffs, Amanda Irwin
Honors Projects
By using "Carmilla" as the ideal model of a web series with its approach to queer adaptation, brand partnerships, and overall fandom involvement, the qualities that web series must posses in order to be considered successful are outlined.
Crossing The Line, Cameron Bryce
Crossing The Line, Cameron Bryce
Honors Projects
In The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative, author H. Porter Abbott defines narrative as “the representation of an event or a series of events” (13). Given this broad definition, narrative events can be represented in a number of ways, as seen in different storytelling mediums like literature, film, television, paintings, video games, or even daily oral storytelling. Narrative is the way in which one communicates a story. In literature, writers must use text and the placement of text on a page or a screen in order to convey a series of events. Writers can utilize narrators in literature in a number …
He, Jessica Bourget
He, Jessica Bourget
Honors Projects
This small collection of essays addresses the author's relationship to men in her life, in particular her father and stepfather. In "Somewhere Else," she writes about her often changing and unstable relationship with her biological father. She continues this exploration in "What They Don't Tell You" in a different way, addressing her father and mother's relationship and comparing it to an unhealthy dating relationship in her own life. In her last piece, she writes about her stepfather dealing with the death of his brother and simultaneous adoption of his nephew, while also coming to terms with the reality of her …
Thoroughly Under The Skin, Patrick Pride
Thoroughly Under The Skin, Patrick Pride
Honors Projects
This honors project examines the connections between literature and political theory. Specifically I will follow the journey of the British literary critic Raymond Williams. Williams had a very interesting life. He grew up in the Black Mountains of Wales as the son of a railroad worker: a life he memorialized in his autobiographical novel Border Country (1960). In his obituary of Williams in The New Statesman in 1988, Stuart Hall reminds us how Williams’s deep sense of attachment to the Welsh working class border community of inhabited shared commitments in which he grew up. This community of shared commitments was …
Gender And Ideology In Disney's Beast Fables, Stephanie Mastrostefano
Gender And Ideology In Disney's Beast Fables, Stephanie Mastrostefano
Honors Projects
The Walt Disney Corporation is one of the dominant ideological state apparatuses of the last eighty years. One of the ways in which the Walt Disney Corporation naturalizes a particular ideological value system is in the animated feature film’s representation of gender. Using Judith Butler’s work on gender representation as the critical framework, along with Louis Althusser’s concept of ideology, and Michel Foucault’s definition of cultural discourse, I analyze and interpret key representations of gender in anthropomorphized animal protagonists within the Disney “Beast Fable” films, Bambi (1942), Lady and the Tramp (1955), and The Lion King (1994). My analysis of …
The Buried Seed: Generational Narcissism In D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow, Christine Dennen
The Buried Seed: Generational Narcissism In D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow, Christine Dennen
Honors Projects
D.H. Lawrence’s novel The Rainbow follows three generations of the Brangwen family as they experience problems of identity while trying to navigate a changing world. The identity issues in the novel can be understood as symptomatic of what clinical psychologists term Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Each generation embodies narcissistic traits that prevent them from living happy, full lives. The thesis focuses on the generational aspect of the novel and how the repeated narcissistic issues found in each generation build on and reflect one another, culminating in the character of Ursula. With this character Lawrence portrays the struggles necessary to transcend the …
"Ok, I'M A Teacher Now:" Reading Young Adult Literature In A Teacher Education Program, Brittany Richer
"Ok, I'M A Teacher Now:" Reading Young Adult Literature In A Teacher Education Program, Brittany Richer
Honors Projects
After taking a young adult literature course as part of my Secondary Education/ English program, I felt I had gained only a limited understanding of the importance of the genre to my future career. In the class, we read several popular young adult texts, learned about their authors, identified censorship issues, and mentioned a few strategies related to the teaching of the texts. Much of the “understanding” related only to future applications in imagined classrooms, which left no room for critical reflection about what we might learn from reading the texts about ourselves as students and teachers. A sense of …
Old Made New: Neil Gaiman's Storytelling In The Sandman, Sara Reilly
Old Made New: Neil Gaiman's Storytelling In The Sandman, Sara Reilly
Honors Projects
An exploration of the narrative and storytelling of Neil Gaiman in his DC Comics series, The Sandman.
"Play Along" With The Authors: Half-Life 2, Bioshock, And Video Game Narrative, Samy Masadi
"Play Along" With The Authors: Half-Life 2, Bioshock, And Video Game Narrative, Samy Masadi
Honors Projects
Applies narrative analysis to two story-based video games, Half-Life 2 and BioShock, arguing that such games combine traditional narrative elements in innovative ways. Includes discussion of narratology, ludology, and game narrative theory.
Idealization And Desire In The Hundred Acre Wood: A.A. Milne And Christopher (Robin), Laura E. Bright
Idealization And Desire In The Hundred Acre Wood: A.A. Milne And Christopher (Robin), Laura E. Bright
Honors Projects
Argues that A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner represent the conscious rejection, unconscious reproduction, and re-imaging of the author's traumatic Victorian childhood.
Putting The Spotlight On Smaug, Casey Pellerin
Putting The Spotlight On Smaug, Casey Pellerin
Honors Projects
Despite its popularity, much of the scholarly criticism available on Tolkien’s works focus on his even more popular and well-known epic, The Lord of the Rings, or his earlier work, The Silmarillion. The Hobbit, due to its traditionally younger audience, does not receive nearly as much attention. Much of the criticism of The Hobbit engenders does not focus on the dragon. Smaug is one of the focal characters in the story, and yet very little has been written about him. Almost all of the critical treatments I have found do not address Smaug as a character, but treat him as …
Jane Austen's Persuasion: A Study In Literary History, Katherine Nadeau
Jane Austen's Persuasion: A Study In Literary History, Katherine Nadeau
Honors Projects
Seeks to explore literary Romanticism and the current debate surrounding this concept as either a useful or an accurate one. It looks to Jane Austen and her novel, Persuasion, around whom some of this debate gathers and how Austen's novel relates to that of a more traditionally accepted Romantic author, Charlotte Bronte, as revealed in Jane Eyre.
"So I Shall Tell You A Story:" The Subversive Voice In Beatrix Potter's Picture Books, Veronica Bruscini
"So I Shall Tell You A Story:" The Subversive Voice In Beatrix Potter's Picture Books, Veronica Bruscini
Honors Projects
Describes how recent literary scholarship has begun to interpret the themes and topics found within the children's picture books of Beatrix Potter through the lens of the code-language in Potter's secret journal, deciphered and published by Leslie Linder in 1966. Analyzes three tales from Potter's collection of picture books, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, and The Tale of Pigling Bland, to illustrate the ways these books continued to represent the social and personal observations, voicing subversive reactions to the excesses and hypocrises of Victorian culture, that Potter first began in her journal.
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.
Living With Dying: Grief And Consolation In The Middle English Pearl, Karen A. Sylvia
Living With Dying: Grief And Consolation In The Middle English Pearl, Karen A. Sylvia
Honors Projects
Analyzes the themes of grief and consolation in the Middle English poem, Pearl, and compares this work to Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy and Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess. Applies the five psychological stages of grieving identified by Kubler-Ross to the poem's Dreamer and concludes that, at the poem's end, the Dreamer has failed to finish the grieving process.
Language, Gender And Identity In The Works Of Louise Bennett And Michelle Cliff, Nicole Branca
Language, Gender And Identity In The Works Of Louise Bennett And Michelle Cliff, Nicole Branca
Honors Projects
Examines the writings of two female, Jamaican authors, Louise Bennett and Michelle Cliff. Bennett flourished during the period of de-colonization and independence for Jamaica, while Cliff came into prominence after Jamaican independence. Shows how both writers played an important role in helping Jamaica establish a national identity by focusing on multiple dimensions of what it means to be Jamaican, including issues of language, gender, and identity.
"Twinned Brothers": The Parallel Personalities Of Timon And Hamlet, Amanda Machado
"Twinned Brothers": The Parallel Personalities Of Timon And Hamlet, Amanda Machado
Honors Projects
Examines Shakespeare's play, Timon of Athens, in relation to Hamlet through a psychoanalytical and New Historical comparion of the two protagonists. Shows parallels between these characters in their behavior, illusions of reality, and inability to cope with loss of their illusions. Suggests that Timon may be a later reimagining of Hamlet.
Textual Possession: Manipulating Narratives In Wilkie Collins's Sensation Fiction, Kieran Ayton
Textual Possession: Manipulating Narratives In Wilkie Collins's Sensation Fiction, Kieran Ayton
Honors Projects
Examines the mechanisms through which Collins updated the gothic novel to create the sensation novel, with particular emphasis on The Woman in White, The Law and the Lady, and The Haunted Hotel. Highlights Collins's use of transgressive gender characterization, whereby his main characters use documents to gain social power over other characters. Describes the influence of Ann Radcliffe's gothic novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, on The Woman in White.