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Violence And Identity In Native Son, Anna M. Gee Mar 2016

Violence And Identity In Native Son, Anna M. Gee

BYU English Symposium

Abstract: “Violence and Identity in Native Son” examines the cycle of violence that begins with white objectification of blacks and ultimately results in extralegal black violence and legislated white violence. Richard Wright’s Native Son details this cycle as it is initiated by white objectification of blacks, creating owner-object relationships between members of the two races. Objectification leads to loss of identity and blindness, cultivating indifference and shame among members of black society. For the novel’s main character Bigger, shame produces violence. Violent acts become acts of creation that enable him to formulate identity in meaningful ways. This new understanding …

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Beyond Reason: Ophelia's Quest For Truth, Jacob K. Nielsen 9443167 Mar 2016

Beyond Reason: Ophelia's Quest For Truth, Jacob K. Nielsen 9443167

BYU English Symposium

In this paper, I explore Ophelia's supposed descent into 'insanity' in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Using Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, I conclude that instead of descending into insanity, Ophelia moved beyond reason in order to acquire personal truth that wasn't available to her within the realm of traditional reason. In the end, instead of assuming a passive role, Ophelia's character actively rejects the limitations of reason, allowing her to become more than just a passive object of tragic circumstances. Variations within the Quarto and Folio versions of the play support the conclusion that Ophelia actively sought to …

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Wherefore Art Thou, Bae Romeo? Or, An Argument For Modernizing Shakespeare’S Texts, Erin M. Ritchie Mar 2016

Wherefore Art Thou, Bae Romeo? Or, An Argument For Modernizing Shakespeare’S Texts, Erin M. Ritchie

BYU English Symposium

This research examines the trend towards modernizing Shakespeare’s plays. Though Shakespeare is valued for his intricate wordplay and changes to his text are considered sacrilegious, I will explain how Elizabethan Era views on language value finding expressing Shakespeare’s important universal social commentaries in ways that are accessible to the largest number of people. Because the majority of Shakespeare’s global fame stems from admirers who have not encountered his original works, but translations of it, this research suggests that the value gained from adapting the original texts into more modern forms of English to engage a wider audience outweighs the arguments …

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The Hypocrisy Of Henry V, Shelise Rupp Mar 2016

The Hypocrisy Of Henry V, Shelise Rupp

BYU English Symposium

No abstract provided.

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“With What’S Unreal Thou Coactive Art”: Gender And The Forces Of Illusion In The Winter’S Tale And The Tempest, Mark S. Rideout Mar 2016

“With What’S Unreal Thou Coactive Art”: Gender And The Forces Of Illusion In The Winter’S Tale And The Tempest, Mark S. Rideout

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

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"Busking For The Queen Of Faerie: Elizabethan Playwrights In Contemporary Fantasy Fiction", Kristen Mcdermott Mar 2016

"Busking For The Queen Of Faerie: Elizabethan Playwrights In Contemporary Fantasy Fiction", Kristen Mcdermott

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

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“Art Thou Not, Fatal Vision, Sensible / To Feeling As To Sight?”: Spiritual Bondage, Carnal Corruption, And Horror In Marlowe’S Doctor Faustus And Shakespeare’S Macbeth, Jared Johnson Mar 2016

“Art Thou Not, Fatal Vision, Sensible / To Feeling As To Sight?”: Spiritual Bondage, Carnal Corruption, And Horror In Marlowe’S Doctor Faustus And Shakespeare’S Macbeth, Jared Johnson

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

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Immortal Parts: Ghostly Renown In Shakespeare, Jennifer Holl Mar 2016

Immortal Parts: Ghostly Renown In Shakespeare, Jennifer Holl

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

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Hath Not Thy Rose A Canker?”: Monstrous Generation And Comic Subversion In King Henry Vi, Part 1, Heather Frazier Mar 2016

Hath Not Thy Rose A Canker?”: Monstrous Generation And Comic Subversion In King Henry Vi, Part 1, Heather Frazier

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

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The Dead Can Speak; Or, The Testament Of Elizabeth Sawyer In Dekker, Ford, And Rowley’S The Witch Of Edmonton, Chuck Conaway Mar 2016

The Dead Can Speak; Or, The Testament Of Elizabeth Sawyer In Dekker, Ford, And Rowley’S The Witch Of Edmonton, Chuck Conaway

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

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The “Local Habitation” Of Marian Intercession In Shakespeare’S Plays Of Justice And Mercy, Elizabeth Burow-Flak Mar 2016

The “Local Habitation” Of Marian Intercession In Shakespeare’S Plays Of Justice And Mercy, Elizabeth Burow-Flak

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

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Hamlet, The Ghost, And A New Document, David George Mar 2016

Hamlet, The Ghost, And A New Document, David George

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

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Front Matter Mar 2016

Front Matter

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

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Public Shaming And Power Shifts In Salem, Roma M. Blackham Mar 2016

Public Shaming And Power Shifts In Salem, Roma M. Blackham

BYU English Symposium

Public shaming has long been used in societies to maintain order in communities, and to enforce not only laws, but unspoken rules or societal constraints. However, while public shaming can be a valuable tool for communities, it can also lead to unjust rule – some might even call it mob rule. While many citizens of the United States tend to glorify democracy and the effects of democracy, the democratization of the justice system through public shaming has resulted in disastrous consequences in American history and promises dangerous repercussions if it continues to be used in the future. This claim is …

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Five Minutes Of Fame, William Drew Chandler Mar 2016

Five Minutes Of Fame, William Drew Chandler

BYU English Symposium

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Ya Cover Art: Changes And Social Impact In The Last Twenty-Five Years, Jodie Bender Mar 2016

Ya Cover Art: Changes And Social Impact In The Last Twenty-Five Years, Jodie Bender

BYU English Symposium

This paper discusses changes to the cover art of young adult literature in the last twenty-five years, and how those changes have affected the success of YA novels and society’s perceptions of YA literature. These changes lead to the genderization of novels as well as misrepresentation of a novel’s content. This is particularly a problem among books by female authors. Genderization has a major impact on the type and gender of audience a book attracts, and it often limits, rather than expands, the type of readers attracted. Furthermore, the books that receive the highest awards, including the Michael L. Printz …

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Wordsworth's Lifelong Lie, William Drew Chandler Mar 2016

Wordsworth's Lifelong Lie, William Drew Chandler

BYU English Symposium

No abstract provided.

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Deconstructing O'Connor's Grace Through Marxism, Aubri M. Devashrayee Mar 2016

Deconstructing O'Connor's Grace Through Marxism, Aubri M. Devashrayee

BYU English Symposium

The works of Flannery O’Connor deal greatly with the concepts of grace and religion and how they save the lost characters in her stories. O’Connor’s works are very violent, as well as religious. Story after story shows that God “terrifies before He can bless,” as Robert Drake asserts in his article “The Bleeding Stinking Mad Shadow of Jesus” (185). There are many instances where it is doubtful that grace has been received, and when it has been, the characters are distinctly worse off than they were before. This is prevalent in all of O’Connor’s short stories, and when looking through …

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Truman Capote And The Tarnished Tale Of In Cold Blood, Nicholas N. Montes Mar 2016

Truman Capote And The Tarnished Tale Of In Cold Blood, Nicholas N. Montes

BYU English Symposium

This paper in the genre of psycho-biography examines recent reports of fraud in Capote's work on the novel In Cold Blood. While my paper tackles the reasons why Capote's journalism may not have been sound, his traumatic love affairs, an inappropriate relationship to a case detective, and tragic childhood, it is not the purpose to tarnish a beloved author's reputation.

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Guided, Whitney C. Gibbons Mar 2016

Guided, Whitney C. Gibbons

BYU English Symposium

A lost soul trapped between life and death learns to let themselves feel painful emotions in order to forgive themselves and move on.

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Fat Fairies: Stereotype, Body Type, And Personality Of Tv Godmothers, Ariel Peterson Mar 2016

Fat Fairies: Stereotype, Body Type, And Personality Of Tv Godmothers, Ariel Peterson

BYU English Symposium

ABC’s Once Upon a Time introduced Catherine Lough Haggquist as Cinderella’s fairy godmother. Instead of playing Disney’s classically oversized, bumbling, air-headed godmother, Haggquist appeared cool and collected, dressed like a princess. And ABC killed Haggquist off in the very same episode. Was she too fit and smart for the godmother stereotype? Haggquist is not the only fairy to suffer for body type. Jeana Jorgensen and other feminist writers have seen the danger of age and body stereotyping entails. Adding to these arguments, I propose we approach fairy tale bodies as a spectrum where personality is attached to body type. Princesses …

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Cinderella: The Significance And Timeless Nature Of A Folkloric Costume Narrative, Hayley C. Campbell Mar 2016

Cinderella: The Significance And Timeless Nature Of A Folkloric Costume Narrative, Hayley C. Campbell

BYU English Symposium

No abstract provided.

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Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: Newspapers As Bakhtinian Chronotope In The Mysteries Of London And Sherlock Holmes, Conor Hilton Mar 2016

Extra! Extra! Read All About It!: Newspapers As Bakhtinian Chronotope In The Mysteries Of London And Sherlock Holmes, Conor Hilton

BYU English Symposium

Newspapers function as a Bakhtinian chronotope in George W.M. Reynolds’s The Mysteries of London. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle adapted this usage of newspapers in his Sherlock Holms stories. The chronotope has several features and consequences. The features include an inherent emphasis on physicality, creating a concrete object to embody the ideas of information, communication, and technology; forging a link between newspapers and crime or criminality; and linking newspapers to low-brow and popular culture. These features originate in Reynolds’s work, but are carried over into Conan Doyle’s Holmes stories. They also bring with them consequences. The first is the legitimation …

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Grace: Something Needed In The Modern Age, Jared N. Esplin Mar 2016

Grace: Something Needed In The Modern Age, Jared N. Esplin

BYU English Symposium

A look at the various differences of opinion of what grace is based in the works of Flannery O'Connor and the possible influences on her own opinions. Influences including the writings and teachings of the Apostle Paul.

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Hair, Voice, And Agency: Transformation, Growing Up, And Love In Fairy Tales, Denya I. Palmer Mar 2016

Hair, Voice, And Agency: Transformation, Growing Up, And Love In Fairy Tales, Denya I. Palmer

BYU English Symposium

Fairy tales are fraught with magical transformations. However, the most important transformation is not a magical one. Characters experience a true transformation of self when they use their agency to make decisions and act, making the shift from childhood to adulthood. The deepest transformations occur when the characters determine their own destiny. Part of this shift to adulthood also includes forming and maintaining relationships with others. The tales of Rapunzel (Grimm’s 1812) and Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Andersen, 1837) include characters who transform both physically but also emotionally. Their agency and transformation of character is manifest through their voices and …

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Writing Resistance: Agency And Politics In The Postmodern And Contemporary Novel, Bradley Michael Poling Mar 2016

Writing Resistance: Agency And Politics In The Postmodern And Contemporary Novel, Bradley Michael Poling

Theses and Dissertations

This project seeks to substantiate a key ambivalence at the heart of contemporary literature: what does it mean to "return" to politics? Critics of contemporary literature have outlined the new literary aesthetic, using social and political engagement as a key component in distinguishing the contemporary novel from its postmodern predecessor. This project, in response to this claim, will examine both the discursive and representation politics of two landmark postmodern novels, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Don DeLillo's Libra, while examining Jennifer Eganâ??s A Visit from the Goon Squad as a descendent of this literary lineage. This project argues that the …

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Whitefield's Music: Moorfields Tabernacle, The Divine Musical Miscellany (1754), And The Fashioning Of Early Evangelical Sacred Song, Stephen A. Marini Mar 2016

Whitefield's Music: Moorfields Tabernacle, The Divine Musical Miscellany (1754), And The Fashioning Of Early Evangelical Sacred Song, Stephen A. Marini

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

Evangelical hymnody was the most significant form of popular sacred song in eighteenth-century Anglo-America. John and Charles Wesley built their Methodist movement on it, but little is known about the music of their great collaborator and eventual rival, George Whitefield (1714-1770). The essential sources of Whitefield's music are the development of ritual song at his Moorfields Tabernacle in London, his Collection of Hymns for Social Worship (1753) prepared for that congregation, and a little-known tunebook called The Divine Musical Miscellany (1754) that contains the first and definitive repertory of music known to be sung at Moorfields. This essay recovers Whitefield's …

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Reconsidering The Emergence Of The Gay Novel In English And German, James P. Wilper Mar 2016

Reconsidering The Emergence Of The Gay Novel In English And German, James P. Wilper

Purdue University Press Books

In Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German, James P. Wilper examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analyzing four novels by German, British, and American writers. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools of thought regarding male homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first is legal codes criminalizing sex acts between men and the religious doctrine that informs them. The second is the ancient Greek erotic philosophy, in which a revival of interest took place in the …

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Fantasy Incarnate: Of Elves And Men, Simon J. Cook Dr. Mar 2016

Fantasy Incarnate: Of Elves And Men, Simon J. Cook Dr.

Journal of Tolkien Research

This essay proposes the idea of incarnation as a key to unlocking Tolkien’s conception of fantasy as set out in the 'Origins' section of On Fairy Stories. Tolkien's intellectual context is explored and his conception of mythology as a blending of imagination and history examined. The essay also establishes the differences between mortal and Elvish fantasy and argues that Tolkien's Elves engage in a different kind of incarnational art than do mortals. In conclusion it is claimed that in ‘Origins’ Tolkien reworked the speculations of mid-Victorian comparative philology into an aesthetic theory of artistic creation grounded upon the notion …

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Virginity And Intellectual Construction: The Function Of Virginity Within The Early English Novel, Jayna Morgan Leipart Guttilla Mar 2016

Virginity And Intellectual Construction: The Function Of Virginity Within The Early English Novel, Jayna Morgan Leipart Guttilla

Theses and Dissertations

This project situates the state of virginity as both a narrative and mode of behavior within Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela. By challenging the supposition that feminine virginity in eighteenth-century novels is presented as both an intellectual and physical disability, this thesis allows for a reconsideration of how virginity functions in the early novel. I place virginity in three distinct and yet simultaneous modes of thinking that contributed to the conflicting and contradictory images of women that were available to purchase in print: virginity as moral intelligence and form of resistance; virginity as an intellectual disability, and the loss of virginity …

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