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The Magic Of A Strange Sky : Nature And The Mysticism Of Memory In Beckett's Trilogy, Daniel James Warhol

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This essay attempts to examine the later prose of Samuel Beckett within the frame of a growing body of critical research that aligns the author’s universal philosophy of the human condition with Indian and Buddhist philosophies. Inspired by the research of Lidan Lin, in her essay “Samuel Beckett’s Encounter with the East,” and Paul Foster’s Beckett and Zen: A Study of Dilemma in the Novels of Samuel Beckett, I take up a similar line of inquiry, choosing to focus on moments in the trilogy that are concerned with contact between the individual and the natural world. While many critics have …

I Play Therefore I Am : Deconstructing Ludic Identities, Joseph Matthew Wozlonis

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

My project, a critical thesis titled “I Play Therefore I Am: Deconstructing Ludic Identities,” investigates the relationship between ludic entanglement and the human subjective experience in video games. By using Gilles Deleuze’s cinematic interpretation of movement and time, I establish that video games manipulate virtual time and space to map agency onto the subjective experience of the player, thereby creating ludic entanglement. Ludic entanglement is the process by which the player can function in virtuality through a video game’s avatar. My project culminates in an analysis of Rockstar Game’s Red Dead Redemption 2, a video game that refigures ludic entanglement …

The Impact Of Thoreau's Racial Privilege On His Complicated Views Of Slavery And Abolition, Cassandra Carpenter

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Throughout Henry David Thoreau’s life and writing, he pioneers the Nineteenth Century Transcendental movement as a defender of political morality and individual refinement, while simultaneously stressing the importance of maintaining intimacy with nature. The presumed static nature of Thoreau’s movement, however, does not fully encompass the tumultuous time in American history with which Thoreau exists. Living after the Revolutionary war, during the Mexican war, and before the height of the Civil-War, his thought inhabits a period of changes, sometimes positive and yet mostly negative.

A Private Matter : Arden Of Faversham And The Early Modern History Play, Jessica Y. Hoffman

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

In the last fifty years, changes in the study of history have necessitated a questioning of the way we think about historiography and all genres of literature connected to our understanding of history. While the early modern history play genre has not been immune to shifts toward a focus on “social history” (defined as the history of the general population rather than the history of rulers), examining the history play genre in terms of plays that have been excluded from the genre canon shows that there is still a bias toward monarchical history when we study historiography. The anonymous Arden …

Visionary Pastiche : Hildegard Von Bingen's Reconciliation Of Divine Experience And Representation, Rachel Lynn Gamarra

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Hildegard von Bingen invents a new rhetorical topos—that of prismatic refraction—which allows her to communicate her divine revelation to others through narrative, artwork, and explication. While her patristic counterparts, Augustine and Jerome, think about rendering the divine only as it relates to their understanding of Scripture, Hildegard exploits rhetoric in order to push the boundaries of human epistemology through grappling with her unique mystical experience. Though Hildegard recognizes that there is a degree of difference between her visions and her representation of them, Hildegard still finds value in language as a communicative tool. Hildegard refracts her divine experience in Scivias, …

Alchemical Feminism : The Power And Authority Of Women In Shakespeare's Pericles, Kathryn Corah

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

William Shakespeare and George Wilkin’s romance play, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, is an example of a Renaissance narrative that includes alchemical subtext. There have been many academic articles and dissertations written on this subject; I seek to build upon these previous arguments to expand upon their premises to argue that this alchemical diction and iconography of alchemical emblems allows for Marina and Thaisa to promote the power latent in feminine-coded virtue as it resists against patriarchal violence and reforms a masculinist patriarchal system. The lens I utilized to analyze the text in my exploration of this topic, which I named …

Bauhinia Rhapsody : The Literary Journal Of Lingnan University 2018-2019, Undergraduate Majors, Department Of English, Lingnan University, Michael T. Luongo

BA (Hons) in Contemporary English Studies : Creative Writing Journal

Editor's Note

The Lingnan Literary Journal itself, the book you have now in your hands, is a work of Lingnan University students. That which we write and leave behind is how we communicate with the future, and it is in this way that the students of Lingnan, here during the 2018-2019 academic year, will continue to have impact long after they have left the campus here in Tuen Mun, nestled against the foothills of Hong Kong’s mountains.

The work you see here is that of my own students, from either of my two classes, Arts, Creative Writing & Journalism, taught …

"'[A] Wholly New And Original Poetic Genius': Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Emily Dickinson, And Literary Immortality", Harrison Dietzman

Faculty Publications - Department of English

Beyond Higginson's personal friendship with Dickinson, his literary criticism—much of which Dickinson may have read in The Atlantic Monthly—and his editing of her poems weave a narrative about the United States' poetry to which Dickinson is the logical conclusion. Higginson relentlessly attacked Whitman, (who he perceived to be a degenerate, self-promoting charlatan), and used his literary criticism to extol characteristics, personal and poetic, that carved out a place for Dickinson, or a poet like her, in the American literary tradition. Higginson's criticism persistently seeks to answer one question: in America, what is a poetic genius? Judging by Higginson's decades-long …

Minor Gods, Edward Derby

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 113

Midnight: Long Train Passing, Toi Derricotte

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 32

Streaming, Toi Derricotte

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 36

Persphone In A Parking Lot, Debora Greger

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 129

Apologies, Paul Bone

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 79-80

The Retreat, Joseph Harrison

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 139-140

From Souls Rising, Catherine Staples

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 226

Excerpt From The Day Of The Child, Arra L. Ross

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 220

Many Kinds Make The Crowd, Rose Mclarney

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 185

The Lawns, Nathaniel Nelson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 216

Inflight Entertainment While The Doomsday Seed Bank Is Breached, Ananda Lima

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 182-183

Annuals, Robert Lee Kendrick

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 165-166

Readymade, Jessica Murray

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 207-213

Highway 35, Sara Wallace

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 248

Said The River When I Asked For Her Song, Matt Miller

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 193-194

Untitled, Toi Derricotte

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 37

Birmingham Poetry Review 46 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

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Bumming A Smoke From Eve On A Porch In Pauwtucketville, Matt Miller

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 197-198

Endangered, Kitty Forbes

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 116

Fall Catalog Ekphrasis, Claire Mcquarry

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 188-189

Element, N S. Thompson, Andrea Gibellini

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 234

Hong & Ramona, Amy Lam

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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