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Light And Darkness In The Epiphanies Of Henry James’ Heroines, Rose Grosskopf Jun 2020

Light And Darkness In The Epiphanies Of Henry James’ Heroines, Rose Grosskopf

The Criterion

The famed author Henry James, who lived from 1843 to 1916, occupies a middle-ground between the romantic authors of the nineteenth century and the modernists of the twentieth. Two of his novels, The Portrait of a Lady and Washington Square, demonstrate his evolving sensibilities, as he bridges the traditional and the modern by marrying romantic stories with unconventional conclusions. His technique is present in his use of light symbolism, which, due to an etymological connection from the era of Enlightenment, has accompanied moments of learning and understanding. Through his symbolic and literary gestures, James explores a nuanced definition of “brightness,” …


Creation And Beauty In Tolkien's Catholic Vision: A Study Of The Influence Of Neoplatonsim In J.R.R. Tolkien's Philosophy Of Life As “Being And Gift” (2020) By Michael John Halsall, John Wm. Houghton Jun 2020

Creation And Beauty In Tolkien's Catholic Vision: A Study Of The Influence Of Neoplatonsim In J.R.R. Tolkien's Philosophy Of Life As “Being And Gift” (2020) By Michael John Halsall, John Wm. Houghton

Journal of Tolkien Research

Book review by John Wm. Houghton of Creation and Beauty in Tolkien's Catholic Vision: A Study of the Influence of Neoplatonsim in J.R.R. Tolkien's Philosophy of Life as “Being and Gift” by Michael John Halsall


Song: The Emotional Storyteller In The Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe, Sadie O'Conor Jun 2020

Song: The Emotional Storyteller In The Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe, Sadie O'Conor

The Criterion

Edgar Allan Poe argues in his Marginalia column that “indefiniteness is an element … of the true musical expression.” Music is a powerful device for expression because of its intangible yet deeply rooted connection to human emotion; it captures ideas that cannot always be put into words. In a similar way, we can never truly “hear” music if it is only described on a page. Poe used this phenomenon on a literary level to illustrate a character’s deep, almost indescribable longing for something that they would rarely reveal to the other people in their stories. The references to instrumental music …


Aspects Of Character: Quantitative Evidence And Fictional People, Jonathan Cheng Jun 2020

Aspects Of Character: Quantitative Evidence And Fictional People, Jonathan Cheng

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

“Aspects of Character” uses quantitative evidence to trace new timelines in the literary history of characterization. The guiding premise of this work is that digital libraries and mathematical perspectives can shed new light on the practices used to configure fictional people. Using texts from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, this dissertation analyzes how different aspects of characters have transformed throughout history, coordinating quantitative experiments with the critical perspectives of literary scholars. This project begins by analyzing the characterization used in works of fiction that were reviewed by prestigious publications. This first experiment pushes back on a historical truism about “well-crafted” …


Women's Self-Definition Through Poetry, Olivia Samimy Jun 2020

Women's Self-Definition Through Poetry, Olivia Samimy

MAD-RUSH Undergraduate Research Conference

This project looks at five female poets across history – Anne Bradstreet, Aphra Behn, Forough Farrokhzad, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath – to explore the various challenges they faced writing in their patriarchal societies. Further, it looks at the way they each used their poetry to define themselves and their own identity. This project seeks to explain why this act of self-definition is significant, and why it so often drew criticism from the writers’ respective societies. What was discovered, is that the act of a woman crafting her own self-definition through poetry is a privilege in a patriarchal society, where …


Polyxena: A Study Of A Minor Character, Susan Nakasora Jun 2020

Polyxena: A Study Of A Minor Character, Susan Nakasora

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Golden Halls, J A. Howe Jun 2020

Golden Halls, J A. Howe

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The Creator Goes Into Town, David Jón Fuller Jun 2020

The Creator Goes Into Town, David Jón Fuller

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The Elf Maiden, David Sparenberg Jun 2020

The Elf Maiden, David Sparenberg

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The Tale Of Zabia Lalka, Lala Heine-Koehn Jun 2020

The Tale Of Zabia Lalka, Lala Heine-Koehn

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Rescue, Maria Ott Tatham Jun 2020

Rescue, Maria Ott Tatham

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The Magpie And The Ape, S. Dorman Jun 2020

The Magpie And The Ape, S. Dorman

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The Way Of The Wolf, The Way Of The Stars, Tim Callahan Jun 2020

The Way Of The Wolf, The Way Of The Stars, Tim Callahan

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Centaur War, Amyann Faul Jun 2020

Centaur War, Amyann Faul

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Sonnet Xliii: Old Hero, John Gangnagel Jun 2020

Sonnet Xliii: Old Hero, John Gangnagel

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


The Twenty-One Blue Horses, Lala Heine-Koehn Jun 2020

The Twenty-One Blue Horses, Lala Heine-Koehn

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Danaids, John Gangnagel Jun 2020

Danaids, John Gangnagel

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Will Time Get Better, Lala Heine-Koehn Jun 2020

Will Time Get Better, Lala Heine-Koehn

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Hand Of Fate, David Sparenberg Jun 2020

Hand Of Fate, David Sparenberg

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.


Logos, Beth Russell Jun 2020

Logos, Beth Russell

The Mythic Circle

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The King's Mariners, Donald T. Williams Jun 2020

The King's Mariners, Donald T. Williams

The Mythic Circle

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The Balladeer, Donald T. Williams Jun 2020

The Balladeer, Donald T. Williams

The Mythic Circle

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The Reincarnations Of Harmonia, Joe R. Christopher Jun 2020

The Reincarnations Of Harmonia, Joe R. Christopher

The Mythic Circle

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The Kilns, M. Lee Alexander Jun 2020

The Kilns, M. Lee Alexander

The Mythic Circle

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Editorial, Gwenyth E. Hood Jun 2020

Editorial, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

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Contributors, Gwenyth E. Hood Jun 2020

Contributors, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

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Mythic Circle #27, Gwenyth E. Hood Jun 2020

Mythic Circle #27, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

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“Oceania Is Us:” An Intimate Portrait Of Chamoru Identity And Transpacific Solidarity In From Unincorporated Territory: [Lukao], Maressa Park Jun 2020

“Oceania Is Us:” An Intimate Portrait Of Chamoru Identity And Transpacific Solidarity In From Unincorporated Territory: [Lukao], Maressa Park

The Criterion

Guåhan’s history of Spanish colonization and inflicted genocide, Japanese occupancy, and American militarization poses profound effects on CHamoru land, rights, physical health, and language survival. These include instances of “celebration colonialism” such as Liberation Day, in which CHamorus celebrate the date that the United States dropped 124 tons of bombs on Guåhan to liberate them from the Japanese ([lukao] 44). Through an analysis of his 2017 anthology from unincorporated territory: [lukao], this essay examines how Dr. Craig Santos Perez casts light on the complex inheritance of native CHamorus via an intimate portrait of diasporic CHamoru identity. Furthermore, I argue that …


Narrator’S Attitudes Toward Slavery In Oroonoko And Robinson Crusoe, Meghan Gavis Jun 2020

Narrator’S Attitudes Toward Slavery In Oroonoko And Robinson Crusoe, Meghan Gavis

The Criterion

Oroonoko by Aphra Behn and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe are narrated by speakers encountering enslaved people in South America during English imperialism. The narrators’ respective sentimental and practical voices are manifested through the details of their narratives: Behn’s speaker tends to dwell on romantic points, like Oroonoko’s relationship with his lover, while Crusoe favors pragmatic details, like the quantification of supplies. The narrators’ perspectives color their relationships with enslaved individuals. Behn’s narrator’s relationship with Oroonoko is filtered through her romantic lens, enabling a dynamic and communicative relationship with the Prince that exhibits her sympathy towards his enslavement. In contrast, …


The Battle For Love Under The Governance Of Strict Social Codes, Nina Masin-Moyer Jun 2020

The Battle For Love Under The Governance Of Strict Social Codes, Nina Masin-Moyer

The Criterion

Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale” presents a grand, romantic, and heroic story between Palamon and Emily, who pray to Roman deities that represent the values and qualities that were important to men and women of that time. Conversely, “The Rape of the Lock” by Alexander Pope is a mockery of this heroic style and tells a satirical tale of Belinda and Baron, each of whom pray to the powers of mystical creatures and trinkets, which are tangible manifestations of the rules that govern a gendered social order. Although Pope’s story is a satire of tales such as Chaucer’s, both comment …