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Finding Eternal Life At The Intersection Of Bergson And Proust, Kelly Capers Jan 2022

Finding Eternal Life At The Intersection Of Bergson And Proust, Kelly Capers

Graduate Research Showcase

Finding Eternal Life at the Intersection of Bergson and Proust is a research project that explores the relationship of spirit and matter attempting to answer the question: Does the Proust Effect prove humans have an eternal soul? The Proust Effect is defined as “the vivid reliving of events from the past through sensory stimuli” based on a passage in the novel Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust. Applying quantum mechanics to Proust’s themes of time and memory and philosopher Henri Bergson’s studies of matter and spirit, one can examine how the body and soul connect. Proust’s labyrinth of language offers a …


Adorno, Beckett…Wagner, Artaud: Reflections On Stefan Sorgner’S Philosophy Of Posthuman Art, Russell Kilbourn Jan 2022

Adorno, Beckett…Wagner, Artaud: Reflections On Stefan Sorgner’S Philosophy Of Posthuman Art, Russell Kilbourn

English and Film Studies Faculty Publications

This essay reflects on the question of posthuman(ist) art by way of Stefan Sorgner’s book, Philosophy of Posthuman Art, which makes an important initial contribution to the nascent investigation of the significance of creative and imaginative expression from a critical posthumanist perspective. From the understanding that we cannot (yet) do without the subject as ground of the self, I elaborate a theory of the dynamic ‘subjective trinity’ (self, other, and transcendent subject) underpinning the occidental aesthetic experience construed in visual-spatial terms, exemplified in the cinema. From this basis I explore two possible avenues of posthumanist aesthetic expression: First, the secular …


Film Review: È Stata La Mano Di Dio / The Hand Of God By Paolo Sorrentino, Russell J A Kilbourn Jan 2022

Film Review: È Stata La Mano Di Dio / The Hand Of God By Paolo Sorrentino, Russell J A Kilbourn

English and Film Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Olympia, Wilderness, And Consumption In Laird Barron’S Old Leech Cycle, John Glover Jan 2022

Olympia, Wilderness, And Consumption In Laird Barron’S Old Leech Cycle, John Glover

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

This book chapter considers the cosmic horror fiction of Laird Barron through a blended ecocritical/postcolonial lens, focusing on its representation of the Pacific Northwest and Olympia, Washington. Wilderness and consumption are both strongly represented concepts in Barron’s Old Leech Cycle of stories, aligning with colonial perceptions of the American West as a largely unpeopled space ripe for exploitation. The eldritch horrors of these tales align with well-established traditions in weird fiction, and they are also perfectly suited to locations historically identified with resource extraction.


Unoriginality, Claudia Stokes Jan 2022

Unoriginality, Claudia Stokes

English Faculty Research

This essay examines the importance of unoriginality in nineteenth-century American literature, showing how imitation and conventionality affirmed writers’ respectability and provided important legitimizing credentials. By way of illustration, this essay considers the career of Washington Irving, who presented himself as a guardian of literary tradition and repeatedly narrated the virtues of allowing the past to shape the future. As Irving’s career evidences, nineteenth-century readers did not particularly prize originality but instead found value in the familiar and conventional.


Theology At Theologos, Christopher Bakken Jan 2022

Theology At Theologos, Christopher Bakken

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 60


On The Anniversary Of A Day Lorca Did Not Die, Sean Thomas Dougherty Jan 2022

On The Anniversary Of A Day Lorca Did Not Die, Sean Thomas Dougherty

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 86-87


Let Me Tell You, Sean Thomas Dougherty Jan 2022

Let Me Tell You, Sean Thomas Dougherty

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 88-89


Iggy Pop Died For Our Sins, Alexis Maginnes Jan 2022

Iggy Pop Died For Our Sins, Alexis Maginnes

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 107-109


Against "The Dover Bitch", Jenny Molberg Jan 2022

Against "The Dover Bitch", Jenny Molberg

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 116


The Living Room, Jenny Molberg Jan 2022

The Living Room, Jenny Molberg

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 117


What The Army Taught, Juli Olson Jan 2022

What The Army Taught, Juli Olson

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 121-122


Ka, Michael David Sowder Jan 2022

Ka, Michael David Sowder

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 136-138


Words Frequently Confused: Compliancy, Complicity, Phillip Sterling Jan 2022

Words Frequently Confused: Compliancy, Complicity, Phillip Sterling

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 140


Listening In Deep Space, Diane Thiel Jan 2022

Listening In Deep Space, Diane Thiel

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 141


The Drunken Moose Of My Many Regrets, Pimone Triplett Jan 2022

The Drunken Moose Of My Many Regrets, Pimone Triplett

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 146-147


Nocturne, Amie Whittemore Jan 2022

Nocturne, Amie Whittemore

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 150-151


Calf, Amy Wright Jan 2022

Calf, Amy Wright

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 154-156


A Shift In Perspective: Temptress Witch To Realistic Woman, Caroline Conroy Jan 2022

A Shift In Perspective: Temptress Witch To Realistic Woman, Caroline Conroy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In mid-20th century Anglo-American translations of The Odyssey, Odysseus is painted as a courageous, clever king while the briefly-featured Circe is portrayed as a temptress witch. This dichotomy changes, however, by the time these characters are featured in early 21st-century adaptations of Homer’s work; both released in 2018, Madeline Miller’s Circe and Delia Owens’s Where the Crawdads Sing reclaim Circe’s depiction by portraying a Circe-like character as a powerful protagonist, aware of her strengths and weaknesses. By analyzing the archetype of the witch and how it is reflective of patriarchal society’s efforts to reduce and isolate women’s power, I argue …


Metaphors As Tools Of Translation In The Early Medieval English Pedagogical Tradition, Abigayil M. Wernsman Jan 2022

Metaphors As Tools Of Translation In The Early Medieval English Pedagogical Tradition, Abigayil M. Wernsman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines three crucial texts written and translated from Latin into Old English between 800CE and 1010CE in medieval England by King Alfred, Bishop Æthelwold, and Abbot Ælfric. These texts are crafted to further political and educational power, reform, and change. It argues that the metaphors wielded within these pedagogical texts were essential to the cultivation of authority for kings and magisters, and the propagation of English as a written language. Utilizing the framework of conceptual metaphor with attention to the historicity surrounding each text, I examine the definitions of metaphor and of translation to argue that each text …


Featured Essay: Here Be Hippos, Karen Craigo Jan 2022

Featured Essay: Here Be Hippos, Karen Craigo

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 47-52


Whitetail Theology, Christopher Bakken Jan 2022

Whitetail Theology, Christopher Bakken

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 58-59


Because, Ellen Hagan Jan 2022

Because, Ellen Hagan

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 94-95


The Psychiatric Guard, Taylor Johnson Jan 2022

The Psychiatric Guard, Taylor Johnson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 99


Yearning, J Salvador Peralta, Juana De Ibarbourou Jan 2022

Yearning, J Salvador Peralta, Juana De Ibarbourou

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 127


Neolithic - 2020 A.D., Pimone Triplett Jan 2022

Neolithic - 2020 A.D., Pimone Triplett

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 142-145


Eng 200: The Approaches To Grief By Robert Frost & Joy Harjo, Heaven Howard Jan 2022

Eng 200: The Approaches To Grief By Robert Frost & Joy Harjo, Heaven Howard

English 100-200-300 Conference

No abstract provided.


Eng 100: Things That Belong In The Garden, Ellen Sego Jan 2022

Eng 100: Things That Belong In The Garden, Ellen Sego

English 100-200-300 Conference

No abstract provided.


Eng 300: The Efficacy Of Bacteriophage & Lysin Antimicrobials In Industrial & Commercial Settings, Bella Norman Jan 2022

Eng 300: The Efficacy Of Bacteriophage & Lysin Antimicrobials In Industrial & Commercial Settings, Bella Norman

English 100-200-300 Conference

No abstract provided.


Eng 200: Ernest Hemingway's Bonds Through Narrative Styles, Abigail Abrams Jan 2022

Eng 200: Ernest Hemingway's Bonds Through Narrative Styles, Abigail Abrams

English 100-200-300 Conference

No abstract provided.