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Lightman, Cynthia Ann Marbut

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

My thesis is a work of fiction wherein I imagine some of the potential transformations climate change will bring to the planet. Lightman is set in the near future with a touch of science fiction. The novel explores the power of community and the importance of multiple perspectives and knowledge systems. The plot revolves around the struggles of a group of characters living in a post-apocalyptic moment created by climate change. In this time, all modern infrastructure collapses, leaving my characters to learn how to survive without benefit of technology while traveling through a wilderness. They will encounter risks to …

A Personal History Of Invasive Hands And Endangered Lovers, Samuel Paul Boudreau

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

I thought I could be ridden hard and put away wet, wet, wet. I thought death and rape and drunkenness and unrequited love were functions of a typical life, a this-is-how-it-goes kinda world. But, as I’ve emerged from hellish muck, there has been a realization: the way we treat each other and the soil, the aching earth, needs to change. “A Personal History of Invasive Hands and Endangered Lovers” explores the relationship between intimacy and pain through a history of ecology and consumption, a melancholy of sorts. It amplifies trauma as a call-to-action and refuses to sit and take it. …

Beyond Realism: Reading The Ongoing Wounds Of Enslavement In Beloved And Kindred, Stephanie Fawell

Honors Theses

In an introductory chapter, I synthesize a genealogy of African Diasporic thinkers that challenge traditionally conceptualized bounds of realism and modernism both aesthetically and intellectually. In the chapters that follow, I look closely at Morrison’s Beloved and Butler’s Kindred, as well as the scholarly discussions surrounding the elements in these novels that stretch the bounds of conventionally defined realism. In both novels the linearity of time and concreteness of space is challenged: in Beloved, the ghost of Sethe’s child continues to haunt her family after her death and then physically manifests as Beloved, crossing a mysterious bridge between …

การศึกษากลวิธีการแปลข้ามวัฒนธรรมจากภาษาไทยเป็นภาษาสเปน ในบทบรรยายภาพยนตร์ชุดเรื่องตำนานสมเด็จพระนเรศวรมหาราช ภาค 1 องค์ประกันหงสา, พิชญาภา ปัญญาศิริ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์เล่มนี้นำเสนอกลวิธีการแปลข้ามวัฒนธรรมจากภาษาไทยเป็นภาษาสเปนในบทบรรยายภาพยนตร์ชุดเรื่องตำนานสมเด็จพระนเรศวรมหาราช ภาค 1 องค์ประกันหงสา โดยวิเคราะห์เปรียบเทียบกรณีการแปลคำศัพท์ทางวัฒนธรรม 60 คำที่ปรากฏในบทบรรยายภาพยนตร์ภาษาสเปนดังกล่าวเพื่อระบุกลวิธีที่ผู้แปลใช้ในการแปล และวิเคราะห์ประสิทธิภาพในการสื่อความหมายของ คำแปลที่ได้ จากการศึกษาพบว่า คำศัพท์ทางวัฒนธรรมที่พบมีทั้งหมด 6 หมวดหมู่ ได้แก่ หมวดนิเวศวิทยา หมวดวัตถุ หมวดการเมืองการปกครอง หมวดการงาน หมวดความเชื่อและศาสนา และหมวดชื่อสถานที่ และกลวิธีที่ผู้แปลเลือกใช้มีทั้งหมด 5 กลวิธี ได้แก่ การทับศัพท์ การใช้คำที่เป็นที่รู้จักแล้วในภาษาปลายทาง การแทนที่ด้วยคำเทียบเท่าทางวัฒนธรรม การสร้างความเทียบเท่าด้านการใช้งาน และการตัดออก โดยพบว่ากลวิธีที่มีการใช้มากที่สุดในการแปลคำทางวัฒนธรรมทุกหมวด ยกเว้นหมวดชื่อสถานที่ คือกลวิธีการสร้างความเทียบเท่าด้านการใช้งาน และปัจจัยที่ผู้แปลคำนึงถึงในการเลือกใช้กลวิธีการแปลคือการสื่อความหมายและการแปลให้อยู่ในหลักเกณฑ์ของบทบรรยายภาพยนตร์ ผู้วิจัยยังได้วิเคราะห์ประสิทธิภาพในการสื่อความหมายของคำแปลที่ได้จากแต่ละกลวิธี โดยจำแนกระดับความเทียบเท่าของความหมายที่เกิดขึ้นออกเป็น 3 ระดับ ได้แก่ ระดับความหมายอ้างถึง ระดับความหมายที่เข้าใจได้จากบริบทประกอบ ระดับความหมายที่เทียบเท่ากันเฉพาะด้านการใช้งาน และสรุปได้ว่าประสิทธิภาพของแต่ละกลวิธีขึ้นอยู่กับว่าผู้แปลเลือกใช้กลวิธีนั้นกับคำศัพท์ในหมวดหมู่ใด และคำแปลนั้นสามารถรักษาใจความสำคัญของเนื้อเรื่องในภาพยนตร์ ตลอดจนรักษาความเข้ากันกับบริบทและภาพที่ปรากฏในฉากนั้น ๆ ของภาพยนตร์ได้หรือไม่ วิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้จะเป็นประโยชน์สำหรับผู้ที่สนใจศึกษาเกี่ยวกับกลวิธีการแปลคำศัพท์ทางวัฒนธรรมหรือกำลังหาแนวทางการแปลคำศัพท์ทางวัฒนธรรม โดยเฉพาะในรูปแบบบทบรรยายภาพยนตร์

Tender Perception: The Ethics Of Existence And Nonliving Objects’ Movement In Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons, Timothy Berge

Theses and Dissertations

In exploring the relationship between Gertrude Stein's and Henri Bergson's lectures on movement this posits a conception of democracy embedded in Stein's poetry where everything that moves exists and everything that exists has a stake in the landscape in which it exists. Tender Buttons describes objects in ways that highlight the movement of nonliving matter, evoking current scholarship in new materialism, particularly Jane Bennett. After establishing a relationship between Bergson and Stein, this thesis turns to Jane Bennett teasing out the political and ecological implications of Stein's conception of movement in inanimate objects.

From Major To Minor Characters: The Fallen Woman And Her Female Friends In The Novels Of Wollstonecraft, Hays, And Austen, Anne Mclaughlin

English Honors Papers

In this thesis I argue that Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, and Jane Austen use female-female friendships, sororal relationships, and depictions of the “fallen” woman in their novels to expose the oppressive nature of patriarchy and marriage for women. Wollstonecraft and Hays were radical in their time, which is represented in their novels that point out marriage’s inequities towards women in regard to divorce laws and custody laws. Focusing on how marriage impacts a woman’s friendships, Austen acknowledges the potentially isolating nature of marriage.

Wollstonecraft and Hays wrote novels that eschew the marriage plot by focusing on how female-female relationships provide …

9/11 In Selected American Plays: Postmodern & Postcolonial Encounters, Shaimaa M. Saeed

English Language and Literature

History immortalised the date 9/11 as it witnessed the sudden attacks on one of the world’s superpowers, the United States of America. The repercussions of this date boomed in the world’s four corners leaving behind feelings of insecurity and fears of the unknown in all aspects of life to the extent that the literary contexts along with political, economic, and social ones were impacted. This book probes into postmodernism and postcolonialism, as two interrelated literary approaches having many intersecting points, to unravel the psychological, political, and social significance of the 9/11 events as depicted in selected American plays: The Mercy …

"I Think You Should Come Home": On Haunted Houses And Family Secrets, Sydni Masiello

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

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Book Review: Dread Nation And Deathless Divide By Justina Ireland, Phillip Fitzsimmons

Faculty Articles & Research

The books, Dread Nation and Deathless Divide, by Justina Ireland, are the first two volumes of the Dread Nation series, an alternative history in which the American Civil War ended “when the dead rose up and started to walk on a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg.”

Death, Discipline, And The Dead: Biopolitical Rhetoric In Early Modern English Texts, Leslie Raybuck Malland

Theses and Dissertations--English

Death, Discipline, and the Dead: Biopolitical Rhetoric in Early Modern English Texts locates allusions to the biopolitical culture of Early Modern England within popular English texts. Through my examination of the period’s fascination with death—public executions, newly-authorized anatomies—and the ways in which death, as well as the treatment of the dead, was authorized by and supported the ideological aims of the state, my research identifies how those themes carry over into the most popular works of the day, reviewing instances of both verbal and nonverbal rhetoric across genres to find allusions to biopower — or, state control of the biological. …

“I Shall Watch Their Progress”: The Observer Effect And Information Theory In Literary Systems, Michael L. Shohet

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

This treatise will fully embrace the interdisciplinary approach and will attempt to apply theoretical physics to works of literature. There is no escape from the search for an ultimate connection between all disciplines of human thought. Culture, progress, their relationships with material things are all inevitably connected, even if this connection is its all-prevalent absence. Recent developments in quantum physics and post-human philosophy have provided the key to the intimate substance of all things – information. Although, the numerous branches of information structures are to be studied separately to grasp, appreciate and use their manifestations, to truly understand reality it …

Octavia E. Butler’S Dawn And “Bloodchild” : From Human To Posthuman, Nicole Fields

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Octavia Butler authored many science fiction novels and short stories, almost all of which have been associated with race and/or slavery. I argue that two of her works, Dawn and “Bloodchild,” are not specifically about race and can be approached from a posthuman perspective. I discuss the place of black literature in the Western Literary tradition, and I highlight the literary reception of Butler’s work. Since her novels and short stories have been compared to slavery, which I argue against, I point out the disparity between the lives of the characters in Butler’s texts and historical accounts of the slave …

Salvaging The Utopia : Posthumanism, Feminism, And Anti-Patriarchal Language In Kathy Acker’S In Memoriam To Identity, Fe Lorraine Agustin Reyes

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

This thesis reads a posthuman feminist ethos, as theorized by Rosi Braidotti, within Kathy Acker’s In Memoriam to Identity. By recognizing the posthuman undercurrent of the text, my argument cuts against the conventional postmodern arguments traditionally associated with Acker’s work. I emphasize the novel’s recuperation of the French feminist theory écriture féminine, a 20th century postmodern method of thinking that sought to embody and empower the “woman” in language. However, my position gives pause to simply recognizing the implications of the text’s postmodern conventions. If left to a postmodern reading, Acker’s text runs the risk of succumbing to language’s patriarchal …

The Circulatory Process And User-Data, Matthew Greene

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

The mass production of commodities has traditionally been the locus through which surplus-value and the exploitation of labor under capitalism has been examined; however, the material conditions of the twenty-first century has allowed for the appearance of new forms of labor to occur which have the capacity to create surplus-value outside of the direct production process. This thesis analyzes how the circulatory process has always had the ability to produce surplus-value, but it was not until the vast advancements made in the means of transportation and communication that this would become a commonplace practice. This work seeks to examine how …

Monstrous And Beautiful: Jungian Archetypes In Wilde’S Salomé, Nayana Rajnish

English (MA) Theses

The subject of my research is the 1891 play Salomé, by Oscar Wilde and my thesis addresses the modern psychological implications of the cultural truths revealed by Wilde's re-vision of the myth of that biblical femme fatale. I argue that in fashioning a tragic heroine out of a female monster figure of “Immortal Vice”, Oscar Wilde created a document that captures two contradictory narratives: one in which Salomé plays the heroine of a tragedy and another in which she performs the role and functions of a villain. By employing Carl Jung's psychology of the archetypes, I am enabled …

Lying In, Katie Harstock

Birmingham Poetry Review

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Leap, John Hodgen

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 91

Elegy For A Satellite, Corey Marks

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 111-112

A Furrier's Grandchild, Paulann Petersen

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 141

Ischia, John Poch

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 145-148

From Survivor's Notebook, Dan O'Brien

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 131-135

Cut Throat, Seth Brady Tucker

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 171-172

Ode With Motorcade And Labyrinth, Mark Neely

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 130

Altruism, A E. Stallings

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 165

A Rusty, Michael Mcfee

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 120-121

Roe, Heather Sellers

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 158

Cat, Euthanized, David Kirby

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 23-24

“Almost Unknown To The General Reader”: Biographical And Conceptual Contexts Of Melville’S Marginalia In Thomas Warton’S The History Of English Poetry, Steven Olsen-Smith, Cheyene Austin, Denise Holbrook

English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations

Herman Melville’s copy of Thomas Warton’s The History of English Poetry (1871) both epitomises the fate of Melville’s dispersed library and illustrates the challenges and importance of his reading and marginalia to research on his life and writings. This 1032-page volume left Melville’s library following his death in 1891; it was discovered in the 1930s, subsequently lost, and rediscovered in 1999. Twice rebound and missing its original endpapers, the extremely brittle volume has now been digitised at Melville’s Marginalia Online. Melville’s markings and annotations reveal his preoccupation with Warton’s attention to subjects “almost unknown to the general reader”: lost …

Your One Wild And Precious Life: The Prayer-Poems Of William Blake & Mary Oliver, Amanda Iacampo

Master's Theses

The poetry of illuminated printmaker William Blake is remembered long after his death and the passing of the Romantic Movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His collection, Songs of Innocence and Experience, examines individualism in celebration of the natural world and connections with God, or the divine, by using animals as subjects and metaphors for the human condition. Readers of Blake's work can see the influence of his "prayer-poems" in the works of other writers, such as the late American poet Mary Oliver, whose poetry is also rich in religious undertones. While Blake's "The Lamb" and its …

The Criterion (2020)

The Criterion

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