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Do Androids Dream Of Bad Tv?: Un/Originality In Neil Burger’S Voyagers, Tom Ue, Callum M. Mcnutt Aug 2024

Do Androids Dream Of Bad Tv?: Un/Originality In Neil Burger’S Voyagers, Tom Ue, Callum M. Mcnutt

Proceedings from the Document Academy

Critics did not take kindly to Neil Burger’s Voyager (2021). On Rotten Tomatoes, the film scored a dismal 25%, and the consensus is that it’s a trip best not taken: “It has a game cast and a premise ripe with potential, but Voyagers drifts in familiar orbit rather than fully exploring its intriguing themes.” This article seeks neither to reclaim the film as an unjustly neglected cinematic masterpiece nor to assert its importance in the canon of dystopian works. Rather, it treats Voyagers as a test case for exploring our own critical investment in the genre. Our aims are …


Does Shakespeare Believe In Sudden Conversions For His Villains?, Robert B. Pierce Sep 2023

Does Shakespeare Believe In Sudden Conversions For His Villains?, Robert B. Pierce

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


“My All The World”: Constance, Motherhood, And Petrarchanism In Shakespeare’S King John, Anne Mcilhaney Sep 2023

“My All The World”: Constance, Motherhood, And Petrarchanism In Shakespeare’S King John, Anne Mcilhaney

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


“Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here”: Westworld’S New Prospero And His Isle Of Calibans, Jared S. Johnson Sep 2023

“Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here”: Westworld’S New Prospero And His Isle Of Calibans, Jared S. Johnson

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


A Double Time In Romeo And Juliet: Juliet’S Rapid Maturity, David George Sep 2023

A Double Time In Romeo And Juliet: Juliet’S Rapid Maturity, David George

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


“She Never Yet Was Foolish That Was Fair”: Whiteness As Erasure In William Shakespeare’S Othello, Kathryn Croft Sep 2023

“She Never Yet Was Foolish That Was Fair”: Whiteness As Erasure In William Shakespeare’S Othello, Kathryn Croft

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Introduction, Emily Isaacson Sep 2023

Introduction, Emily Isaacson

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


The Iron Queen And The Paper Crown: Imperial Anxiety In The Minor Tetralogy, Gabriel A. Rieger Sep 2021

The Iron Queen And The Paper Crown: Imperial Anxiety In The Minor Tetralogy, Gabriel A. Rieger

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


King Lear And The Unreality Of Countries, Conner Moore Sep 2021

King Lear And The Unreality Of Countries, Conner Moore

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


"O Monstrous Fault, To Harbor Such A Thought!": Physiognomy, Deformity, And Ethics In Literary, Artistic And Screen Depictions Of Richard Iii, Dan Mills Sep 2021

"O Monstrous Fault, To Harbor Such A Thought!": Physiognomy, Deformity, And Ethics In Literary, Artistic And Screen Depictions Of Richard Iii, Dan Mills

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Covenant Orthopraxy And Shakespeare's Idea Of The Nation, Mary Jo Kietzman Sep 2021

Covenant Orthopraxy And Shakespeare's Idea Of The Nation, Mary Jo Kietzman

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Emily Isaacson Sep 2021

Front Matter, Emily Isaacson

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Knowing The World: Shakespeare On Travel In As You Like It And Othello, David Summers Jul 2020

Knowing The World: Shakespeare On Travel In As You Like It And Othello, David Summers

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


John Ogilby’S Atlas Chinensis: Anglo-Dutch Exchange And The (Re)Printing Of China, Carol Mejia Laperle Jul 2020

John Ogilby’S Atlas Chinensis: Anglo-Dutch Exchange And The (Re)Printing Of China, Carol Mejia Laperle

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Misogyny In The Sonnets: Connections Between Hell And Female Sexuality, Jordan Kohn-Foley Jul 2020

Misogyny In The Sonnets: Connections Between Hell And Female Sexuality, Jordan Kohn-Foley

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Emily Isaacson Jul 2020

Front Matter, Emily Isaacson

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


A Unit In Victorian Literature, Nina Barnes Jan 2020

A Unit In Victorian Literature, Nina Barnes

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

This project will be the creation of a unit plan based on the analysis of Victorian Literature for a future high school language arts classroom. It will use Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights as the main trade book that the unit will focus on. The unit will include the reading of the novel in its entirety, with the inclusion of outside sources that act as supplemental information such as videos and articles about the novel or the style of writing used in the Victorian era. The unit plan will consist of lessons for each day of the unit, with specific information …


“Indeed, It Is A Strange-Disposed Time:” Julius Caesar, A Game At Chess, And The Politics Of Staging, Gabriel A. Rieger Mar 2019

“Indeed, It Is A Strange-Disposed Time:” Julius Caesar, A Game At Chess, And The Politics Of Staging, Gabriel A. Rieger

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


You’Re Never Too Old To Laugh: An Adaption Of Shakespeare’S Fool In The Modern Era, Tina Kramer Mar 2019

You’Re Never Too Old To Laugh: An Adaption Of Shakespeare’S Fool In The Modern Era, Tina Kramer

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


The Cognition And Performance Of Resonant Temporalities In Richard Iii, Joe Keener Mar 2019

The Cognition And Performance Of Resonant Temporalities In Richard Iii, Joe Keener

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


The Taming Of The Shrew And Coriolanus: Re-Interpretations And Adaptations After The Major Western Ideological Revolutions, David George Mar 2019

The Taming Of The Shrew And Coriolanus: Re-Interpretations And Adaptations After The Major Western Ideological Revolutions, David George

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


A Discussion Of Dramatic Form Through 20th And 21st Century Illustrated Prose Adaptations For Children Of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rosann Gage Mar 2019

A Discussion Of Dramatic Form Through 20th And 21st Century Illustrated Prose Adaptations For Children Of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rosann Gage

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Emily Isaacson Mar 2019

Front Matter, Emily Isaacson

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


"Christen It With Thy Dagger's Point": Maternal Mistreatment In Shakespeare's Roman Plays, Anne Mcilhaney Mar 2018

"Christen It With Thy Dagger's Point": Maternal Mistreatment In Shakespeare's Roman Plays, Anne Mcilhaney

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


"She May Strew Dangerous Conjectures": The Political Sedition And Social Potency Of _Hamlet_'S Ophelia, Christina M. Luiggi Mar 2018

"She May Strew Dangerous Conjectures": The Political Sedition And Social Potency Of _Hamlet_'S Ophelia, Christina M. Luiggi

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Sadomasochistic Cyclicality: Appropriations Of Shakespeare's "Dark Lady" Sonnets In Dickens's _Great Expectations_, Daniel G. Lauby Mar 2018

Sadomasochistic Cyclicality: Appropriations Of Shakespeare's "Dark Lady" Sonnets In Dickens's _Great Expectations_, Daniel G. Lauby

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Young Shakespeare: Culture, Patrons, And Connections, David George Mar 2018

Young Shakespeare: Culture, Patrons, And Connections, David George

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Hubert's Encounters With The Succession In Shakespeare's King John, Marcia Eppich-Harris Mar 2018

Hubert's Encounters With The Succession In Shakespeare's King John, Marcia Eppich-Harris

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Encountering Shakespeare's Cleopatra: The Subversion Of The Occident's Threat Of Objectification, Amany El-Sawy Mar 2018

Encountering Shakespeare's Cleopatra: The Subversion Of The Occident's Threat Of Objectification, Amany El-Sawy

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Emily Isaacson Mar 2018

Front Matter, Emily Isaacson

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.