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Téacsúil Fionnachtain, Alan Delozier Aug 2022

Téacsúil Fionnachtain, Alan Delozier

Critical Inquiries Into Irish Studies

No abstract provided.


Gothic Girlhood And Resistance: Confronting Ireland’S Neoliberal Containment Culture In Tana French’S The Secret Place, Mollie Kervick Aug 2022

Gothic Girlhood And Resistance: Confronting Ireland’S Neoliberal Containment Culture In Tana French’S The Secret Place, Mollie Kervick

Critical Inquiries Into Irish Studies

The Secret Place (2014) exposes a persistent Western cultural impulse to contain the emotions of teenage girls when they demonstrate control over their lives. In the Irish context, the dismissal of teenage girls is resonant of a containment culture in which controlling women’s bodies and minds has been essential to upholding heteropatriarchal ideals. Resistance to the novel’s unresolved supernatural elements by readers and critics and the lack of sustained academic scholarship also point to an unsettling complacency with the neoliberal impulse to contain female emotion and lived experience in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland.


Crime On The Periphery: Tana French’S Criminal Geography, Deirdre Flynn Aug 2022

Crime On The Periphery: Tana French’S Criminal Geography, Deirdre Flynn

Critical Inquiries Into Irish Studies

This article will analyze how Tana French conceptualizes spatiality, focusing on her use of liminal spaces, edgelands and peripheries, as the settings for her crime scenes. Instead of more traditional Irish literary urban-rural binaries, French exploits the interface of both places, reflecting a contemporary post-industrial, post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. In particular, in In the Woods (2007) the untamed woodland behind the housing estate in Knocknaree becomes an interfacial zone between the rural and urban, past and present. In The Likeness (2009), Whitethorn House sits at the edge of the village geographically, politically, and historically. In French’s first two novels peripheral spaces …


Tana French: An Interview With Brian Cliff, Brian Cliff Aug 2022

Tana French: An Interview With Brian Cliff, Brian Cliff

Critical Inquiries Into Irish Studies

No abstract provided.


Portrait Of A Prostitute: A Feminist Analysis Of The Victorian Sex Worker In 19th Century Art And Literature, Marissa Merlino Aug 2022

Portrait Of A Prostitute: A Feminist Analysis Of The Victorian Sex Worker In 19th Century Art And Literature, Marissa Merlino

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Despite their deplorable reputation in the conservative eyes of Victorians, prostitutes became the subject of numerous literary pieces and visual artworks. The comparison between characterizations of the sex worker by male writers versus female writers highlights the distinct intentions of both genders. The prestigious Pre-Raphaelite writer and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti exhibits a dramatic presentation of his male savior complex in both his poem “Jenny” and his painting “Found”, along with its accompanying poem. In contrast, feminist writer Augusta Webster provides her prostitute speaker, Eulalie, with a voice that allows her to articulate how agency plays a role in her …


The Oppressed African American Female Voice In Zora Neale Hurston’S Their Eyes Were Watching God And “Sweat”, Kaitlyn Levine Aug 2022

The Oppressed African American Female Voice In Zora Neale Hurston’S Their Eyes Were Watching God And “Sweat”, Kaitlyn Levine

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Zora Neale Hurston moved to New York from Alabama in 1925, where her work contributed to the growing trends of the Harlem Renaissance and had a major impact on African American culture. During Hurston’s lifetime, the voices of African American women were often suppressed by the intersecting forces of racism and sexism. Hurston’s literary work portrayed gender struggles in American society during the twentieth century and represented the oppressed voice of African American women.


Without Permanence: Mapping Multi-Genre, Cross-Disciplinary Frameworks For Trans* Studies, Jesse Jack Aug 2022

Without Permanence: Mapping Multi-Genre, Cross-Disciplinary Frameworks For Trans* Studies, Jesse Jack

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This project takes a cross-disciplinary and multi-genre approach to Transgender (Trans*) Studies to proliferate diverse and ambiguously-gendered representations of trans* experiences across time. It identifies the emergence of rhetorical intertextuality in recent trans* literatures as a discursive response to the biopolitical regulation and erasure of ambiguously-gendered, trans* experiences. It identifies the intersecting influences of twentieth- and twenty-first-century medical paradigms, surveillance apparatuses, popular trans* autobiographies, and archives in representing and exceptionalizing certain trans* experiences over others. In contrast, this project engages in a close reading of Pajtim Statovci’s Crossing (2016) and Andrea Lawlor’s Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl …


Conceptions Of Space, Gender, And Movement Within Literature And Film: An Analysis Of "The Whimper Of Whipped Dogs" & Westward The Women, Stephanie Fishleigh Aug 2022

Conceptions Of Space, Gender, And Movement Within Literature And Film: An Analysis Of "The Whimper Of Whipped Dogs" & Westward The Women, Stephanie Fishleigh

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

Often portrayed as static, and neutral, “space,” as it is used in this paper, refers to a literary conception, one which encompasses a sphere of locations as well as settings of events, characters, and objects within a literary narrative. Much to our detriment, humans are often compelled to codify and compartmentalize the world around us, using perceived differences as our epistemological touchstone. This phenomenon extends even to our relationship to space. In examining the interplay between space, geographies, genre, and gender, using two objects of analysis, this paper seeks to further the current scholarship on how gender ideology informs our …


Final Master's Portfolio, Consuela Jones Jul 2022

Final Master's Portfolio, Consuela Jones

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

This body of work focuses on illuminating the radical modes of womanhood centered in the featured texts.


Pride And Prejudice: A Modern, Queer Retelling For The Stage, Kate Isabel Foley Jul 2022

Pride And Prejudice: A Modern, Queer Retelling For The Stage, Kate Isabel Foley

Theater Summer Fellows

In the course of studying LGBTQ topics in a queer drama class, I noticed that there was a glaring omission in our readings: the “B.” However, this lack of bisexual representation wasn’t due to a poor syllabus, but to a dismaying lack of bisexual representation in theatre as a whole. This observation, as well as my own experience as a bisexual woman, motivated me to use my love of writing and theatre to fill the void. After performing in Pride and Prejudice at Ursinus, I knew that Jane Austen’s story was the key to me bringing visibility to an underserved, …


Queer Horror, Laura Westengard Jul 2022

Queer Horror, Laura Westengard

Publications and Research

This chapter examines the queer Gothicism of American horror to consider the ways in which marginalized genders and sexualities have been either condemned or covertly endorsed through horror’s textual and visual mediums. In mainstream cis-heteronormative society, queer genders and sexualities have been an abjectified, “horrific” presence, and these mainstream investments represented via horror, as a mode of expression devoted to irruptions of the body, means that the presence of queerness is often registered as an a priori spoliation of bodily norms. Like the term “queer” itself, audiences have often reappropriated the Gothic figures that appear in horror, and some queer …


_Not That Bad_: Lessons Women Learn In A Rape Culture, Sydney J. Selman Jul 2022

_Not That Bad_: Lessons Women Learn In A Rape Culture, Sydney J. Selman

Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at The University of Tennessee

In 2018, Roxane Gay assembled an anthology that addresses the severity of rape, rejecting the common belief that some sexually violent acts, compared to others, are not that bad. This collection, titled Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, compiles pieces from thirty different authors and sheds light on how the notion of not that bad contributes to a broader structural social problem involving sexual violence. This social problem, known as rape culture, is commonly defined as a culture that normalizes sexual violence and blames victims of sexual assault (“What is Rape Culture?”). In other words, rape culture …


Cross-Cultural Performativity Of Gender Communication In Heather Raffo’S Nine Parts Of Desire, Shaimaa M. Saeed Jul 2022

Cross-Cultural Performativity Of Gender Communication In Heather Raffo’S Nine Parts Of Desire, Shaimaa M. Saeed

English Language and Literature

Since the mid-twentieth century, the study of gender has constituted a fundamental part of many interdisciplinary research works due to its multi-perspective nature which made it a fertile ground for analysis in diversified fields of science. Discussions over sex/gender distinction and the representation as well as perception of gender ceaselessly exist within controversially enriching, discursive frameworks. In 1990, Judith Butler (1956- ), one of the prominent feminist theorists in the field of gender studies, first coined the concept of “gender performativity,” where she challenged the conventional notions of ethnomethodologists and phenomenologists who restricted the perception and communication of gender to …


The Malleability Of Home: A Genealogy Of Clark University's English House, Christina Rose Walcott, Justin Shaw Jul 2022

The Malleability Of Home: A Genealogy Of Clark University's English House, Christina Rose Walcott, Justin Shaw

English

This essay details the history of the land and structures that occupy the property currently located at the corner of Hawthorne and Woodland Streets in Worcester, Mass. Covering over 300 years, it begins with the legacies of the Nipmuc and the early English colonialist settlers before moving into a discussion of Worcester's 19th Century industrialists and 20th Century acquisition by the University. The essay builds on extensive archival research using materials from both physical and digital collections such as atlases, censuses, biographies, directories, criticism, and more. To further develop the story of the English Department and its home, the essay …


The Flow Of (Re)Memory In African American And Nubian Egyptian Literature: Morrison, Oddoul, And Mukhtar, Bushra Hashem Jun 2022

The Flow Of (Re)Memory In African American And Nubian Egyptian Literature: Morrison, Oddoul, And Mukhtar, Bushra Hashem

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to define the term rememory, which Toni Morrison coins in her novel Beloved, and explore its interplay with water imagery in the novel and in two Nubian short stories, namely Haggag Oddoul’s “The River People” and Yahya Mukhtar’s “The Nile Bride.” The three narratives have core common features: they centralize water bodies as key sites of events, they depend heavily on the retelling of history and mythology, and they are told predominantly from the perspective of women. How do the writers weave rememory, history, and mythology to produce these narratives? Are they attempting to …


Virginia Woolf, Jacques Derrida, Mysticism, And Ethics, Angela Harris Jun 2022

Virginia Woolf, Jacques Derrida, Mysticism, And Ethics, Angela Harris

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


The Admirable Hugh: Force And Violence In Woolf’S Ethics, James T. Bowen Jun 2022

The Admirable Hugh: Force And Violence In Woolf’S Ethics, James T. Bowen

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Time & Tide, Form & Fold, Benjamin Hagen, Shilo Mcgiff, Laci Mattison Jun 2022

Time & Tide, Form & Fold, Benjamin Hagen, Shilo Mcgiff, Laci Mattison

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


The Goddess Of Empire: Lady Bruton As An Athena Figure In Mrs. Dalloway, Kai Hinson Jun 2022

The Goddess Of Empire: Lady Bruton As An Athena Figure In Mrs. Dalloway, Kai Hinson

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Possession Of The Angel In The House: A Dionysian Reading Of To The Lighthouse, Paola Brinkley Jun 2022

Possession Of The Angel In The House: A Dionysian Reading Of To The Lighthouse, Paola Brinkley

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Flashes Of “The Charge Of The Light Brigade” In To The Lighthouse: The Ethics Of Intertextuality, Christine Darrohn Jun 2022

Flashes Of “The Charge Of The Light Brigade” In To The Lighthouse: The Ethics Of Intertextuality, Christine Darrohn

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Meat Decadence: Lady Bruton’S Luncheon And The Ethics Of Appetite, Vicki Tromanhauser Jun 2022

Meat Decadence: Lady Bruton’S Luncheon And The Ethics Of Appetite, Vicki Tromanhauser

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


“Floating Incidents”: The Ethics Of The Essay As A Life-Writing Form In “A Sketch Of The Past”, Julia Dallaway Jun 2022

“Floating Incidents”: The Ethics Of The Essay As A Life-Writing Form In “A Sketch Of The Past”, Julia Dallaway

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


The Ethics Of Wonder(Ing) In To The Lighthouse, Eret Talviste Jun 2022

The Ethics Of Wonder(Ing) In To The Lighthouse, Eret Talviste

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


The Ethics Of The Ending In Virginia Woolf’S Mrs. Dalloway, Anna Lindhé Jun 2022

The Ethics Of The Ending In Virginia Woolf’S Mrs. Dalloway, Anna Lindhé

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Woolfian Ethics, Heterotopias, And Nonviolence, Jeanette Mcvicker Jun 2022

Woolfian Ethics, Heterotopias, And Nonviolence, Jeanette Mcvicker

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Unsolicited/Unrepresentative: The Ethics Of Virginia Woolf’S Portrayal Of The Transgender In Orlando, As Compared To Lili Ilse Elvenes’S Man Into Woman, Gwen Rose Jun 2022

Unsolicited/Unrepresentative: The Ethics Of Virginia Woolf’S Portrayal Of The Transgender In Orlando, As Compared To Lili Ilse Elvenes’S Man Into Woman, Gwen Rose

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


On The Ethics Of Teaching: Virginia Woolf’S Essays, Beth Rigel Daugherty Jun 2022

On The Ethics Of Teaching: Virginia Woolf’S Essays, Beth Rigel Daugherty

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


“The World Is A Work Of Art”: The Weaving Of Fact And Fiction In Between The Acts, Lucas Leite Borba Jun 2022

“The World Is A Work Of Art”: The Weaving Of Fact And Fiction In Between The Acts, Lucas Leite Borba

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


“As If She Wished That He Could Talk—As If She Expected Him Too To Feel What She Felt”: Cross-Species Translation In Virginia Woolf’S Flush, Oliver Case Jun 2022

“As If She Wished That He Could Talk—As If She Expected Him Too To Feel What She Felt”: Cross-Species Translation In Virginia Woolf’S Flush, Oliver Case

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.