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Recognizing Traps And Frightening Wolves: Foxes And Lions As A Representative Of Machiavellian Political Ideology In Shakespeare’S Comedies, Grace A. Powell Apr 2024

Recognizing Traps And Frightening Wolves: Foxes And Lions As A Representative Of Machiavellian Political Ideology In Shakespeare’S Comedies, Grace A. Powell

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While William Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets have been discussed time and time again over the past few centuries, one topic that has been less traversed is the connection between his Comedies and Niccolò Machiavelli’s political ideologies. This project will explore references of lions and foxes in Shakespeare’s Comedies and the leaders and monarchs within them to determine how beliefs about Machiavelli’s political ideology influenced Shakespeare’s literature and became symbols for leadership and power. This project will be important for gaining historical context on Machiavellian political discourse and how it was represented in the contemporary dramatic literature of William Shakespeare. I …


Definition And Theories Of Gentrification, William Gibbons Oct 2017

Definition And Theories Of Gentrification, William Gibbons

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“Against The Ebony Of Her Skin”: The Impact Of Harlem Renaissance Blues Culture And Literature On The Development Of Womanism, Maia Y. Rodriguez Apr 2015

“Against The Ebony Of Her Skin”: The Impact Of Harlem Renaissance Blues Culture And Literature On The Development Of Womanism, Maia Y. Rodriguez

Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium

This paper will investigate the ways in which the music and writers spurred by the explosion of African American culture that was the Harlem Renaissance were responsible for propagating the rhetoric and fresh representations of African American womanhood that would later be incorporated into the theoretical framework of black feminism championed by critics like bell hooks and brought into fruition as the recognizable school of womanism by Alice Walker. I will argue, using the literature of “proto-feminist” Harlem Renaissance writers Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston as well as the literature of womanist writers like Walker, that without the Harlem …


The Nelson Slade Bond Collection At Marshall University, Nat Debruin, Lisle Brown, Andrew Earles Apr 2009

The Nelson Slade Bond Collection At Marshall University, Nat Debruin, Lisle Brown, Andrew Earles

Nat DeBruin

Nelson Slade Bond had a varied writing career that spanned 70 years. Primarily known for science fiction short stories, Bond also wrote plays, radio and television scripts, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, public relations material, and books. The collection reflects the author's professional and personal lives consisting of writings, correspondence, business papers and financial records from 1925 to 2005. The collection has approximately 370 magazines containing stories published by Nelson Bond. Although Bond wrote detective and sport stories, he is primarily known as a science fiction and fantasy author from the Golden Age of science fiction contemporary to authors such …


The Nelson Slade Bond Collection At Marshall University, Nat Debruin, Lisle Brown, Andrew Earles Apr 2009

The Nelson Slade Bond Collection At Marshall University, Nat Debruin, Lisle Brown, Andrew Earles

Lisle G Brown

Nelson Slade Bond had a varied writing career that spanned 70 years. Primarily known for science fiction short stories, Bond also wrote plays, radio and television scripts, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, public relations material, and books. The collection reflects the author's professional and personal lives consisting of writings, correspondence, business papers and financial records from 1925 to 2005. The collection has approximately 370 magazines containing stories published by Nelson Bond. Although Bond wrote detective and sport stories, he is primarily known as a science fiction and fantasy author from the Golden Age of science fiction contemporary to authors such …


The Nelson Slade Bond Collection At Marshall University, Nat Debruin, Lisle Brown, Andrew Earles Apr 2009

The Nelson Slade Bond Collection At Marshall University, Nat Debruin, Lisle Brown, Andrew Earles

Andrew D. Earles

Nelson Slade Bond had a varied writing career that spanned 70 years. Primarily known for science fiction short stories, Bond also wrote plays, radio and television scripts, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, public relations material, and books. The collection reflects the author's professional and personal lives consisting of writings, correspondence, business papers and financial records from 1925 to 2005. The collection has approximately 370 magazines containing stories published by Nelson Bond. Although Bond wrote detective and sport stories, he is primarily known as a science fiction and fantasy author from the Golden Age of science fiction contemporary to authors such …