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“‘Daddy’S Girl’: Fathers, Daughters, And Female Resistance In Virginia Woolf’S Three Guineas And Valerie Solanas’S Scum Manifesto, Kimberly Coates Jun 2022

“‘Daddy’S Girl’: Fathers, Daughters, And Female Resistance In Virginia Woolf’S Three Guineas And Valerie Solanas’S Scum Manifesto”, Kimberly Coates

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Working With Virginia Woolf’S Ethics: Reparative Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism, Marie Allègre Jun 2022

Working With Virginia Woolf’S Ethics: Reparative Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism, Marie Allègre

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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“The World Of The Infinitely Small”: Microbic Networks In Mrs. Dalloway, Caylee Weintraub Jun 2022

“The World Of The Infinitely Small”: Microbic Networks In Mrs. Dalloway, Caylee Weintraub

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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“Thinking Peace Into Existence”: Teaching The World War Ii–Era Work Of Virginia Woolf, Jessica Dismorr, And Elizabeth Bowen, Emily M. Hinnov Jun 2022

“Thinking Peace Into Existence”: Teaching The World War Ii–Era Work Of Virginia Woolf, Jessica Dismorr, And Elizabeth Bowen, Emily M. Hinnov

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Introduction, Amy C. Smith Jun 2022

Introduction, Amy C. Smith

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Volume 31, Table Of Contents Jun 2022

Volume 31, Table Of Contents

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

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Narrating Madness: Building Narratives Against Privileged Identity, Kristin Santa Maria May 2022

Narrating Madness: Building Narratives Against Privileged Identity, Kristin Santa Maria

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This dissertation examines how competing narratives related to madness and mental health can provide insight into the inconsistencies of preconceived biases that tie into privilege and power. These biases relate to identities associated with race, gender, class, and embodiment. By exploring madness narratives, we can see how madness often becomes a quality used to isolate and “other” people that act against typical societal and cultural norms. Works of fiction and nonfiction that pertain to madness narratives can either be used to perpetuate stereotypes of normalcy or as a vehicle to allow for a more open and frank discussion of madness …


A Modernism Against Maestros: Horacio Quiroga And The Transnational Automaton, Jacqueline Fetzer May 2014

A Modernism Against Maestros: Horacio Quiroga And The Transnational Automaton, Jacqueline Fetzer

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In this paper I will explore the possibility that Horacio Quiroga's regional treatment of modernist themes is more than a creole adaptation or mimicry of the European maestros, instead placing Quiroga in dialogue with an international framework of contemporary texts that explore conflicting attitudes towards modernity through dark portrayals of science and technology. I focus on Quiroga's 1910 novella El hombre artificial (The Artificial Man), a text with an amalgamation of themes and plot devices that have caused the work itself to be dismissed for being of 'poor quality.' Yet these themes and formal features integrally connect Quiroga's novella to …


White Noise And Newer Media: The Prophetic Impact Of Jack's Avatars, Caleb Milligan May 2014

White Noise And Newer Media: The Prophetic Impact Of Jack's Avatars, Caleb Milligan

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In this paper, I analyze Don DeLillo's White Noise through a contemporary techno-literate approach that utilizes Internet and game studies to better understand its protagonist, Jack Gladney, and to reevaluate the novel's critical legacy. Jack is not a modernist living in a postmodern world, as critics like Tom LeClair, John Duvall, and Leonard Wilcox have claimed for the many years since the publication of this novel. Lacking the authentic consistency for such a title, he is instead a postmodern human simulacrum sampling different character types to avoid his lack of discernable self. In each role he plays, however, he is …


Coming Down Out Of The Tree: Exploring Memory And Identity In H.D.'S End To Torment, Natalie Mahaffey Dec 2010

Coming Down Out Of The Tree: Exploring Memory And Identity In H.D.'S End To Torment, Natalie Mahaffey

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This thesis focuses on the text End to Torment: A Memoir of Ezra Pound by H.D., as well as the small collection of poetry entitled 'Hilda's Book' by Ezra Pound, which appears in the back of the memoir. My exploration into these texts consists of the reliability of memory, the role memory plays on identity, and the significance of identity as defined by non-fiction, creative writing. For End to Torment, I focus specifically on H.D.'s approach to memory as defined by her work with Dr. Sigmund Freud, as well as the impact this approach has on the presentation of Pound's …


The Vortex And World War Ii: Ezra Pound And T.S. Eliot's Poetic Treatment Of Wartime, Charles Bax Aug 2010

The Vortex And World War Ii: Ezra Pound And T.S. Eliot's Poetic Treatment Of Wartime, Charles Bax

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This thesis is an examination of the poetry written by Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot during World War II. The works that I focus on are Pound's The Pisan Cantos and Eliot's Four Quartets. I will go about this examination by applying the vortex, as a literary term and critical tool, to these two works of poetry. The structure of the vortex is a swirling outer turbine held together by a calm center. The vortex was coined as a literary term during the British avant-garde movement, Vorticism. Ezra Pound was a prominent participant in this movement that occurred in …


In Hand, Geoffrey Lee May 2008

In Hand, Geoffrey Lee

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What I hope to create in each of my stories is a piece of fiction that is exact in expression and that can be felt by my reader. I hope but do not expect that my work will move my reader; that takes a combination of chance, circumstance, and skill, and my skills as a writer are still developing. I can say, though, that that is what I have attempted to do with the stories in this collection.
The name of the collection comes from the title of its first story, 'In Hand.' I chose this title, both for the …


Sky Mines, Erin Mccoy May 2007

Sky Mines, Erin Mccoy

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This creative thesis explores variety within the single genre of the short story. There are eight stories in this thesis, consisting of four longer pieces and four shorter pieces. Each piece is a reflection of the author's command of narrator, plot, characterization, and many other important elements within the art of fiction. The purpose of this creative thesis is to show examples of the author's ability to demonstrate proficiency within the boundaries of a collection of short stories.


A Ruptured Vision: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Literary Modernism And Cinema, Charles Bailey Dec 2006

A Ruptured Vision: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Literary Modernism And Cinema, Charles Bailey

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The study of Modernism has often been divided by a seemingly unbridgeable gap between what has been deemed 'high' art, esoteric works intended for the privileged few, and 'low' culture-works intended for the groveling masses. In the first category are traditional art forms such as painting, sculpture, and literature. The lower art forms include mass-produced works that are accessible by design. Until the latter portion of the previous century the cinema, arguably the most important artistic medium of the twentieth century has been assessed as merely disposable popular culture, an 'other' to the world of traditional 'high' art.
This …