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Unbreakable Glass Slippers: Hegemony In Ella Enchanted, Tori Shereen Mirsadjadi Apr 2012

Unbreakable Glass Slippers: Hegemony In Ella Enchanted, Tori Shereen Mirsadjadi

Scripps Senior Theses

The way Gail Carson Levine’s Ella Enchanted simultaneously conforms to its late-20th-century American standards and rebels against its Cinderella origins is analyzed in this thesis. As an analysis of a piece of literature written for children, the thesis works to defend the notion that playful literature produces a serious dialogue with its readers, and that young female readers are a particularly apropos group for the dialogue about hegemony that Ella Enchanted allows.


Truth And Reality In Tolkien’S Middle Earth: The Role Of Fantasy In The Christian’S Life, Geoffrey A. Matthews Apr 2012

Truth And Reality In Tolkien’S Middle Earth: The Role Of Fantasy In The Christian’S Life, Geoffrey A. Matthews

Senior Honors Theses

Fantasy literature can express truths found in the physical world and in the Christian faith. J.R.R. Tolkien’s trilogy, The Lord of the Rings is one example of fantasy that does so. In his essay, “On Fairy-Stories” Tolkien introduces four traits of fantasy: subcreation, recovery, escape, and consolation. Beginning with a defense of fantasy, this paper identifies the presence of these traits in the trilogy and how they correlate truth between the Primary and Secondary Worlds. A careful examination of how Tolkien’s worldview is evident in his works follows with a detailed analysis of the portrayal of human nature shown most …


Comics For Children?, Elizabeth Surbeck Apr 2012

Comics For Children?, Elizabeth Surbeck

2012 Awards for Excellence in Student Research & Creative Activity - Documents

Graphic narratives around the world have found lhemselves today beirlg read by certain types of readers. Literature scholars focus on elements such as character and plot structure, occupying their minds with what makes literature great and what some graphic nurratives share with that great literature. With a similar attitude, art historians focus on style, composition, and other artistic elements in graphic narratives that connect them to the art history timeline that goes back to cave paintings. Another type of audience exists, one that does not consider what graphic narratives are and whether they belong to an existing formal area …


Kiez Kieken: Observations Of Berlin, Vol. 1, Spring 2012, Maria Ebner, Annie Buckel, James Hollingsworth, Caroline Inzucchi, Matthew Kasper, Kingsley Lasbrey, Alexander Macleod, Sean Maguire, Leila Nabizadeh, Kathryn Reddy, Peter Scherer, Kelsey Taormina Apr 2012

Kiez Kieken: Observations Of Berlin, Vol. 1, Spring 2012, Maria Ebner, Annie Buckel, James Hollingsworth, Caroline Inzucchi, Matthew Kasper, Kingsley Lasbrey, Alexander Macleod, Sean Maguire, Leila Nabizadeh, Kathryn Reddy, Peter Scherer, Kelsey Taormina

Modern Languages and Literatures Student Publications

With this journal Kiez kieken: Observations of Berlin the students’ articles of the course Berlin Tales: Germany’s Kiez and Metropolis taught by Prof. Maria Ebner are being published to open up classroom discourse to a broader academic community. Topics have been chosen individually by each student and involved first-hand fieldwork research in Berlin, Germany, between March 10th and March 17th of 2012 as well as continuous individual research throughout the course of the semester.


The Search For Pan: Difference And Morality In D. H. Lawrence’S St. Mawr And The Woman Who Rode Away, Ria Banerjee Apr 2012

The Search For Pan: Difference And Morality In D. H. Lawrence’S St. Mawr And The Woman Who Rode Away, Ria Banerjee

Publications and Research

Both St. Mawr (1925) and The Woman Who Rode Away (1928) were written at the height of Lawrence’s fascination with New Mexico and demonstrate a continuum of thought about the position of the European and the Indian, but what is most interesting about these stories when read in conjunction is their attitude towards difference. Lou Carrington, the protagonist of St. Mawr, holds herself separate from other women of her class, from other men, from her mother and her Indian groom, finally finding a temporary peace in seeking affinity in a landscape; the woman who rides away from home and …


Beauvoir For The Masses: Exploring Applications Of Her Philosophy In French Social Revolutions Of The 1960’S, Reille Acks Apr 2012

Beauvoir For The Masses: Exploring Applications Of Her Philosophy In French Social Revolutions Of The 1960’S, Reille Acks

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

My project examines the feminism and existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir as they intersect with the ideas of the French social movements of the1960’s, using the movement of May '68 as a primary example. Beauvoir's ideas were politically in tune with the leftist philosophy of the students and workers who organized widespread demonstrations throughout the spring of 1968 and brought the French economy to a standstill in May of that year. But I argue that her existentialist philosophy, foregrounding the necessity of each individual to create a self and to reject accepted social paradigms, reflects the demands made by the …


Queer Neo-Mexicanism: Negotiating Mexican And Gay Identities In The Art Of Nahum B. Zenil And Julio Galán, Nicholas Derda Apr 2012

Queer Neo-Mexicanism: Negotiating Mexican And Gay Identities In The Art Of Nahum B. Zenil And Julio Galán, Nicholas Derda

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

The Mexican artists Nahum B. Zenil and Julio Galán have become the poster children for being gay and Mexican in contemporary art criticism. Critics have drawn comparisons between Zenil and Galán because of their thematic treatment of gay sexuality and Mexican nationalism. These comparisons, however, have often assumed that Zenil and Galán are representing a monolithic gay sexuality that is unaffected by their social class, their relationships to nationalism and Catholicism, and their views on the role of art in social activism. This paper aims to analyze specifically how Zenil and Galán represent two distinct gay identities, all the while …


Fairy Tales Redux: Jon Scieszka’S Revitalization Of A Genre For The 21st Century Kid, Laura Nicosia, James Nicosia Apr 2012

Fairy Tales Redux: Jon Scieszka’S Revitalization Of A Genre For The 21st Century Kid, Laura Nicosia, James Nicosia

Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.


Post-War Europe: The Waste Land As A Metaphor, Semy Rhee Apr 2012

Post-War Europe: The Waste Land As A Metaphor, Semy Rhee

Senior Honors Theses

This thesis analyzes the mindset of twentieth-century Europe through the perspective of a modern individual that T. S. Eliot creates in his poem The Waste Land. Although The Waste Land is the greatest modernist poem, it is often criticized for its esoteric nature. A thorough examination of the poem is useful in understanding and appreciating Eliot’s masterful demonstration of the modernist philosophy. This study analyzes the poem in light of the definition of modernism and the poem’s metaphorical nature. It also aims to reconcile the two most confusing elements of the poem—its allusive content and fragmented structure—to the design …


Book Review - The Peach Keeper, Miriam Veale Apr 2012

Book Review - The Peach Keeper, Miriam Veale

Georgia Library Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu's Research, Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu Mar 2012

Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu's Research, Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

No abstract provided.


From Galway To Soho, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire Mar 2012

From Galway To Soho, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

Articles

This is a food related recitation / poem / ballad that was learned from my father and now back in the oral tradition thanks to a my recital of it at the special food poetry and song evening at the 2012 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.


Fuego Y Paz En Napsena, Suzanne Christine Heller Mar 2012

Fuego Y Paz En Napsena, Suzanne Christine Heller

World Languages and Cultures

No abstract provided.


When Wishes Are Horses: My Life And The Poetry Of De La Tierra And Lorde Through A Kaleidoscopic Lens, Racquel Goodison Feb 2012

When Wishes Are Horses: My Life And The Poetry Of De La Tierra And Lorde Through A Kaleidoscopic Lens, Racquel Goodison

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


Zero Metaphor: How The Kaleidoscopic Point Escapes The Tautology Of Metaphor, Shathley Q Feb 2012

Zero Metaphor: How The Kaleidoscopic Point Escapes The Tautology Of Metaphor, Shathley Q

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


Once Upon A Time At The Kiev, David Hicks Feb 2012

Once Upon A Time At The Kiev, David Hicks

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


Tyrannosaurus, Willie Davis Feb 2012

Tyrannosaurus, Willie Davis

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


Flourish, T.A. Noonan Feb 2012

Flourish, T.A. Noonan

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


Tongue Dares Verbosity, Liz Henry Feb 2012

Tongue Dares Verbosity, Liz Henry

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


Lengua Osa Verba, Carmen Berenguer Feb 2012

Lengua Osa Verba, Carmen Berenguer

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


Untitled, Liz Henry Feb 2012

Untitled, Liz Henry

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


Gypsum In Nova Scotia, William Doreski Feb 2012

Gypsum In Nova Scotia, William Doreski

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


A 21st Century Love Letter, Rachel Nagelberg Feb 2012

A 21st Century Love Letter, Rachel Nagelberg

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


Four Scenes, Bishakh Som Feb 2012

Four Scenes, Bishakh Som

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


Downlands, Kathryn Kruse Feb 2012

Downlands, Kathryn Kruse

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


Orbits, Bruce Covey Feb 2012

Orbits, Bruce Covey

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


Motel Goose, Bruce Covey Feb 2012

Motel Goose, Bruce Covey

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


Dust Bunny, Anne Pitkin Feb 2012

Dust Bunny, Anne Pitkin

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


Like Owls, Tania Hershman Feb 2012

Like Owls, Tania Hershman

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.


Dunes; That Day, Lynne Potts Feb 2012

Dunes; That Day, Lynne Potts

SPECS journal of art and culture

No abstract provided.