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Ecologies Of Madness: Reading Virginia Woolf’S Life And Work Through Deleuze And Guattari, Kimberly Jackson Jun 2023

Ecologies Of Madness: Reading Virginia Woolf’S Life And Work Through Deleuze And Guattari, Kimberly Jackson

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Speculating On Obscurity: Virginia Woolf’S Fictionalization Of Real Lives As An Alternative To Hegemonic Tellings Of History, Mariana Muniz Pivanti Jun 2023

Speculating On Obscurity: Virginia Woolf’S Fictionalization Of Real Lives As An Alternative To Hegemonic Tellings Of History, Mariana Muniz Pivanti

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Virginia Woolf And Deep Ecology, Kathryn Van Wert Jun 2023

Virginia Woolf And Deep Ecology, Kathryn Van Wert

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Tea In The Library: Leonard And Virginia Woolf And The Ecologies Of Tea, Diane F. Gillespie Jun 2023

Tea In The Library: Leonard And Virginia Woolf And The Ecologies Of Tea, Diane F. Gillespie

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Woolfs, Shaws, Webbs: The Political Ecology Of International Government And Heartbreak House, 1916–1919, Wayne K. Chapman Jun 2023

Woolfs, Shaws, Webbs: The Political Ecology Of International Government And Heartbreak House, 1916–1919, Wayne K. Chapman

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Virginia Woolf And Arthur G. Tansley’S Botany And Psychoanalysis, Akemi Yaguchi Jun 2023

Virginia Woolf And Arthur G. Tansley’S Botany And Psychoanalysis, Akemi Yaguchi

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Floral Transformations: Humanoid Flowers And Floral Humans, Or Floral Erections And Decapitations: Woolf’S Armies Of The Upright And The Whacked, Elisa Kay Sparks Jun 2023

Floral Transformations: Humanoid Flowers And Floral Humans, Or Floral Erections And Decapitations: Woolf’S Armies Of The Upright And The Whacked, Elisa Kay Sparks

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Breaking With The Ring: Orlando’S Queer Geometries, Imogen Grigorovich Jun 2023

Breaking With The Ring: Orlando’S Queer Geometries, Imogen Grigorovich

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


“Outside Our Illusions”: Virginia Woolf’S Arboreal Compositions, Hadas Wagner Jun 2023

“Outside Our Illusions”: Virginia Woolf’S Arboreal Compositions, Hadas Wagner

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Some (Early) Versions Of Pastoral: Virginia Woolf And Ecologies Of Form, Shilo Mcgiff Jun 2023

Some (Early) Versions Of Pastoral: Virginia Woolf And Ecologies Of Form, Shilo Mcgiff

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


“Moments Of Being” As Ecological Epiphany, Leanna Lostoski-Ho Jun 2023

“Moments Of Being” As Ecological Epiphany, Leanna Lostoski-Ho

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


“I Do Not Cling To Life. I Shall Be Brushed Like A Beefrom A Sunflower”: Posthuman Extinction And The Long Now In The Waves, Oliver Case Jun 2023

“I Do Not Cling To Life. I Shall Be Brushed Like A Beefrom A Sunflower”: Posthuman Extinction And The Long Now In The Waves, Oliver Case

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Virginia Woolf’S Aesthetics Of Erosion, Ben Leubner Jun 2023

Virginia Woolf’S Aesthetics Of Erosion, Ben Leubner

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


A Few Remarks On “Sensuous Pedagogies”, Benjamin D. Hagen Jun 2023

A Few Remarks On “Sensuous Pedagogies”, Benjamin D. Hagen

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Virginia Woolf As Mother Tree, Catherine W. Hollis Jun 2023

Virginia Woolf As Mother Tree, Catherine W. Hollis

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Program From “Virginia Woolf & Ecologies,” The 32nd Annual International Conference On Virginia Woolf, Shilo Mcgiff, Laci Mattison Jun 2023

Program From “Virginia Woolf & Ecologies,” The 32nd Annual International Conference On Virginia Woolf, Shilo Mcgiff, Laci Mattison

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Sensuous Moments Of Being: Reading And Memory Loss, Vicki Tromanhauser Jun 2023

Sensuous Moments Of Being: Reading And Memory Loss, Vicki Tromanhauser

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Program For “Virginia Woolf & Ecologies Ii,” The International Virginia Woolf Society’S 2023 Symposium, Shilo Mcgiff, Laci Mattison Jun 2023

Program For “Virginia Woolf & Ecologies Ii,” The International Virginia Woolf Society’S 2023 Symposium, Shilo Mcgiff, Laci Mattison

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Craft Ecologies Workshop, Amy E. Elkins, Melissa Johnson, Catherine Paul Jun 2023

Craft Ecologies Workshop, Amy E. Elkins, Melissa Johnson, Catherine Paul

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Vegetal Being: Dreamwork, Ritual, And Performance In Han Kang’S The Vegetarian, Briana Hanratty Jun 2023

Vegetal Being: Dreamwork, Ritual, And Performance In Han Kang’S The Vegetarian, Briana Hanratty

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis, I am writing towards an ecofeminist informed reading of the English version of The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith. My aim is to display how, like an ecosystem of complex interdependency, it is impossible to separate body from theory from text from ecological context. To engage with this form of ecofeminism, I center an autotheoretical methodology with voices from ritual theory and performance theory in order to examine how Yeong-hye, the titular vegetarian of Han Kang’s novel, operates as a narrative-level metaphor for the desire for erotic ecology as a mode of ecological and …


Virginia Woolf & Ecologies: An Introduction, Laci Mattison, Shilo Mcgiff Jun 2023

Virginia Woolf & Ecologies: An Introduction, Laci Mattison, Shilo Mcgiff

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Fantasmas Compartidos: Posmemoria, Herencia Y Reescritura De La Guerra Civil Española En México Y España, Mayte Lopez Sanchez Jun 2023

Fantasmas Compartidos: Posmemoria, Herencia Y Reescritura De La Guerra Civil Española En México Y España, Mayte Lopez Sanchez

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation analyzes contemporary novels and films about the traumatic legacies of the Spanish Civil War through the lens of postmemory, memory studies, and transatlantic studies. I examine how Mexican and Spanish writers and filmmakers from the postwar generations approach the memories of their ancestors—and their own—to reframe history through fiction, memory work, and personal agency. Studies about historical memory are typically constrained to national contexts, but I highlight how trauma transcends the nation not only in space but also in time. Moreover, I focus on how inherited memories acquire new meanings in contemporary representations and how those resignifications have …


Writing As Liberation: Challenging Yemeni Patriarchal Practices, Sheema Alamari Jun 2023

Writing As Liberation: Challenging Yemeni Patriarchal Practices, Sheema Alamari

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Patriarchal societies create an environment where men hold power and women are often treated as second-class citizens or are often held as having an inferior status. Throughout history and across cultures, literature has provided a platform for writers to share their stories and express themselves. However, Yemeni women have often been silenced and marginalized due to limited education and censorship. In recent times, Yemeni and Yemeni-American women have turned to storytelling as a means of creative expression and emotional release. This thesis analyzes Zubaida “Jasmine” Sharif’s memoir, Caged in America: One Woman’s Journey Through the Veil, and Nadia Al-Kowkabani's …


Reproduction: The Ultimate Enemy Of Racial Passing In Harlem Renaissance Literature, Veronica Kordmany May 2023

Reproduction: The Ultimate Enemy Of Racial Passing In Harlem Renaissance Literature, Veronica Kordmany

Student Theses

"In this essay, I examine three texts that consider the repercussions of passing for Black Americans. Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) serves as a namesake for this general idea, as two light-skinned African American women represent the divisionary approach to racial passing. In George S. Schuyler’s Black No More (1931) we see a passing Black man’s virility being tested as he enters an ‘alternate universe’, in which a scientific invention grants him full access to the wondrous white world he’d always dreamed of entering. Finally, in the middle of this textual spectrum is Angelina W. Grimké’s 1919 short story, “The Closing …


“There’S A Double Meaning In That”: Heroism And Blessedness In Much Ado About Nothing, Laura Elizabeth Gregory May 2023

“There’S A Double Meaning In That”: Heroism And Blessedness In Much Ado About Nothing, Laura Elizabeth Gregory

Great Plains Graduate Review

I have chosen to include this line “There’s a double meaning in that” (spoken by Benedick in Act 2 scene 3) in the title of this analysis as a way of introducing the play’s two heroines: Hero and Beatrice, and my argument that these women’s names at once symbolically exemplify and ironically contrast with their characters’ natures. While referring to scholarship on Shakesperean names, allegory, and societal and gender roles, I will consider the meaning of these names—Hero meaning “hero” and Beatrice meaning “blessed” or “blessing”—and examine the ways that these characters define and are defined by heroism, blessing, and …


Diasporic Women’S Mutability In South Asian Postcolonial Literature, Tasnim S. Halim May 2023

Diasporic Women’S Mutability In South Asian Postcolonial Literature, Tasnim S. Halim

Theses and Dissertations

Though Western scholarship tends to homogenize South Asian experiences, researchers and novelists shed light on different classes of South Asian postcolonial and migratory women who experience mutability, or the internal and external changes as a trauma response after British colonial rule ended and the 1947 Partition abruptly fractured national identity. Though this mutability has positive and negative transformative qualities, it also allows women characters the power to remove themselves from cycles of oppression, work towards healing, and transforming their physical bodies from sites of repressed trauma to sites of expression and agency. What binds them is not only their physical …


Reviving Local Journalism And Storytelling: Reporting On The "Oc Weekly", Lauren E. Montoya May 2023

Reviving Local Journalism And Storytelling: Reporting On The "Oc Weekly", Lauren E. Montoya

Whittier Scholars Program

In an effort to reflect the importance of local journalism, the following project is a narrative piece reporting on the closure of the OC Weekly, an alternative news source that ended in 2019, which was hardly reported on. This project aims to change that by further demonstrating the severe impact on communities in which these meaningful sources of news disappear, and why they matter. It calls on people to advocate for and change transform journalism into more than corporate-centered news that too often disregards the critical aspect of storytelling. Storytelling brings communities together and is the life of journalism, …


The Acts Of John Steinbeck: Medievalist – A Dive Into John Steinbeck’S Adaptation Of Thomas Malory’S Le Morte D’Arthur., Timothy Luft Jr. May 2023

The Acts Of John Steinbeck: Medievalist – A Dive Into John Steinbeck’S Adaptation Of Thomas Malory’S Le Morte D’Arthur., Timothy Luft Jr.

English Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis explores The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights John Steinbeck’s adaptation of Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur. In this thesis, I argue that Steinbeck’s work is a qualified work of a talented medievalist with sustained close-readings of Acts and Morte along with biographical supplements from Steinbeck’s writings and his biographer Jackson Benson. This thesis seeks to bring light to the qualified, impressive work in Arthurian studies conducted by John Steinbeck over the course of his life that ultimately resulted in the posthumous publication of Acts.


Linguistic Factors Modulating Gender Assignment In Spanish–English Bilingual Speech, Abel Cruz May 2023

Linguistic Factors Modulating Gender Assignment In Spanish–English Bilingual Speech, Abel Cruz

Modern Languages & Literature

Drawing on naturally-occurring bilingual speech from a well-defined codeswitching community in Southern Arizona, this study examined the influence of semantic gender (a.k.a. biological gender), analogical gender, and other-language phonemic cues in modulating gender assignment in Spanish–English codeswitched speech. Thirty-four Spanish–English early bilinguals completed a forced-choice elicitation task involving two codeswitching environments: Spanish determiner–English noun switches (Task 1) and English–Spanish switched copula constructions (Task 2). The results revealed that for human-denoting nouns, bilinguals assigned grammatical gender based on the presupposed sex of a noun's referent in both syntactic environments tested. As for inanimate nouns, bilinguals were more likely to assign masculine …


Evaluating The Efficacy Of The Christian Reformational Transcendental Model Of Art Criticism As A Literary Theory Through Albert Camus’S The Stranger, Elizabeth Miller May 2023

Evaluating The Efficacy Of The Christian Reformational Transcendental Model Of Art Criticism As A Literary Theory Through Albert Camus’S The Stranger, Elizabeth Miller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The subfield of art criticism and theory within Christian reformational philosophy, a descendent of the neo-Calvinist theology developed through the work of Dutch Reformer Abraham Kuyper and others, is becoming increasingly diverse. Recently, scholars such as Leland Ryken, Glenda Faye Mathes, and Philip Graham Ryken have built upon twentieth-century theologian Francis Schaeffer’s worldview approach by popularizing a transcendental model of art criticism, an approach that applies the transcendentals of truth, goodness, and beauty to works of art. However, the transcendentals, while widely discussed in the fields of philosophy, theology, and, to a lesser extent, art theory, have not been explicitly …