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The Confounding Body: Female Corporeality, Androgyny, And Disgust In The Work Of Virginia Woolf And Zinaida Gippius, Yelizaveta Shapiro
The Confounding Body: Female Corporeality, Androgyny, And Disgust In The Work Of Virginia Woolf And Zinaida Gippius, Yelizaveta Shapiro
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The Confounding Body: Female Corporeality, Androgyny, and Disgust in the Work of Virginia Woolf and Zinaida Gippius examines how the discourses of degeneration, eugenics, and sexology shaped representations of women’s bodies in British and Russian modernist literature. Focusing on the writing of Zinaida Gippius (1869-1945) and Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), I challenge the longstanding argument that both authors attempted to escape the material body by resorting to androgynous tropes. I argue that the material female body takes center stage in both Gippius’s and Woolf’s work and functions as a powerfully paradoxical entity: one that generates disgust and enables oppression while housing …
Writing Dystopia: Zamyatin’S Writing Philosophy, Genre, And The Protagonist Of We, Kelly A. Gallagher
Writing Dystopia: Zamyatin’S Writing Philosophy, Genre, And The Protagonist Of We, Kelly A. Gallagher
College Honors Program
This thesis examines how Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) came to write one of the first literary dystopias. I argue that he designed dystopia in his novel We as a place that threatens the creation of what he considered “true literature,” in order to show why his conception of true literature is essential to the survival of the human spirit. The first chapter synthesizes Zamyatin’s critical essays and biographical details to reveal his writing philosophy, which I characterize as his belief that “creative revolution” sustains literature’s movement forward into the future. The second chapter explores why Zamyatin’s philosophy may have …
Intertextuality, Aesthetics, And The Digital: Rediscovering Chekhov In Early British Modernism, Sam Jacob
Intertextuality, Aesthetics, And The Digital: Rediscovering Chekhov In Early British Modernism, Sam Jacob
Modernist Short Story Project
Mark Halliday’s poem, “Chekhov,” published in 1992, raises a simple yet profound question regarding the Russian playwright and author, Anton Chekhov: What do we get from Chekhov? Considering the present article’s particular focus, Halliday’s query may be used to ask how Chekhov influenced early modernist writers (circa 1900-1930) from the British literary context. However, when considering the amount of scholarly work devoted to this question, the initial simplicity of Halliday’s inquiry evaporates, giving way to a breadth of complexity, nuance, and ambiguity. Such ambiguity has led scholars attempting to trace the intertextual convergence between Chekhov and the early modernist writers …
A Reader's Beheading: Nabokov's Invitation And Authorial Utopia, Aaron Botwick
A Reader's Beheading: Nabokov's Invitation And Authorial Utopia, Aaron Botwick
Publications and Research
“A Reader’s Beheading: Nabokov’s Invitation and Authorial Utopia” argues that Invitation to a Beheading polemically outlines Nabokov’s position on the relationship between reader and writer: in other words, that writing and reading are difficult, elite pursuits whose meanings should necessarily be available only to those willing to face and surmount the magician’s challenges. Narratively, it operates as a kind of roman à clef in which Cincinnatus C. follows a trajectory towards artistic freedom (or authorial utopia) where he is liberated from the constraints of poor readers—among them literalists and Freudians—while Nabokov, ever the unaccommodating creator, frustrates that progression with the …
The Work Of Architecture In The Age Of Its Technological Reproducibility, Elizabeth Rae Guthrie
The Work Of Architecture In The Age Of Its Technological Reproducibility, Elizabeth Rae Guthrie
Theses and Dissertations
Dresden's historic reconstructions bring up questions that reach far beyond the city's new/old Neumarkt district. In this thesis, I would like to take a closer look at the current ideological discourse surrounding the reconstruction of destroyed historic buildings in Dresden and other cities in the former DDR. What seems at first to be a simple culture war between progressive and reactionary city planners is actually, I will argue, a unique historical moment that blurs the dogmatically held ideas of rationality and nostalgia, ornament and function, and high art and kitsch. From the uncanny shadow of a church recently raised from …
(Review) Polish Literature From 1918 To 2000: An Anthology, Andrea Lanoux
(Review) Polish Literature From 1918 To 2000: An Anthology, Andrea Lanoux
Slavic Studies Faculty Publications
The article reviews the book "Polish Literature From 1918 to 2000: An Anthology," edited and translated by Michael J. Mikoś.
Review: Electric Salome, Loie Fuller's Performance Of Modernism, Tim Scholl
Review: Electric Salome, Loie Fuller's Performance Of Modernism, Tim Scholl
Faculty & Staff Scholarship
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(Review) Polish Literature From 1864 To 1918: Realism And Young Poland, Andrea Lanoux
(Review) Polish Literature From 1864 To 1918: Realism And Young Poland, Andrea Lanoux
Slavic Studies Faculty Publications
The article reviews the book "Polish Literature From 1864 to 1918: Realism and Young Poland: An Anthology," edited and translated by Michael J. Mikoṡ.
Review Of Russian Housing In The Modern Age: Design And Social History, Wendy Salmond
Review Of Russian Housing In The Modern Age: Design And Social History, Wendy Salmond
Art Faculty Articles and Research
Wendy Salmond reviews Russian Housing in the Modern Age: Design and Social History, edited by William Craft Brumfield and Blair Ruble.
Review Of The Origins Of Modernism In Russian Architecture By William C. Brumfield, Wendy Salmond
Review Of The Origins Of Modernism In Russian Architecture By William C. Brumfield, Wendy Salmond
Art Faculty Articles and Research
Wendy Salmond reviews The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture by William C. Brumfield.