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  • Courting Elizabeth : the virgin queen and Elizabethan literature

    Creator:
    Zinck, Jaime
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    Sixteenth century Elizabeth I of England has long been a figure of interest to Renaissance scholars, and their work largely focuses on how her gender impacted the power, politics, and culture of her day. Many have perceived her to be a heroine whose ingenuity and determination circumvented the limitations imposed...
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    Approved: Richmond T. Barbour Sixteenth century Elizabeth I of England has long been a

  • A Decolonial Option for Literary Criticism

    Creator:
    Bhogra, Siddharth
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    The ongoing “method war” in literary criticism that has manifested as the impasse between Critique and Postcritique, which are identified respectively with paranoid and reparative modes of reading, raises existential questions about criticism in the face of its declining social value under neoliberalism. This thesis enters that impasse to suggest...
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    trickster discourse. Elizabeth McNeil makes quite a compelling case for reading Almanac as a trickster

  • The Prince is a Woman: The Third Sex in Nightwood

    Creator:
    Palatin, Danielle
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    In her novel, Nightwood (1936), Djuna Barnes examines the relationships and identities of diverse characters during the early 20th century. My paper investigates the depiction of inversion and how it challenges heteronormative structures. However, I argue that the depiction of queer relations is only available between feminized queer subjects. The...
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  • "We Share a Common Disinheritance": Subjectivity, Dispossession, and Antiblackness in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Paul Beatty's The Sellout

    Creator:
    Becker, Jade M.
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    Recent work in moral philosophy has displayed a renewed interest in ethics and ontology that consider the social constitution of the subject. However, these approaches to ethics, exemplified in Judith Butler’s work in Giving an Account of Oneself, often neglect the problem of antiblackness, which Afro-pessimist scholars argue operates at...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth Sheehan Recent work in moral philosophy has displayed a renewed interest in ethics

  • Consumer Culture and the Performance of Identity in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night.

    Creator:
    Schaake, Emma-Kate
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    The 1920’s was a period of immense growth of consumer and celebrity culture, that brought changes in film, art and the creation and presentation of identity. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night reflects these changes, particularly with respect to how cultural shifts challenge prevailing views about individual autonomy and...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Dr. Elizabeth Sheehan The 1920’s was a period of immense growth of consumer and

  • Socratic Enunciations: Renegade Speech, Counterfeit Enlightenment

    Creator:
    Mago, Bhisma
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    In this two-article thesis, I argue that an opposition to Eurocentrism may be articulated without ethnic or identarian determinisms but through a critical engagement with the categories of ethics and truth in a global frame. I build upon the work of Frantz Fanon and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak to accomplish a...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth Sheehan In this two-article thesis, I argue that an opposition to Eurocentrism

  • Producing possibility : glimmering alternatives in Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf

    Creator:
    Nipper, Sarah
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    This thesis examines alternative modes and forms of production in texts by Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf. Applying queer methodologies drawn from the work of Michel Foucault, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Lee Edelman, and Elizabeth Freeman, I show how Cather’s The Professor’s House and Woolf’s To the Lighthouse demonstrate and interrogate...
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    capitalist ideology. By joining a range of scholars such as Elizabeth Freeman and Carolyn Dinshaw, I’m

  • Abstract Aesthetics and Liberation Theology : Figurations and Invocations of Black Jesus in Early Twentieth Century American Literature

    Creator:
    Dahl, Peter C.
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    This thesis invokes Black Jesus as an abstract figure in two seemingly disparate early twentieth century American novels and, in doing so, intervenes in ongoing debates about the ethical capacities of literature as means of grappling with difference. The Christ figure is a literary trope of waning importance in contemporary...
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    Literature Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth

  • Eternal Years : Religion, Psychology and Sexuality in the Art of Emily Bronte

    Creator:
    Miranda, Pamela C.
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    This thesis offers a textual analysis of Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights and, to a lesser extent, her poems in an effort to understand fully the complicated relationship of gender to time that characterizes her artistic imagination. The study emphasizes the interplay of religious, psychological and sexual forces inherent in...
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    by researcher for Pamela C. Miranda ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A very special thanks to Elizabeth Campbell

  • "Her Hypnotic Eyes" : Reading the Optical in Aaron Douglas’s Aspects of Negro Life and Nella Larsen's Passing

    Creator:
    Barkley, Charles K.
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    This thesis examines two cultural productions of the Harlem Renaissance: Aaron Douglas's mural series, Aspects of Negro Life, and Nella Larsen's novel Passing. I read these works together because, more than their shared time period, they showcase an attention to the visual. Both Larsen and Douglas's works are concerned with...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth M. Sheehan This thesis examines two cultural productions of the Harlem