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"God Is Dead... Now There Danceth A God In Me." Bringing Modernist Darkness To Light Through The Apollonian And Dionysian Dichotomy
(English, 2012-04-11)
Friedrich Nietzsche's theory of the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy can be seen at work in the texts of canonical modernist writers such as Virginia Woolf, Hermann Hesse, Albert Camus, Rainer Maria Rilke, William B. ...
Resisting Commodification (with Friends!): Facebook And Consumer Culture
(English, 2011-10-11)
Is participating in the Facebook phenomenon (or can it become) politically resistant - even revolutionary? Or are social networking websites merely another form of commodified capitalist consumerism? In this thesis, I ...
My Child And My Life: Sacrificial Obligation And Chaucer
(English, 2011-07-14)
Medieval literature demonstrates that Christians of that era took their Bible seriously, particularly the Old Testament account of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac. For them, the story was both fascinating and perplexing. Not ...
Borges And New Media: Connections Via Heterotopic Spaces
(English, 2011-03-03)
Borges' short stories such as "The Aleph" and "The Garden of Forking Paths" were uncanny in their foreshadowing of hypertext and internet developments in the 1990's. His work was often credited as inspiration for various ...
The Androgyne Patriarchy In Japan: Contemporary Issues In Japanese Gender
(English, 2010-11-01)
This project seeks to identify recent trends in Japanese masculinity, particularly the inclusion of androgyny as a mode included in masculinity. The salary man is perhaps the best-known model of masculinity in Japan ...
Alcott And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Public Sphere: Identity, Privacy, And Publication In Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
(English, 2010-07-19)
An aspect of Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women that has not been examined is the tension between the public and private spheres within the text. Since the text is semi-autobiographical in nature, issues of public and ...
Moving Beyond This Moment: Employing Deleuze And Guattari's Rhizome In Postcolonialism
(English, 2011-10-11)
The aim of this project is two-fold: to discuss the limits of Frantz Fanon's postcolonial theories, and to then present a possible model for turning "the `thing' colonized [into] a new man" (Wretched 2) by liberating "him" ...
Building Cultural Bridges Across Generational Chasms: Comparing Chicano And Jewish American Literature
(English, 2011-07-14)
This study compares Arturo Islas's novel, The Rain God: A Desert Tale with Cynthia Ozick's novella, "Envy; or Yiddish in America." Specifically, I argue that during the 1970s, these authors fictionalized the discourse ...
Imagining Judith: An Examination Of Judith's Representation In The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase Of The Old Testament
(English, 2012-04-20)
The poet-paraphraser of The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament (MEMPOT) imagines Judith and other women biblical characters as courtly ladies, whose performance and dress reflect the values and customs ...
No Longer Estranged: Women, Science, Science Fiction
(English, 2014-03-10)
Feminist science fiction (SF) and feminist science studies share common concerns--the gendered perception of science and women's place in the sciences among them--but the two fields are rarely considered together. This ...