Browsing OU - Theses by Author "Keresztesi, Rita"
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Cloud, Calf, and Cannon: An Ecological Reading of "War and Peace"
Hill, Ian (2022-05-14)This essay engages in an ecocritical–spatial reading of Leo Tolstoy’s "War and Peace" focused on the narrator’s conscientious and equitable treatment of nature, animals, and topography. Where traditional historical–temporal ... -
Domesticity, Utopia, and Biopolitics: A Critical Study of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Moving the Mountain
Nepomnick, Allison (2018-05-11)With the rise of first-wave feminism in United States, often characterized by the movement to secure women the right to vote and enact a voice in the public sphere, the early twentieth century indicated a clear ideological ... -
How the Medical, Legal, and Religious Systems Shaped Gender for Hermaphrodites and Gender Nonconformists to Suppress Trans Presence and Enforce Heterosexuality
Cox, Madeline (2024-05-10)Although sexuality is widely accepted across the United States, being transgender or a gender nonconformist is not. Those across the LGBTQ+ spectrum are not on equal footing and many wonder why. Members of the transgender ... -
The Masculine Dilemma: Entanglement of Violence and Maleness in "The Only Good Indians"
Witt, Jacob (2022-05-14)This thesis examines the four Blackfeet male protagonists within Stephen Graham Jones’s "The Only Good Indians" in order to investigate stereotypes often applied to masculinity, specifically Indigenous masculinity. Examining ... -
Noise and Fragile Symphonies: Animality and the South African Sonic Genre in The Whale Caller, Disgrace, and Nineveh
Mason, Samantha (2019-05-11)When establishing an interspecies ethics, it is often the gaze that is used to establish the agency of the animal Other in the absence of logocentric speech. However, when considering the physical realities of the nonhuman ... -
Racism and Resistance: Contextualizing Sorry to Bother You in the Neoliberal Moment
Bozarth, Hayden (2019-05-11)The goal of this paper is to discuss the historical and theoretical framework of neoliberalism through three films that place the Black body at the center of neoliberal economic and ideological systems: Sorry to Bother You ... -
“Why Would They Bury Her When She Can Still Walk Around” : Examining an Indigenous Gothic
Rosillo, Tatiana (2022-05-14)In “Why Would They Bury Her When She Can Still Walk Around” : Examining an Indigenous Gothic, Tatiana Rosillo adapts the genre conventions of the literary Gothic to examine Indigenous genre media and analyze what an ...