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Medieval Individuals and Hermetic Communities in Le Morte Darthur: What Reading Malory Suggests About Greimas's Semiotic Square
(2018-05-11)
In Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, the progression of the Round Table toward its ultimate destruction offers examples of how the medieval individual navigates through various communities, as well as the fracturing ...
Racism and Resistance: Contextualizing Sorry to Bother You in the Neoliberal Moment
(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 ...
Agency, Gender, and Constraint: Examining Shame in The Awakening
(2019-05)
This thesis focuses on The Awakening by Kate Chopin and examines how shame constrains the performance of gender through the lens of Butler’s theory of gender performativity. Judith Butler claims that gender is the “practice ...
"MY HUSBAND? A WOMAN, A WOMAN, A WOMAN": CROSS-DRESSING AS SOCIOECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
(2018-05-11)
During the evolutionary period that is the eighteenth century, constructing and differentiating between genders was contentious, as was establishing tenants of masculinity and femininity. Because of the era’s interlocking ...
Rekindled and Other Stories
(2019-05-11)
"Rekindled and Other Stories" is a short fiction collection that also exercises multiple craft elements of fiction like point of view, voice, form such as flash fiction. Its themes include women and their autonomy, obsession, ...
Normalcy and Pathology: Biology, Social Reform, and American Domestic Handbooks, c. 1840-1910
(2016-05)
This article examines the relationships between the biological and social content of the domestic handbooks Catharine E. Beecher (1800-1878) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1868-1935) wrote during the mid-nineteenth and ...
Flannery O’Connor's “Displaced Person”: Americans’ Ambivalence Towards Refugees Post-WWII
(2019-05)
This thesis examines how Flannery O’Connor’s novella, “The Displaced Person,” is a response to the problem of statelessness in the aftermath of World War II. During the postwar period, statelessness became a major issue. ...
IN(CORPS)ORATING MARINE IDENTITY: EMBODIED RHETORICS IN UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS RECRUIT TRAINING
(2018)
The United States Marine Corps exists within American popular consciousness as a famed fighting force renowned for its unapologetic and well-earned reputation. Its recruit training process, colloquially known as "boot ...
"Creation Care is a Matter of Life": The Rhetoric of Pro-Life Evangelical Environmentalism
(2017-05-12)
Evangelical groups have often been considered politically conservative on issues such as climate change and abortion. However, some evangelical groups employ pro-life rhetoric as a tool to influence pro-life evangelicals ...
Transgressive Gender and the Empowerment of Masculine Women in The Monk
(2017-05-12)
In my paper, titled “Transgressive Gender and the Empowerment of Masculine Women in The Monk,” I discuss how Matthew Lewis revolutionizes Gothic literature by crafting powerful women characters who deviate from traditional ...