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Driving to Heaven and Other Stories
(2022-05-14)
Driving to Heaven and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction and creative nonfiction focused on the themes of family, religion, addiction, and exile. These works were written, compiled, and collated between Fall ...
The Rhetoric of Ecological Food: Environmental and Technological God Terms in Blue Apron, Soylent, and Slow Food
(2017-05-12)
The rhetoric and language surrounding technologically and environmentally oriented food systems illustrate that what and how we eat shapes the way we think about food, ecology, and the world. Analyzing the rhetoric of ...
RUNNING SCARED: FEAR, SPACE, AND AFFECT IN AMNESIA: THE DARK DESCENT
(2019)
Most contemporary 3-D video games provide a wealth of visual information to players to help them navigate the in-game virtual space. Maps, compasses, beacons, and other visual guides are often necessary components of ...
Decadent Ekphrasis in The Picture of Dorian Gray
(2022-12-16)
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, as a novel about aesthetes and decadent artists, has several acts of ekphrasis, the process by which visual art is detailed using a verbal description. Unlike the traditional use ...
“The Lord That Counseled Thee to Give Away thy Land”: The Wardship Controversy in the First Quarto Version of King Lear
(2019)
This thesis argues that the 1608 First Quarto (Q) version of William Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear responds to then-ongoing popular agitation in England against the institution of wardship. Q implicitly affirms routinely-made ...
Popular Faulkner: The Development of “The National Voice” Across The Bayard and Ringo Stories
(2018-05-11)
This thesis seeks to demonstrate the development of a 'popular' Faulkner that emerges through the composition history of his 1938 novel 'The Unvanquished.' Using Michael Warner's concept of "publics," Faulkner's Bayard-Ringo ...
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 ...