Browsing by Author "Young, Elizabeth"
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America’s White Whale: The Inescapable Search for an Impossible Identity
Anderson, Emma (2015-05-12)America’s White Whale: The Inescapable Search for an Impossible Identity is concerned with questions of American identity as explored in American literature. It explores how Sinclair Lewis, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain, ... -
THE ART OF LOOKING: ART, SCIENCE, AND OBSERVATION IN LATE ENLIGHTENMENT BRITAIN
Simon, Esther (2019-06-28)This project will examine the artistic and visual culture of the late Enlightenment (roughly 1750-1830) with a focus on Great Britain. Specifically, I will be examining how the New Science of the Enlightenment, with its ... -
Contradictions in the Tragic Musical
McCracken, Chelsea (2011-02-16)COMPLICATIONS IN THE TRAGIC MUSICAL Chelsea McCracken People are used to associating the world of the film musical with fantasy, song and dance musical numbers, and happy endings. What interests me is how the form ... -
The Diner: A Senior Thesis Film
Green, Roberta (2019-07-01)The Diner is a fifteen-minute short film, intended to be a pilot episode to a larger conceptualized series. It is a cross between a murder mystery and a mundane day-in-the-life story about an American diner and the people ... -
Female Subjectivity and Feminist Aesthetics in Revisions of the Maternal Melodrama
Bilbao, Diana (2011-02-16) -
In the Spirit of Solo: Neo-Neorealism and American Identity in Independent Cinema after September 11
Arcieri, Joanna (2011-02-16) -
"It's a Batman's World": Regulations of Gender, Sanity, and Justice in Batman Comics, 1986-2011
Diamond, Aidan Dubhain (2015-06-02)Batman, or Bruce Wayne, is a famous DC Comics superhero without superpowers who fights crime at night in the guise of a bat after his parents’ murder. He has starred in dozens of animated and live-action films and TV ... -
Manifestations of the Gothic in Jewish Literature
Kalodner, Izzy (2021-05-25)The Jewish experience is a prime landscape for the gothic to erupt. Our constant instability as a people—our homelessness, our oppression, our ancestry—is ripe for a gothic reading. I found that the Jewish gothic predicates ... -
Our Mightiest Heroes: US Identity Politics and Ideal Citizenship in the new Ms. Marvel
Longo, Katherine (2016-06-01)Kamala Khan is the new Ms. Marvel, a superhero with polymorphing, shape-shifting abilities. She is also a Muslim, Pakistani-American, high school student who loves playing videogames and writing fan fiction about the ... -
Reconsidering Literary Onomastics: Names and Naming in Faulkner and Morrison
Tishler, Rebecca (2014-06-30)The subject of this thesis is literary onomastics – the study of names in literature. My focus is on American literature, and, specifically, on two important authors within the genre: William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. ... -
The Rhetoric of Environmental Change Narratives
Groves, Sabrina (2019-05-15)For many, ‘pure environmental science’ is inaccessible. Arduous content has created a divide between environmental researchers and their beneficiaries, leading audiences to seek secondary source interpretations, rather ... -
She's Filled With Secrets: the Mythology of Landscape in the American Western
Oliver, Genevieve Marie (2013-05-03)Americans are heirs to a weighty, complex system of mythology surrounding landscape. The film, literary, and artistic genre of the Western encompasses the classic system of this mythology: that American space exists for ... -
A Spectrum of Ethical Witnessing in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Sula and Beloved
Lofstrom, Sarah (2019-04-29)This project interrogates the ways witnessing perpetuates racial violence, as well as its converse potential to engage with racial trauma in radically compassionate ways that constitute reconstructive healing. Identifying ... -
THE SUBOPTIMALITY OF MORAL DEFERENCE
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Viscous Knowledge: Water, Gender, and Learning
Webb, Margaret (2016-06-29)What constitutes ‘knowledge’ that we acquire, and how do we acquire it? Through Donna Haraway’s theoretical reconfigurations of objectivity in conversation with D.W. Winnicott’s theory of transitional phenomena, I explore ...