Browsing Library by Author "Faris, Wendy"
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The Androgyne Patriarchy In Japan: Contemporary Issues In Japanese Gender
Snyder, Rachel Ann (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 ... -
Delights And Dangers: The Pursuit Of The Oceanic In Thelma & Louise And Lost
Kyle, Christine (English, 2014-03-12)The oceanic is a sensation of unity, eternal connectedness, and oneness with the universe. The sensation can manifest itself in a variety of ways, and it is a pervasive one which has affected many people throughout the ... -
The Feminine Alternative: Men And Women In Modernist European Literature
Purschwitz, Kara Nicole (English, 2013-07-22)My work examines four seminal pieces of modernist European literature: Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Gide's The Immoralist, and Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. I show two aspects of gender ... -
"God Is Dead... Now There Danceth A God In Me." Bringing Modernist Darkness To Light Through The Apollonian And Dionysian Dichotomy
Stephenson, Kendall (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. ... -
The Magical Sublime: A New-old Lens On Magical Realism
Sasser, Kim Danielle (English, 2007-08-23)While magical realist critics often refer to magical realism's generic heritage of primitive cultures and indigenous mythology, Franz Roh's magischer realismus, and Surrealism, I will point to the sublime as a less recognized ...