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Breaking Trauma's Empire: Trauma And Resolution In Boardwalk Empire And Breaking Bad
(English, 2014-03-12)
The purpose of this research is to analyze the performance of trauma and its resolutions in television, generally, and in Boardwalk Empire and Breaking Bad, specifically. The first chapter of this project analyzes Jacques ...
Chaucer's De-colonized Custance
(English, 2014-07-14)
Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale (MLT) contains several non-Western views, religious practices, cultures and laws. Most importantly, within the MLT readers can discover an alternative to viewing non-Western people as enemies. ...
Digitalism: Towards A Theory Of Digital Rhetoric And Composition
(English, 2014-09-17)
In this thesis, I argue that the text and the textual are inherently digital and, thus, have properties that are information theoretic in origin. From that premise, I use an interdisciplinary approach to construct a theory ...
Inside Out: The Dialogics Of Codeswitching In Ana Castillo's So Far From God And Ibis Gómez-vega's Send My Roots Rain
(English, 2014-03-12)
In the process of narration, codeswitching, the use of words from one or more language by the same speaker within the same speech situation, reflects certain resistant strategies within the written text, forging a bridge ...
Delights And Dangers: The Pursuit Of The Oceanic In Thelma & Louise And Lost
(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 Little White Dish Of My Faith": Anne Sexton, The Body, And Spirituality
(English, 2014-07-14)
This thesis examines how Anne Sexton pits the body and soul against one another in her poems. Her work suggests that these two facets of being are more than just benignly and fundamentally different: they are enemies. Her ...
Art At The End Of The World: Bioart And Posthuman Ethics In The Anthropocene
(English, 2014-12)
Bioart is a vital contemporary aesthetic movement that involves the use of animate matter (such as animal bodies or DNA) and is generative of productive encounters between theoretical methodologies of posthumanism, new ...
Continuing Narratives Of The Pharmakos: Trans-ethical Perspectives Through The Liminal Performativity Of Material Agencies In Drug Genre Film
(English, 2014-12)
In American film and television, the drug user or producer is often associated with narratives of the pharmakos, or "scapegoat," seemingly serving to expel the contamination of American identity and ethics. By analyzing ...
"A Labor Of Love": A Social And Literary History Of The Blue Cloud Quarterly
(English, 2014-12)
This thesis will explore the literary and historical context of a small magazine publication entitled the Blue Cloud Quarterly. The first publication of its kind to focus entirely on Native American poetry, the BCQ played ...
The Potential Of Posthumanism: Reimagining Utopia Through Bellamy, Atwood, And Slonczewski
(English, 2014-12)
In this thesis, I focus on posthumanist theory, utopia, and the evolving portrayal of technology in the novels of Edward Bellamy, Margaret Atwood, and Joan Slonczewski. The main argument of this thesis is that there is a ...