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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Cathy Caruth"”.
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Who Died: Redefining the Elegy Through Affect and Trauma
… of the project will pull together Paul De Man, Cathy Caruth, Theresa Brennan, and Diana Fuss to apply the theoretical principle of trauma and affect transhistorically through Theocritus, John Milton, and Percy Shelley. The final portion will be an original creative collection of elegies combined …
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Aesthetic Shapes of Holocaust Literature and Pedagogical Applications
… as well as other trauma and memory theorists: Cathy Caruth, Pierre Nora, Maurice Halbwachs, and Marianne Hirsch to offer a close rhetorical and structural analysis of each text analyzed through a traumatic theoretical lens.</p> <p>This thesis discusses the intersection of pedagogy and theory, …
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Wounds in time: the aesthetic afterlives of the Cultural Revolution
… such as Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok, Cathy Caruth and Dominick LaCapra, I maintain that the Cultural Revolution is not a fixed temporal entity but a phantom that stretches beyond history, finding contemporary cultural avenues of expression, and rematerializing to demand recognition and …
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Urban ideograms
… Freud, Sandor Ferenczi, Maurice Blanchot, Cathy Caruth, and the balletic practice of William Forsythe and their commentaries.
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“But from my lie this did come true”: The fall of Atom Egoyan’s 'The sweet hereafter and hook tender'.
… Paul de Man, Jean Luc Nancy, Sigmund Freud, and Cathy Caruth, I argue that The Sweet Hereafter reveals how one fall can powerfully reference another. My aim is not simply to apply theory to a film, but also to explore how the film reconfigures the theory. Just as Egoyan’s work adapts a novel to …
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The trauma aesthetic: (re)mediating absence, emptiness and nation in post-9/11 American film and literature
… existing trauma theories from scholars such as Cathy Caruth and Kali Tal the thesis proposes the trauma aesthetic as a new critical tool for the understanding of post-9/11 film and literature.
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After Fragmentation: Mental Health and Resilience in Modernist Women’s Literature
… and survival by Catherine Malabou, Slavoj Žižek, Cathy Caruth, and Bessel van der Kolk. I conclude by analyzing recent works by contemporary women writers including Ottessa Moshfegh and Katherine May to demonstrate how the entangled subjects of trauma, recovery, and resilience continue to animate …
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Collective Woundedness: Exploring intergenerational trauma and healing in Barbara Boswell’s Grace, Mohale Mashigo’s The Yearning and Kopano Matlwa’s Period Pain
… the traditional trauma model from theorists Cathy Caruth and Judith Herman but extend it by providing a historical context for each primary text and where it is situated. In my examination of the three fictional texts, I consider the limitations levelled against the traditional trauma model, …
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Identity, Reality, and Truth in Memoirs from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
… all memory is suspect.</p> <p>Theorists like Cathy Caruth, Paul John Eakin, and Jonathon Shay work to bring the contemporary war authors examined in this essay into the canonical debate commonly centered on established, twentieth-century authors like Tim O'Brien, Paul Fussell, Wilfred Owen, …
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An End in Herself: Non-Motherhood in Contemporary French Women's Writing
… Judith Butler, Sara Ahmed, Anne Dufourmantelle, Cathy Caruth, Lauren Berlant, Françoise Vergès, amongst others. Breaking the silence on both disempowered, dysphoric motherhood and the possibility of empowered, fulfilled non-motherhood, my first chapter explores Fatou Diome’s Inassouvies, nos vies …
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Perry Smith and Josef Kavalier: Historical and Literary Victimized Victimizers
<p>In literary trauma theory, victimized victimizers represent an ambiguous area. In my thesis, I show how Perry Smith, a historical figure in Truman Capote's <em>In Cold Blood</em>, and Josef Kavalier, a fictional character in Michael Chabon's <em>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay</em>, …
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The Rhetoric of Violence
This thesis seeks to understand how we read and understand the use of depictions of violence by examining its rhetorical presentation. Although the media gives us a mixed understanding of the way that experiencing violence secondarily (that is, through all types of media) affects us, scholarship in …