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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Other Classics"”.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : Entertainment--the Author's Intention
<p>The subject of this paper is the Gawain poet and his monumental poem <em>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</em>. The concern will not be with the poet's identity or social rank, but will instead be with his motives. In some places this paper will appear to work backwards, assuming that since a …
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Footnotes to Footnotes: Whitehead's Plato
… has impeded the reception of his thought, and in others (Process philosophy) has received further (especially theological) development; fifth, exploration of how Whitehead’s reading of Plato applies to philosophical interpretations of modern science (e.g. relativity theory, Big Bang cosmology, …
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Her Hideous Progeny: <em>Frankenstein</em>'s Legacy, Adaptability, and Contemporary Prominence to Critical Story Telling
… monstrosity, and what it means to be an abject other. As a text full of critical discourse, it has reached great popular culture legacy and has become adapted numerous times over the past two centuries. This thesis explores and acknowledges instances where the text has been adapted and applied …
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"What shall we use to fill the empty spaces?": Displacement in Frank Norris's McTeague
<p>Author's abstract: McTeague, Frank Norris's Naturalistc text written in 1899, depicts the corruption of a California couple due to influences outside of their control. In positioning Trina McTeague as a woman unable to identify with either of the two major feminine ideologies of the day, the …
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Framing Identity: Repudiating the Ideal in Chicana Literature
<p>In the 1960s Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzalez penned his now canonical, epic poem “I Am Joaquin.” The poem chronicles the historic oppression of a transnational, Mexican people as well as revolutionary acts of their forefathers in resisting tyranny<em>.</em> Coinciding with a series of renewed, …
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“More than What [They] Made Us to Be”: From Passing to Perception in Victorian and Modern Vampire Media
… policing by dominant groups, the vampiric Other must be eradicated regardless of how they perform identity, and their perspective is wholly neglected.<br><br>Comparably, numerous modern vampires rebel against these confines; figures like Ana Lily Amirpour’s skateboarding, chador-wearing …
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Bloodied Hearts and Bawdy Planets: Greco-Roman Astrology and the Regenerative Force of the Feminine in Shakespeare’s <i>The Winter’s Tale</i>
… instigating the seeming death of his family and other tragic events. Shakespeare drew richly, in all of his works, from Greco-Roman myth, Greek drama, and history, and embedded in all of those disciplines is the biopolitics of the <em>polis. </em>Classical Athenian culture purposefully limited …