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Feeling Waste: Material Sensations in the Eighteenth Century
(Georgetown University, 2018)
In eighteenth-century England, waste was ubiquitous. Londoners dumped their vessels in the street. Corpses from plagues and fires created innumerable problems for overfull cemeteries. Advances in medicine meant extraneous ...
Afro-Filipino Archives and Architectures: Jessica Hagedorn and Ntozake Shange's Feminist and Poetic (Re)Visions
(Georgetown University, 2018)
During the 1970s Third World Liberation and Black Arts movements, Black and Asian American writers created transnational and artistic alliances. In particular, Filipino artist Jessica Hagedorn and Black feminist writer ...
Fairy Tale Bildungsroman: Charlotte Brontë’s Deployment of Fairy Tale Tropes and Narrative Logic in Jane Eyre
(Georgetown University, 2018)
A study of the generic links between the bildungsroman and the fairy tale as the conventions of both are used and subverted in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre. The dependence upon and rewriting of archetypal roles in ...
W.H. Auden's On This Island Nietzschean Aesthetics and the Negative Sublime
(Georgetown University, 2018)
On this Island (1937) is W.H. Auden’s masterfully apathetic commentary upon the decay, corruption, and impending chaos that are already apparent “on this island, now” as Britain withers in the shadow of a Second World War. ...
The Tragic End of Humanity and How to Deal with the Cosmic Joke of Chaos: Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" Prequels and Dan Simmons' "Hyperion" Cantos in Conversation with Complexity Theory
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Given that Isaac Asimov and Dan Simmons are writing their science fiction novels around the same time, this thesis intends to investigate how these writers interpret complexity theory differently. This is not intended to ...