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“The Magic Mirror”: Uncanny Suicides, From Sylvia Plath to Chantal Akerman
(Georgetown University, 2017)Artists such as Chantal Akerman and Sylvia Plath, both of whom came of age in mid-twentieth century America, have a tendency to show concern with doubles in their work—Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Maya Deren’s Meshes of the ... -
No Respecter of ‘Place, Persons, Or Time’: Festivity as Coercive Power in Twelfth Night and The Puritan Widow
(Georgetown University, 2017)Scholars of early modern England have recently renewed their interest in festivity—the religious and social concept and practice of feasts, fasts, processions, celebrations, gatherings, and other rituals associated with ... -
Resistance and/in Diaspora: The Caribbean Presence in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby
(Georgetown University, 2017)This thesis analyses the elements of the Caribbean in Toni Morrison’s novel Tar Baby. Those elements are found and studied in the novel’s setting and in the characters of Afro Caribbean origin and their relationships with ... -
Caressing the Noun: Using Natural Language Processing to Read Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons
(Georgetown University, 2017)This thesis uses Natural Language Processing to study Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons. Stein’s poetics collide with alternative reading practices. Her writing challenges both conventional and nonconventional approaches, ... -
Made Future: The Political Ecology of William Blake's 'Milton'
(Georgetown University, 2017)This study investigates William Blake’s Milton (1811), both as a poem and as an illuminated book, to understand what, drawing on contemporary environmental thought, I have come to call Blake’s “ecology”: his portrayal of ...
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