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101	Information Overload: Reading Information-as-Waste in Contemporary Canadian Literature Speranza, Monica 29 June 2021 (has links) This thesis investigates three contemporary Canadian texts— Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being, Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, and Rita Wong’s forage—that treat information as an object that can be wasted and recuperated. Using information theory and a new sub-field of critical waste theory called “Discard Studies,” I explore how the authors studied in this thesis place these two lines of thought alongside one another to examine how the concept of recycling information challenges the material, cultural, and ideological structures that distance humans from their waste. Specifically, I read the event of recycling as an interruptive act that triggers a reassessment of the (im)material connections that tether humans to their waste, vast (inter)national networks of exchange, and environmental crises related to our garbage. Canadian Literature Ecocriticism Waste Theory Discard Studies New Materialism Information Theory Ruth Ozeki Margaret Atwood Rita Wong Repurposing Recycling Materiality Garbage N. Katherine Hayles Canadian Fiction Canadian Poetry Posthuman
102	Bookish Women: Examining the Textual and Embodied Construction of Scholarly and Literary Women in American Musicals Hammonds, Rebecca K. 07 August 2019 (has links) No description available. Theater Musical Daddy Long Legs Newsies Matilda Wicked The Color Purple Legally Blonde In the Heights Heroine Adaptation Father-Daughter Feminism Jerusha Abbott Katherine Plummer Matilda Wormwood Elphaba Nina Rosario Elle Woods
103	Oberlin College and World War I Endo, Todd Isao January 1963 (has links) No description available. History Oberlin College World War I WWI Oberlin Review Oberlin News Oberlin Tribune Henry Churchill King of Oberlin Donald Love Katherine Hyde Colleges in the World War Allan Bailey Mock Conventions in Oberlin 1860-1932 history
104	Is there a woman in the text? : a feminist exploration of Katherine Mansfield's search for authentic selves in a selection of short stories Cooper, Lucille 30 June 2008 (has links) Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), British Modernist writer whose search for authentic selves in the lives of the characters in her short stories, is reflected in her innovative style of writing in which she examines the interior consciousness of their minds. Mansfield questions the inauthentic lives of the characters, revealing that the roles they play are socially imposed forcing them to hide their true selves behind masks. The stories which have been chosen for this study focus on women characters (and men also) who grapple with societal prescriptions for accepted actions, and are rendered mute as a result. The women characters include all age groups and social classes. Some are young and impressionable (The Tiredness of Rosabel, The Little Governess and The Garden Party), others are married and older (Bliss, Prelude and Frau Brechenmacher attends a wedding ), while there are also middle-aged women in Miss Brill and The Life of Ma Parker. / English Studies / M.A. (English) Suppressed anger and despair Masks Identification with women's experience Gender differences Mute Constricting prescriptions for actions Women isolated in society Innovative style of writing British modernism 823.912 Mansfield, Katherine, -- 1888-1923 Persona (Literature) Self in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature
105	Music lessons and the construction of womanhood in English fiction, 1870-1914 Watson, Anna Elizabeth January 2014 (has links) This thesis explores the gendered symbolism of women's music lessons in English fiction, 1870-1914. I consider canonical and non-canonical fiction in the context of a wider discourse about music, gender and society. Traditionally, women's music lessons were a marker of upper- and middle-class respectability. Musical ‘accomplishment' was a means to differentiate women in the ‘marriage market', and the music lesson itself was seen to encode a dynamic of obedient submission to male authority as a ‘rehearsal' for married life. However, as the market for musical goods and services burgeoned, musical training also offered women the potential of an independent career. Close reading George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876) and Jessie Fothergill's The First Violin (1877), I discuss four young women who negotiate their marital and vocational choices through their interactions with powerful music teachers. Through the lens of the music lessons in Emma Marshall's Alma (1888) and Israel Zangwill's Merely Mary Ann (1893), I consider the issues of class, respectability and social emulation, paying particular attention to the relationship between aesthetic taste and moral values. I continue by considering George Du Maurier's Trilby (1894) alongside Elizabeth Godfrey's Cornish Diamonds (1895), texts in which female pupils exhibit genuine power, eventually eclipsing both their music teachers and the artist-suitors for whom they once modelled. My final chapter discusses three texts which problematize the power of women's musical performance through depicting female music pupils as ‘New Women' in conflict with the people around them: Sarah Grand's The Beth Book (1895), D. H. Lawrence's The Trespasser (1912) and Compton Mackenzie's Sinister Street (1913). I conclude by looking forward to representations of women's music lessons in the modernist period and beyond, with a reading of Katherine Mansfield's ‘The Wind Blows' (1920) as well as Rebecca West's The Fountain Overflows (1956). 823
106	Tradition. Passio. Poesis. Retreat: Comments around “The Gallery” Lipson, Daniel B 01 January 2013 (has links) Although Andrew Marvell wrote and published relatively little, his poetry collects from the full range of “schools” and idiosyncratic styles present in the seventeenth century: echoes of Herbert, Donne, Milton, Traherne, Herrick, Lovelace, and Jonson, among others, permeate throughout his work. Although much of his imagery seems novel, if not strange, it is clear that Marvell has a deep engagement with several important long-running traditions. His work is conversation with Ovid, Horace, and Theocritus as much as it responds directly to the poets whose lives overlapped with his own. In his engagement with such varied sources, Marvell demonstrates an astounding degree of poetic flexibility. He is a master of imitating voice and style. Literature Renaissance Andrew Marvell Erich Auerbach Passio Poesis Retreat English Love Love Poetry Talion Economy Loss Accounting Loss-Aversion Anne Carson John Donne Lyric Katherine Philips Pastoral The Garden The Gallery Definition of Love Marvell Donne Sonnet Psychomachia Christianity European Languages and Societies Literature in English, British Isles Other Classics Other English Language and Literature
107	Tradition. Passio. Poesis. Retreat: Comments around “The Gallery” Lipson, Daniel B 01 January 2013 (has links) Although Andrew Marvell wrote and published relatively little, his poetry collects from the full range of “schools” and idiosyncratic styles present in the seventeenth century: echoes of Herbert, Donne, Milton, Traherne, Herrick, Lovelace, and Jonson, among others, permeate throughout his work. Although much of his imagery seems novel, if not strange, it is clear that Marvell has a deep engagement with several important long-running traditions. His work is conversation with Ovid, Horace, and Theocritus as much as it responds directly to the poets whose lives overlapped with his own. In his engagement with such varied sources, Marvell demonstrates an astounding degree of poetic flexibility. He is a master of imitating voice and style. Literature Renaissance Andrew Marvell Erich Auerbach Passio Poesis Retreat English Love Love Poetry Talion Economy Loss Accounting Loss-Aversion Anne Carson John Donne Lyric Katherine Philips Pastoral The Garden The Gallery Definition of Love Marvell Donne Sonnet Psychomachia Christianity European Languages and Societies Literature in English, British Isles Other Classics Other English Language and Literature
108	Is there a woman in the text? : a feminist exploration of Katherine Mansfield's search for authentic selves in a selection of short stories Cooper, Lucille 30 June 2008 (has links) Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), British Modernist writer whose search for authentic selves in the lives of the characters in her short stories, is reflected in her innovative style of writing in which she examines the interior consciousness of their minds. Mansfield questions the inauthentic lives of the characters, revealing that the roles they play are socially imposed forcing them to hide their true selves behind masks. The stories which have been chosen for this study focus on women characters (and men also) who grapple with societal prescriptions for accepted actions, and are rendered mute as a result. The women characters include all age groups and social classes. Some are young and impressionable (The Tiredness of Rosabel, The Little Governess and The Garden Party), others are married and older (Bliss, Prelude and Frau Brechenmacher attends a wedding ), while there are also middle-aged women in Miss Brill and The Life of Ma Parker. / English Studies / M.A. (English) Suppressed anger and despair Masks Identification with women's experience Gender differences Mute Constricting prescriptions for actions Women isolated in society Innovative style of writing British modernism 823.912 Mansfield, Katherine, -- 1888-1923 Persona (Literature) Self in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature
109	A class apart : the servant question in English fiction, 1920-1950 McQueen, Anna January 2016 (has links) In the reading of the servants in examples from the period 1920-1950, the servant question is invoked to expose the workings of class. The servants in these narratives of Bowen, Green, Taylor, Waugh, Mansfield and Panter-Downes, lady’s maids, housekeepers, nannies, a butler and a chauffeur, are in thrall to the collective structures of societal ordering, and reluctant with respect to social mobility. Class was not fully being negotiated in this period, in fact little change was visible. Fer example intimacy, such as that between the lady’s maid and her mistress, meant that class confrontation was unlikely. The nanny showed that culturally constructed mechanisms such as nostalgia could be employed to discourage the desire for change. In terms of the socio-historical context any transformation in the make-up of domestic life – that is, the move towards homes without servants - was a fairly gradual business. But, there was a widespread belief in a change that had not really taken place – and that certainly had not taken place within domestic service. Any transformation of society was superficial; the governing ranks would not permit their disempowerment through genuine class change. I contend that the literature supports this perspective. Servants desire subservience; they find comfort in the familiarity of the system of household ranking-by-status. In the process, authority itself is portrayed as being less immutable, more malleable and thereby equipped for the future. In this sense the narratives read in this thesis go to make up a literature of resistance, in refutation of the overwhelming narrative of the time, progressing instead the notion that class must persist with its boundaries intact, as its hegemony is desirable and necessary for the smooth, successful operation of society. 823
110	Naming the Virtual: Digital Subjects and The End of History through Hegel and Deleuze (and a maybe few cyborgs) Ben-Ezzer, Tirza 23 July 2021 (has links) No description available. American Studies Artificial Intelligence Communication Comparative Comparative Literature Gender Gender Studies History Mass Media Multimedia Communications Philosophy Web Studies Metaphysics internet end of history digital subject digital subjectivity Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Deleuze Gilles Deleuze history philosophy of history virtual virtuality Katherine Hayles cyborg Donna Haraway gender queer queer theory

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