Browsing by Subject "Capitalism"
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The Horrors of Capital: Violence and Commodities in Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories
(2023-08-28)This paper analyzes four of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, "Berenice," "The Tell Tale Heart," "The Black Cat" and "The Imp of the Perverse," in which a first-person narrator commits acts of violence against others. The ... -
Making Development Marketable: The Politics of Image and Representation within Consumer Driven Schemes of Development Fundraising
(2011-09-06)This project examines a new and growing form of international development fundraising, which constructs and packages development as a product of consumption in order to achieve its goals of awareness and fundraising. These ... -
“THIS IS ONLY A LOVE STORY:” DEFINING LOVE AND ITS POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS IN MICHAEL ONDAATJE’S IN THE SKIN OF A LION
(2017-09-01)This thesis will examine how Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion formulates an ethic of love for social connection. Using Sara Ahmed’s theories on “encounters” and “touch,” as well as Alain Badiou’s ideas on the event ...