English Honours Capstone Papers
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Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Redefining Purity: The Corruption of Love and the Fallen Woman in Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles(2026-03-05) Fournier, CeliaItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Home Is Where the Heart Is: Female Isolation within the Home as a Nation-Building Tool(2026-02-13) Peluso-Pope, MargotItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , "Piecing Together the Language": The Importance of Teaching Phonics over Three-Cueing to Learners(2026-03-06) Surovkin, RianaItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Reveries of a Family History Muting Present Identity An Analysis of Silence in Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Boy on Earth(2025-03-31) Rodrigues, NicholasThis paper analyses how silence, and how it is represented in Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Boy on Earth, corresponds to the development of identity for protagonist Jimmy and his sister Amy, respectively, given their family's traumatic history.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Fuck your patriarchy(2025-03-05) Edwards, Grace AbigailItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , "Shall I Project a World?": Narcissism and Paranoia in The Crying of Lot 49(2025) Woodward, MaxItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , The Modern Mankind: Medieval Morality Plays for a Contemporary Audience(2025-03-03) Tremblay, MeaganItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Time Flies like a Banana: Queer Temporality in Contemporary Science Fiction(2025-02-26) Gibson, JohannaItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Treating Bipolar Disorder: The Accounts of Autonomy and Inadequate Care in Graphic Medicine(2025-02-14) Pirie, Elizabeth JewelItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Through The Kaleidoscope: Slow Violence and Binary Categorization in Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts(2025-02-27) Ellsworth, OliviaThis thesis will consider the categorization of intersectional identities and concepts as a form of, what Rob Nixon has named, “slow violence.” This form of violence is experienced over extended periods of time which eventually creates conditions which are not sufficient for sustaining life. Slow violence looks different than physical or extreme forms of violence as it is a not spectacular or instantaneous, it builds gradually to destroy. To categorize is to restrict or limit intersectionality by separating an identity or concept into individual categories. In The Argonauts, a work of auto-theory, author Maggie Nelson expresses the disdain she has for categorization as it is imposed on her by those who question her sexuality and her partner’s gender identity. Nelson’s experiences with categorization function as prime examples of how categorization can become a form of slow violence and what effects that this form of violence can have on an individual. With additional support from bell hooks’s theory of love, All About Love: New Visions and Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror in Abjection, this paper will address hooks’s question of “how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition” (hooks 4) and how abjection from a normative state of being functions as resistance to the slow violence of binary categorization. By applying Rob Nixon’s theory of slow violence to Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, I will argue that the learned practice of categorization which is imposed upon intersectional queer identities and queer love is a form of slow violence that reinforces a hierarchical structure which places certain categorical frames above others.Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Fred Vincy's Horses: Work, Money, and Morality in Middlemarch(2025-02-28) Hydorn, WillItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , How to be (Post)Human: Heteroperformativity and the Gendered Limits of Posthuman Embodiment in 21st-Century Science Fiction(2025-03-02) MacDonald, Olivia ErinItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Item type: Item , Access status: Open Access , “Size, and shape, and composition, are simply options”: The Ineffable Queerness of Good Omens(2024-03-01) Gilron, LauraItem type: Item , Access status: Open Access , Coward Turned Exile: Heroic Culture in the "Battle of Maldon" and "The Wanderer"(2024-03-01) Bonthoux-Roberts, Madisen