English Honours Capstone Papers
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Item Open Access Item Open Access Item Open Access Fuck your patriarchy(2025-03-05) Edwards, Grace AbigailItem Open Access "Shall I Project a World?": Narcissism and Paranoia in The Crying of Lot 49(2025) Woodward, MaxItem Open Access The Modern Mankind: Medieval Morality Plays for a Contemporary Audience(2025-03-03) Meagan TremblayItem Open Access Time Flies like a Banana: Queer Temporality in Contemporary Science Fiction(2025-02-26) Gibson, JohannaItem Open Access Treating Bipolar Disorder: The Accounts of Autonomy and Inadequate Care in Graphic Medicine(2025-02-14) Pirie, Elizabeth JewelItem 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 Open Access Fred Vincy's Horses: Work, Money, and Morality in Middlemarch(2025-02-28) Hydorn, WillItem 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 Open Access Item Open Access “Size, and shape, and composition, are simply options”: The Ineffable Queerness of Good Omens(2024-03-01) Gilron, LauraItem Open Access Coward Turned Exile: Heroic Culture in the "Battle of Maldon" and "The Wanderer"(2024-03-01) Bonthoux-Roberts, MadisenItem Open Access Sad Girls—A Rebellion Against Postfeminism Ideals or a Fetishization of Women’s Emotions?(2024-03-01) Briggs, AliciaItem Open Access Whose Body, What Choice? Exploring Formations of Body Commodification through a Foucauldian Framework(2024-03-01) Graham, MairiItem Open Access Item Open Access Why This Metamorphosis?(2023-03) Malik, Trisha“Why This Metamorphosis?” investigates ideas of immigrant longing, loss, and love, by examining second-generation American writer Jhumpa Lahiri’s work, and particularly too, her radical and courageous decision to abandon English—in which she was successful and proficient—and move, wholeheartedly, into Italian, a language she knew nothing of. The result of such a migration was the Italian-language memoir, In Other Words. This paper will also work closely with Lahiri’s short fiction “A Temporary Matter,” juxtaposed with the aforementioned non-fiction-leaning In Other Words, to establish a sense of cohesion between the fictional worlds she creates for immigrant characters, and the reality she experiences in her own immigrations. While there is a lot to be said about the marginalisation and othering of immigrant identities, this paper’s investigation attempts to go beyond such a sense—it is interested, particularly, in the magicality of the margins and, what this paper refers to as the “in-between spaces” in which immigrants have been placed. It asks: what can be created in such an in-between, what can be refused and repelled, and what is, ultimately, to be found.Item Open Access Onelight Theatre and the Great Canadian Theatre Company: Contributions towards community(2023-03-03) Comeau, CaitlinItem Open Access Manmade Monsters: Sympathy in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Matilda(2023-03) McCarthy, Emily