English Honours Capstone Papers
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Item 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, EmilyItem Open Access Extreme States: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s A Death in the Family and A Man in Love(2023-03-01) Simon, IanItem Open Access “The Triumph of Death”: Adapting Chaucer’s “The Pardoner’s Tale” for the Stage(2023) Cupido, SusannaItem Open Access A Conversation with Selin: Meaning, Truth, and the Academic/Personal Divide in The Idiot by Elif Batuman(2023) Willmott, SabinaThrough a blend of critical analysis and personal narrative, this essay explores frameworks of meaning-making and their place in a student’s life using The Idiot by Elif Batuman as a touchstone text. In this work, my own ideas of meaning and truth are in conversation with Selin’s using a dialectical model combining the traditional academic essay and a letter to the novel’s protagonist to explore thematic resonances between Batuman’s novel and my own experience in academia. It considers and compares academic and personal modes of meaning-making in the campus setting and outside of it, addressing their strengths and failures, as well as tentatively proposing the potential benefits of leaning toward a more creative, literary meaning-making framework. I critique the academic method represented in The Idiot for its overreliance on definitive truth and dissonance with the felt knowledge found in one’s own experience. I critique the affective method represented in The Idiot for its instability, abstraction, and vulnerability to interpersonal and systemic influence. I suggest that a literary framework of meaning-making may maintain the critical approach of academia integrated with the experiential, emotional mode of the personal framework, creating a new framework which is strong but sensitive, stable but open. The analysis here is heavily influenced by Rita Felski’s Postcritique and references several other interdisciplinary theorists and fiction writers. This is an essay about the intersections of knowing, feeling, and meaning.Item Open Access Intergenerational Trauma and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments(Dalhousie University, 2023-02-28) Luther, Hewitt-SmithItem Open Access “Ye May Not Be Werned!”: Gawain’s Cost of Conformity in Le Morte Darthur and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight(2023-03-01) Hachey, BrandonItem Open Access “Whose flesh has crossed my will?” : The Abject Horror of Diane di Prima’s Dinners and Nightmares(2023) Burbine, CassandraItem Open Access The Human Condition: A Synthesis of Spirituality and Sensuality(2023-02-28) Newman, CormacThis is a Capstone Paper for the Dalhousie Department of English. It studies the work of James Broughton in contrast to Cartesian dualism. After establishing how Broughton's poetry characterizes the human condition as a marriage between body and spirit, the paper explores the ways in which Broughton's queerness interacts with his representation of spirituality. In addition to Broughton's work, the paper cites literary scholarship on the San Francisco Renaissance, sociological studies on queer spirituality, and Cartesian philosophy.Item Open Access The Oriental and Small-Town 'Outsider' in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford(2023-03-01) Kruisselbrink, LorenItem Open Access Technical Remembering in Death of a Salesman Through Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape(2022-03-01) Kennedy-Finnerty, LiamItem Open Access On Beauty and Communism: The Bilateral Relationship Between Communist Ideas and Our Attention to Beauty(2022-02-26) Affonso, Alex