Browsing English and Comparative Literary Studies (ECLS) URC Student Scholarship by Issue Date
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An Application of Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale to Korean Folktales
(1999-01-01)Vladimir Propp's formula for identifying the structure of the Russian folktale is applicable to a formal analysis of the Korean folktale. Proppian analysis showed that in the Russian folktale there are identifiable basic ... -
The Emergence of the Invisible Man: Images of Ascent and Descent in Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth.
(2000-01-01)Shortly after the acclaimed publication of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, critics anticipated the publication of his second novel in the hopes that it would address many of the ambiguities posed by Invisible Man. Critics ... -
Spatial and Place-Consciousness in Urban Nuyorican Literature.
(2000-01-01)The expressive practices of Puerto Rican barrio residents in New York -- from leisure activities to formal organizational activities -- reveals how dominant urban space can be made into a community-enabling place. The ... -
The Systematic Misreading of Michel Foucault.
(2000-01-01)In the popular media we often find claims that for French philosophers in general, and Michel Foucault in particular, there is no such thing as truth. Foucault's assertion in the 1975 text Discipline and Punish that power ... -
Mortera's Influence On Spinoza's Philosophy.
(2000-01-01)The relationship between Rabbi Saul Levy Mortera and Benedictus de Spinoza has been alluded to by many scholars, but it has not been studied in detail. I researched Mortera's theological writings and discovered that his ... -
The Role of Jupiter's Descentin Shakespeare's Cymbeline .
(2001-01-01)Shakespeare's Cymbeline has been criticized for its confusing plot, but also for the unexpected arrival of Jupiter on an eagle in the last act. However, this intrusion from Roman mythology is wholly appropriate within ... -
"Desolate Exclamations": Women as the Embodiment of Nature in Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
(2001-01-01)Since its first publication in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness has been extensively analyzed by scholars. Until recently, however, there has been little critical discussion of the novel's ... -
An Anti-Existentialist Interpretation of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit .
(2001-01-01)The traditional reading of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, published in 1943, seeks to identify the various tenets commonly associated with Sartrean existentialism, namely that man is an absolutely autonomous individual, ... -
The Philippine Literary Tradition: Exploring the Relationships Between a Colonial and Imperial Past, Literature and Education
(2001-01-01)The fragmentation of the Filipino identity--- brought on by the loss of ancient Philippine culture through three hundred years of Spanish colonization and half a century of American imperialism---is reflected upon the ... -
Willa Cather's The Professor's House and the Socialization of American Law
(2002-01-01)The American novelist Willa Cather, whose career spanned the first four decades of the twentieth century, avidly immersed herself in the public issues of her time. The progression of her novels suggests a thematic shift ... -
The Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas Debate: What is really at stake?
(2002-01-01)Critics of Foucault's notion of power, as it is developed in Discipline and Punish (1975) and History of Sexuality:Volume 1 (1976), center their critique on Foucault's questioning of modernity's normative values. ... -
Climbing Mount Olympus: The Moral, Intellectual, and Spiritual Dimensions of the Heroic Dream
(2003-01-01)Throughout the centuries the heroic ideal has changed ? from the Greek Olympians to present day conceptions of the heroic life. My research focuses on the search for a new definition of heroism, based on living a meaningful ... -
Colonized Unconscious: A Post-Colonial Exploration of the Incest Narrative in Edna O?Brien?s Down by the River
(2003-01-01)Edna O?Brien?s 1997 Down by the River tells the story of 14-year-old Mary MacNamara, a victim of repeated paternal rapes. Based on the infamous 1995 ?X? case (in which a pregnant teenager was prevented from seeking an ... -
The Role of Peaceweaver: Female Sexual Power in Beowulf
(2003-01-01)The role of women in Anglo-Saxon society is a subject that is hotly debated by scholars of the period. While scholars like Gillian Overing argue with feminist perspective that the women of this era were put in positions ... -
Louis Althusser, Georges Canguilhem:Ideology and Normality
(2003-01-01)Georges Canguilhem (1904-1995) was a renowned historian of science who argued that the practice of science implies philosophy and, thus, scientists who fail to question their philosophical principles inevitably reproduce ... -
Agonistic Metaphysics: The Homeric Origin of Nietzsche's Philosophy of Active Dionysian Joy
(2004-01-01)As a Classical philologist, Friedrich Nietzsche was interested in the study of Homeric epic. In my view, this early philological interest in Homer played a fundamental role in Nietzsche?s later thought. Nietzsche?s philosophy ... -
So What Does God Have to Do with Anything?William Faulkner and Toni Morrison: Christianity in Their Fictions and Their Lives
(2004-01-01)William Faulkner produced works post-World War I when the ideologies of individualism, fragmentation and the self flourished while Toni Morrison is still writing novels, coming out of the Civil Rights Movement and the ... -
Costume in Sex and the City : Outfitting Ideas of Femininity
(2004-01-01)Sex and the City chronicles the lives of four contemporary women and is often touted as a groundbreaking television series for its representation of independent and successful women who defy traditional conventions ... -
The Impossibility of Stepping into the Same Story Twice: Investigating Herodotus as a Presocratic Historian
(2005-01-01)Due to the authorship of his grand opus, The Histories , Herodotus of Halicarnassus, for the ancients as well as for us was renowned as the ?father of history,? the founder of a genre.1 Yet no historian of antiquity was ... -
Poetic Duration: A Study of e.e. cummings Sonnets as a Critique of Scientism's Unreality
(2005-01-01)e.e. cummings is a poet widely recognized as being one of the most inventive and experimental writers in his field. Yet, despite his revolutionary style, critics often dismissed the significance of his poetry as being ...