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Explorations of Childhood Gender-Fluidity and the Subversion of Masculinity in Peter Pan
Title
Explorations of Childhood Gender-Fluidity and the Subversion of Masculinity in Peter Pan
Author
Weber, Ryan
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Literature, English literature, Sex role
Description
In declaring Peter Pan as the only child who will not grow up, J.M. Barrie has developed a character with an unmatched capacity for subverting masculine forms of normalization, social acceptance, and gender appropriation. Through Peter’s consisten...
Queer Desire and Narrative Fiction in the Works of Colette, Renée Vivien and Natalie Barney
Title
Queer Desire and Narrative Fiction in the Works of Colette, Renée Vivien and Natalie Barney
Author
Yates, Sophie
Date Created
2020
Subjects--Topical
English literature, Sex role, Sex
Description
At the conclusion of the nineteenth century, Europe bore witness to what Lynne Huffer has termed "a crisis in sexual definition", stemming from the gradual shift in popular conceptions of non-normative sexual acts as behaviors monitored by ecclesi...
Telling Stories for The Last of Us: A Ludonarrative Trauma Analysis
Title
Telling Stories for The Last of Us: A Ludonarrative Trauma Analysis
Author
Buescher, Holly
Date Created
2023
Subjects--Topical
Literature, Rhetoric, Sex role
Description
In this thesis, I propose that The Last of Us franchise functions as an exemplar on how survival horror video games are uniquely situated as a genre and medium to make precise statements about empathy, complicity, and trauma. However, upon applyin...
Witch Hunt: Persecution of "The Other" in Representations of Witches and Witchcraft in British and U.S. American Literature
Title
Witch Hunt: Persecution of "The Other" in Representations of Witches and Witchcraft in British and U.S. American Literature
Author
Schaefle, Jacquelyn
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Literature, Sex role
Description
Though it has been established that the concept of the witch is primarily used to demonize strong women whose strength derives from their deviation from the patriarchal norm, I argue the witch’s significance in literature and social development go...