Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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"Learning to Be Mad, In a Dream": The Cold War and the Birth of the Beat Generation

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Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Gallagher, Sara S., Thesis advisor (ths): Epp, Michael, Thesis advisor (ths): Macleod, Lewis, Degree committee member (dgc): Dunaway, Finis, Degree committee member (dgc): Popham, Beth, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>The Beat Generation shaped, and was shaped by, the post-WWII containment culture that arose in 1950s America. This so-called cultural containment reflected the social, political, and economic factors that were unique to the post-WWII period and are often </p><p>considered concurrent to post-war McCarthyism, which promoted a national ideology of exclusionism that was foremost… more

Stop Making Sense: Synaesthesia and Subjective Dissonance In Children's and Young Adult Fiction

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Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Rowland, Samuel John, Thesis advisor (ths): Epp, Michael, Degree committee member (dgc): Bailey, Suzanne, Degree committee member (dgc): Caple, Natalee, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>ABSTRACT</p><p>There is a growing number of juvenile novels and picture books that mean to educate the reader about synaesthesia. The synaesthete in these texts for young readers desires to be a social agent, yet sh/e also considers synaesthesia to be a healing power and a deeply personal psychedelic form of escapism; I argue that the synaesthete in these texts `uses'… more

Punk as Public, Punks as Texts: Some Of This Is True

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Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Platana, Janette, Thesis advisor (ths): Hodges, Hugh, Thesis advisor (ths): Chivers, Sally, Degree committee member (dgc): Bailey, Suzanne, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This thesis is an attempt to explore the role that musical texts played in the development of a public by writing a work of fiction and then applying to it a critical exegesis. Part One, the literary text Some Of This Is True, (re-)creates and remembers punk in its iteration in Regina, Saskatchewan, in the late 1970s. Part two, the critical exegesis, examines how the theories of public… more

Remembering the "Home" through YouTube Cooking Videos: Sensory Evocations, Cultural Negotiations and the Diasporic Kitchen

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Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Ahmed, Naveera, Thesis advisor (ths): Bailey, Dr. Suzanne, Degree committee member (dgc): Bhandar, Dr. Davina, Degree committee member (dgc): Eddy, Dr. Charmaine, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This thesis examines how food, culture and identity are linked to the idea of "home." Through a reading of oral narratives produced on the YouTube channel "ShowMetheCurry," I investigate how presenters Anuja and Hetal "write back" from a diasporic space in Texas, to the YouTube global public, and how food and cuisine, even in the age of globalization can be… more