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    Our 'Canada': National Narratives and the Dangers of Bourgeois Mythologies and Hegemonic Canadian Propaganda

    Year: 2023, 2023
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Hansen, Eli, Thesis advisor (ths): Steffler, Margaret, Degree committee member (dgc): Bailey, Suzanne, Degree committee member (dgc): Winger, Rob, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This thesis argues that Canada, as it is regarded by the Canadian citizenry, exists as a collection of public-facing narratives within a collectively imagined national mythos. This mythos, as it stands in 2022, is an accumulation of layers of narratives built on the foundation of former British imperial myths honed by bourgeois ideologies and ideals into a uniquely 'Canadian'… more
    Full Text: Our ‘Canada’: National Narratives and the Dangers of Bourgeois Mythologies and Hegemonic Canadian Propaganda A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty …

    Labour, Learning, and Leisure: The Technical Culture of Practice in Video Game Live Streaming

    Year: 2023, 2023
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Holt, Tyler, Thesis advisor (ths): Hodges, Hugh, Degree committee member (dgc): Mitchell, Liam, Degree committee member (dgc): Synenko, Joshua, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>Games, and especially video games are fast becoming the most pervasive media form, and live streaming games is fast becoming the most pervasive way of experiencing those games. This thesis looks at the history of broadcast, the practices of technological hobbyists, the social and technological aspect of games, gaming communities that transform game narratives, and gaming communities that… more
    Full Text: Labour, Learning, and Leisure: The Technical Culture of Practice in Video Game Live Streaming A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and …

    Uplifting Her Voice: Reimagining Lavinia from Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus

    Year: 2023, 2023
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Peters, Gabriella, Thesis advisor (ths): Brown, Stephen, Degree committee member (dgc): Loeb, Andrew, Degree committee member (dgc): Hodges, Hugh, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This thesis creates an adaptation of act five, scene three of William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus that reshapes the play by focusing on female empowerment through the character Lavinia. Specifically, by using other Shakespearean characters' dialogue that can speak towards her situation, I have written a monologue and stage directions for Lavinia. The same patriarchal… more
    Full Text: Uplifting Her Voice: Reimagining Lavinia from Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science Trent …

    The Great Liberation (or Standing Up, Laying Down)

    Year: 2023, 2023
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Majer, Tyler, Thesis advisor (ths): Brown, Stephen, Degree committee member (dgc): Epp, Michael, Degree committee member (dgc): Hodges, Hugh, Degree committee member (dgc): Loeb, Andrew, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This thesis presents a critical history of stand-up comedy alongside rhetorical analyses of specific stand-up routines and performances to argue for stand-up's efficacy as a therapeutic artform. Through analysis of the history, function, and content of satire, this thesis presents stand-up comedy as an artform utilized for more than just simple laughter. Stand-up comedy, as a form… more
    Full Text: The Great Liberation (or Standing Up, Laying Down) A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science Trent University Peterborough, …

    Half-Drowned Texts A (re)Vision of Print Colonialism and Publishing for the Postcolonial Text

    Year: 2023, 2023
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Williams, Justine-Marie Elizabeth, Thesis advisor (ths): Bode, Rita, Degree committee member (dgc): Bruusgaard, Emily, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>Through an exploration of shared stories, hauntings and the sea, this study outlines the idea that an ideological shift is a necessary first step to address the impact of colonialism in the publishing industry. This thesis draws sustained attention to the ways in which colonialism has an inextricable material effect on the publishing industry, and focuses on the myriad ways this past… more
    Full Text: HALF-DROWNED TEXTS: A (RE)-VISION OF PRINT COLONIALISM AND PUBLISHING FOR THE POST COLONIAL TEXT A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts …

    The Affective Power of Intimacy: A Case Study of a Men's Hockey Real Person Fan Fiction's Literary and Social Contexts

    Year: 2023, 2023
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Vermeer, Lina, Thesis advisor (ths): Bode, Rita, Degree committee member (dgc): Bruusgaard, Emily, Degree committee member (dgc): Boyne, Martin, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This case study's fan fiction and its subsequent non-RPF romance novel version reveal a complex blend of the fan fiction, romance novel, intimatopia, pornography, slash fan fiction, Real Person Fan Fiction, and Men's Hockey Real Person Fan Fiction genres and subgenres. Intimatopia's ideological framework provides a specific method for the romance novel's reordering of… more
    Full Text: The Affective Power of Intimacy: A Case Study of a Men’s Hockey Real Person Fan Fiction’s Literary and Social Contexts A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in …

    Tempests and Tangles Teasing out the Complexities of Gender through Shakespeare and Drag

    Year: 2022, 2022
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Dobbs, Taylor George, Thesis advisor (ths): Brown, Stephen, Degree committee member (dgc): Loeb, Andrew, Degree committee member (dgc): Hodges, Hugh, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This thesis creates an adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest that reshapes the play through a focus on queer identities. Specifically, through setting the play at a Drag club and changing the characters accordingly a nuanced view of how gender roles shape the interactions we have with ourselves, our society, and our environment. The chapters that proceed the adaptation… more
    Full Text: Tempests and Tangles Teasing out the Complexities of Gender through Shakespeare and Drag A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science …

    The Final Makeover, Deindividualization of Women in Contemporary Death Notices

    Year: 2022, 2022
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Rankin, Cynthia Mary, Thesis advisor (ths): Steffler, Margaret, Degree committee member (dgc): Steffler, Margaret, Degree committee member (dgc): Bailey, Suzanne, Degree committee member (dgc): Nichols, Naomi, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, print death notices have increased in number, length, and deviations, often as the only form of public recognition for the deceased. This thesis provides close readings through feminist and anti-ageist lenses of ninety print death notices, published in The Peterborough Examiner and Peterborough This Week between October 2019 and October 2021. These… more
    Full Text: THE FINAL MAKEOVER, DEINDIVIDUALIZATIOIN OF WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY DEATH NOTICES A Thesis to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY …

    Ripe for the Taking: Disrupting Narratives of a Queer Utopia in the Alpha/Beta/Omega Fanfiction Gift Economy

    Year: 2022, 2022
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Perkins, Sarah Rachel, Thesis advisor (ths): McGuire, Kelly, Thesis advisor (ths): Eddy, Charmaine, Degree committee member (dgc): Principe, Concetta, Degree committee member (dgc): Bhanji, Nael, Degree committee member (dgc): Nichols, Naomi, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This thesis considers the fanfiction genres of slash-fiction, and Alpha/Beta/Omega fiction through an analysis of fandom's embedded gift economy structures. Previous research on fanfiction and fandom structures have often characterized the gift economy nature of these spaces as countercultural and as separate from the frequent exploitation inherent in economic-based systems. There… more
    Full Text: Ripe for the Taking: Disrupting Narratives of a Queer Utopia in the Alpha/Beta/Omega Fanfiction Gift Economy A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty …

    Non-compliance" in the system: Bitch Planet's satirical representations of race and gender constructs "

    Year: 2022, 2022
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Pfeiffer, Elisabeth Rose, Thesis advisor (ths): Popham, Elizabeth, Degree committee member (dgc): Baetz, Joel, Degree committee member (dgc): Eddy, Charmaine, Degree committee member (dgc): Bailey, Suzanne, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This thesis examines how co-creators Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro's 2014 graphic work, Bitch Planet, is in all conceivable ways a seminal and prescient example of — to use their term — "non-compliance" in the comics form and industry. From its inception as a feminist dystopia, written by a white woman and illustrated by a Black man, in an industry that is… more
    Full Text: “Non-compliance” in the system: Bitch Planet’s satirical representations of race and gender constructs A Thesis to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and …

    Hibernian Imagination: A Study of Ireland's Violent Cultural Imaginary through Writing, Music, and Film

    Year: 2021, 2021
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Dugas, Alexandre, Thesis advisor (ths): Findon, Joanne, Degree committee member (dgc): Polito, Mary, Degree committee member (dgc): Bode, Rita, Degree committee member (dgc): Bailey, Suzanne, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>Artistic expressions such as writing, theatrical productions, music, and film arguably contribute to a culture's representation of itself to the outside world. Most cultures have been either read or misread through their artistic outputs over the course of history, although the Irish culture stands as a particularly misunderstood one. Through years of colonization and rebel warfare… more
    Full Text: HIBERNIAN IMAGINATION: A STUDY OF IRELAND’S VIOLENT CULTURAL IMAGINARY THROUGH WRITING, MUSIC, AND FILM A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of …

    Forging Masks Through Perceptions of the Maskless in Benjamin Britten's 'Peter Grimes'

    Year: 2021, 2021
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Abrahamse, Jacob Ashton, Thesis advisor (ths): Bode, Rita, Degree committee member (dgc): Bailey, Suzanne, Degree committee member (dgc): Edwards, Darryl, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This thesis proposes that Benjamin Britten's 'Peter Grimes' leads its audience toward actively constructing an attitude toward its maskless protagonist. Grimes's tragedy results from the social construction of his character from ambiguous and unseen actions. Utilizing the theories of Hannah Arendt and Carl Jung, this thesis proposes that Grimes may have resisted… more
    Full Text: Forging Masks Through Perceptions of the Maskless in Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes A Thesis Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science …

    Using the Same Language, but Meaning Different Things: A Textual Investigation of the Shared Rhetorics of the National and Poetic Narratives of First World War Britain

    Year: 2021, 2021
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Visser, Meghan, Thesis advisor (ths): Baetz, Joel, Degree committee member (dgc): Epp, Michael, Degree committee member (dgc): Bode, Rita, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>Two dominant narratives emerging throughout the war were the national narrative––that is, the narrative of the war as articulated by the British nation via texts such as political speeches, recruitment posters, and popular music–– and the poetic narrative––that is, the narrative of the war emerging from poets, specifically battlefront poets for the sake of this thesis. One hundred years… more
    Full Text: USING THE SAME LANGUAGE, BUT MEANING DIFFERENT THINGS: A TEXTUAL INVESTIGATION OF THE SHARED RHETORICS OF THE NATIONAL AND POETIC NARRATIVES OF FIRST WORLD WAR BRITAIN A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the …

    Phantoms of Mars: Myth and American Mars Narratives

    Year: 2020, 2020
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): McIntosh, Elizabeth, Thesis advisor (ths): Epp, Michael, Thesis advisor (ths): Bellamy, Brent R, Degree committee member (dgc): Bode, Rita, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>My analysis of twentieth century Mars science and fiction outlines how the ongoing dialogic between Mars science and fiction publics influences the American frontier dialectic and how Mars serves as the arena where this debate comes to life. It examines connections between myth, science, and fiction by tracing the evolution of historical and literary representations of the American… more
    Full Text: PHANTOMS OF MARS: MYTH AND AMERICAN MARS NARRATIVES A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY Peterborough, …

    "A City is Not a Place of Origins": Mapping Black Queer Identity in the Work of Dionne Brand and James Baldwin

    Year: 2019, 2019
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Jones, Cait, Thesis advisor (ths): Epp, Michael, Degree committee member (dgc): Eddy, Charmaine, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This thesis explores the work of Black queer authors who write and reproduce cities in their texts. James Baldwin and Dionne Brand create knowable and readable spaces of the cities in which they write. By studying the work of these two authors, this thesis seeks to understand how Black queer people navigate city spaces, and how Black queer authors create a literary imaginary about the… more
    Full Text: “A City is Not a Place of Origins”: Mapping Black Queer Identity in the Work of Dionne Brand and James Baldwin A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the …

    Autobiographical Graphics: reading the queer "I" in women's life writing

    Year: 2019, 2019
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Thesis advisor (ths): Steffler, Margaret, Degree committee member (dgc): Pendleton-Jiménez, Karleen, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This thesis examines the work of queer women who author graphic autobiographical texts. Alison Bechdel, Sarah Leavitt, and Elizabeth Beier all employ the graphic medium to narrate their personal experiences with coming out, growing up, and navigating heteronormative spaces as lesbian or bisexual women. By studying the work of these three authors in tandem, this thesis functions to expand… more
    Full Text: Autobiographical Graphics: reading the queer “I” in women’s life writing A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT …

    The Student's Bell Tower: The Legacy of the University of Regina's The Carillon in the Digital Age

    Year: 2019, 2019
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Thesis advisor (ths): Popham, Elizabeth, Degree committee member (dgc): Epp, Michael, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>The university newspaper is a vital aspect of the university public, as it provides a platform for students to voice their opinions on topics pertaining to the culture of their university and gives students critical information about what is happening on campus. This thesis uses the University of Regina's The Carillon as a case study to evaluate how university newspapers interact… more
    Full Text: THE STUDENTS’ BELL TOWER: THE LEGACY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF REGINA’S THE CARILLON IN THE DIGITAL AGE A Thesis Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts …

    All I've Found is Pain and Terror: Aesthetics and Moral Status in Contemporary Popular Narratives

    Year: 2018, 2018
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Chiasson, Ross, Thesis advisor (ths): McGuire, Kelly, Degree committee member (dgc): Norlock, Kathryn, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This thesis is concerned with how specific aesthetic elements function in various contemporary texts to distort, obscure, or illuminate the immoral actions and behaviours being represented. This thesis applies the moral status philosophy of Mary Anne Warren, along with the moral philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas and Zygmunt Bauman. Close reading and critical analysis are supported by… more
    Full Text: ALL I’VE FOUND IS PAIN AND TERROR: AESTHETICS AND MORAL STATUS IN CONTEMPORARY POPULAR NARRATIVES A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts …

    The Composite Frankenstein: the Man, the Monster, the Myth

    Year: 2018, 2018
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Milner, Sarah, Thesis advisor (ths): Chivers, Sally, Degree committee member (dgc): Bailey, Suzanne, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This thesis explores Frankenstein's popular culture narrative, contrasting recent Frankenstein texts with the content of Mary Shelley's classic novel and James Whale's iconic films Frankenstein (1931) and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935). The research investigates how Frankenstein's legacy of adaptations function intertextually to influence both the production and the… more
    Full Text: The Composite Frankenstein: the Man, the Monster, the Myth A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY …

    Educating the Passions: Human Reincarnation, Reformation, and Redemption in Wuthering Heights

    Year: 2018, 2018
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Hathout, Shahira Adel, Thesis advisor (ths): Bailey, Suzanne, Degree committee member (dgc): Howes, Moira, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>My thesis proposes to uncover what I term an Emilian Philosophy in the reading of Emily Brontë's only novel, and suggests that Wuthering Heights reflects Brontë's vision of a society progressing toward social and spiritual reform. Through this journey, Brontë seeks to conciliate the two contrasting sides of humanity – natural and social – by offering a middle state that… more
    Full Text: Educating the Passions: Human Reincarnation, Reformation, and Redemption in Wuthering Heights A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and …

    Robert Bringhurst and Polyphonic Poetry: Literature as Participation in Being

    Year: 2016, 2016
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Cecchin, Scott Richard, Thesis advisor (ths): Steffler, Margaret, Degree committee member (dgc): Popham, Elizabeth, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>Robert Bringhurst states that polyphonic art is a faithful, artistic reflection of the multiplicity of the world's ecosystems. This ecocritical perspective recognizes that human art informs our understandings of the world, and therefore artists have a moral obligation towards that world. In Chapter One I argue that mimesis should be reclaimed as a useful literary category since all… more
    Full Text: ROBERT BRINGHURST AND POLYPHONIC POETRY: LITERATURE AS PARTICIPATION IN BEING A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT …

    Engaging the Unwritten Text: The Role of Orality and Popular Culture in the Social Engineering Process of Postcolonial Nigeria

    Year: 2015, 2015
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Aloh, Eyitayo, Thesis advisor (ths): Hodges, Hugh, Degree committee member (dgc): Steffler, Margaret, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This study is an attempt to look at how orality plays a role in modern society to move people to action in a social engineering process. By examining the theories for the formation of publics as outlined by Jurgen Habermas and Michael Warner, I argue for the existence of an oral public and further show that it can be engineered with some of the tools provided. This theoretical foundation… more
    Full Text: ENGAGING THE UNWRITTEN TEXT: THE ROLE OF ORALITY AND POPULAR CULTURE IN THESOCIAL ENGINEERING PROCESS OF POSTCOLONIAL NIGERIA A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of …

    Authenticity, Authority and Control: How Rock Artists Are Responding to the Possibility of Collaborative Music Publics Online

    Year: 2015, 2015
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Headley, David Alexander, Thesis advisor (ths): Hodges, Hugh, Degree committee member (dgc): Epp, Michael, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This three-part history explores Web 2.0's ability to make music products a collaborative, ongoing creative process that is reflective of early twentieth century live-music publics, where the realization of a performance was actualized by performers together with their audience in a shared physical space. By extension, I follow the changing dynamic of the producer/consumer… more
    Full Text: AUTHENTICITY, AUTHORITY AND CONTROL: HOW ROCK ARTISTS ARE RESPONDING TO THE POSSIBILITY OF COLLABORATIVE MUSIC PUBLICS ONLINE A Thesis Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of …

    Alpha and Omega: Interpretive Strategies and Freedom of Choice in Fallout 3

    Year: 2015, 2015
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Morton, Robert Travis, Thesis advisor (ths): Mitchell, Liam, Degree committee member (dgc): Hodges, Hugh, Degree committee member (dgc): Epp, Michael, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>Game texts present unique and dynamic opportunities for lability: how readers can make choices while reading that alter the narrative's nature or outcome. Labile decisions are neither simply correct nor incorrect--the reader renders judgement to produce a desired outcome. When encountering labile challenges, players employ an interpretive strategy to resolve them. Many game texts… more
    Full Text: ALPHA AND OMEGA: INTERPRETIVE STRATEGIES AND FREEDOM OF CHOICE IN FALLOUT 3 A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT …

    The Songs We Share (and the Records We Steal): Popular Music and Shoplifting in an Age of Digital Piracy

    Year: 2015, 2015
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Lehman, Eric T., Thesis advisor (ths): Hodges, Hugh, Degree committee member (dgc): Macleod, Lewis, Degree committee member (dgc): Mitchell, Liam, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This thesis explores the rhetoric of theft imposed on online music by comparing file</p><p>sharing to shoplifting. Since the litigation between the music industry and Napster, file sharing has been perceived, both by the entertainment industry and by a music listening public, as a criminal act. However, file sharing has more in common with home taping and music archives than… more
    Full Text: THE SONGS WE SHARE (AND THE RECORDS WE STEAL): POPULAR MUSIC AND SHOPLIFTING IN AN AGE OF DIGITAL PIRACY A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of …

    Women as Gifts and the Triple Hecate Myth in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Antony and Cleopatra, and Cymbeline

    Year: 2015, 2015
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Ramsay, Elizabeth, Thesis advisor (ths): Popham, Elizabeth, Degree committee member (dgc): Bode, Rita, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>ABSTRACT</p><p>Women as Gifts and the Triple Hecate Myth in Shakespeare's</p><p>Troilus and Cressida, Antony and Cleopatra, and Cymbeline</p><p>Women are placed into sexual roles by the patriarchal system in which we live. Gayle Rubin terms this a "sex/gender system" and explains that within this system women are exchanged as "gifts… more
    Full Text: Women as Gifts and the Triple Hecate Myth in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Antony and Cleopatra, and Cymbeline A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the …

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

    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
    Full Text: PUNK AS PUBLIC, PUNKS AS TEXTS: SOME OF THIS IS TRUE A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY Peterborough, …

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

    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
    Full Text: “LEARNING TO BE MAD, IN A DREAM”: THE COLD WAR AND THE BIRTH OF THE BEAT GENERATION A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science …

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

    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
    Full Text: REMEMBERING THE “HOME” THROUGH YOUTUBE COOKING VIDEOS: SENSORY EVOCATIONS, CULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS AND THE DIASPORIC KITCHEN A Thesis submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of Arts …

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

    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
    Full Text: STOP MAKING SENSE: SYNAESTHESIA AND SUBJECTIVE DISSONANCE IN CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT FICTION A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and …

    From Reading to Reality: The Girl Public's Response to Post-Millennial Girl Fiction

    Year: 2013, 2013
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Cummings, Karen Joyce Maria, Thesis advisor (ths): Steffler, Margaret, Degree committee member (dgc): Bode, Rita, Degree committee member (dgc): Findon, Joanne, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This thesis explores post-millennial girl fiction, or young adult works published for girls since the turn of the millennium. Writing for girls has been traditionally placed beneath `more serious' literature, within a hierarchal model, while modern works enjoy an iconic status that is the product of cross-media popularity and a wide readership. Criticism has focused on post-… more
    Full Text: FROM READING TO REALITY: THE GIRL PUBLIC’S RESPONSE TO POST-MILLENNIAL GIRL FICTION A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science …

    The Return to "The Child": Nature, Language and the Sensing Body in the Poetry of Mary Oliver

    Year: 2013, 2013
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Holtz Braeckman, Erin Marie, Thesis advisor (ths): Steffler, Margaret, Degree committee member (dgc): Eddy, Charmaine, Degree committee member (dgc): Bode, Rita, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>Despite - or perhaps because of - her popularity as a best-selling poet, the work of Mary Oliver has been minimized and marginalized within the academy. Nevertheless, Oliver's readership is an expansive and devout one made up of a wired yet insular North American public in search of reconnecting with the natural world. I propose that through Oliver's poetry readers access the… more
    Full Text: THE RETURN TO “THE CHILD”: NATURE, LANGUAGE AND THE SENSING BODY IN THE POETRY OF MARY OLIVER A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and …

    Flesh Made Real: The Production, Reception, and Interpretation of Transgender Narratives

    Year: 2013, 2013
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Deshane, Evelyn, Thesis advisor (ths): Eddy, Charmaine, Degree committee member (dgc): Chivers, Sally, Degree committee member (dgc): McGuire, Kelly, Degree committee member (dgc): Mitchell, Liam, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This thesis examines what the term "transgender narrative" represents at this particular time and location. I do this by examining various methods of transgender storytelling through different forms of media production, including autobiography, film, novels, and online platforms such as Tumblr and YouTube. In chapter one, I look at the production of novels and the value system… more
    Full Text: FLESH MADE REAL: THE PRODUCTION, RECEPTION, AND INTERPRETATION OF TRANSGENDER NARRATIVES A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science …

    The Battle of Maldon: A Medieval Screenplay: History and Heroism in the Cinematic Adaptation of an Old English Poem

    Year: 2013, 2013
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Miller, Sarah Elizabeth, Thesis advisor (ths): Keefer, Sarah, Degree committee member (dgc): Chivers, Sally, Degree committee member (dgc): Higley, Sarah, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p><italic>The Battle of Maldon</italic>: A Medieval Screenplay</p><p>History and Heroism in the Cinematic Adaptation of an Old English Poem </p><p> <italic>The Battle of Maldon</italic> is an artistic representation of a historical event whose style lends itself to being adapted into a screenplay. This project examines how the poem presents a… more
    Full Text: THE BATTLE OF MALDON: A MEDIEVAL SCREENPLAY History and Heroism in the Cinematic Adaptation of an Old English Poem A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the …