Year: 2016, 2016
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
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 …
Year: 2015, 2015
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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 …
Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
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 …
Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
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 …
Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
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 …
Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
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 …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
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, …
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 …
Year: 2014, 2014
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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 …
Year: 2014, 2014
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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 …
Year: 2013, 2013
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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 …
Year: 2013, 2013
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
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 …
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 …
Year: 2013, 2013
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
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 …
