Search results for: “thesis theater”
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Thesis Theater: Timothy Francis, “Administrative Art as Genre in Kafka, Tooker, and Ravn”
Join us on April 11 at 1pm ET for a Thesis Theater that explores bureaucracy in literature and art!
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2024.04.05 Thesis Theater: Duane Watson
The Power to Dominate or Preserve: Magic as a Means of Production in Middle-earth Abstract J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth has long been praised for its sense of depth, but Tolkien’s creation has often been criticized, especially by Marxist critics, for its lack in depicting economic realities and for providing a reactionary fantasy to soothe…
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Thesis Theater: Kira Tregoning, “More Complicated Than They Seem: The Semantic and Narrative Meaning in Homeric Epithets”
Join us on October 6 at 2pm ET for a Thesis Theater that explores the meaning of Homer’s epithets!
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Thesis Theater: Gina Petrone, “‘Let Me In!’ Vampirism in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights”
Join us on August 1 at 6pm ET for a Thesis Theater that explores Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights!
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Thesis Theater: Patrick Lyon, “Merry Old Englyn: The Familiar and the Strange in The Old English Rhyming Poem”
Join us on July 30 at 3pm ET for a Thesis Theater that explores Old English literature!
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Thesis Theater: Christoph Schabert, “Mágus saga jarls: A Digital Edition”
Join us on July 29 at 2pm ET for a Thesis Theater that explores Old Norse-Icelandic literature!
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Thesis Theater: Jennifer Ewing, “The Promises to the Overcomer: The Gifts and Rewards Given to the Fellowship in The Lord of the Rings”
Join us on April 3rd at 9pm ET for a Thesis Theater that explores the gifts and rewards in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
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Thesis Theater: Nadia Schafer, “One Strange (s)Elf: Deep Ecology, Decolonization, and the Radical Hope of Legolas Greenleaf”
Join us on September 5th at 7pm ET for a Thesis Theater to explore issues that concern us today, and were ahead of their time in Tolkien’s writings.
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Thesis Theater: Jacob R. Schreiner, “The Logos of Faith: Sub-creation through Speech-Acts in Tolkien’s Legendarium”
Join us on June 1st at 12pm (noon) ET for a Thesis Theater to explore J.R.R. Tolkien’s powerful concept of Sub-Creation and further ways to understand and perhaps, once explored, make use of it.
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Thesis Theater: Miriam Davidson, “The Sword Not for its Sharpness: Nonviolent Countercurrents in Tolkien’s Epic of War”
Join us on May 26th at 3pm ET for a Thesis Theater to explore the relevant description and surprising complexity of war in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings; a timely topic.