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“I believe I made three whole steps”: Pilgrimage Narrative in Violet Evergarden
A Thesis Theatre by Bronwyn Rivera From psychology to film theory, ecocriticism to posthumanism, anime studies have flourished as scholars investigate the medium through a variety of interdisciplinary lenses. In particular, academics are examining relationships between pilgrimage and tourism to anime/anime-adjacent sites, how anime plotlines reflect or reject narrative archetypes, or how specific anime subgenres…
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25-08-13 “Mending One Thing and Marring Another”: Neutral and Evil Technology in Lewis and Tolkien
A Thesis Theatre by Grace Bennett This thesis challenges the reductionistic narrative that C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were anti-technology and anti-science. It examines technological examples from the works of Lewis and Tolkien that show their varying degrees of comfort and caution surrounding different types of technology. The first category this thesis assesses is technology…