Browsing Department of English by Supervisor "Kroker, Arthur"

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Contested meaning(s): freedom as responsibility in three nonfiction texts.

Barrett, David Michael (2011-08-29)

This thesis interrogates the social/political stakes in three nonfiction narratives of life and death: Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, Peter Gzowski's The Sacrament and John and Jean Silverwood's Black Wave. An analysis of ...
Responding to significant otherness: an interdisciplinary approach to critical theory and nonhuman animals

Harrower, Mariah Pease (2010-03-04)

This paper examines the roles "the animal" plays in various broad movements in contemporary critical theoretical work in and around the humanities and social sciences. It brings together elements of theory and practice in ...
Towards an interdisciplinary theory of embodied cognition

Mckall, Terence (2014-02-14)

In this thesis, the author explores the connections between developments in the fields of neuroscience and neuropsychology and the theoretical study of embodiment in political and literary theory. Through examination ...
With and against Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle: a case study of Live Earth, its politics, its contradictions, and its political potential

North, Jasmine (2010-04-29)

This thesis explores the environmental movement’s controversial use of spectacular media to incite socio-ecological change. An analysis of Al Gore’s 2007 Live Earth event forms the basis for an exploration, critique, and ...

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