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"Beauty, that piercing joy akin to pain": Romanticism and the "Christian Moral Economy of 'Sacrifice'" in First World War Poetry
DownloadFall 2015
This thesis examines the connection between Romanticism and the Christ-like sacrifice of soldiers depicted in British poetry of the First World War. It focuses on the Romantic notion of the artist as an individual with special knowledge who suffers in order to create beautiful art, which, this...
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Fall 2020
This collection of essays explores my experience of girlhood in rural Alberta and beyond, especially the ways in which my relationships with other women and girls have impacted my sense of myself and the world. This project takes a particular interest in platonic love, and the kinds of heartbreak...
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Fall 2013
Francis Galton is a Victorian cyborg. I stalk him in his move from nineteenth-century eugenicist to the computerized construct of my twenty-first-century blinking screen. Using a combination of storytelling and argument—in order to maintain a constant critical engagement with my own knowledge...
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Fall 2013
Swim the Shattered Rhine is literary collage: a fragmented travelogue arranged around both the sharp and dull edges of memory… a series of snapshots cemented together by fiction and nonfiction. As it meditates on the meaning of story and truth, this piece strives to answer the question of how it...