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2024-03-28T09:25:07ZMedievalism, the Lost Book, and Handicraft in The Lord of the Rings
https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/3959
Title: Medievalism, the Lost Book, and Handicraft in The Lord of the Rings
Authors: Istvandi, Scott
Abstract: This thesis considers medievalism and the lost book in J. R. R. Tolkien’s text, The Lord of the
Rings, and the effects of inventing textual history. The Lord of the Rings was chosen for this
thesis as the Ur-text of fantasy and medievalism like World of Warcraft, Game of Thrones, and
Dungeons & Dragons. Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae is considered as an
example of using the lost book motif to achieve sociopolitical advantages otherwise unavailable.
The Lord of the Rings frequently associates handicraft with Good and industry (especially for the
purpose of war) with Evil. These ideas are historicized through medievalism. The Middle Ages
are made to be a convenient, pre-industrial, golden age of handicraft. While for some,
medievalism can be a useful escape from the troubles of one’s own time—for others, symbols of
the medieval past can become dangerous icons of ethnonationalism and other hateful ideas.2022-10-18T00:00:00ZFreedom in play, as opposed to control in games
https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/3795
Title: Freedom in play, as opposed to control in games
Authors: Soderman, S. Lowell
Abstract: In this thesis I identify an important distinction: play per se is essentially free, whereas games per
se are to the contrary essentially controlled. While free play and controlled games are regularly
complimentary, I argue there can be rather substantive dangers when this distinction is variously
confused, such that being free is wrongly understood as being controlled, or vice versa where
being controlled is wrongly understood as being free.2021-05-14T00:00:00ZReading ideological silence in late eighteenth-century English fiction: Pierre Macherey's Theory of Literary Production and the novel of Mary Wollstonecraft
https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/3646
Title: Reading ideological silence in late eighteenth-century English fiction: Pierre Macherey's Theory of Literary Production and the novel of Mary Wollstonecraft
Authors: Sidun, Jenna
Abstract: English novels by women of the late eighteenth century rarely if ever reflect the improvements
for women’s lives that contemporary radical ideas promised. Using Pierre Macherey’s A Theory
of Literary Production (1966) as a research lens, author and feminist thinker Mary
Wollstonecraft’s political ideas in her famously bold works of non-fiction are read against her
novels Mary, A Fiction (1788) and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria (1798). Macherey’s critique
is used to trace the gap between philosophical and fictional imaginations of the late eighteenth
century where it becomes clear that ruling modes of ideology are determining the representation
and fate of Wollstonecraft’s heroines. Wollstonecraft’s use of sensibility and the gothic shows us
that there is not language to delineate a successful feminist heroine. The findings of this study
question imagined authorial freedom in the process of literary production and challenge readers
to produce new knowledge through literary criticism2021-01-13T00:00:00ZDrawing anime as a cross-cultural therapy & rebellion for young girls in foster care
https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/3478
Title: Drawing anime as a cross-cultural therapy & rebellion for young girls in foster care
Authors: Zygmont, Kaitlynn
Abstract: Adolescent girls in the foster care system are sometimes misunderstood, mistreated and negatively labelled. Along with changes in governmental social policies, the female foster demographic is at higher risk of becoming involved in the judicial system. Programs such as The Holistic Arts Based Program (HAP) aim to provide an environment that nurtures creativity and teaches resilience to young foster children/adolescents who have learning disabilities and have faced loss, neglect and trauma. This study focuses on a particular group of adolescent girls from the foster care system who attended HAP for 24 weeks to seek insight into their use of anime as a therapeutic process. Through textual analysis and psychoanalysis, I trace the difference between the anime inspired art produced in past HAP sessions compared to the art from the anime activity. Anime allows for a therapeutic revision of their past and engages an active identification process. The girls consciously use anime to oppose authority figures and structures that rejected them. The cross-cultural use of anime also serves as a vessel for defiance, creativity and therapy.2019-12-10T00:00:00Z