English - Student Works
Permanent link for this collection
Browse
Browsing English - Student Works by Issue Date
Now showing 1 - 20 of 59
Results Per Page
Sort Options
Item Research essay of Lullabies for little criminals by Heather O'Neill(2009) Lekas, ArielThe MacEwan Book of the Year Student Contest invites students to submit creative and/or critical essay responses inspired by the university's current Book of the Year. Submissions are judged by MacEwan University's Book of the Year committee members. This work was the 2008/09 winning entry for Heather O'Neill’s Lullabies for Little Criminals (2006) and was awarded Critical Essay winner.Item Tina(2010) Lowe, DevynThe MacEwan Book of the Year Student Contest invites students to submit creative and/or critical essay responses inspired by the university's current Book of the Year. Submissions are judged by MacEwan University's Book of the Year committee members. This work was the 2009/10 winning entry for Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo (2008) and was awarded Creative Project winner.Item Human after all: an exploration of Steven Galloway's The cellist of Sarajevo(2010) Horvath, StevenThe MacEwan Book of the Year Student Contest invites students to submit creative and/or critical essay responses inspired by the university's current Book of the Year. Submissions are judged by MacEwan University's Book of the Year committee members. This work was the 2009/10 winning entry for Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo (2008) and was awarded Critical Essay winner.Item Equalizing extremes to master the mean(2011) Barlow, ChelseaThe MacEwan Book of the Year Student Contest invites students to submit creative and/or critical essay responses inspired by the university's current Book of the Year. Submissions are judged by MacEwan University's Book of the Year committee members. This work was the 2010/11 winning entry for Annabel Lyon’s The Golden Mean (2009) and was awarded Critical Essay winner.Item Soma(2011) Pederson, KaleyThe MacEwan Book of the Year Student Contest invites students to submit creative and/or critical essay responses inspired by the university's current Book of the Year. Submissions are judged by MacEwan University's Book of the Year committee members. This work was the 2010/11 winning entry for Annabel Lyon’s The Golden Mean (2009) and was awarded Creative Project winner.Item The ship Is alive! Not really, but maybe!(2013) Darlington, SamThe MacEwan Book of the Year Student Contest invites students to submit creative and/or critical essay responses inspired by the university's current Book of the Year. Submissions are judged by MacEwan University's Book of the Year committee members. This work was the 2012/13 winning entry for Michael Ondaatje's The Cat's Table (2011) and was awarded Critical Essay honourable mention.Item If only reality wasn’t so…real: beyond the adventure in Michael Ondaatje’s The cat’s table(2013) Malin, CarrieThe MacEwan Book of the Year Student Contest invites students to submit creative and/or critical essay responses inspired by the university's current Book of the Year. Submissions are judged by MacEwan University's Book of the Year committee members. This work was the 2012/13 winning entry for Michael Ondaatje's The Cat's Table (2011) and was awarded Critical Essay honourable mention.Item The ponderings of a poet: architecture as representative of an author's concerns in Geoffrey Chaucer's House of Fame(2013) Spies, McKenzie; Farvolden, Pam; Wiznura, RobOne of Geoffrey Chaucer 's most well-known dream visions, The House of Fame, abounds with allusions to the concerns that writers must wrestle with at some point during their careers. Throughout the work, Chaucer discusses the purpose of writing, the value of poetry, and the worthiness of fame, but perhaps his biggest concerns lie among the questions of the future: Should he embark on a new trail of topics for his writing rather than traverse the worn road of love from his writing predecessors? How long, if at all, will his works last into the future? What can one do to make his work stand the test of time? Chaucer's pondering of these concerns is evident throughout the entirety of The House of Fame, but they are most prevalent in Book III, consisting of his attendance in the houses of Fame and Rumour. [Honours thesis]Item "We story them": Thomas King's rhetorical approach to the de-othering and re-storying of First Nations people(2013) Moorsel, Alyssa Van; Robinson, JackCanadian First Nations people have always been cast as the Other, as the colonized, by caucasian Canadian society: they are the depraved, the damned, the conquered, and the inferior. This image has been adjusted from century to century to suit society’s needs. As a result, Native people have been prevented from forming their own identities. Thomas King, in The Truth About Stories, tells stories, drawing upon his upbringing and life experiences while exploring the many stereotypes that have been historically attached to North American indigenous peoples. [Honours thesis]Item Cutting into the abyss: the subtle knife as the pharmakon in Pullman's His Dark Materials(2013) Blomquist, Gregory; Thompson, William; Wiznura, RobThe Subtle Knife as the Pharmakon in Pullman's His Dark Materials In Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, the subtle knife (or Æsahættr, literally meaning "god-destroyer") is the most significant of the trilogy's three central instruments. It is both a tool and a weapon, a device which is capable of revealing the abyssal void between the parallel universes that combine to form Pullman's multiverse; and capable of repairing the damage done by the all-consuming nothingness it exposes. Almost counter-intuitive in nature, the tool aspect of the knife creates the negative consequences of its use, whereas the weapon aspect of the knife comes to signify the positive consequences of its use. Having the potential for both good and evil, construction and destruction, I argue the subtle knife is the pharmakon of Pullman's trilogy. Originally a term referred to by Jacques Derrida, the pharmakon is a paradoxical aspect of being both the poison and the cure, or a dissembler of binaries. The pharmakon does not represent evil anymore than it represents good; it is purely neutral and thus a neutralizing agent. [Honours thesis]Item With confidence I avenge thee(2013) Peters, CarrianneThe MacEwan Book of the Year Student Contest invites students to submit creative and/or critical essay responses inspired by the university's current Book of the Year. Submissions are judged by MacEwan University's Book of the Year committee members. This work was the 2012/13 winning entry for Michael Ondaatje's The Cat's Table (2011) and was awarded Creative Project winner.Item "If everything is stable, one is not going to move very far": reality as illusion in Ondaatje's The cat's table(2014) Barratt, JessicaThis essay examines one of the major themes of Michael Ondaatje's The Cat's Table: Perception and Reality. While on the surface the novel is about a young boy on a journey, it is Michael's unique perspective that reveals an elusive truth about our reality: that it is a fragile illusion, at best. Via a comparison of Michael's past (specifically the twenty-one days he was aboard a ship named Oronsay) and present realities, then, both Michael and the reader come to realize the highly subjective nature of our collective 'reality.' The MacEwan Book of the Year Student Contest invites students to submit creative and/or critical essay responses inspired by the university's current Book of the Year. Submissions are judged by MacEwan University's Book of the Year committee members. This work was the 2012/13 winning entry for Michael Ondaatje's The Cat's Table (2011) and was awarded Critical Essay winner.Item Reality is just a dream: the significance of the uncanny in Christopher Nolan’s Inception(2014) Vyskocil, KristinaIn this research essay, the author argues a psychoanalytic interpretation of Christopher Nolan's film Inception: that it is impossible to know the real world. Furthermore, that uncanny experiences serve as reminder of the real world, but that we need to forget the real world and accept our perceived reality in order to continue functioning. The train, the open window, Mal and even the children are presented as elements of the uncanny.Item White ice(2014) Snyder, ElisiaThe MacEwan Book of the Year Student Contest invites students to submit creative and/or critical essay responses inspired by the university's current Book of the Year. Submissions are judged by MacEwan University's Book of the Year committee members. This work was the 2013/14 winning entry for Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse (2012) and was awarded Creative Project honourable mention.Item “Something inaudible”: Anthony Burgess’s Mozart and the wolf gang and Kirsty Gunn’s the big music as literary music through Roland Barthes’s concept of listening(2014) Behr, EricThis essay considers Roland Barthes' three types of listening and how they relate to avant garde music as well as novels that present formats subversive to the typical narratives expected of the medium. Both Anthony Burgess's Mozart and the Wolf Gang and Kirsty Gunn's The Big Music are novels that present an experience more in harmony with avant garde music than their own medium by bringing attention to the rhythm, cadence and phonetic relationships of the language rather than their narrative arcs. These novels demand an altogether separate manner of reading, or listening, than the act of deciphering usually associated with texts.Item Set apart: implications of naming practices in Indian horse(2014) Wielinga, FarronThe MacEwan Book of the Year Student Contest invites students to submit creative and/or critical essay responses inspired by the university's current Book of the Year. Submissions are judged by MacEwan University's Book of the Year committee members. This work was the 2013/14 winning entry for Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse (2012) and was awarded Critical Essay honourable mention.Item Inside, outside, inside–out: circles in Indian horse(2014) Regan, RebeccaThe MacEwan Book of the Year Student Contest invites students to submit creative and/or critical essay responses inspired by the university's current Book of the Year. Submissions are judged by MacEwan University's Book of the Year committee members. This work was the 2013/14 winning entry for Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse (2012) and was awarded Critical Essay winner.Item We were sent to cleave the savage from them(2014) Van Vliet, PaulinaThe MacEwan Book of the Year Student Contest invites students to submit creative and/or critical essay responses inspired by the university's current Book of the Year. Submissions are judged by MacEwan University's Book of the Year committee members. This work was the 2013/14 winning entry for Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse (2012) and was awarded Creative Project honourable mention.Item Depictions of women in Victorian literature: precursors of social change or stereotypical?(2015) Hermary, DorothyEngland’s Victorian Age was pregnant with the seeds of social change, inter-sown with the nutrients of personal and national introspection. Within this upheaval, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Charles Dicken’s Hard Times expose concerns about the position and value of Victorian females. This stereotypical portrayal of their characters can be transplanted to the current, twenty-first century struggle with gender equality. Exploration of our past can light our present as well as illuminate our gendered/non-gendered future.Item Living in the moment: the everyday in Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Cunningham’s The Hours(2015) Bushell, JessaIn this essay the importance and effect of the everyday moment in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunningham's The Hours is discussed. Whether the everyday moment is shown as baking a cake, taking a sip of coffee or making hats, each moment has its own significant impact on the characters. The impact arouses both powerful feelings and illuminating possibilities in the lives of the characters, thus demonstrating that the ordinary moments in life often hold the greatest significance.
- «
- 1 (current)
- 2
- 3
- »