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Jauss, Lacan, and the Dude

Jay Bennett University of Colorado at Boulder   Jauss, Lacan, and the Dude   In the following essay, I use the Coen Brothers’ film The Big Lebowski to outline and explore the theories of Jacques Lacan and Hans Robert Jauss in an effort to illuminate the intellectual depth of the film and highlight the differences between these two theorists. Lacan expands upon Freud’s psychoanalytic concepts in order to explain the human…
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ENDGAME: Pessimism Becketts Optimism

Jason Burton The University of Georgia   Pessimism Becketts Optimism: Audience and Optimism in Endgame   Is Endgame a nihilist play? The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the play’s pessimistic tone, its dark humor and a persistently explicit connection between the characters and the reader/audience reveal a much more optimistic outlook. Through the utter despair that makes up Endgame, Beckett…
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Language as Survival in THE LAND OF GREEN PLUMS

Megan Hong The University of Georgia   Language as Survival in The Land of Green Plums   Herta Müller’s The Land of Green Plums, a critique of Ceausescu’s Communist regime, explores the definition of freedom through linguistic rebellion. The unnamed protagonist utilizes her minority language, German, in the form of poetry, letters, and cryptic codes to challenge communist ideology and to undermine Ceausescu’s censorship. The…
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The Fiction of Memory in EMBERS and THE SNOWS OF YESTERYEAR

Jennifer Anthony The University of Georgia   The Fiction of Memory: A Case Study of Sándor Márai’s Embers and Gregor von Rezzori’s The Snows of Yesteryear   Memory is a complicated and often erroneous experience of the human mind. This paper will explore memory in relation to fiction and nonfiction as it applies to Sándor Márai’s novel, Embers, and Gregor von Rezzori’s memoir, The Snows of Yesteryear. This…
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