Browsing Theses by Supervisor "Wriglesworth, Chad"
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Fostering the Feral in Civilization: Reading Animal Characterization in Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)Representations of the animal, although prominent in literature, are often overlooked as sources for rigorous analysis. When acknowledged, their interpretation is restricted to the realm of archetypal significance and ... -
THE MYTH OF DISENCHANTMENT: RELIGION AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE
(University of Waterloo, 2021-03-29)In the following project, I look closely at three living American writers whose work explores the important relations between the religious and ecocritical “turns” in American literature, with particular attention to ways ... -
Some Mysterious Resonance Between Thing and Language: On Contradiction and the Materialist Theologies of Cormac McCarthy and Marilynne Robinson
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-24)At first glance, the works of the contemporary American authors Marilynne Robinson and Cormac McCarthy look so distinctly unlike that they seem to represent opposing poles on a hypothetical literary spectrum. The fundamental ...