Browsing Scholarships and Prizes Office by subject "The Beauchamp Prize"
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‘ALL HISTORY IS BIOGRAPHY’: RALPH WALDO EMERSON’S PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
Published 2020R.W. Emerson’s (1803-1882) philosophy of history has been little discussed and even less understood. Emerson’s thought, outlined both in his poetry and in his Essays, has been variously dismissed as ‘ahistorical’, ...Other -
Per speculum: Seeing mirrors in The Romance of the Rose and Pearl
Published 2022-06-01In the twenty-first century, we are used to thinking of our eyes as clear windows onto the world around us. For audiences in the later Middle Ages, however, the human eye was a speculum, a dark mirror that alienated gazers ...Other -
UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER: A READING OF THE YELLOW WALLPAPER AND JUDITH BUTLER’S ‘PERFORMATIVE ACTS AND GENDER CONSTITUTION: AN ESSAY IN PHENOMENOLOGY AND FEMINIST THEORY’
Published 2022-06-01The Yellow Wallpaper is at its core a critique of the patriarchal society in which its author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, lived. In The Yellow Wallpaper Gilman not only seeks to challenge the confinement of women to the ...Other