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- Creator:
- Reed, Jacob
- Description:
- Joyce’s writing has largely been associated with narrative irony. However, a romantic
reading is possible aided by the ideas of Joseph Campbell and Sc hopenhauer. A romantic is one that uses the narrative pattern of romance: a questing hero successfully achieves his or her or goals, often with a psychological transformation, and the overall pattern affirms a positive moral order. An argument is made regarding Campbell’s ideas about myths being rewritten in a more
accessible and meaningful way. Aspects from Greek and Gaelic myth can be found in both the Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses . The quest of Stephen Dedalus exemplifies Campbell' s ideas, which are strengthened with the ideas from Schopenhauer and Buddhist philosophy.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Humanities External Program
- Creator:
- Beggs, Andrew
- Description:
- Albert Camus re-constructs the Greek myths of Sisyphus and Prometheus to symbolize man’s essential condition and the rebellion against that condition. Through the use of symbol and allusion Camus connects The Stranger and The Plague to Greek myth and tragedy. Camus’ tragic heroes are descendants of the tragic heroes of Aeschylus and Sophocles. Meursault, the tragic hero in The Stranger is the absurd man and this connects him to Sisyphus. But his tragic lineage is more comparable to that of Oedipus. They both cross a limit and are fated to a paradoxical existence that is both of their own making and unavoidable. In The Plague the tragic condition of the inhabitants of Oran and their evolution to solidarity mirrors the spirit of Prometheus. In both novels Camus anthropomorphizes the sun and the sea in ways that connect to Greek myth.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Humanities External Program
- Creator:
- Rountree, Ronald M.
- Description:
- This thesis focuses on the original languages and the subsequent modifications of eternal worldview through artistic expression, thus demonstrating the way that the modern problematic concept of Hell adapts the original context of the documents and languages found in ancient religious and secular sources. The modern place of eternal punishment, Hell, is not found in the Christian Scriptures. The concept of a punishing Hell emerged from misinterpretations and theological wish fulfillment changed the original intent and context of ancient terms into a modern place of fire and brimstone. The evolving myth of a literal Hell began as an imaginative and powerful construct in the early fourteenth century. The Protestant Reformation, and the following Great Awakening movement, finished the foundations that eventually became the horrible abode of endless torture, a place to which bad or unfaithful people go when they die, Hell.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Humanities External Program
- Creator:
- Reynolds, Robin L.
- Description:
- This thesis examines the archetypal heroic journey of Harper Lee’s protagonist Jean Louise “Scout” Finch from childhood to her adult years through two of the author’s works. The study is presented with chapters focusing on three main categories of Campbell’s and Murdock’s works on heroic journeys: the separation, the initiation, and the return. Each chapter presents an analysis of the characters, the author, and the social and familial constraints that illustrate and impact the protagonist’s journey. In comparing two fictional stories dramatizing the heroic coming-of-age quest of a female character, it can be argued that women may travel different paths as they age on their solitary journeys toward self-awareness. As a child, a girl like Scout may travel the path of Campbell’s hero. As she matures and encounters challenges from social and familial constraints and expectations, she begins to travel the path of Murdock’s heroine.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Humanities External Program
- Creator:
- Ngo, Tammy M.
- Description:
- This thesis argues that the works of Spanish-Mexican Surrealist artist Remedios Varo (1908–1963) possesses transcendent qualities influenced by the culture and images of Renaissance magic and alchemy. Varo’s incorporation of these Renaissance subjects into Surrealism made her work unique, setting her apart from other artists of the time. Surrealism was an artistic and intellectual movement that used dreams and the unconscious to free the imagination. While these components are rooted within Varo’s art, she also used supernatural and cosmic elements. This study analyzes her life, her philosophical beliefs, and how these influenced her art. Three of her paintings, Harmony, 1956; Creation of Birds, 1957; and Still Life Reviving, 1963, are examined to explain feasible meanings behind the images, symbols, and allegorical decorations, relating each to magic, alchemy, and culture of the Renaissance period.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Humanities External Program
- Creator:
- Drake, Michael
- Description:
- This paper examines the evolution of warfare in the twentieth century, its depiction in film, and how motion pictures of the century’s wars either reflected or influenced public opinion. It explores the pendulum shifts in public attitudes toward United States involvement in overseas conflicts starting with World War I, through World War II and ultimately Vietnam. It discusses the differences in these conflicts, specifically changes in weaponry and tactics, how they were depicted in film, and the role film played in shaping public attitudes. It explores how films about World War I depicted the absolute horror of the battlefield, while films produced during World War II portrayed the valor of the American warrior fighting for a just cause, and how the films about Vietnam once again showed the horror and insanity of an unpopular war. Research for this project included an extensive personal collection of books on warfare and specifically the major conflicts of the twentieth century. Authors range from John Keegan, to Henry Kissinger, and David Kennedy, and from Anthony Beevor to E. B. Sledge, author of With the Old Breed. Additional research included viewing and a comprehensive analysis of many of the films made during or shortly after the conflicts they portray.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Humanities External Program
- Creator:
- Barker, Adam Anthony
- Description:
- It 's argued that art imitates lite. This study covers the extent to which Ernest Hemingway draws from actual events in his life to construct his fictional works. By examining events from In Our Time, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, and comparing them to specific and precise happenings in the artist’s life, a pattern emerges. A ratio between biographical retelling and fabulation appears. Physical and mental illness, social upheaval, and marital discord are ubiquitous throughout Hemingway's life and impact his artistry at pivotal points. The relationship between lived experiences and fictional iteration stays fairly constant over the course of the artist’s practice. Hemingway’s productivity fluctuates as a result of poor health. Initially, clear and concise rhetoric are instrumental to the author's success. With age, Hemingway moves from a less- is-more, laissez faire approach to one of self-indulgent moralist.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Humanities External Program
- Creator:
- Staker, Marilou
- Description:
- Abstract Expressionism has generally been studied as the formal confluence of abstraction, surrealism and expressionism transposed onto America’s shores during the psychotraumatic existentialist World War II period and atomic aftermath. An underlying theme of many modernist studies is primitivism. This study varies in that it specifically looks at the art of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) as a member of the New York School in the 1940s and early 50s when under the influence of Native-American art and culture, as well as the writings of John Graham, and Jungian psycho-therapy, as he struggled with alcoholism and personal demons. During the period Pollock integrated Native-American shamanism and Navajo sandpainting healing ceremonies and techniques while his art evolved from figurative abstraction into all-over nonobjective drip painting as a means to express his unconscious and to heal himself
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Humanities External Program
- Creator:
- Hull, Dale S.
- Description:
- Campbell’s monomyth or hero’s journey provides a template for many artists, including filmmakers. In this thesis, the hero’s journey as portrayed in seven religiously themed films is examined. It is shown that the structure of the journey is the same in both Christian and Buddhist traditions, but the special knowledge gained by the hero is derived from the film’s cultural milieu. Going beyond the stereotypical monomyth, creative mythology allows filmmakers and their audiences to generate new mythologies that help to give their lives meaning in the modern, pluralistic world.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Humanities External Program
- Creator:
- Brinkman, Jeff
- Description:
- Raphael’s Stanza della Segnatura, painted between 1508 and 1511 CE, is considered one of the greatest works of Renaissance painting. The frescoes themselves ostensibly represent the disciplines of philosophy, theology, poetry, and the law, however, further inspection reveals a deeper synthesis. A different perspective from which to view the frescoes in the stanza considers the philosophic underpinning of the room, where the symbolism evoked points to a system of thought that developed in Renaissance Italy during the half century preceding Raphael’s masterpiece: Renaissance Platonism. Two key thinkers, Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola, created a humanistic Platonism that syncretized elements of Christianity, Neoplatonism, Orphism, Pythagoreanism, Ciceronian, and Hermetic thought into a philosophic theology steeped in initiation, mystery and symbolism. Through analysis of the Stanza della Segnatura, especially the relationships between the individual frescoes and the gestures used within each, the elements of Renaissance Platonism can be found.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Dominguez Hills
- Department:
- Humanities External Program