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  • The third state: ethics and agency within hybrid narratives 
    Campbell, Scott Joseph (San Francisco State University, 2018)
    The Third State is an exploration of the consequences to individual agency in the process of inadvertent hybridization when competing narrative systems come into contact. This work takes as its beginning point the example ...
  • Queer and feminist : Sor Juana and Audre Lorde queering inclusivity 
    Kimura, Ashley Kathleen (San Francisco State University, 2018)
    This thesis focuses on the Mexican writer SorJuana Ines de la Cruz (1648/51-1695) and the American writer Audre Lorde (1934-1992). It examines their similarities and differences in the context of their critical work and ...
  • Agency and space : the women of Don Quixote and Twelfth Night 
    Sjoberg, Laura Ellen (San Francisco State University, 2017)
    The thesis explores how women characters’ agency changes based on their physical location in Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1607) and Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (1602). It uses a feminist and spatial ...
  • Uncanny identities in Elena Ferrante and Oscar Wilde 
    Mingrone, Alessia Joanna (San Francisco State University, 2017)
    This project studies the implications of the multiplicity and fragmentation of identity as portrayed in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) and Elena Ferrante’s L’amica geniale (My Brilliant Friend) (2011). ...
  • Destabilizing dialogues : self, religion, and politics of conquest in Mandeville's Travels and Guamán Poma 
    Chan Lee, Elizabeth (San Francisco State University, 2017)
    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (1356) and Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s El Primer Nueva Cordnica i Buen Gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government, 1615] present religion and land as significantly entwined ...