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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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"O'me alone?": Aristotle and the failure of autarky in Shakespeare's Coriolanus

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Marshall, Sarah
Department or Program
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This thesis offers an Aristotelian reading of <em>Coriolanus, </em>with the goal of assessing the viability of individual self-sufficiency.<em></em> As political and moral treatises, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Politics are valuable intertexts through which Shakespeare's more imaginative work may be analyzed...

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Above the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Otherworldly Perspective and a New Racial Order

Publication Date
2024-March-15
Authors
White, Christopher
Hughey, Matthew W.
Department or Program
Religion Department
Document Type
Article
Access Level
Open
Abstract

Though W. E. B. Du Bois was critical of traditional religion, he understood the power of religious orientations to the world, including religious attitudes of faith and hope. Although many scholars have commented on Du Bois’s secular faith, few have...

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Scripting (In)security: Cartographic Violence and Performances of Securitization in the Western Sahara

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Dann, Naomi
Department or Program
Independent Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

Throughout the forty-year conflict over the Western Sahara, the United States has supported Morocco's occupation of the disputed territory. This overall policy has remained relatively consistent over time, yet constantly subjected to contestation. The debates over policy and various modes...

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