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Item access-status.open.access.listelement.badge "The pearl poet" : an adaptation of "Sir Gowain and the Green Knight"(University of Oregon, 2001-06) Elliott, Lisa N.This adaptation of the 14th century poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, includes not only the action of the poem, but a month in the life of the poet and a modem reader experiencing the text for the first time. In each of these frames, the central characters go through processes of self-discovery that allow them to realize their own gayness and creative potential. The screenplay deals with how people in different time periods struggle with societal and personal expectations.Item access-status.open.access.listelement.badge "I shall weep though I be stone": Grief and Language in Andrew Marvell(2008) Henrichs, Amanda K.Through the centuries, critics have struggled with the poetry of Andrew Marvell, using diverse frameworks to examine his work. In this thesis, three poems – “Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings,” “Mourning,” and “The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn” – will be read as elegies in order to examine how Andrew Marvell treats the intersection of language and grief in the elegiac form. Traditionally, the elegy is meant first to praise and lament the deceased, and then to console the survivors. However, Marvell actually undermines the supposed power of the elegy to move the mourner beyond her grief. In the elegy for Hastings, the power of grief is such that it affects the immortality of poetic art; in "Mourning," both readers and poetic interpreters fail to find any significance in Clora’s tears; and finally, in the "Nymph Complaining," Marvell links grief to poetry in an intricate, complex fashion, yet ultimately subordinates the survival of the living to the power of the dead. All told, Marvell exposes the elegy as a failed form, revealing that it does not (and indeed cannot) satisfactorily achieve its traditional goal of consoling the bereaved.