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Re:Search The Undergraduate Literary Criticism Journal at the University of Illinois Volume 4, Issue 1 | 2017 Re:Search The Undergraduate Literary Criticism Journal at the University of Illinois Volume 4, Issue 1 | 2017 Copyright Notice Open Access This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that greater dissemination of research benefits the authors and that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Copyright statement To properly administer the Re:Search, The Undergraduate Literary Criticism Journal at the University of Illinois, the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS), and to preserve the contents for future use, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on behalf of its Urbana-Champaign campus (the "University") requires certain permissions and warrants from you, the author(s) and/or copyright owner. 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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Acknowledgments........................................................................................v Editors’ Note...............................................................................................vi Letter from Department Head...................................................................viii Aims & Scope.............................................................................................ix ARTICLES On Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play and the Human Response to the Loss of Electricity………………………………………………………1 Author: Theonesse Cheon Mentor: Jamie Jones A New Devil: An Analysis of Character Shifts in a Production of Webster’s The White Devil……………………………15 Author: Emaline Johnson Mentor: Andrea Stevens Tonight Will Not Swing: Frank Sinatra through the Liner Notes of Stan Cornyn………………29 Author: Casey Mulvany Mentor: Steve Davenport Yer a Franchise, Harry: Transmediality in Harry Potter and A Song of Ice and Fire………………………………………………45 Author: Laura Murphy Mentor: Andrea Stevens ACKNOWLEDGMENTS EXECUTIVE BOARD COPY EDITORS Ana V. Fleming, Co-Editor in Chief Jesse Tamayo, Assistant Managing Editor Marilyn MacNamara, Co-Editor in Chief Sammantha Aubuchon Hannah Downing, Managing Editor Samantha Awad Jessica Berbey, Journal Technician Kait Boehm Andrew Sheppard, Treasurer Jillian Borukhovich Zoe Stein, Secretary Lor Clincy Kriti Sharma, Assistant Editor Julia Duda Bridget Dunne FACULTY ADVISORY BOARD Emaline Johnson Kathryn Johnson Lori Humphrey Newcomb, English Holly Miller Vicki Mahaffey, Head, Department of English Daniel Oster Harriett Green, Head of Scholarly Communications and Barghav Sivaguru Publishing, University Library Jaime Watts Merinda Hensley, Instructional Services Librarian, University Taylor Wegner Library Elli Wills GRADUATE ADVISORS FORMAT EDITORS Brandon Jones, English Samantha Awad, Assistant Journal Technician Debojoy Chanda, English Emaline Johnson Lor Clincy SPECIAL THANKS TO Kaitlin Boehm Elizabeth Wills Ian Harmon, Scholarly Commons Nick Millman, English FACULTY MENTORS Alaina Pincus, English Wendy Truran, English Steve Davenport, Creative Writing Jamie Jones, English PEER REVIEWERS Andrea Stevens, English and Theatre James Koh SPONSORS Melissa Gosling Elizabeth Wills Department of English Sophie Rodgers Office of Undergraduate Research, Provost’s Office Chi Tran Scholarly Commons, University Library E. Veda & Arlys Streitmatter Conrad Fund COVER ART & DESIGN PRINTING Ana V. Fleming Illini Union Document Services v EDITORS’ NOTE There are many people we would like to thank for all the work they have poured into the fourth edition of Re:Search, the Undergraduate Literary Criticism Journal at the University of Illinois. In addition to the students who have contributed to our vision of an undergraduate-produced, peer-reviewed academic journal, we especially thank members of the University of Illinois faculty for their continued support. Thank you to the faculty mentors who have guided our authors for the past four years: our dedicated faculty advisor, Lori Humphrey Newcomb, whose relentless enthusiasm kept us on task and available to many students, and our graduate student advisors, Debojoy Chanda (Fall) and Brandon Jones (Spring), who offered incredible contributions to our student recruitment and copyediting processes. Additionally, we give special thanks to the Office of Undergraduate Research, which dutifully encourages and foregrounds scholarship within the undergraduate student body; Harriett Green, the Interim Head of Scholarly Communication and Publishing; as well as to Dylan Burns, who helped expand use of the Open Journals System in our triple-blind peer review process; and Illini Union Document Services, who once more published a beautiful print version of our journal. Thank you to the team in the English Advising Office, including Anna Ivy, Kristine McCoskey, and Kirstin Wilcox, for broadcasting opportunities to participate in the journal to current and prospective students; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Andrea Stevens, for making space for Re:Search and its authors in the English Symposium; and Head of the English Department, Vicki Mahaffey, whose thoughts are included in this year’s journal in the Note from the Department Head. From the beginning, you have all shown us the collaborative impulse needed to present undergraduate research in the humanities to increasingly wider audiences. We are in the process of building up an impressive collection of works searchable on Google Scholar, the University Library Catalog, and IDEALS (Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship). Our authors have explored and discovered connections