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The Never-Ending Quest: Possession As A Postmodern Literary Romance, Allison L. Carlisle
The Never-Ending Quest: Possession As A Postmodern Literary Romance, Allison L. Carlisle
Honors Papers
This thesis explores how the novel Possession brings together the sensibilities of postmodernism and the romance in its approach to the world and to narrative. In bringing into focus this conflict between archetype and postmodernism, Possession provides a kind of guide to both the status of the romance in the postmodern era and how we might look at postmodernism with more clarity. The story of the romance can be seen as evolutionary, in the sense that it has adapted to its surroundings with each new literary era while maintaining recognizable features. It has traditionally had something to say about love, …
Exile: The Implications Of Separation From Language During Genocide, Kehan Desousa
Exile: The Implications Of Separation From Language During Genocide, Kehan Desousa
Honors Papers
This essay examines the function of language during a time of genocide as displayed in Imre Kertesz's novel Fatelessness, the story of a young Hungarian's experiences in Auschwitz. Language provides the tool for fate's imposition, here the imposition of an identity, a history, and a future upon an individual that does not necessarily cohere with the experience of the individual. Since language provides the mechanism for the unwinding of fate, a fate ultimately hostile to victims of genocide, the old language (the native language of the victim, whether it be French, Yiddish, Hungarian, etc.) becomes an inadequate vehicle of communication—but …
Why Floods Be Served To Us In Bowls: Emily Dickinson's Souvenirs, Hannah Lee
Why Floods Be Served To Us In Bowls: Emily Dickinson's Souvenirs, Hannah Lee
Honors Papers
This paper examines the uncanny object in Emily Dickinson's poems and letters through the lens of critic Susan Stewart's writing on souvenirs.