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Structural And Symbolic Parallels Within The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn And The Catcher In The Rye, David G. Polster
Structural And Symbolic Parallels Within The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn And The Catcher In The Rye, David G. Polster
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye are both quest narratives in which the youthful protagonist begins his story trapped within a paradigm that oppresses him and -in order to escape- dies a symbolic death, descending to the underworld to learn a sacred truth that will be revealed at novel's end. The structure and symbolism are quite similar and follow the archetypal hero's journey, which I closely examine. In my thesis, I seek to prove that by descending to the "hell" of the Antebellum South and the conformist/materialistic world of post-war America, both Huck and Holden …
Women's Control Of Passion: Louisa May Alcott's Revision Of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre And Societal Restrictions Of Passion In The Ninteenth-Century, Erica Eileen Cicero-Erkkila
Women's Control Of Passion: Louisa May Alcott's Revision Of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre And Societal Restrictions Of Passion In The Ninteenth-Century, Erica Eileen Cicero-Erkkila
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Louisa May Alcott's revision of the representation of passion in Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power (1866) in connection with Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847) is something that has not been widely discussed in scholarly studies since the reintroduction of these Blood and Thunder novels by Madaline Stern in 1975. Both Bronte and Alcott demonstrate in their novels that passion is a positive attribute, but, through Jane, Bronte demonstrates that hysterical passion must be sincerely controlled and internalized in order to positively contribute to a woman's life. Alcott, on the other hand, suggests that women merely need to act …
Don't Believe Everything You Read: Hoaxes And Satire In The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym, Erik E. Harder
Don't Believe Everything You Read: Hoaxes And Satire In The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym, Erik E. Harder
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym stands out among Edgar Allan Poe's body of work as his only novel. It also stands out in the fact that it has received comparatively little attention from scholars, owing at least in part to the idea that it is a literary failure on Poe's part. Analysis reveals quite the contrary, however, as the novel is not a disjointed narrative masquerading as travel literature, but rather it is a satire of the genre of travel literature. Poe was driven to write the novel at the behest of his publisher, who also encouraged Poe to …
The Black Blood Of The Tennysons: Rhetoric Of Melancholy And The Imagination In Tennyson's Poetry, Vanessa Jakse
The Black Blood Of The Tennysons: Rhetoric Of Melancholy And The Imagination In Tennyson's Poetry, Vanessa Jakse
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Critics of Tennyson view his melancholy poetics as a self-evident manifestation. However, not until recently have scholars examined melancholy as a rhetorical structure in Tennyson's poetry. To address this particular gap in scholarly research, this thesis examines the use of black, similar images, and descriptive language in Tennyson's "Mariana and the Moated Grange," "Mariana in the South," and "The Lady of Shalott." From a close reading of the text and a comparative analysis of Tennyson's poetry, common connections between the four poems become clear. These connections emerge through the contextual evidence for melancholy existing in the imagery, diction, and syntax …
Cultural Collision And Consequence: Redefining The Invisible In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Nina Shari Kidd
Cultural Collision And Consequence: Redefining The Invisible In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Nina Shari Kidd
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Scholars have puzzled over the central refrain of white oppression toward blacks in this novel. This study however, revolves around the treatment of blacks to other blacks in their attempts to further themselves in society. A fundamental source of dissension within the African- American race was intolerance for the differing approaches of schools of thought on advancement posited by various members of the African-American race. This discussion incorporates French theorist Michel Foucault's theory on how internal captivity takes place to examine the possibility that the race suffered at its own hands.Ellison's novel is not about a black man's story, but …
Taming The Perfect Beast: The Monster As Romantic Hero In Contemporary Fiction, Lara Klaber
Taming The Perfect Beast: The Monster As Romantic Hero In Contemporary Fiction, Lara Klaber
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This thesis examines the contemporary phenomenon of the paranormal romance, as exemplified by Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. Although immensely popular, the series has drawn harsh criticism for its writing style and for the sexual politics portrayed in the novels. Readers of the series have been subjected to similar harsh criticism for enjoying these works in spite of the aforementioned issues. Careful examination of the books, however, reveals that the source of their popularity draws from several factors: the use of a narrative structure known as the Rebirth scenario, particularly popular in romance novels an inverted form of the traditional Beauty …
The Rise And Fall Of The Black King: Girardian Thought In The Tragedy Of Macbeth, Matthew Tarnovecky
The Rise And Fall Of The Black King: Girardian Thought In The Tragedy Of Macbeth, Matthew Tarnovecky
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Theorist Rene Girard, in his A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare (1991), creates a near-perfect compendium of his critical thoughts by exploring numerous plays and poems of Shakespeare's. Curiously, however, the tragedy of Macbeth is left out of Girard's many thorough analyses. Herein discussed is an analysis of Macbeth utilizing the Girardian model, intending to demonstrate that Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy may benefit from such a reading as equally as the plays and poems Girard himself has already examined. By drawing upon the concepts generated by Girard in his Violence and the Sacred (1972), one may note how Macbeth is filled …
Undermining Heteronormativity In Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Susan G. Weber
Undermining Heteronormativity In Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Susan G. Weber
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Many feminist critics view Edna Pontellier, the protagonist in Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, as the prototype of the New Woman in search of independence from the patriarchal constraints that suffocate her, including sexual rules and restrictions. Most of these critics frame Edna in a traditional heterosexual world. Although The Awakening overtly focuses on male-female relationships, Edna's relationships with her women friends are more varied, nuanced, and comprehensive than those with men. I argue that Edna's desires are not purely heterosexual which is revealed through several secondary characters in the novel, and that Chopin employs safer heterosexual themes, plots and …
American Hamlet: Shakespearean Epistemology In David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, James Jason Walsh
American Hamlet: Shakespearean Epistemology In David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, James Jason Walsh
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Infinite Jest has been viewed by champions of its cause as a solution to the defeatist irony of postmodernism and by critics as a postmodern gag in which the reader falls victim to intellectual "jest." Exploring the text's initial affiliations with Hamlet is a fundamental move toward stabilizing Infinite Jest's status as a sincere and authentic representation of American life at the turn of the twenty-first century. The shattered nature of reality and the "stinking thinking" inherent in addiction are depicted through the narrative structure, in which the time is literally "out of joint," and the "antic disposition" of various …