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Multiplicity And Gendering The Holy Grail In The Da Vinci Code And The Mists Of Avalon, Victoria Anne Villasenor-Oldham
Multiplicity And Gendering The Holy Grail In The Da Vinci Code And The Mists Of Avalon, Victoria Anne Villasenor-Oldham
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis explores how both texts - The Da Vinci Code and The Mists of Avalon - write femininity onto the Holy Grail in seemingly problematic ways, and the way in which women's voices, through the feminization of the Grail, are often silenced.
Exploring Sara Paretsky's Detective Fiction From The Perspective Of Ecofeminism, Maureen Frances Mccarthy
Exploring Sara Paretsky's Detective Fiction From The Perspective Of Ecofeminism, Maureen Frances Mccarthy
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis analyzes Paretsky's works and how the dominant members of society use their power to exploit the weaker members, and how that exploitation impacts society. It shows how the author connects the abuse that stems from the power of patriarchy to the abuse of nature.
A Vision Of Human Solitude: Rhetoric Of Isolation And Ephemerality In Two Novels By Virginia Woolf, Marsha Lee Schuh
A Vision Of Human Solitude: Rhetoric Of Isolation And Ephemerality In Two Novels By Virginia Woolf, Marsha Lee Schuh
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis investigates the interrelationship between the two dominant themes, isolation and human ephemerality found in two of Virginia Woolf's books, To the lighthouse and The Waves.
Charles Brockden Brown's Place Within The Gothic And The Influence Of Early America's Social Issues On Brown's Writing, Shirley Ann Regis
Charles Brockden Brown's Place Within The Gothic And The Influence Of Early America's Social Issues On Brown's Writing, Shirley Ann Regis
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this thesis is to show that Charles Brockden Brown was influenced by the American Revolution and the incidents that come after it. It is suggested that Brown created a gothic fiction that was intended to be a critique on the American Revolution by using murder narrratives present during the time to create his characters. Gothic fiction consists of many elements such as setting arechetypal characters, terror, emotion, psychological turmoil and language use.
The Beaded Web: Metaphor And Association In John Edgar Wideman's Sent For You Yesterday, Joel Wesley Kilpatrick
The Beaded Web: Metaphor And Association In John Edgar Wideman's Sent For You Yesterday, Joel Wesley Kilpatrick
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis looks at how Wideman takes advantage of the associative function of metaphor, creating a vast network, or web, or interconnected images. In deviating from linguistic norms, and growing steadily from page to page, this web causes the novel to appear symbolic. It also appears to have a symbolic meaning of its own, possibly representing the intricate social and spiritual connections that comprise the novel's fictional community of Homewood.