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Near Confinement: Pregnant Women In The Nineteenth-Century British Novel, Cynthia N. Malone
Near Confinement: Pregnant Women In The Nineteenth-Century British Novel, Cynthia N. Malone
English Faculty Publications
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Exploring The Creative Process: A Study In Playwriting, Alexander L. Evenson
Exploring The Creative Process: A Study In Playwriting, Alexander L. Evenson
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
My original intentions when I began this project were to write and present a full-length play of my own design, examining the farm crisis through the medium of theater. The reason I chose not to use the title of my play for the title of my project is because the vast majority of my time was spent discovering the world outside of my script. Through my struggles to bring my characters to life, to develop an effective plot while avoiding a didactic analysis of the issue, and with the genre itself, I began to discover what the creative process is …
A Joining: A Collection Of Poems, Brenda R. Dukerschein
A Joining: A Collection Of Poems, Brenda R. Dukerschein
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
My thesis culminated in a manuscript of original poetry. I wrote and revised poems and arranged them in a book-like format. My research consisted of reading a variety of poets and studying the architecture of their books. I focused on writing in a variety of voices, forms, and sentence types. I used syntactical imitation as a way of trying different approaches to poetry—it allowed me to explore different sentence syntax, rhythm, sentence length, and structure. As I studied how other poets arranged their poems into a book, I learned various ways of forming my own manuscript. This thesis allowed me …
Unspeakable: My Father's Suicide And A Childhood Memoir, Dierdre C. Mccarrell
Unspeakable: My Father's Suicide And A Childhood Memoir, Dierdre C. Mccarrell
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
The memoir begins with the letter I read at my father's funeral service in June of 1998. The introduction addresses why I chose the form of memoir and why my relationship with my father should be publicized. Following the introduction are the chapters "Houses" and "Lies" which are stories from my childhood. These chapters are placed in approximately 1984 when I was in kindergarten. The concluding section of the memoir addresses why I chose the memoir form and gave me the chance to recognize works that guided my writing. The books I chose as an accompaniment to my writing fit …
Identity And Desire In Wuthering Heights, Anne L. Wells
Identity And Desire In Wuthering Heights, Anne L. Wells
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
The relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff can be examined within Jacques Lacan's theories of the Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real. Initially formed in early childhood, their relationship bears similarities to the relationship of a parent and child, in which the child identifies with the parent. However, the relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff is much more unstable than a Lacanian parent-child identification, as both children construct their identities in terms of the other. Bronte's novel is allows Cathy and Heathcliff to return to their Imaginary identification after death, demonstrating a radical revisualization of Lacan's stages. The 1992 film adaptation of Wuthering Heights …
Exploring The Creative Process: A Study In Playwriting, Alexander Evanson
Exploring The Creative Process: A Study In Playwriting, Alexander Evanson
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
My original intentions when I began this project were to write and present a full-length play of my own design, examining the farm crisis through the medium of theater. The reason I chose not to use the title of my play for the title of my project is because the vast majority of my time was spent discovering the world outside of my script. Through my struggles to bring my characters to life, to develop an effective plot while avoiding a didactic analysis of the issue, and with the genre itself, I began to discover what the creative process is …
Writing A Novella, Keri A. Phillips
Writing A Novella, Keri A. Phillips
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
The novella Spaces Off takes place during the months of August through November of 1990 in Estes Park, Colorado. It is about Lily, a fourteen-year-old girl, who is trying to find acceptance and identity in the midst of various familial and social crises occurring all at once. The crises feed off each other, creating a tense environment from which Lily only manages to escape by cooking, cleaning, organizing, and trying to make things "right" in the ways she can. While this is going on Roger (military-minded, basketball coach Dad), Rose (high-strung, estranged older sister), Sandy (Dad's chain-smoking, well-meaning girlfriend), and …
Freaking Out, Fitting In, And Finding My Way: Looking Back On Four Months In China, Kathryn M. Neunsinger
Freaking Out, Fitting In, And Finding My Way: Looking Back On Four Months In China, Kathryn M. Neunsinger
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
This thesis is a collection of essays in which I explore, discuss, and analyze selected aspects of the semester I spent in China through the CSB/SJU study abroad program. It consists of four essays: "On the Value of Trains," "Through the Layers: Getting Off the Bus and Making it Real," "Little Carrot and the Dalai Lama," and "From Minnesota to the Middle Kingdom and Back Again: Growing and Changing in China." The idea behind the entire collection is that there is more to China than most Americans get through the very limited media coverage of it. Each essay involves a …