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Open Letters & Impersonal Forms: Diaries, Letters, And Self-Disclosure In Rilke’S Prose, Abigail Svetlik
Open Letters & Impersonal Forms: Diaries, Letters, And Self-Disclosure In Rilke’S Prose, Abigail Svetlik
English Honors Theses
This paper places Letters alongside two other works of prose by Rilke — The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910) and Diaries of a Young Poet (1997). The first is Rilke’s only novel, in which a young man inscribes his thoughts, feelings, and activities in a series of journal entries; the second is a series of private journals which Rilke maintained between 1898 and 1900. Notebooks’ narrator resembles Rilke in several ways, but the novel’s fictiveness impedes upon readers’ instinct to treat the story as entirely autobiographical. In his actual diaries, published at the opposite end of the same …
Good Girls Don't, Tess Fresco
Good Girls Don't, Tess Fresco
English Honors Theses
Set in the year 1980, "Good Girls Don't" is a bracing coming-of-age story about Cathy, a young woman in Los Angeles who dreams of escaping the city yet feels intimately bound to it. Los Angeles as a terrifyingly beautiful place, in this specific time, figures prominently in this novella; even as Cathy enjoys smoking pot with her best friend Heather, rolls her eyes at her boss at Jack In the Box, and moons over sexy surfer boys, the threat of a serial murderer targeting young women hangs over her mind. On a date one night with Jim, an older boy …
Other Bodies And Their Other Worlds: Reimagining The Victorian Femme Fatale, Tess Lamontagne Gordon
Other Bodies And Their Other Worlds: Reimagining The Victorian Femme Fatale, Tess Lamontagne Gordon
English Honors Theses
This paper explores Victorian and contemporary challenges to the Victorian femme fatale by comparing Yorgos Lanthimos' 2023 film Poor Things with Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Vernon Lee's "Oke of Okehurst." It examines how each work constructs and deconstructs the figure of the femme fatale by placing their female protagonists in otherworldly settings that break the boundaries of conventional Victorian norms. Lanthimos' film presents Bella Baxter as a liberated "Other" in a whimsical, fantastical world, contrasting with the tragic fates of Catherine Earnshaw and Alice Oke, who are grounded in realism despite their otherworldly settings. The paper's analysis highlights the …
The Illuminating Power Of Christmas: Stories Of Community, Chloe Hanrahan
The Illuminating Power Of Christmas: Stories Of Community, Chloe Hanrahan
English Honors Theses
Christmas is an almost universal experience in the Western world. Its symbolism as a moment of community and connection reveals the human need to be with one another and fight our greatest fear—loneliness. Christmas is one of many winter festivals around the globe that demonstrate this need for connection, but because of Western media and culture it has become a holiday celebrated within and outside of the Christian faith and thus reaches a wide audience. It is a time when people come together to perform the same rituals every year and reflect. Christmas is a dedicated time to celebrate the …
The Collective, Skye Thomson
The Collective, Skye Thomson
English Honors Theses
This novella follows the protagonist Katya as she fights for her chance at a better life. It is both psychological thriller and heart- wrenching romance and brings up questions of morality and humanity at every turn.
To Be Still: Poetry Portfolio, Leo Balaban
To Be Still: Poetry Portfolio, Leo Balaban
English Honors Theses
A series of poems about finding peace of mind.
The World Ends One Last Time, Winter Qiu
The World Ends One Last Time, Winter Qiu
English Honors Theses
Two friends are reincarnated into alternate universes where they are destined to meet over and over again. Meanwhile, two otherworldly observers find themselves reflecting on their own bond with each other.