Comparative Literature Commons^™

The Alembic - International Literary Journal, Sara Mackinnon, Finn Heller, Sarah Debian, Kate Blackwell

English Student Scholarship

No abstract provided.

First Person Narration In Postwar British Women’S Fiction, Julia Mccoy

English Student Scholarship

Julia McCoy ’22
Majors: English and Political Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. William Hogan, English

A study of postwar English novelists Margaret Drabble and Jeannette Winterson, looking particularly at the way these writers use first person narration in their works. Both writers explore how women’s identity can be ‘written into being’ against external pressures and authorities that seek to define women’s ‘proper’ role.

Hawthorne’S Faith, Cecelia Little

English Student Scholarship

Major: English and Philosophy

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Margaret Reid, English

This project is an examination of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writings, particularly focused on Hawthorne’s identity, philosophy, and spirituality. Placing these ideas in the context of early American history as well as in the context of Hawthorne’s biography, Cecelia Little focuses on how Hawthorne offers pieces of a new and complex philosophy of the individual human soul within the human community. This powerpoint includes a structured compilation of many, but by no means all, of her findings, and she plans to delve much further into Hawthorne’s life and works. The primary focus …

Blake’S Method: Blake Imagining Milton In The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell, Micaela Freeman

English Student Scholarship

Major: English

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Bruce Graver, English

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is William Blake’s articulation of his reaction to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. After analyzing Blake’s reaction to Paradise Lost, I will suggest how Blake’s reading of Milton helped shape 20th-century criticism, specifically post-war Miltonic criticism. My paper will begin by considering Blake’s rewriting of Milton in the ‘Argument’ of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, starting at the Adamic myth. I will continue my analysis with looking at the famous passage on Plate 6 when Blake writes, “The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote …

Radical Rejections And Sloppy Seconds, Meaghan Dodson

English Student Scholarship

Jane Austen is famous for her heroines and their marriages; at the same time, however, she is also infamous for these same heroines rejecting proposals of marriage. This paper explores how Austen uses the failed marriage proposal to show how women need not fear putting their own happiness first - an idea that is just as radical in our own day and age.

Crime And Punishment In Translation: Raskolnikov Redeemed, Lindsey C. Myers

Spring 2014, Dostoevsky

Until one determined, nearly blind housewife came onto the literary scene, most Westerners had never heard of Dostoevsky without having a personal background in the Russian Language. Constance Garnett provided the first comprehensive translations of Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Turgenev to the English-speaking world; but only after she taught herself the Russian language. Her translations have been continually edited and revised since the early 20^th century, and were the most widely read editions for almost 70 years. A recent surge of translations from the husband-wife team of Pevear and Volokhonsky is beginning to change the face of Western understanding …

The Plight Of Prostitution: A Study Of Sonia Marmeladov In Crime And Punishment, Clare Carroll

Spring 2014, Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky's celebrated novel Crime and Punishment (1866) exposes complex moral issues testing the urban population of nineteenth century St. Petersburg. Prostitution is one theme that complicates the novel, and Dostoevsky invites readers to consider the prostitute’s point of view. In 1843, the tsarist Ministry of Internal Affairs appointed “medical-police committees” to regulate prostitution in Russia. Registered prostitutes were typically poor urban women, and they became subject to strict rules. Sonia Marmeladov, an emblem of virtue in Crime and Punishment, endures the horrors of commercialized sex. Though her virtue and religious faith far exceed that of the average person, her …

"An Image Comforting The Mind”: Emotion Theory And Tennyson’S In Memoriam, Melanie Pavao

English Student Scholarship

This paper examines Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem In Memoriam A.H.H. through the lens of Cicero’s stoic theory of emotion. It critically reviews the manner in which Tennyson describes grief in the poem and how he uses the poem to deal with his own grief over the death of his best friend. It continues with a discussion of how the poem is useful for others in learning to deal with their own grief.

Fulfillment Of Woman And Poet In Elizabeth Barrett Brown's Aurora Leigh, Beth Leonardo

English Student Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Wordsworth And Milton: The Prelude And Paradise Lost, Colin Mccormack

English Student Scholarship

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The James Brothers And The Tragic Beauty Of Individualism, Corey Plante

English Student Scholarship

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Notes On Contributors, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Resilience And Courage: Women, Men, And The Holocaust, Jane Lunin Perel

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Frontmatter, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Paul Ricoeur: A Philosophical Journey, William C. Dowling

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

Providence: Studies In Western Civilization Fall/Winter 2004, Providence College

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

Imperial Catholicism In Late Antiquity? A North African Illustration, Daniel Van Slyke

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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The Margaret Chapel At Maria Medingen As A Theatrum Sacrum: The Baroque Concept Of Medieval Holiness, Leonard P. Hindsley

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Hands Respectful And Clean: Cajetan And The Reformation, Wlliam P. Haas

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.

Calling Back The Gods: Recovering Spiritual And Religious Experience Through Folklore And Ritual Studies, Michael J. Tori

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Three Poems, Leonard Cochran, O.P.

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Metaphysics Through The Side Door: A Review Of Susan Neiman, Roberta Bayer

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Scenes From An Afterlife: The Legacy Of George Orwell, Margaret Reid

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Working Space: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1983-84, Paul Bruno

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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The History Of The Jews In The Greco-Roman World, Jacob Neusner

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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From Certainty To Uncertainty, Francis P. Mac Kay

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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The Very Rich Hours Of Jacques Maritain: A Spiritual Life, Paul Gondreau

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Empire: The Rise And Demise Of The British World Order And The Lessons For Global Power, Donald Rohr

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Richard J. Grace

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

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Islam At War: A History, Sandra Toenies Keating

Providence: Studies in Western Civilization

No abstract provided.