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A Pure Woman, Archetypally Presented: Towards A Jungian Criticism Of Hardy’S Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Bethany M. Gullman

Senior Honors Theses

Tess Durbeyfield is one of the most memorable characters in English literature. She is at once a working-class woman and a mythic figure. Abused by her superior and caught between classes, she represents the individual struggling for identity.

Tess of the d’Urbervilles appeals universally to the nature of the woman in literature. Her status as the natural or archetypal woman is clear throughout the novel. Hardy created Tess who cannot be defined by just one categorization. Tess certainly fulfills the limited idea of the fallen woman. However, Hardy is appealing beyond this narrow view of humanity to the more ancient …

Curriculum Mortae: Sometimes Indoctrination Is A Matter Of Life And Death, Karen Swallow Prior

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Poetry Alive, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Do you struggle to find poetry that students will read? This presentation introduces current poets who speak to the needs of middle school students.

Hardy And God: Tess Of The D'Urberville's Role As The Ultimate Pawn, Georgia Hamann

Senior Honors Theses

Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D 'Urbervilles has multiple competing claims which are difficult to reconcile within the schools ofhist0l1cal, feminist, or classical criticism. A better way to approach the novel is to look at Tess as a pawn within Hardy's own struggle with God. Hardy constructs God as the author of the multiple systems which lead to Tess' final doom: a flawed genetic line, a flawed sexual double standard, and a flawed system of justice. Tess, in Hardy's mind, becomes the victim of a God who is akin to the deity of Greek playwright Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, rather than …

Sol's: The Students Speak Up, William G. Gribbin

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"An American Literary Christmas," "Drive-Thru Life," And "The Point", Mark Harris

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Morning, Sickling, Mark Harris

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Orality In Writing: Its Cultural And Political Function In Anglophone African, African-Caribbean, And African-Canadian Poetry, Yaw Adu-Gyamfi

Faculty Dissertations

For years, critics have used Black writers' interweaving of African-derived oral textual features and European written forms to reject the concept of the Great Divide between orality and writing in literacy studies. These critics primarily see the hybridized texts of writers of African descent as a model that assists in the complex union of writing and orality. My argument is that the integrationist model is not the only way, perhaps not even the most fruitful way, to read the hybridized texts of writers of African descent. I develop a reading of Anglophone African, African-Caribbean, and African-Canadian literature that sees the …

Wole Soyinka's "Dawn" And The Cults Of Ogun, Yaw Adu-Gyamfi

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Review: Aspects Of Nepali Grammar, Clive W. Mcclelland

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A New Version Of Borges’ Three, Mark Harris

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A New Reading Of 'Ethan Brand': The Failed Quest, Mark Harris

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Examines how the protagonist in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story `Ethan Brand' searched for what is considered the `unpardonable sin' of divorcing one's head from one's heart and oneself from humanity. Interpretation of symbolisms in the story; Analysis of the Puritan view of sin in relation to the story.

The Wives Of The Living?: Absence Of Dreams In Hawthorne's "The Wives Of The Dead", Mark Harris

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Provides information regarding Nathaniel Hawthorne's `The Wives of the Dead.' Criticisms on `The Wives of the Dead' whether it deals with dreams or reality; Characteristics of the short story; Views regarding `The Wives of the Dead.'

Theodor's Imperfection Creation: A New Reading Of Mark Twain's The Mysterious 5tranger, Mark Harris

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