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Hot Ears, Anna Thomas
Hot Ears, Anna Thomas
Landshark Literary Review
A short creative non-fiction piece about the daily battle of living with depression. This work explores the diagnosis of depression through a singular moment in time, taking a scene and expanding it into it's higher meaning. This piece also develops part of the support system an individual with depression relies on, as well as an intimate relationship between college students.
Landshark Literary Review, Hanny Zermeno
Landshark Literary Review, Hanny Zermeno
Landshark Literary Review
The poems of this selection delve into the complexities of familial relationships as well as the internal battles of insecurities brought on by the complications of a lack of harmony and love primarily displayed in families. Other poems in this selection describe the love between two people and the physical and emotional effects of yearning and their human connections.
Enduring The Torturing Shears: Gardens And Novel Conventions In The Brontës' Novels, Grace Mattingly
Enduring The Torturing Shears: Gardens And Novel Conventions In The Brontës' Novels, Grace Mattingly
Honors Theses
This thesis is a literary analysis of the use of gardens and garden imagery in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights to subvert Victorian novel conventions. This work is part of the larger conversation of how female authors in the literary canon express dissatisfaction with or resistance to Victorian social mores. This thesis is divided into three chapters, each focusing on one novel, and it primarily evaluates how gardens are employed by the Brontës to challenge plot and genre conventions. The work examines concerns surrounding the Victorian marriage institution, female …
Dredging The Wetlands, Tilling The Field: Ecotonal Poetics Of The Anthropocene, Stacey Balkun
Dredging The Wetlands, Tilling The Field: Ecotonal Poetics Of The Anthropocene, Stacey Balkun
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation interrogates the use of poetic fragmentation as a tool of ecological representation and coins the term “ecotonal poetics.” Ecotonal poesis, this dissertation explains, is the stretching of lyric across the field of the page, using space, sound, language, and parataxis in its attempt to not only represent but create ecotonal ecologies through text, sound, and visual cues. This dissertation puts forth four case studies of contemporary American women poets turning the space of the page into an ecotone where text, white space, author, reader, body, and environment meet. The poets studied here rely heavily on textual experimentation, suggesting …
Feminism And Female Identity In Adaptations Of Pride And Prejudice Throughout The 20th And 21st Centuries, Emily Suh, Emily Suh
Feminism And Female Identity In Adaptations Of Pride And Prejudice Throughout The 20th And 21st Centuries, Emily Suh, Emily Suh
Honors Theses
To many of her fans in the world, Austen is undeniably a feminist author, especially for her time in the nineteenth century. In a time where women were dependent upon male family members for their livelihoods, most of Austen’s heroines exhibit a sort of independence and strong will with a mind of their own, including in Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth is the model for what an independent woman is, a woman who is not so concerned with the monetary value of matrimony and only falls in love because she wants to. Furthermore, female audiences tend to like Elizabeth more than …
Execution By Alien (A Collection Of Poetry), Sara Emma Kahane
Execution By Alien (A Collection Of Poetry), Sara Emma Kahane
Honors Theses
The following is a collection of poems narratively depicting the childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and death of a woman and her memories. I will analyze the poetry in meaning and form as well.
Hecabe: The Dog-Queen In Contemporary And Ancient Mythmaking, Makayla Steede
Hecabe: The Dog-Queen In Contemporary And Ancient Mythmaking, Makayla Steede
Honors Theses
This thesis will examine the character of Hecabe from Greek mythology as she is depicted in both ancient and contemporary sources. The sources feature both literary and scholarly work relating to Hecabe and Greek mythology. The primary source texts are The Iliad by Homer, Hecabe by Euripides, Trojan Women by Euripides, A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes, and The Women of Troy by Pat Barker. The goal of the thesis is to examine the roles Hecabe plays in each book and examine the similarities and differences in how her story is told across the various texts.
The Pandemic In Pieces, Cam Hudson
The Pandemic In Pieces, Cam Hudson
Honors Theses
This thesis attempts to reconcile with the year of our lives that was blanketed by the heavy weight of a global pandemic. It is told in flash memoirs in the hopes that it will not be overwhelming to read or grapple with. It explores mental illness, lack of control, impermanence, and the suffocatingly cyclical nature of daily life during COVID. I hope this thesis finds you well.
Story And Sorority: How Sisters Shape The Novels Of Jane Austen, Morgan Elizabeth Reid
Story And Sorority: How Sisters Shape The Novels Of Jane Austen, Morgan Elizabeth Reid
Honors Theses
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the impact and use of sisters and sorority in the novels of Jane Austen, answering the question of how they are shaping the narratives of the stories. Focusing in particular on Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, and Sense and Sensibility, I highlight the ways that Austen’s writing crafts plots that rely upon sisters to function. Austen also uses sister figures to reveal the characteristics of her main protagonists and to express the themes she is most concerned about within each story. I also show Austen’s pattern of affirming the value and importance of …
Handfuls Of Sea Glass, Blair Madison
Handfuls Of Sea Glass, Blair Madison
Honors Theses
HANDFULS OF SEA GLASS: A fiction novella that explores the themes of grief, friendship, and love through two high-school seniors, Denver and Eli, after they lose Amelia, their best friend and sister (respectively). (Under the direction of Beth Spencer)
Representation Matters: African American Female Readers’ Perceptions Of Young Adult Literature, Asia Harden
Representation Matters: African American Female Readers’ Perceptions Of Young Adult Literature, Asia Harden
Honors Theses
In 2019, only 6% of U.S. children’s books published were written by black authors. This portion of the publishing industry, and particularly the category of young adult literature (YA) has room for improvement when it comes to African American representation. To identify how this lack of representation affects readers, this study was broken into two parts which resulted in obtaining the African American female YA author perspective, as well as African American female readers. J. Elle and Kristina Forest were interviewed in the first portion of the study, and three focus groups were conducted in the second study with 13 …
Dissipation In The 1920s: Disparate Presentations Of Alcohol Consumption In Selected Works Of Hemingway And Fitzgerald, Amanda Wilson
Dissipation In The 1920s: Disparate Presentations Of Alcohol Consumption In Selected Works Of Hemingway And Fitzgerald, Amanda Wilson
Honors Theses
The objective of this thesis is to explore the ways in which Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald define the 1920s and, in particular, the American expatriate culture in Europe. Each author describes the culture of the “Lost Generation” in large part through alcohol consumption and dissipation. In their literary works, alcohol is portrayed as glamorous as well as destructive, as both curing and exacerbating post-WWI anomie. Through their chronicling of this era in fiction and nonfiction, each author memorializes their own participation in the culture along with their legendary consumption of alcohol. This study will concentrate upon selected short …
Why Myth Matters: The Value Of The Female Voice In Greek Mythology, Kylie Rogers
Why Myth Matters: The Value Of The Female Voice In Greek Mythology, Kylie Rogers
Honors Theses
In this thesis I will primarily examine how the retellings of Greek myths from the female perspective provide insight into the importance of myth and why these stories are still relevant today. Specifically, I will examine three major figures: Circe in Madeline Miller’s Circe, Penelope in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, and Medusa in Marjorie Garber’s The Medusa Reader, along with a few other minor characters featured in Nina MacLaughlin’s Wake, Siren. By studying the fresh perspectives provided by the narration and journeys of these characters and connecting them to plights and experiences that are currently affecting women as evidenced by …
B'Ars And Catamounts: A Study Of Davy Crockett Through Genre And Medium, Jack Fieweger
B'Ars And Catamounts: A Study Of Davy Crockett Through Genre And Medium, Jack Fieweger
Honors Theses
This project seeks to investigate and discuss the changes and variations that have occurred to the mythology of David Crockett over the course of time. Initially appearing as a literary character in 1833, the likeness of Crockett has appeared in a myriad of different texts including: biographies, almanacs, plays, dime novels, comics, television shows, and films. The project attempts to discern how these different iterations of medium and genre altered the mythology of David Crockett. In order to methodologically understand these changes, this project makes use of W.T. Lhamon’s concept known as the Lore Cycle. Lhamon identified that lore diffuses …
20 Things, Reann Parker
20 Things, Reann Parker
Honors Theses
20 Things is a short young adult novel that explores a variety of topics and themes, from mental health, recovery, and self discovery to race, love, and friendship. Beginning with a high school girl named Halle waking up in a hospital after a suicide attempt, the novel is a coming of age story about the help Halle receives and what she goes through in trying to find reasons to keep living. The novel is divided into ten chapters: “Waking Up,” “Going Home,” “Arriving,” “Being Honest,” “Keeping the Faith,” “Soul Searching,” “Willingness,” “Maintaining,” “Checking In,” and “Living.” Each chapter represents the …
The Neon Bible, From Page To Screen: John Kennedy Toole’S Portrait Of Small-Town Southern Life, Heather Duerre Humann
The Neon Bible, From Page To Screen: John Kennedy Toole’S Portrait Of Small-Town Southern Life, Heather Duerre Humann
Study the South
Louisiana-born writer John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969) represents the South in such a way that stereotypes about the region are brought to bear, he also uses his novels -- his short novel, The Neon Bible (1989), and in his better-known tragicomic novel, A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) -- to question the culture of the South. In this manner, Toole offers a multifaceted portrait of the region while also raising questions about the nature of representation.
Nature's Converts: Reading The Land And Nature In The Early American Conversion Narrative, 1727-1831, Cullen Rex Brown
Nature's Converts: Reading The Land And Nature In The Early American Conversion Narrative, 1727-1831, Cullen Rex Brown
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation examines the connections between cultivating the land and cultivating the soul through select readings of early American conversion narratives composed between 1727-1831. Over a century after British Colonists colonized the shores of New England, members of the United Ministers of Boston championed the efforts of their descendants, who both cultivated the land and the Indigenous and new arrived souls emplaced within the North American landscape. As they told their readers in 1727, their dual cultivating efforts were worthy of universal adulation and imitation. And in 1836, the words of Reverend Nahum Gold echoed those of the United Ministers …
The Novelist And The Critics: Frances Burney's Manuscript Corrections And Additions To The Wanderer, Or, Female Difficulties, Robert L. Mack
The Novelist And The Critics: Frances Burney's Manuscript Corrections And Additions To The Wanderer, Or, Female Difficulties, Robert L. Mack
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Through The Floors Of Perception: Huxley, Benjamin, And Drugs, Rajeev S. Patke
Through The Floors Of Perception: Huxley, Benjamin, And Drugs, Rajeev S. Patke
Journal X
No abstract provided.
A "Black, Black, Black Man": Aaron's Represented Blackness On Stage And Screen, Kevin Crawford
A "Black, Black, Black Man": Aaron's Represented Blackness On Stage And Screen, Kevin Crawford
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Good Manners And Bad Treasons: Scottish Jacobite Women And The British Authorities In The Rebellion Of 1715, Margaret Sankey
Good Manners And Bad Treasons: Scottish Jacobite Women And The British Authorities In The Rebellion Of 1715, Margaret Sankey
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Jameson, Conrad, And The Dialectic Of Utopia And Ideology, Chris Foss
Jameson, Conrad, And The Dialectic Of Utopia And Ideology, Chris Foss
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Who Is Afraid Of The Pardoner?, Shannon Reed
The Bastion Of Sensation: Stationing The Self In The Poetry Of Seamus Heaney, Srikanth Reddy
The Bastion Of Sensation: Stationing The Self In The Poetry Of Seamus Heaney, Srikanth Reddy
Journal X
No abstract provided.
"By Gift Of My Chaste Body": Female Chastity And Exchange Value In Measure For Measure And A Woman Killed With Kindness, Barbara Sebek
"By Gift Of My Chaste Body": Female Chastity And Exchange Value In Measure For Measure And A Woman Killed With Kindness, Barbara Sebek
Journal X
No abstract provided.
The Deconstructure Of The Canterbury Tales, Elizabeth Scala
The Deconstructure Of The Canterbury Tales, Elizabeth Scala
Journal X
No abstract provided.
"Straight From Your Heart": Convention, Sincerity, And Sexuality In Donne's Early Verse Letters, Ben Saunders
"Straight From Your Heart": Convention, Sincerity, And Sexuality In Donne's Early Verse Letters, Ben Saunders
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Hamlet: Like Mother, Like Son, R. Allen Shoaf
Economic Conflict And Collusion In Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice, Anne M. Gogela
Economic Conflict And Collusion In Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice, Anne M. Gogela
Journal X
No abstract provided.
Rethinking The Canon: Ulysses: Modernist — Postmodernist — Minor, Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva
Rethinking The Canon: Ulysses: Modernist — Postmodernist — Minor, Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva
Journal X
No abstract provided.