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Sex, Sonnets, and Sermons: The Erotic Theology of John Donne
I intend to use the epithalamia or marriage songs, enhanced by analysis of Donne's sermons, as conceptual bridges to understand the persistence of sexual and physical language from Donne's.secular love poetry to his religious ...
The Americanization of Immigrants as Expounded in the Biographical Material Relative to Aliens
Manifold are the reasons for the exodus of people from their native lands to emigrate to America. Many have come because of political suppression, many because of financial difficulties, many because of racial differences, ...
Reading Like a Mother: A New Approach to the Griselda Tale (thesis)
I have traced the evolution of the Griselda tale throughout four texts and two images, arguing throughout that motherhood lies at its center, no matter how desperate her translators are to sideline it. . . . In the ...
Shakespeare and Succession Crisis: Shakespeare's Reimagining of Elizabeth I's Legacy in Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, and King Lear (thesis)
If Shakespeare's works can tell us anything, it is that the Elizabethan time was one filled with as much uncertainty as our own. There was no surety that we would all remember Elizabeth as the greatest queen in English ...
The Author Is Legion: Transformative Work and Fan Fiction as a Literary Meta-Genre (thesis)
Transformative work must be understood first and foremost as a style and meta-genre defined by its relationships. The relationship between texts, with changes and variations from one incarnation to the next. The relationship ...
"Passing Like Cherry Blossoms:" Silence in Chinese-American Literature (thesis)
This thesis was born out of the desire to see myself, a Chinese-American person, represented in contemporary American fiction. In the publishing industry today, books written by
and about people of minority racial or ethnic ...
Right Person, Right Time (thesis)
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The Hierarchical Perception and Denigration of Animals in Early Modern English Drama (thesis)
Ethical qualms concerning animals exist beyond practical questions that one faces in modernity. Our thoughts on animals seep into our culture; our rituals, our stories, and our values influence and are influenced by non-human ...