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"Dangerously Brainy" Women and their Male Editors (thesis)
The decision to write on Anne Bradstreet, Mary Shelley, and Sylvia Plath cannot be abstracted from their gender. In the beginning of my thesis process, I was captivated by the question of how male editors affect the works ... -
"Dedly synne er domesday shal fordoon hem alle": Exploring the Seven Deadly Sins Through Medieval Personification Allegory (thesis)
In Chapter 1, I will explore the nature of personification allegory in general before turning to Langland's application of personification allegory in Passus V of Piers Plowman. What I find is that Langland's Deadly Sins ... -
The Deeper Magic: Christ-like Figures and Faith in the Fantasy of J.K. Rowling and J.R.R. Tolkien (thesis)
Ultimately, my intention in exploring the Christ-like figures and nostalgically idyllic communities of faith in both Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings can be distilled into three parts. My first objective is to suggest ... -
"Drawing is an act of empathy": From Poverty to Healing in Nora Krug's Belonging and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons
If a hybrid were a plant, it would be a grafted tree, where blossoms from old wounds grow together to produce an entirely new fruit (Antonetta xxiv, xxvi, xxxiii). This is a visual representation of the healing process ... -
Finding the Female Detective: How Interwar Female Authors Created & Sustained the Golden Age of Detective Fiction (thesis)
The novel, apart from telling a story, has many responsibilities. One of these responsibilities, and the one most relevant to this project, is that of conveying a particular worldview. Regardless of whether the worldview ... -
Gorgeous Healing: Liminality in Memoir and Ocean Vuong's "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" (thesis)
Vuong's book is both a textbook and a roadmap to this project. In the text, Vuong's protagonist, Little Dog, similarly strives to understand how to live and love in a world that has been historically violent toward him and ... -
H. D. and the Religion of Writing (thesis)
My thesis examines how, throughout her career, H.D. seeks to express creativity in reality through occult writing. I trace this goal in H.D.'s major war-inspired works, Sea Garden (1916), The Gift (1944), and Trilogy (1944). ... -
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 ... -
I am not my mouth: A Poetry Collection (thesis)
I have spent the last six months thinking about what it means to tell a story. In my creative writing thesis, I wanted to explore poetry and its strengths and weaknesses as a mode of communication. I've been writing poetry ... -
I Don't Know How to Tell You (thesis)
My own project is multimedia, making use of prose, poetry, prose poetry, handwriting, images, and more. As it developed, I pushed myself to experiment, to discover the many ways a story can be told. It begins with general ... -
"I Made My Moves With Shackled Feet": Understanding the Subversive in the Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Kendrick Lamar (thesis)
Ever since the emergence of dialect speech into popular culture following the conclusion of the Civil War, black writers of vernacular in America have had to manage complicated relationships with both their white editors ... -
"It is for Freedom that You Have Been Set Free": Christianity, Minor Characters, and Conceptions of Freedom in Three Works by William Wells Brown (thesis)
By the time William Wells Brown was writing these works, abolition as Christian reform in the United States had become a residual discourse left over from earlier conversations. Despite the shift from Christian reform to ... -
"It's the theatrical" : Sylvia Plath and the Audacious Performance of an Atomic Identity (thesis)
The body of this thesis explains Plath's most shocking metaphors by arguing that she is not simply a "confessional" poet, as many have labeled her (Britzolakis 3). Instead, she complicates the very idea of confession or ... -
"A Language Without Words": Ireland Reimagined in the Plays of Brian Friel (thesis)
In the following chapters, I will introduce two of Brian Friel's most beloved plays, Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa, focusing particularly on the playwright's use of different “languages” and his emphasis on the ... -
"THE LAST PLACE THEY THOUGHT OF": Spatial Reconfigurations in 19th Century African American Literature (thesis)
A holistic understanding of the United States' cultural and political identities -- before, after, but especially during the 19th century -- is largely a function of how the nation relates to its spatial landscape. Not ... -
"Men have power": A Feminist Reclamation of Marianne Moore's "Marriage" (thesis)
I began and ended my research with "Marriage" itself in the same way that this thesis begins and ends with the poem itself. From here I naturally moved to understand Marianne Moore, hoping that through knowing Moore's ...