Browsing W&L Dept. of English by Subject "Washington and Lee University -- Capstone in English"
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Aldo Leopold's Unique Elegy: Consolation and Agency in "Marshland Elegy" and A Sand County Almanac
This essay explores “Marshland Elegy” by first outlining the historical evolution of elegies to provide a foundational understanding of the literary form, and then analyzing the utility in considering “Marshland Elegy’s” ... -
Bitches Ain't Shit But Hoes and Tricks: An Examination of Gender in M.K. Asante's Buck
Throughout this essay, I will be examining how misogynistic language throughout Asante's adolescence, specifically in rap music and inner city street culture, establishes a tense and destructive stage for gender relations ... -
"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 ... -
"Mere Madness": A Study of the Portrayal of Women's Mental Health in Shakespeare's Plays
In this paper, I study the suicides of Ophelia from Hamlet and Lady Macbeth from Macbeth, and point out how their words and actions correlate with what was called madness at the time, but what we understand as depression ... -
Raising the Woman Question: Duras's Trans*gender Child
In Marguerite Duras’s The Lover, a fifteen-and-a-half-year-old white girl pursues a sexual relationship with a twenty-seven-year-old Chinese man. . . . Like most scholars, both Schuster and Hewitt presuppose that the ...