Browsing Vanderbilt English Department Honors Theses by Issue Date
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-15)*Overlord* by Jorie Graham requires a theoretical paradigm which can account for the Overlord within it; this paradigm, I will argue, is Jacques Derrida’s différance. Just as différance produces an endless chain of violent ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-16)In this thesis, I will read detective fiction, particularly from the Holmes canon, in light of two linguistic and philosophical theories: the theory of semiotics expounded by Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-16)In these pages, I will examine the dissonant voices of Faulkner the author and the Faulkner the man alongside the voices of the characters and narrators in his fiction. My interest lies not in finding a satisfactory ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-16)I argue that one of the most major focuses in Toni Morrison’s novels is the exploration of trauma, specifically the forms of trauma that have afflicted the African American community. Although Morrison’s novels predominantly ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-10)A brief study of the figure of the dandy in different works of Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Picture of Dorian Gray) with particular emphasis on the dandy as a queer or transgressive ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-15)This thesis approaches Infinite Jest's revision of Postmodernism and various features of millennial America, including drugs and rehabilitation, as a scriptural undertaking, best understood through the lens of the Qur'an. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-25)Twitter fiction, an example of twenty-first century digital narrative, allows authors to experiment with literary form, production, and dissemination as they engage readers through a communal network. Twitter offers creative ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-24)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-24)Podcasts such as Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History and Manoush Zomorodi’s Note to Self, engage with, and extend, the deliberative rhetorical form. Aristotle defined deliberative rhetoric as a persuasive genre that ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-17)Alchemy is a pseudoscience that has persisted throughout millennia as a result of its own ability to change while retaining its primary purpose: transformation. What began as a means of wielding and evolving metals developed ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-29)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-30)A quick delineation of the United States reveals deep historical roots in racism, that which endures and manifests through the twenty-first century. Especially in the present, the era of mass incarceration exists as an ...