Browsing Vanderbilt English Department Honors Theses by Title
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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, 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, 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 ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-24)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-17)If the subaltern could speak, what would she say? Would the women of India and South Asia talk about arranged marriages, sati (the sacrificial burning of widows), bride burnings, clitoridectomy, purdah, pativratadharma ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-15)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-04-25)This project aims to investigate the power of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, its impact on readers, and their responses to the text and the ideologies Mitchell conveys in it, a particularly timely ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-17)Grounded in postwar German and British poetry, this thesis explores the dynamic tension between the historicity located in poetic language and the trans-temporality of the identification mechanism facilitated by the lyrical ...
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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, 2012-04-16)This study will evaluate Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, and Billy Budd as evidence of Melville’s embrace of an historical view of the U.S. and will further analyze these novellas ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-04-27)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-24)
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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, 2009-04-22)Examination of the constitutions of gender and sexuality in three texts centered on vampires.