Browsing Undergraduate Honors Program - English Department by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-11)Scholars have understood Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, a quintessential female Bildungsroman or coming-of-age novel, as ultimately a conservative work, since the marriage at the end of the novel appears to subsume and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-17)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-18)For this study, I have chosen to concentrate on three historical novels from the nineteenth-century that are set in the medieval period: Ivanhoe, by Walter Scott; Maid Marian, a reworking of the Robin Hood legend by Thomas ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-18)In my thesis, I analyze the literary theories of Joseph Campbell, Northrop Frye, and Rene Girard for their ability to address political concerns in literature. In the movement from Campbell -- who treated politics with ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-24)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-28)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-04-27)This thesis explores the complicated relations between the ontology of race and its gendered aesthetic representations within the phenomenon of techno-Orientalism, the prevailing tendency in textual and visual culture to ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-29)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-15)
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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, 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, 2014-04-11)Blindness plays a prominent role in literature and is frequently turned into a metaphor associated with wisdom or divinity. There are certainly other ways to interpret blindness, but literature consistently links blindness ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-10-26)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-29)
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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, 2010-04-29)Tracking patriarchal control through three Hitchcock films: North By Northwest, Notorious, and Rear Window.