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The Appearance of Things.
(Wheaton College ; Norton, Mass., 2008)The "Appearance of Things" is a collection of short stories and an essay: "The Notion of Home : an Exploration of Domestic Setting in Contemporary Fiction" presented to the faculty of Wheaton College in partial fulfillment ... -
Fashioning a voice of her own : the poetics of place in Dorothy Wordsworth’s poetry, narratives, and travel writing
(Wheaton College ; Norton, Mass., 2009)This thesis reexamines Dorothy Wordsworth's poetry, narratives, and travel writing that have been obscured from the Romantic canon and neglected by scholars. Dorothy cultivates a poetic voice, not in the domestic sphere, ... -
We are all monsters, a novel and essays.
(Wheaton College; Norton, Mass., 2011-11-23)A Study Presented to the Faculty of Wheaton College in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Graduation with Departmental Honors in English -
Eliot adapted.
(Wheaton College; Norton, Mass., 2011-11-23)Critics have struggled for centuries with the sexual politics of Eliot’s fiction, wondering how a woman, possessed of extraordinary powers of observation, empathy, and expression, who lived ope ... -
Evidence for Anglo-Saxon culture in post-conquest England in King Horn
(Wheaton College; Norton, Mass., 2011-11-28)Through the examination of an early Middle English romance called King Horn, my thesis explores how Anglo-Saxon traditions continued through the Norman Conquest despite changes in language, literature and culture. I use ... -
Evolution of "Beauty and the beast"
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2013-06-07)Stories, like living organisms, adapt in order to survive and be reproduced. Taking a socio-historical perspective and drawing on memetics, feminism, and textual analysis, this thesis studies ten literary and cinematic ... -
Text and context : gender and national identity in Mayy Ziyādah's Fleurs de Rêve
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2013-09-13)Mayy Ziyādah has been given limited critical attention as a key figure in the early twentieth-century formation of an Egyptian national identity and in the stirrings of an Eastern women's movement. The author, however, ... -
Reconsidering Liedertheorie : how German nationalism affected Beowulf scholarship in 18th and 19th century Europe.
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Burns the man, Burns the poet : critical studies and receptions of Scotland's national bard.
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Sadness in the heart of the good one : the tone of Beowulf.
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2014)"Although at the end of Beowulf the hero dies defeating a dragon, his victory is overshadowed by the gloom of the ending, which predicts the enslavement and extinction of his people. Beowulf critics have argued that the ... -
Human nature : the presence of popular psychology in Agatha Christie novels.
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2015)The 1920s and ’30s in Great Britain saw the creation of the middlebrow, the emergence of popular psychology, and the Golden Age of Mystery Fiction. These three phenomena come together in the works of Agatha Christie. ... -
Rethinking collaboration : a multimodal study in Shakespeare.
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Grace of God grows great enough : doctrinal grace and Christianity's dual ontology problem in medieval literature.
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2015)Today, predestination and free will are typically understood as oppositional if not wholly contradictory aspects of Catholic doctrine. But this was not always true. Through its interpretation of several Middle English ... -
Cynewulf's Juliana : an annotated Modern English translation.
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2015)Presents an annotated Modern English translation of the Old English poem Juliana by Cynewulf. Introductory material examines the historical context of both the saint’s life of Juliana and the poem Juliana itself, as well ... -
Making Fante one of the boys (and girls) : the cyclical structure of Ask the dust and how it argues for John Fante's acceptance into the American literary canon.
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2015)This thesis offers a rereading of John Fante’s most read novel, Ask the Dust (1939) by recognizing, tracing and analyzing the work as having a cyclical narrative structure. Working primarily in opposition to previous Fante ... -
Joyce's Voices : power and polyphony in Ulysses.
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2016)This thesis, “Joyce’s Voices: Power and Polyphony in Ulysses” examines James Joyce’s 1922 novel, Ulysses, in its turn of the century Dublin cultural context. Through the analysis of myriad primary resources, the thesis ... -
The perks of fan fiction : identity, community, writing and the perks of being a wallflower.
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2016)This thesis examines the processes by which writing and reading fan fiction online can help young adults learn about their own identities, how to socialize with others, and how to write. The popular website FanFiction.Net ... -
Vampires as 'meaning machines' : signifying the monster through race and sexuality.
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2017)This thesis examines the complex imbrication of race and sexuality in the vampire figure during the course of its literary life. It examines traditional, nineteenth-century representations (Polidori's The Vampyre, Le Fanu's ... -
Meter? I barely even know'er! Encoded information in the formal qualities of poetry.
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Spectators of war : gendered witnessing, age, and red tape in the First World War writings of Edith Wharton and May Sinclair.
(Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.), 2017)This thesis examines the intersection of age and gender in the First World War life writings and short stories by Edith Wharton and MaySinclair. It was generally believed that women could not witness the war and produce ...
