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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 ... -
Burns the man, Burns the poet : critical studies and receptions of Scotland's national bard.
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
For love of countryside : politics, rural England, and the mid-victorian novel.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)My thesis argues that the rural setting of provincial England depicted in popular Victorian novels reflects corresponding political changes introduced by Parliamentary acts, such as the Reform Bills of 1832 and 1867. While ... -
Fortresses, fields and fens : ban ecocriticism of the exeter book.
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The geometry of narrative : from naturalism to postmodernism.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)This thesis examines the interrelationship between narrative form and geometry. The firstsection will address the parallels between naturalist writing and Euclidean geometry, using Nana by Emile Zola as a case study. The ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Malfuctioning Bodies: Sexuality, Technology, and Power in Cyberpunk Film (1982-1997).
(2020-05-10)This thesis uses Postmodern Queer and Feminist scholarship to explore the intersections between Sexuality, Economics, and Selfhood across four key Cyberpunk films spanning from 1982 until 1997. Chapter 1 engages with the ... -
Meter? I barely even know'er! Encoded information in the formal qualities of poetry.
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Narrating the burn : The emergence of a political voice for Zimbabwean women in the novels of Tsitsi Dangarembga and Yvonne Vera.
(Wheaton College (MA), 2019)In this thesis, I explore three novels by Tsitsi Dangarembga and three novels by Yvonne Vera in order to interrogate how they have decided to narrate black Zimbabwean women and give them an emerging political voice in the ... -
Our world is kind of strange : surrealism in postmodern picture books.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)This thesis examines surrealist influences in postmodern picture books. Although Surrealism is a modernist movement, it shares many characteristics with postmodernism, showing that it continues to be relevant and provocative; ... -
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 ... -
Playgrounds for the self: video game narratives’ effect on moral identity.
(Wheaton College (MA)., 2018)Over the past two decades game studies has been able to come into its own, yet our understanding of video games is still limited and plagued by misunderstandings and miseducation. In particular, mass media and society ...
