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Beloved Daughters and Liberated Mothers: Duty and Rebellion in Three Indian Novels
(2016-03-24)
This study investigates how three Indian women novelists—Toru Dutt, Krupabai Satthianadhan, and Kamala Markandaya contributed to the discourse on women’s rights and position in society in the nineteenth century and into ...
Shakespeare's Paraliptic Characters
(2016-03-24)
This thesis straddles the intersection of two contemporary topics in Shakespeare scholarship: the newly resurrected practice of character criticism and Shakespeare’s use of meta-rhetorical principles to inform his dramaturgy. ...
In Defense of Shakespeare’s Queen Margaret of Anjou
(2016-03-23)
Margaret of Anjou, who appears in the four history plays known as the first tetralogy (1-3 Henry VI and Richard III), is unique among William Shakespeare’s characters. Almost the entirety of her life is played out on stage, ...
Steinbeck's Female Characters: Environment, Confinement, and Agency
(2016-03-14)
Steinbeck’s Female Characters: Environment, Confinement, and Agency proposes that the female characters in John Steinbeck’s novels The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden, and his short story “The Chrysanthemums” have been ...
Rudyard Kipling's Techniques
(2016-10-07)
This thesis investigates the techniques of Rudyard Kipling and his influence on my “novel of short stories”. How did Kipling advance the short story form over a half-century of experimentation? How did his approaches ...
Passing, Covering and the Role of Authenticity in Marvel's X-Men Universe
(2016-10-14)
The objective of this thesis is to demonstrate the evolution of racial passing to covering, as a result of the changing social climate. Additionally, I will be demonstrating the role of authenticity in self-identification ...
“Turn His Sleep to Wake:” Sleeplessness in Macbeth
(2016-09-20)
This thesis will consider how sleeplessness functions in Macbeth. Many consider Macbeth’s sleeplessness to be the product of his guilty conscience after he murders Duncan for the throne. While a case can be made for that ...
Victorian Novels and Educational Reform: A Study of Dickens, Hughes, and Peacock
(2016-02-16)
This thesis analyzes how Victorian novelists Charles Dickens, Thomas Hughes, and Thomas Love Peacock depict the influences of educational reformers in their three works: Hard Times, Tom Brown’s School Days, and Gryll Grange ...
The Mythological Function of Female Adolescent Individuation Narratives as Exemplified by Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga and Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games Trilogy
(2016-02-11)
Beloved and bemoaned, Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga and Suzanne Collin’s Hunger Games trilogy permeated and persist in our cultural conversations and imaginations. What about these particular narratives enthrall and ...
Token and Promise: The Saintly Role of Royal Bodies in Ælfric's Lives of Oswald, Æthelthryth and Edmund
(2016-02-04)
This thesis examines the role and depiction of the body in the vitae of three Anglo-Saxon royal saints (Oswald of Northumbria, Æthelthryth of Ely, and Edmund of East Anglia); these hagiographical narratives are contained ...