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A genre of survivance: narrative criticism of boarding school stories
(2020-05-08)
Using narrative rhetorical analysis, this thesis examines two popular American Indian autobiographies to analyze the rhetorical impact. By applying Frye's genre theory, I argue that American Indians surpass genre conventions ...
"Half Savage and Hardy, and Free": The Failure of Feminine Identity in Wuthering Heights
(2022)
Over the last half-century, much of the scholarly discourse concerning Wuthering Heights has considered Catherine Earnshaw’s struggle for belonging in the social order, using a transgressive mode of gender criticism to ...
These Were the Nights: A Creative Collection by a Misunderstood Giant of a Broken Thing
(2023-05-12)
These Were the Nights: A Creative Collection by a Misunderstood Giant of a Broken Thing is a collection of creative non-fiction and short fiction meditating on Black, multiracial identity, family trauma, and the effects ...
Cloud, Calf, and Cannon: An Ecological Reading of "War and Peace"
(2022-05-14)
This essay engages in an ecocritical–spatial reading of Leo Tolstoy’s "War and Peace" focused on the narrator’s conscientious and equitable treatment of nature, animals, and topography. Where traditional historical–temporal ...
Driving to Heaven and Other Stories
(2022-05-14)
Driving to Heaven and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction and creative nonfiction focused on the themes of family, religion, addiction, and exile. These works were written, compiled, and collated between Fall ...
Decadent Ekphrasis in The Picture of Dorian Gray
(2022-12-16)
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, as a novel about aesthetes and decadent artists, has several acts of ekphrasis, the process by which visual art is detailed using a verbal description. Unlike the traditional use ...
The Voice of A Girl Becoming: A Solipsist's Collection of Creative Nonfiction
(2021-05-14)
The Voice of A Girl Becoming: A Solipsist’s Collection of Creative Nonfiction is a collection of eleven creative nonfiction stories and essays. Written to show how the material I have engaged with as a graduate student ...
Elements and Sprites: The Cohesive Philosophy of Love in Donne’s Romantic and Devotional Poetry
(2021-12-17)
Critical approaches to John Donne’s poetry share a general perspective that alleges a dichotomy between the representation(s) of love in his romantic and devotional works. Starting from a position that acknowledges the ...
The Masculine Dilemma: Entanglement of Violence and Maleness in "The Only Good Indians"
(2022-05-14)
This thesis examines the four Blackfeet male protagonists within Stephen Graham Jones’s "The Only Good Indians" in order to investigate stereotypes often applied to masculinity, specifically Indigenous masculinity. Examining ...
Paradise Lost as a Political Warning
(2022)
John Milton viewed himself as a prophet and he used his poetry and prose as vehicles for communicating God’s will to the people of England. This thesis analyzes Paradise Lost having a political message for England. Milton ...