Browsing Undergraduate Honors Program - English Department by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-24)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-20)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-11)My argument acknowledges the complex liminal space within which the artist creates—one in which art may constitute an act of self-assertion or a deliberate pattern of self-sabotage, among other non-symptomologic, aesthetic ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2018-04-24)Podcasts such as Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History and Manoush Zomorodi’s Note to Self, engage with, and extend, the deliberative rhetorical form. Aristotle defined deliberative rhetoric as a persuasive genre that ...
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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, 2012-04-17)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-17)
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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, 2009-04-29)