Browsing Undergraduate Honors Program - English Department by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-29)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-16)In these pages, I will examine the dissonant voices of Faulkner the author and the Faulkner the man alongside the voices of the characters and narrators in his fiction. My interest lies not in finding a satisfactory ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-29)Tracking patriarchal control through three Hitchcock films: North By Northwest, Notorious, and Rear Window.
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-24)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2013-04-17)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-05-12)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-16)I argue that one of the most major focuses in Toni Morrison’s novels is the exploration of trauma, specifically the forms of trauma that have afflicted the African American community. Although Morrison’s novels predominantly ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-13)Labels can be highly problematic metaphysical entities when they suggest and lead to the creation of unity where little exists. When exactly did the Romantic Period start and stop? Some individual works are certainly ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-24)The publishing industry is in such turmoil—thanks to digital publishing platforms which offer higher royalties and instant gratification to authors—that nearly every day a new story comes to light of a bookstore closing, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-16)In this thesis, I will read detective fiction, particularly from the Holmes canon, in light of two linguistic and philosophical theories: the theory of semiotics expounded by Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-10)A brief study of the figure of the dandy in different works of Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Picture of Dorian Gray) with particular emphasis on the dandy as a queer or transgressive ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-30)A quick delineation of the United States reveals deep historical roots in racism, that which endures and manifests through the twenty-first century. Especially in the present, the era of mass incarceration exists as an ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-24)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-17)If the subaltern could speak, what would she say? Would the women of India and South Asia talk about arranged marriages, sati (the sacrificial burning of widows), bride burnings, clitoridectomy, purdah, pativratadharma ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-15)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2023-04-25)This project aims to investigate the power of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, its impact on readers, and their responses to the text and the ideologies Mitchell conveys in it, a particularly timely ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-17)Grounded in postwar German and British poetry, this thesis explores the dynamic tension between the historicity located in poetic language and the trans-temporality of the identification mechanism facilitated by the lyrical ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-25)Twitter fiction, an example of twenty-first century digital narrative, allows authors to experiment with literary form, production, and dissemination as they engage readers through a communal network. Twitter offers creative ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-16)This study will evaluate Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, and Billy Budd as evidence of Melville’s embrace of an historical view of the U.S. and will further analyze these novellas ...