Vanderbilt English Department Honors Theses: Recent submissions
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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, 2021-04-27)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-05-12)
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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, 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, 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, 2020-04-29)
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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, 2017-04-24)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-24)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-24)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-24)
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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, 2015-04-15)This thesis approaches Infinite Jest's revision of Postmodernism and various features of millennial America, including drugs and rehabilitation, as a scriptural undertaking, best understood through the lens of the Qur'an. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-10-26)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2015-04-15)
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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 ...