Honors Directory
The English Honors Program provides senior majors with the opportunity to develop a substantial scholarly project in close consultation with a Penn English faculty member. Selected students explore cutting-edge research, workshop their drafts with fellow thesis writers, and present their scholarship to the Department.
See below for the list of English Honors recipients, their final project titles, and the names of their senior thesis directors:
Margaret Arfaa "Mr. Wrong: George Eliot on Morality and Marriage" |
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Rebekah Lyn Donnell "Perseus to Percy Jackson: Adaptation of the Epic Hero in Oral Tradition, Literature, and Popular Media" |
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Janay A. Draughn "When Her Haints & Bodies Are Blue: A Southern Black Feminist Poetic of Haunting in Bernice McFadden's Nowhere Is a Place" |
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Emma B. Herndon "Intertexting: Relationality and Communication Technology in Modern Irish Literature" |
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Xiaoyang Hua "Enclosed Spaces and (Un)successful Connections: The Politics of Psychoanalysis and Relationality in Samuel Beckett's Murphy and J.M. Coetzee's Life & Time of Michael K" |
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Cagney N. Kelshaw "Dweorgas and Dvergir: Disease, Disorder, and Deviance in Old English and Norse Literature" |
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Tyler J. Kliem A New Yiddish Type: Reconstructing the "Albatros" |
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Allyson E. Nelson "Going, Going, Gone? The Mutual Reinforcing of Family and Nostalgia within American Baseball Literature and Film in the 20th Century" |
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Jean J. Paik "Embodied Resistance: Collectivizing the Body in the Literatures of Korean Women Factory Workers" |
Andrew B. Basile Free Indirect Discourse and Narrative Worlds |
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Emily J. Becker A Prescient Defense of Critical Reading: The Narrator's Perspective in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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Francesca T. Davis The You You Know: Envisioning the Capitalist's Idealized Proletariat in Blade Runner and Severance |
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Haley L. Nguyen 'Man vs Monster': Manga and the Age of the Antihero |
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Tiffany L. Park 'That Land is Your Dream?': Denaturalizing the Nature of Belonging in Isaac Lee Chung's Minari |
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Quinn A. Robinson 'The Experience is Dialect': Narrative and Resistive Possibilities of Pidgin in All I Asking For Is My Body and Rolling the R's |
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Sofia E. Sears Unseamly Girlhoods: Restitching Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman With Shelley Jackson's 'Patchwork Girl' |
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Ashna S. Yakoob You're Not the Boss of Me Now: Analyzing the Neoliberalism and Slackerism in American Situational Comedy |
Jane E. Bua Critical-Creative Thesis: Translating the Music of Melancholy in Victor Hugo's 'Demain, dés l´aube' |
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Kennedy A. Crowder A Reading of Liminal Waste and Dirt in Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' (1970) |
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Rachel S. Dennis Haunting with The Wooster Group's 'Reverse Theatrofilm' Hamlet |
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Kaliyah A. Dorsey 'Clear the Field of Static': Fragmentin the American Grammar of Violence in Contemporary Black Experimental Poetry |
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Anna J. Fleming 'You Men Love With Your Eyes': Voyeurism, Queer Spectacles, and Aestheticizing Queer Desire in Wilde's Shakespeare |
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Avery M. Johnston Incarnational Ecology: Liturgical Time, Seasonal Cycling, and Sacred Secularity in 'Sir Gwain and the Green Knight' |
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Megan G. Lentz The Florida Grotesque: Strangeness as Neoliberal Violence in Filmic Representations of he State. A Graphic Thesis |
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Claire E. Medina 'God Liked to Watch': A Theology of Pleasure in the Middle English Clannesse |
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James D. Morrison Proper Masculine Reproduction: Deliverance and teh Homotopian Imperative |
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Sumant M. Rao The Relational Body in Margaret Cavendish's Philosophy: 'New Materialism' and a Feminist History of Science |
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Hawthorne R. Ripley Woolf and Spielrein's 'Moments of Becoming': Symbols of Dissolution for the Inter War Period |
Benjamin Bond By Types, Shadows, and Metaphor: Language and Meaning in John Bunyan's THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS |
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Ashley N. Codner Caught In/Between: Expressions of Liminality in Jazz Aesthetic Literature |
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Keely J. Douglas Holy Sex and Salvation for All: Gendered Defences Against Heretication in the Writings of Middle English Women Mystics |
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Elizabeth C. Eckhard 'No More Trouble': Rememory and Abolition Feminism within the Jim Crow Prison in SING, UNBURIED, SING and the Parchman Blues |
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Alice W. Goulding 'What the Sand Gets, the Sand Keeps Forever': India, England, and the Signification of Empire in Wilkie Collins's THE MOONSTONE |
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Christina R. Irmen Through the Eyes of Eckleburg: How Genre Reinterprets Gatsby |
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Melannie D. Jay 'Ever in the Formest Prees': Interpreting Arthur as Malory's Epic Hero |
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Suzan Kim Queered Surfaces: Skin as a Relational Medium in Stieg Larsson's THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO |
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James C. Noonan Shaw's Unsocialist Socialism: Marxism in the Drama of George Bernard Shaw |
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Oritesemughone Ogbemi Theories of the Subjective Experience of Time in Ghost Stories |
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Caitlin Quinn 'What No Book of Travels Could Inform You of': Constructing the Female Eye Witness in OROONOKO, OR THE ROYAL SLAVE and THE TURKISH EMBASSY LETTERS |
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Avneet K. Randhawa Towards a new Embodiment: Teh Limits of Language in WOMEN IN LOVE |
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Jadyn A. Wilensky When Humanity Falls Apart: The Black Women Who Emerge from Poetic Chaos |
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Linda Zou 'Living in the fucking past': New Zealand's Neoliberal Conservatism in ONCE WER WARRIORS and HEAVENLY CREATURES |
Charlotte L. Bausch Letters, Telegrams, and the Criminal Body: Lady Audley's Secret and the Dark Side of Victorian Communication Networks |
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Zoe E. Braccia Payment Received in Full: Women's Labor Contributions to the Philadelphia Printing Industry at the Turn of the 19th Century |
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Yujiao Chen 'Pure Intensity': Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School |
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Rodney E. Dailey The Beautiful Boy: A Racial Archeology of 19th- and 20th-Century American Literature |
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Imani Davis Things Lovely and Dangerous Still': Towards a Queer Black Love Poetics |
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Stacey E. Fox The State of Play: Red Dead Redemption 2 and the Labor of AAA Game Development |
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Sydney Gelman Chronotopes Under Capitalism: Ruptured Modernity in George Eliot's 'The Mill on the Floss' |
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Claire M. Huffman From God to Man: Public and Personal Influences on the Chronology of Christ in Milton's Poetry |
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Alyssa L. Mulé 'Dare to Know': Freedom, Resistance, and Primo Levi's 'The Canto of Ulysses' |
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Juliette E. Palermo 'The Manly Part of Thee': Re-Reading Aphra Behn's Poetry with Contemporary Queer and Trans* Theory |
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Mariana S. Vega Viral Monstrosity & The Networked Novel: A 'Hacktivist' Reading of Mary Shelley's Radical Politics in Frankenstein |
Yehudith E. Dashevsky Pronouns in Anna Akhmatova’s Requiem: Retaining Individuality in Mass Tragedy |
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Adelaide J Gorelick The Jacobean Shakespeare |
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Kristy Hsi Shifting Cultures and Identities in Asian American Protagonists’ Coming-of-Age Stories |
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Lillianne R. Leight An Exploration of Interaction in Children’s Literature: From Historical Movable Books to Digitally Influenced Modern Books |
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Carolyn Z. Liu Functional illiteracy: A Poem Collection |
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Trang M. Luu Locating the Ghosts of Queer Subalternity in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt |
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Jiwon E. Shin The Pictorial and the Ordinary in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room and To the Lighthouse |
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Derek J. Willie 'A Nature Like Some Mighty River': Historical Difference and Readerly Subjectivity in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss |
Ramathi H. Bandaranayake Medicine's Split Face: Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy and Wartime Medical Ethics in Post-Memory |
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Natalie V. Burke From Fact and Reason: Student Notes by Christopher Heydrick, University of Pennsylvania, 1788-1792 |
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Jeffrey R. Careyva The Hedgehog and the Highway: Derrida and Knowing the Animal in Poetry |
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Cameron G. Dichter Tracing Transcendence: Distinguishing Secular and Spiritual Belief through the Eyes of the Law |
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Nicholas Escobar Judging Well: John Dryden's The State of Innocence and Fall of Man |
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Joshua Z. Glahn Disembodying Narrative: Aesthetic Identities and Change in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient |
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Kassidi S. Jones The Periodical Poets: Nature, Faith, and Patriotism in Black Women's Reconstruction-era Poetry |
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Jillian T Karande A Mind Divided: Margot Ruddock's Impact on the Work of W. B. Yeats |
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Savannah R. Lambert Discount for Girls: Authors, Protagonists, Judges, and the Gendering of Literary Value |
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Stella M. Lemper-Tabatsky The Oceanic Sublime in Moby-Dick; or, the Novel as Philosophical Discourse |
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Maya R. Levine Accommodation Anonymity, Embodying Faith: The Apprenticeship of Julian of Norwich |
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Darby E. Mason A Story of the Oregon Trail: A Critical Edition |
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Amari I. Mitchell 'Enter to Learn': Revisiting Brown v Board's Impact on African-American Literature and Culture |
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Nina R. Rohr Extraordinary Ordinary Girls: The Multi-Generational Influence of Female Protagonists in Children's Books |
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Daniel J. Sample Joyce and Beckett: What We Talk About When We Talk About Style |
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Karis L. Stephen Black Travel through Time and Space: Music Videos from Sun Ra to Erykah Badu |
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Amy Stidham The Ethos of the Conscious Unconscious: W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and H.D.'s Theories of a Universal Mind |
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Julia J. Wang Reading and 'thick milky': Information Storage in The Beehive and Twitter |
Liza M Davis Writing through the silences: Queering narrative construction at sites of radical Black art |
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Stephanie L. Felt My Little Temple Stands Alone Representations of the Body in the Japanese Shishosetsu and Nikutai Bungaku Literary Discourses of Mishima Yukio and Dazai Osamu |
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Nicole R. Flibbert The Royal Merchant: A Transcription, Annotation and Introduction of a Sevententh Century Play in Manuscript |
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Cary Anne Kane Shifting Forms: Combining Literature and Medicine in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
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Ava I. Kikut Ostracizing Werter: Sentimentalism, Suicide, and Repression in Post-Revolutionary America |
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Rebecca E. Pritzker Sensing Sensibility: Jane Austen's Pedagogical Sympathy |
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Nayeli Riano Introduction to 'Pastorcillos', or 'Little Shepherds': Exploring a Miscellaneous Manuscript book from Spain's Early Modern Period |
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Cody S. Smith Unwomanly: The Spinster Figure in Victorian Literature |
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Ester Y. Yoon Darling, Can't We Sleep a Little Longer?: Translating John Keats's 'Endymion' and the Film Vampires of Jim Jarmusch |
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Sarah D. Zandi A Prisoner of the White Lines on the Freeway: Hunger as Vehicle in American Wormen's Travelogues |
Saraf N Ahmed Wanna Know How She Got These Scars? Constructing Female Identity in the Films of Christopher Nolan |
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Kyla F Balkan Salient Stereotypes and the Confines of Femininity: Variable Conceptions and Popularity of Constance in King John |
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John D Baranik Temporality and Choice in Milton's Sonnets |
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Emily M. Chisholm Scotland's Ambiguous Ruine: Eighteenth-Century Ballads, Pamphlets, and a New Nationalism |
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John M Conway (Anti)Collaborators: The French Translations of Ulysses |
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Sean W. Gill Noname, Nemo, Nameless: The Author as Material Bias in the Henry Reed Papers |
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Meaghan A. Harding Structural Decay and Transformation: The Erosion of American Social Values Through the Lens of Breaking Bad |
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Soomin (Suzy) Kim The Vanishing & the Dismembered: Serializing Flesh in the Novels of Charles Dickens |
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Randi S. Kramer Killing a Watchman; Setting a Mockingbird: The Development of Harper Lee's Classic |
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Sophia J. Lee Rape and Female Subjectivity in Shakespeare's Lucrece |
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Alexandra L Malakhoff Let Us Once Again Assail Your Ears: Quantifying Speech and Assessing Reviewership in 19th-Century Hamlets |
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Michael McBride Almost Masterpieces: Creativity, Commerce, and the Virtue of Failure in Hollywood |
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Victoria Nicole Moffitt Compounded Metamorphoses: The Nexus of Concealment Revelation and Empathy When Myth is the Mask in Twentieth Century Women's Poetry |
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Gabriel A. Ojeda-Sague 'Another, Then Another': Gay Male Orgy and Political Futurity |
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Mabel Oviedo Undocumented, Forgotten, and Fighting for the American Dream: An Analysis of the Politics of Belonging in the United States |
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Kirara Sato 'Speak of me as I am': The Different Races of 'Black' Othello |
Kathryn Antonsson I'm Devoted and You Know It: The Innovation and Provocation of Kanye West and Miles Davies |
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Katelyn S. Behrman Breaking the Shatterproof Family: Kinship Norms and Family Structure in Victorial England |
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Evan M. Caldwell American Psychosis: The Violence of Advertising, Media, and Consumerism in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho |
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Victoria N. Ford We Cannot Live Without Our Lives: Reading the Legacy of The Combahee River Collective as Survival Literature |
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Monika K. Haebich Reborn This Way: Analyzing the Fashion and Performance of the Body in Creating Identity |
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Heather M Holmes 'Shooting Back': Resistance to Occupation in the Palestinian Films of the Second Intifada |
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Abrina L. Hyatt Finding God in Oneself & For Colored Girls: A Revolutionary Performance of Language, Naming, & Spacing |
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Rachel S. Miao Greek Models: Stylistic Inheritance in the Novels of Virginia Woolf |
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Carolina I Ortiz Rewriting History: Tracing Resistance Across Generations of Japanese American Woods on Internment |
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Julia A Rossi 'Alloy' Nationalism: Thomas Carlyle, Transcendentalism, and the Imperial English Language |
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Issac N. Silber Kumina on the National Stage: The Cultural Politics of African-Jamaican Religious Practice |
Nora Castle 'surface surface surface': The Text of American Psycho |
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Rachel Del Valle Sylvia Plath as American Cultural Prop |
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Matthew J Fernandez Re-enacting Self, State and Trauma: Civil War Memory and John Brown's Body |
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Patrick A Fitz 'Utmost Power with Adverse Power Opposed': The Political Economy of Migrant Farm Labor in Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle |
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Brittney P Joyce Trawing in Silences: Intimacy and Authority in the Writing of Junot Diaz |
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Lauren Kaufmann A Renaissance of Bromance: Homoeroticism, Discourse, and the Trouble of Emulation in Shakespeare's The Two Gentlement of Verona and The Two Noble Kinsmen |
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Jessica Lawson Roots: Black Classicism and Africanness in teh Classical Tradition |
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Nicholas M Mancall-Bitel Put it this way, Allen Ginsberg |
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Sara Schonfeld Superheroes after 9/11: Caped Crusaders as "Fables of Counter-Terrorism" |
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Michael R Scognamiglio The Performance of Obsolescence: Deindustrialization, Memorialization and Theater in Gloucester Massachusetts |
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Hannah G Van Sciver Quoting Poetry in Contemporary Drama: Poetry as Resurrection, and Redemption from Death. |
Melany J Barr Ghostly Trajectories: The Supernatural Theme in Henry James and James Joyce |
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Alexa M Bryn The Politics of Crosshatching: Formal Hybridity in Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard |
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Deedee Z Cheng Tigers, not daughters, what have you performed? An inductive psychosexual examination of female agency in King Lear |
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Janet A Chow The Mirage of Femininity: Timothy Mo's Women, Self-Orientalism, and the Margins of the Man Booker Prize |
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Taylor G Cook Contributions of Spirit and Myth to Female Anishinaabe Identity in Tracks and The Plague of Doves |
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Laura R Francis Embodying Chastity: Allegory and Gender Dynamics in Books III, IV, and V of The Faerie Queene |
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Emily Y Harnett Signs, Symbols, Surface and Depth: How we Read Pale Fire Now |
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Louisa G Jacquinto The Colony Restaurant: Food and Dining in Eben Venter's Trencherman |
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Anya K Lichtenstein To Speak in the Old Style, To Act in the New: Beckett's Happy Days and the Realist Theater |
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Rivky (Jennifer) Mondal Alone Together: Defining the Beckettian 'pseudo-couple' with Mercier and Camier, Waiting for Godot, and How It Is" |
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Elaine S Ogden Never been so bewitched by any woman: The Colliding Evolution of Darcy and Dracula |
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Oliver H Pare Mistah Kurtz- he ain't dead: T.S. Eliot's Visions and Revisions of John Donne |
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Gina J Shin But They Digress: Perverse Sexualities in Marlowe's and Shakespeare's Epyllion |
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Richard W Thomson To Be is To Bee Seen: Postcolonial Theory, Existentialism, and the Theatre of Athol Fugard |
Danielle A. Bainbridge 'The Two Women Shook Hands': A Dramaturgical Reading of Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven and Sistren's Lionheart Gal |
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Michael P. Contillo On Charlotte Brontee's 'Villette': Defining a Dialectic 'Denunciating a Doctrine' |
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Marissa Kahn D'Onofrio SUBVERSIVE LANGUAGE IN MARLENE VAN NIEKERK'S AGAAT (2006) |
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Karolina R. Ensor DANCE OF THE DOUBLE: A LACANIAN STUDY OF BLACK SWAN |
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Steven R. Green Out of the Past and Onto the Screen: Christopher Nolan and Blockbuster Noir |
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Sarah J. Heinz 'Birth of a Monster': Melodrama in the Romantic Period |
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Jessica S. Kim 'First Impressions': Marriages in Jane Austen's Works as Participants in Political Debate |
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Rebecca A. Levine 'Remains Without Remaining': Trauma and Melancholia in the Design, Construction, and Destruction of Holocaust Memorials |
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Rebecca J. Lipperini 'Harry Potter' and the Problem of Death |
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James T Santel Saul Bellow and the Social Novel |
Anusha M. Alles 'The Work was the Same': Bridging Resistances and Criticism with Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eater |
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Chloe R. Castellon The Twilight of the Mind: Erika Kohut's Drive to Jouissance in 'The Piano Teacher' |
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Rachel M. Cohen 'Thus play I in one person many people': Performing Kingship in 'Richard II' |
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Megan H. Edelman 'First to a Torrent, then a Deluge Swells': Political Poetics and Models of Kingship in John Denham's Cooper Hill |
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Anne Huang Resistance to Received Foresight: The Presence of Statius' TheBaid in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde |
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Trisha Y. Low Guts: On Jack Spicer, Robin Blaser, a Poetic of Masochism |
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Kaneesha C. Parsard Douglarise de nation: Politicized Intimacies and the Literary Dougla |
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Landon S. Reitz Milton, Klopstock, and the Grammar of Heroism |
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Petal K. Samuel Ouvri Bayi' Pou' Moi': The (Im)Possibilities of Creole Intimacies in Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco |
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Emily R. Schultheis Philadelphia and the Making of Jane Austen: Austen's Novels in America 1816-1838 |
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Valeria A. Tsygankova Representing Church and State: Paratexts of the 'Queen Elizabeth Bible' |
Joshua B. Bennett Cripwalking on Water: Reading the Extraordinary Body in Post-Modern African American Fiction |
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Dalglish Chew Writing, Mourning, and the New South Africa: Betrayal and Perversion in J.M Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg |
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Jillian R. Dent Grounding Aemilia Lanyers's Salve Rex Deus Judaorum in Cooke-Ham |
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Lee B. Huttner Documents of Barbarism: Subversive Stagings of History from the Medieval to Marlowe |
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Maxime D. McKenna In the WAke of Fair Use: Incest, Citation, and the Legal Legacy of Finnegans Wake |
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Maxine Y. Mendoza Having Fixed the Gaze of her Mind on Higher Things: Modes of Spiritual Power, Virginity and the Sanctity int he Visual and Textual Iconography of Women's Acetism in 12th Century Hagiography |
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Sebastian K. Modak Girmityas, Malums, and Afeemkhors Across the Black Water: Language, History and Globalization in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies |
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Curtis G. Rogers O Wilde West (Coast) Wind: Richard Brautigan and Romantic Ruin |
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Jasmine N. Salters (Re) Writing or (Re) Wronging Their Own Image: Black Women on a White Screen |
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Michael A. Strother Written in Stars: Re-Reading the Canterbury Tales through the Prism of Contemporary Astrology |
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John Henry Whitham A Jew in Black Nazareth: Racial Identity and Authenticity in Waldo Frank's 'Holiday' |
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Joseph R. Yeakel The Lunar Book: Practical Texts in the Age of Revolution |
Kimberley Eckman Banta Honors in Creative Writing, 2011: You Have a Penn in Me |
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Elizabeth Di Iulio 'To be Loved and Chosen By a Good Man': Dispelling the Feminist Myth: Little Women as Sentimental-Religious Conduct Literature |
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Elaine I. Ely Refracting Race: Zoe Wicomb's Playing in the Light |
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Jennifer F. Jackson Classical Myth and Gender Politics in J.M. Coetzee's Foe |
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Aliza M. Machefsky 'Not That Kind': Plants from the New World and the Transformation of European Botanical Knowledge |
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Erica R. Machulak Experiments in Truth-Telling: Pamela's Shift in Narrative Habit |
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Nicholas B. Mayer (De/Ef) Facing Shakespeare: Investigating Joyce's Dramatization of Masochistic Cuckoldry in Exiles and 'Circe' |
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Daniel P. McIntosh Beast with Two Backs: Shakespeare and Political Theatre in Apartheid South Africa |
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Brooke S. Palmieri What the Bees Have Taken Pains For: Francis Daniel Pastorius, The Beehive, and Commonplacing in Colonial Pennsylvania |
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Alyssa Sclafani 'Was Ever Audience in this Humour Won?': Theatricality and Villainy in Othello and Richard III |
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Alexander J. Ullman James Joyce and Jazz Modernism |
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Benjamin J. Wiebracht Traces of the Marvelous in Conrad's British Neocolonialism and the Rise of Magical Realism |
Matthew U Abess Treasury of Song for the Home Circle |
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St. John Barned-Smith Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est; Cicero and Caesar on 55th Street |
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Gabriel S. Crane The Mississippi Project |
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Daniel A. Goldstein Break< |
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Rebecca T. Kantor Enchantment |
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Pamela D. Rook Wall Dreams |
Samuel W. Donsky Horoscopes for Horses |
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Julia K. Tamulis "Men Are Spunges, Which to Pour Out, Receive": Donne's Courtly Poetry |
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Elaine Y. Wong 'Will Teddy Leave': Shoeshiners in the Reading Terminal Market |
April Anderson Vampire of Her Time: Reconsidering the Role of Florence Dombey in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son |
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Patrick Dillon Dimensions of Erewhon: The Modern Orpheus in Guy Davenport's 'The Dawn in Erewhon' |
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Kathryn Fleishman Tee-hee! Quod She, My Vulgar Darling: Detecting the Adolescent Female Voice in Nabokov's Lolita and Chaucer's Miller's Tale |
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Jessica Lahrman Metaphorical Illness in Hemingway's Works |
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Ruth McAdams Gallimaufray and hellebore: Edmund Spenser and Ben Jonson in dialogue with the past |
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Moira Moody Significant Use: Examining the aesthetics of feeling in Robert Creeley's Later Poetry |
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Ekaterina Napalkova Martyrs, Mothers, Soldiers: Gender Performativity and Gendered Intent in Thackeray's Vanity Fair |
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Jonathan Passaro Reducing the Round Table: Visual and Textual Narrative Redaction in Medieval Arthurian Romance |
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Renee Pristas The Colony of the Victorian Orphan: Imperial Buttress or Debilitating Other? |
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Neha Sharma 'Colonization in Reverse': Linguistic, Nationalist and Gender Discourse in Louis Bennett's Jamaica Labrish |
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Joseph Titano 'A Capital Fellow': Heathcliff and Emily Bronte's Social Criticism |
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Natalie Ward Iser's Aesthetic Response Theory Viewed in the Context of Collaborative Hyperfictions |
Andrew Amodeo Pagan Antiquity and Medieval Authorship |
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Rachel Balik Sight for Sore Eyes: The Redemptive Powers of Genre as Art in The Winter's Tale |
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Anne-Marie Bellshot Split Personality: Rebecca, Psycho, and Subverting the Feminine Gothic |
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Ian Duncan Autobiography or Autrebiography: J. M. Coetzee's Memoirs |
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Susanne Flood If I've Told You Once: Imitating Ovid in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis |
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Sarah Herold Artistic Representations of Women in Middlemarch |
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Aryn Klich Langland's Quest to Redefine Vernacular Authority in Piers Plowman |
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Kent Lasnoski Measure for Measure: A Parable of Community |
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Adam Levin An Exhibition of the Internal: The Effects of Perception on Consciousness in Henry James's The Ambassadors |
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Rebecca Richman Critics and Fans: A Reception History of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings |
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Willa Rohrer 'Stinging Red, Smarting Pink': The Ethics of Representation in Nabokov's Lolita |
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Danielle Savitsky 'Terrible Beauty': Desire, Glamour, and the Aesthetics of Tuberculosis |
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Amir Shachmurove The Great Truth of Old Ideas: The English Past in Pride and Prejudice, Sybil, and Daniel Deronda |
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Tom Zylkin The 'Difficult' Text: The Sound and the Fury and the Failure of Language |
Bindi Bhagat Marketing Fascism: Cultural Predispositions to Anti-Democratic Processes in 1930s America |
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Robert Blum 'Seeking Hopelessly to Fill the Void': Remedios Varo's Surrealism and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 |
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Johanna Busch Angel in the House, the Darwinian Female, and the New Woman: Thomas Hardy's <em>Jude the Obscure</em>, Models of Marriage, and the Irreconcilability of the Sexes |
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Gregory Cooper Joyce and Picasso: Word, Image, and the Paradigm of Audience Perspective |
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Ariel Djanikian Milan Kundera and the Epistemological Novel: An Essay on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality |
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Katherine Fox The Laughing Antiquary: 'Tam O'Shanter' and Robert Burns's Antiquarian Trade |
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Vivian Hsu Revolutionary Politics and Philosophical Skepticism in Shelley's Poetry and Prose |
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Lynn Huang Between Manuscript and Print: George Gascoigne as the Professional Poet |
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Melanie Kefalidis The Ideology of The Bell Jar: Mademoiselle, Mass Culture and Images of Women |
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Christopher McCloskey Framing The Portrait of a Lady: Contexts of Revision |
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Megan Scanlon Just Rewards for an Intimate Teacher: Explaining the Popularity and the Pedagogy of Erica Jong's Fear of Flying |
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Nancy Sun De Quincey Who 'Boasteth Himself to Be a Philosopher': Reinterpreting Coleridgean Ideals in the Confessions |
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Eleanor Tai Twilight Sleep: Edith Wharton the Modernist |
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Robert Tawse Milton Negotiates the Muse: Orpheus, the Hebrew Prophets, and the Miltonic Model |
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Sara Zenreich 'The language she told it in': Multivocality and Dialogization of Gender in Toni Morrison's Beloved |
Matthew Blackstone Second-Hand Trauma: Why and How Non-Survivors Must Represent the Holocaust |
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Julie Brown The Expressive Interior in Wallace Stevens's Poetry |
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Nikki Cyter 'The Hive Itself Does Speak': The Language of the Commonplace in Pastorius's Beehive Manuscript and Shakespeare's Hamlet |
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Elizabeth Denburg Stowe's 'Anti-Patriarchal Operation': Negotiating Race and Gender in Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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Elizabeth Donaldson Janeites and Their Discontent |
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Paul Flynn The Visual Novel: The Artistic Role of the Printed Text in Prose |
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Sharon Fulton Compilation as Containment |
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Adam Gordon Reading in the Dark: Edgar Allan Poe's <em>The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym |
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Caedmon Haas 'What whiteness will you add to this whiteness / what candour?': Language and Paradise in the Pisan Cantos |
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Blake Harrison Wandering in the Twilight of the Aura: Robert Walser and Walter Benjamin as Modernist Flaneurs |
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Leah Hooper 'You're but a pun-y': Hegemony, Resistance, and Play in Joyce's Finnegans Wake |
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Marissa Miley Reconsidering Dickens and His Illustrious Affairs with Melodramatists and Realists |
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Tristan Schweiger Samples of the Finest Orientalism: Byron the Anti-Imperialist |
Suzana Berger 'Who is on the cover of this book?': Interpreting Othello in an Urban Classroom |
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Laura Sieh Chu An Infusion of Architecture: Renovating a Symbolic Reading of Chaucer's The Knight's Tale |
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Akiva Fox 'The Fruit of that Forbidden Tree': The Many Meanings of a Central Object of Paradise Lost |
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Elizabeth Ketels Sanctifying American 'Individualism': Franklin's Autobiography in Emerson's 'Self-Reliance' |
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Sara Murphy A Poet's Progress: Bunyanesque Walking in Blake's Milton |
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Yaran Noti Pieces of Poetry and Poetry in Pieces: A Print History of Spenser's Faerie Queene |
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Afia Ofori-Mensa 'A Way to Fly between Them': First-Generation American Literature and Identity |
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Jonathan Petts Of Mentors and Malays: Thomas De Quincey and the Exorcism of Wordsworthian Aesthetics |
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Rudy Ramirez Rock Stars! Celebrities! James Joyce!: Pop Novels and Ulysses |
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Brenner Thomas Arts and Letters: Epistolarity in Pamela |
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Melissa Torres Communities without Boundaries: Redefining Language in Ulysses |
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Alex Wong Outside the Love Triangle: Empire, Aesthetics and Sexuality in the Novels of Willa Cather |
Kate Alex The Conception of British Women's Literary Authority: Authorship, Motherhood, and the English Reformation |
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Katherine Ambrogi Expressive Nations: Music in the National Tale |
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Meghan Bilton DIDACTIC SENSATIONALISM: Evidence of Social Critique within Wilkie Collins's 1860s Fiction |
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Rachel Burton Unrealized Claims of a So-Called 'Revolutionary' Movement: An Examination of Robert Kendall's Hypertext Poetry |
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Melissa Duclos The Black Mountain Poets: Individuals Forced into a School |
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Susanna Goldfinger Mining the Colonial Imagination: Desire and Possession in John Donne's Elegy 19 |
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Jack Guinn Visionary Perspectives from Errant Children |
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Pamela Kuklinski Oppressed Race and Repressed Desires: The Homophobic Reception of James Baldwin |
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Rumela Mitra Oscar Wilde: Life and Art as Intertwined Texts |
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Jasmin Park The Plastic Sublime: A Cultural History of the iMac |
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Elizabeth Radin To the Beat of a Different Drum: Reading the American Beat Generation through French Surrealism |
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Robin Rolewicz Creating Identities: Criticism, Authorship, and the Nation in Novels |
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Elysa Voshell 'Smile Please, Not Quite So Serious': Humor and Subversion in Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight |
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Kristen Webster 'Dear Diary': The Defense and Affirmation of Identity in the Early Journals of Frances Burney and James Boswell |