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Reliving the Life of Louis Bachelier
(2015-10-06)
This thesis is made up of two parts: a critical essay (I) and (II) an original epic length screenplay – 210 pages script plus fifteen pages appendix. The critical essay contains a short essay on The Yin-Yang Creative Writing ...
A Wave of Destruction: Time's Inexorable Effects in Hamlet and Macbeth
(2015-10-06)
This thesis explores the typically cited character flaws of Macbeth and Hamlet and asserts that these flaws are not the main cause of their tragic downfalls, but, rather, it is the immense psychological and corporeal ...
The Rocket and the Whale: A Critical Study of Pynchon’s Use of Melville
(2015-10-06)
Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow are two American novels that intersect stylistically and thematically. This thesis argues that Pynchon’s novel mirrors and reinvents Melville’s novel. ...
Being in a Landscape: Reconsidering the Poetry of Robert Frost as a Model for Environmental Engagement in an Era of Accelerating Climate Change
(2015-10-13)
This thesis re-examines several of Robert Frost’s poems in light of his identification as a synecdochist and aim of reaching an ever-widening audience to provide that audience with a “momentary stay against confusion.” ...
Beloved Daughters and Liberated Mothers: Duty and Rebellion in Three Indian Novels
(2016-03-24)
This study investigates how three Indian women novelists—Toru Dutt, Krupabai Satthianadhan, and Kamala Markandaya contributed to the discourse on women’s rights and position in society in the nineteenth century and into ...
Shakespeare's Paraliptic Characters
(2016-03-24)
This thesis straddles the intersection of two contemporary topics in Shakespeare scholarship: the newly resurrected practice of character criticism and Shakespeare’s use of meta-rhetorical principles to inform his dramaturgy. ...
In Defense of Shakespeare’s Queen Margaret of Anjou
(2016-03-23)
Margaret of Anjou, who appears in the four history plays known as the first tetralogy (1-3 Henry VI and Richard III), is unique among William Shakespeare’s characters. Almost the entirety of her life is played out on stage, ...
Steinbeck's Female Characters: Environment, Confinement, and Agency
(2016-03-14)
Steinbeck’s Female Characters: Environment, Confinement, and Agency proposes that the female characters in John Steinbeck’s novels The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden, and his short story “The Chrysanthemums” have been ...
Rudyard Kipling's Techniques
(2016-10-07)
This thesis investigates the techniques of Rudyard Kipling and his influence on my “novel of short stories”. How did Kipling advance the short story form over a half-century of experimentation? How did his approaches ...
Passing, Covering and the Role of Authenticity in Marvel's X-Men Universe
(2016-10-14)
The objective of this thesis is to demonstrate the evolution of racial passing to covering, as a result of the changing social climate. Additionally, I will be demonstrating the role of authenticity in self-identification ...