Browsing W&L University Student Scholarship by Subject "Criticism"

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    • Representations of Poor Whites in the Works of William Faulkner 

      Null, Matthew N.
      This essay examines representations of the rural poor in the novel As I Lay Dying and the short story "Barn Burning." In conjunction with these fictional works, the essay explores the ethnic origins of poor whites and their ...

    • The Rhetorical Self of Alexander Pope's Imitations of Horace 

      Flippen, Stewart Garland
      In his Imitations of Horace. Alexander Pope undertakes a very special task. Borrowing from the classical tradition, he creates a very characteristic poetic self which quickly becomes apparent to the reader. His linguistic, ...