W&L Dept. of English: Recent submissions
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"A Language Without Words": Ireland Reimagined in the Plays of Brian Friel (thesis)
In the following chapters, I will introduce two of Brian Friel's most beloved plays, Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa, focusing particularly on the playwright's use of different “languages” and his emphasis on the ... -
Salvation, Perdition, and Redemption: The Genre of King Lear and His Three Daughters (thesis)
In changing the ending of the play, then, Shakespeare was rewriting history in a bold fashion. This is not merely a question of characterization, like Richard III, or condensation for dramatic purposes, like Macbeth, but ... -
The Modern Myth (thesis)
Altogether, the five pieces I created for this project reflect a yearlong journey into fairy tale and folklore. I have met witches and anthropomorphized bears on this journey, and discussed life and men with princesses and ... -
The Politics of Poverty: Conscience and Justice in the Modern Novel (thesis)
As a student of literary theory, I am fascinated by how literature explores and elucidates ideology and its concomitant social and cultural impact in the real world—a sort of meta-ideology. With a background in poverty and ... -
Ordinary sins (thesis)
Ordinary Sins is a collection of eight connected short stories, following the creation and the demise of a nuclear family. . . . Ultimately, I hope to capture what I think is a central facet of human behavior: For the most ... -
Sickness and Disability in Children's Literature: Using Picture Books as a Path to Understanding and Empathy (thesis)
In this paper, I investigate three niches within this category of children's books on sickness and disability: books on common illnesses, books on disabilities, and books on serious or chronic illnesses. Each chapter is ... -
"It's the theatrical" : Sylvia Plath and the Audacious Performance of an Atomic Identity (thesis)
The body of this thesis explains Plath's most shocking metaphors by arguing that she is not simply a "confessional" poet, as many have labeled her (Britzolakis 3). Instead, she complicates the very idea of confession or ... -
What Tiresias Has Missed: Prophecy in James Joyce's Ulysses (thesis)
I started the project by attempting to compare and contrast Ulysses and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. The topic that interests me the most is both works in relation to prophecy and Tiresias in Greek mythology. But after a ... -
"Dedly synne er domesday shal fordoon hem alle": Exploring the Seven Deadly Sins Through Medieval Personification Allegory (thesis)
In Chapter 1, I will explore the nature of personification allegory in general before turning to Langland's application of personification allegory in Passus V of Piers Plowman. What I find is that Langland's Deadly Sins ... -
Shakespeare's Folly: A Methodology of Fooling (thesis)
In Feste, Touchstone, and Lear's fool, we see the care Shakespeare bestowed on these characters. While neither particularly romantic nor overly dramatic figures, their role significantly aids the dramatic progression of ...