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Creator:: Summers, Stephen James
Abstract:: Thomas Stearns Eliot’s 1922 modernist poem The Waste Land presents itself as an alternative to the decaying society Eliot found himself inhabiting. It begins as a personal means of pulling together one’s fragmented consciousness, but in doing so Eliot manages to present a solution to a world of selfishness—looking beyond...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: . Likewise, William Yeats’ “Easter, 1916” and Milton’s “On the Massacre in Piedmont” all expound a

Creator:: Tran, Jessica
Abstract:: The rate of physician dissatisfaction is steadily rising. Between 2011 and 2012, the number of physicians that would not choose a career in medicine if given the opportunity to decide again increased by 15% (Adams). This discontentment has major repercussions in the midst of the rising need for physicians: it...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: argues that the works of Charles Dickens and Emily Brontë (among others) exposed the conditions

Creator:: Lammers, Jack
Abstract:: To the chagrin of his American comrades, Washington Irving would spend much of his life in Europe as a writer and cross-cultural explorer, including a stay in the halls of the Alhambra. This experience led to the completion of Tales of the Alhambra (1832), a collection of sketches, anecdotes, and...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: the Granada Cathedral from the Alhambra Figure 4 – The Palace of Charles V as seen from the

Creator:: Currin, Lillie Florence and Adams, Kate D.
Abstract:: Literature is recorded thought or knowledge; the aggregate of books and other publications, in either an unlimited or a limited sense; the collective body of literary productions in general, or within a particular sphere, period, country or language. In a restricted sense, the class of writings in which expression and...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis
Full Text:: duties in peace.. WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS, William Gilmore Simms was born at Charleston, South Caro

Creator:: Brandt, Anna
Abstract:: The Bondwoman’s Narrative, the first novel written by an enslaved Black woman, borrows heavily from other texts and genres to investigate what freedom looks like in the context of slavery. Crafts rewrites characters, scenes, and plots, adapting them to her setting and placing herself as a heroine within them. Scholars...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: references to the Bible, Lord Byron, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and others (xxxiii). These features

Creator:: Hansen, Sarah Anne
Abstract:: This thesis compares and contrasts Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo and Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping to explore how Mexican and American cultures perceive death. By examining the thoughts and actions of the young protagonists through the lens of the uncanny, it becomes obvious that they are searching for a history that has...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis
Full Text:: ”, Charles Jackson claims, “In this century, at least for Americans, connection between the world of the

Creator:: McFarland, Annette Catherine
Abstract:: The reading of world literature, literary works from cultures other than one’s own, offers an effective means of creating greater awareness and sensitivity towards others. Research on the subject makes it clear that world literature can help lay the groundwork for a sense of world citizenship in students. To what...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: publications” (Tymoczko 164). Charles Bassett includes in his list of influences on the canon the 19th-century

Creator:: Paulsen, Brittney Renee
Abstract:: My project is designed to determine how the English major and English Studies exist at OSU, through the collection of perceptions and opinions about English Studies at OSU from students and faculty (both inside and outside of the English department) via email surveys. I used secondary research to determine how...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis

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