Languages and Literature Undergraduate Theses
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Alula
(2022)The following is a novella which follows a character, Atlas, named for the famous Atlas who held the Earth above his shoulders by his great strength—but named not for that reason—named rather for that selfsame Atlas’s size, ... -
“The Spirit of Women”: Magic Realism and Resistance in Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits
(2020)Magic realism is a literary technique that combines the normal and the mundane with the abnormal and the fantastical in a realistic setting where people perceive everything as ordinary. Authors have been using this literary ... -
Science Fiction and Models of Humanity
(2019-04-01)Science Fiction as a literary genre offers a unique platform for social commentary. It presents plausible scientific advancements as a reality, and then uses this possible future to enter the discussion on society’s current ... -
¿Percepción o Realidad? Narraciones Sobre Inmigrantes Latinoamericanos Frente la Literatura de Inmigrantes Latinoamericanos
(2019-04-01)Los Estados Unidos y Latinoamérica comparten una frontera que extiende más que 1.900 millas. En los Estados Unidos, hay millones de inmigrantes latinoamericanos, los descendientes de inmigrantes latinoamericanos, y Latinos ... -
Here Comes The Rain: A Compilation Of Poems And Short Stories By Isabella Minudri
(2019-04-01)My thesis, titled “Here Comes the Rain,” is a collection of four short stories and thirteen poems that speak to the beauty that can be found in the midst of life’s most painful moments. From the loss of romance and of ... -
The Economic and Social Impact of Zika on Women in the United States and Brazil
(2019-04-01)Zika is a disease common in tropical areas that is transmitted primarily by Aedes mosquitoes. However, Zika can also be transmitted through sexual intercourse. In 2016, the World Health Organization declared the spread of ... -
The “Mad” Woman in Medea and Decolonial Feminist Revisions: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of Three Plays
(2017-05-13)This thesis focuses on Medea, the classical Greek play by Euripides that was first produced in 431 B.C., and its feminist, queer, and decolonial revisions in contemporary global contexts. These revisions include The Hungry ... -
Feminine Romanticism In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
(2016-04-01)This thesis explores Romanticism presented in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I incorporate Anne K. Mellor’s work in identifying Romanticism’s two main forms: feminine and masculine Romanticism. The Romantic ideologies as we ... -
“Conscience is but a word that cowards use:” Richard III’s Machiavellian Impulse
(2015-04-01)This thesis focuses on William Shakespeare’s play, Richard III and Niccolo Machiavelli’s political treatise, The Prince. This thesis begins by contextualizing the presence of Machiavelli’s work in Early Modern England. The ... -
Socks with Holes
(2013-04-01)My thesis, Socks with Holes, is a poetry sequence containing seventeen free-verse poems. The poems focus on the main character, Evan, as well as several of his family members and friends. Evan is a flawed man with many ... -
Language, Dialect, and Power: The Effect of Language on Social Status
(2013-04-01)My thesis consists of two parts: a critical essay on language and power in social relations and an original short story which shows the power relations between social classes. It is easy for a person to assume that language ... -
A Study of Ethnocentrism and the Variable of Cross-Cultural Interaction
(2010-04-01)Ethnocentrism is a belief that one’s own culture is superior to other cultures. It is a phenomenon that exists in cultures worldwide and has been studied by professionals in a variety of fields including psychology, ... -
Blackening the Blind Eye: 20th Century American Masculinity and Violence
(2010-04-01)For too long the American male protagonist has been allowed to operate without appropriate questioning of the violence inherent in his actions. This paper will look to question just that. Critics such as Richard Slotkin ... -
On The Road to Self-Fulfillment via Baja California Sur: A Memoir
(2009-04-01)Jack Kerouac’s protagonist, Salvatore Paradise, began an exploration of self identity and fulfillment across the physical landscape of the United States. On the Road may be considered as the novel that started the Beat ... -
Dreaming of Trodden Midnight Streets
(2009-04-01)This collection of poems was born out of a desire to honor and preserve those moments and people, that in the past four years, have inspired me, taught me to love, broken my heart, and pushed me to be a better and truer ... -
Tales from a Windy Prairie: A Short Story Cycle
(2009-04-01)Tales from a Windy Prairie is a collection of one novella and three short stories set in Cut Bank, Montana, in the late 1920’s and 1930’s. The novella, “Marianne’s Year,” studies the affect a small town’s collective culture ... -
“Much Madness Is Divinest Sense”: A Sociological Theory of Insanity Applied to The Yellow Wall-paper and Her Story
(2008-04-01)In this thesis, I applied a sociological theory of insanity to two short stories written by female authors in 19th century American literature. According to social scientists such as Thomas Szasz, insanity is a form of ... -
“Look at These Faces, Sandstone and Woman:” Three Women’s Search for Identity in Landscape
(2008-04-01)Nature writing as a genre has traditionally been one of the most prominent ways in which nineteenth and twentieth century writers have explored identity and the individual’s place in the world. Among this vast category, ... -
The Dying Gods
(2006-04-01)Abstract: Part One of a fantasy series inspired by Plato, Eric Voegelin, and Friedrich Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music, among others. A god is dead, murdered by his fellow gods. Driven by their ... -
If Words be the Food of Love, Speak On: A Theory of Consumptive Language and Its Application to Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
(2006-04-01)My undergraduate thesis explores the implications of consumption related rhetoric, references to eating, stomach, and digestion etc., within the context of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. I begin by developing my own ...
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