Browsing Sewanee: School of Letters Theses by Title
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The Ghost Girl
(University of the South, 2018)Seven years ago, the dynamics of my life changed dramatically. My mother died, followed three months later by my wife, Rhonda, from ovarian cancer. My father who slipped into the sad journey of dementia was next. Because ... -
The Give
(University of the South, 2021-09-01)This manuscript represents a progression from adolescence into adulthood with branching poetry narratives that focus on cultural and family dysphoria, the grief of loss, and coming to terms with sexuality and same-sex ... -
Going Home
(University of the South, 2011-05)The poems in this thesis chronicle continuous attempts to return home spiritually, emotionally, and literally through various cycles of existence. I trace the layered metaphor “going home” through the entire collection. ... -
Harmony House: Stories
(University of the South, 2014-05)The collection of stories in Harmony House is linked by setting and characters. A vintage house in New Orleans is converted into four apartments rented by young professionals who grapple with problems that often trouble ... -
Heaven Lee and Other Stories from Caney Hollow
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The Hollywood Mafia
(University of the South, 2016)The Hollywood Mafia is a novel-in-progress that focuses on one woman’s desire to redeem her family’s legacy by seeking revenge on a sect of the Italian Mafia, called The Six, who took out a hit on her father when she was ... -
How Travel Informed the Artistry of James Merrill's Early-and-Middle-Period Poetry
(University of the South, 2019-08)From a very young age, James Merrill sought out and decided on a path in his personal and professional life that was purely individualistic. Beginning with his strained relationship with his father, Charles E. Merrill, the ... -
Inselberg
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The Law Whistles: A Case Study of the Trials of Hermione and Perdita in The Winter's Tale
(University of the South, 2011-05)The trial scenes at the heart of The Winter’s Tale present powerful metatheatrical episodes that also serve as legal exemplars in the use (or misuse) of evidence and argument. Legal analysis of this text yields surprising ... -
Lena in Lent and Other Stories
(University of the South, 2016-05)“Lena in Lent and Other Stories,” a collection of eight pieces of short fiction, explores ideas of desire, agency, obligation, faith, isolation, and community. The first four stories in the collection, the Lena stories, ... -
Listening to the “Roar Which Lies on the Other Side of Silence”: Narration, Subjectivity, and Selfhood in Villette and Middlemarch
(University of the South, 2021-04-19)This is a thesis about women authors and the subjectivity of their protagonists and narration. In looking at Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and George Eliot’s Middlemarch, I seek to answer a few questions. How does subjective ... -
Literary Insurgency
(University of the South, 2014-06)Any reader of Tobias Smollett’s novel Humphry Clinker will notice that, during the expedition, humor seems to exist more consistently and with greater frequency in the sections devoted to England in comparison to the more ... -
The Milk Tree
(University of the South, 2011-05)The Milk Tree is a collection of eight short stories that explore types of people and what makes individuals within these types particular and extraordinary, even as they cling to the stereotypes that limit and define them. ... -
My Old Kentucky Home: A Maze in Grace
(University of the South, 2016)My Old Kentucky Home: A Maze in Grace is a lengthy, whimsical circular definition of the life of the narrator who is constantly referred to as the old man upstairs. It is a story of the old man upstairs, a semi-paralyzed, ... -
Naturalism Meets Classicism: The Training and Early Shakespearean Career of Dame Judi Dench
(University of the South, 2014-05)After practically growing up on stage in York, Judi Dench studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, where she graduated in 1957 and immediately began acting professionally with the city’s pre-eminent ... -
Place, Palimpsest, and Memory in Willa Cather's My Antonio
(University of the South, 2020-05)Since its inception, ecocriticism has evolved into a multifaceted critical literary theory. Of those facets, place-studies has emerged as a unique critical lens with which to examine not only physical place but also intimate ... -
Roads with Mirrors: Seven Interconnected Short Stories
(University of the South, 2011-05)Roads With Mirrors is a collection of seven interconnected short stories. The collection represents a short story cycle (sometimes referred to as a story sequence or composite novel). Each story is unique and stands ... -
Role Play and Other Stories
(University of the South, 2017)Role Play and Other Stories navigates the displacement and bi-cultural identity of an Albanian immigrant family. Moments of surprising strength, defiance, and compassion redefine a history marked by despair, misunderstandings, ... -
Searches for Truth in the Age of Lies
(University of the South, 2019)As rapidly as technology has spurred the creation, assimilation, and distribution of information, so too have Americans grown more polarized, more apt to choose ideology over facts, and more resistant to constructive ... -
Shifting
(University of the South, 2019)This collection of poems is about love and loss. It spans over 35 years, from the death of my father to the death of my mother 33 years later, and much in between. As I age and experience more and more loss, I have learned ...
