Sewanee: School of Letters Theses 2016

 

Recent Submissions

  • My Old Kentucky Home: A Maze in Grace 

    Beard, Charles Moorman (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, ...

  • The Hollywood Mafia 

    Ciarella, Shanna (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 ...

  • Components of Transformation: Exploring Memory, Humility, and Sacrament To Find Resolution in the Novels of Walker Percy 

    Anderson, William Case (University of the South, 2016-05)
    The aim of this study is to investigate the nature of protagonistic transformation in the six novels of Walker Percy. Because Percy’s works of fiction are so notedly open-ended, and because the final spiritual, emotional, ...

  • Lena in Lent and Other Stories 

    Karns, Janet Patterson (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, ...