"Resituating Femininity in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land" /  Final Capstone Essay for CBU

"Sexuality and Religion in Night Sky With Exit Wounds" / Contemporary American Literature

"Indifference is Bliss: 'Landscape With the Fall of Icarus'" / Modern American Literature

"Independance and Love in Jane Eyre" / 18th & 19th Century British Literature

"What Makes a Monster?: Greek Ideals in Homer's The Odyssey" / Classical Literature

"Patroclus, Helen, and Agency in Homer's The Iliad" / World Literature (Topics: Ancient Greece and Rome)

"Three Short Close Reading Essays" / American Literature Pre-1900

• Roethke's "Big Wind" and the Triumph of Human Creation

• Morality in A Good Man is Hard to Find and Roethke’s “In A Dark Time”

• The American Dream in Invisible Man and A Raisin in the Sun

"Sample Final Exam Responses" / Literary Theory & Criticism

• Ten short responses defining literary theories (e.g. metanarrative, differance, intentional and affective fallacies, etc.).Includes a short essay applying Lyotard's theory of metanarrative and Butler's theory of gender to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, The Yellow Wallpaper.

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