An overview of the ways in which The Waste Land exemplifies the distinctive qualities of modernism and shows how voice was Eliot's most important tool in creating them.

This thesis focuses on two children's novels: What Katy Did, by Susan Coolidge, published in 1872, and its 2015 ‘rewrite', Katy by Jacqueline Wilson. Although Susan Coolidge was influenced by social standards of the time, ...

My thesis examines the productive tensions between the theoretical work of Christina Sharpe in her book In the Wake and Toni Morrison's epic novel Song of Solomon. Both attempt to conceptualize modes of surviving and ...

In my thesis, I read Philip Roth’s American Pastoral as a metafiction text about its narrator: Nathan Zuckerman. Zuckerman is beset by conflict between him and his parents that took place in previous novels and inhabits ...

Previous critics of A.R. Ammons' work have located the poet in a “direct” line of descent from “the great originals of the American Romantic tradition, Emerson and Whitman.” I argue that, while I broadly agree with this ...