This senior project analyzes William Faulkner’s short story, A Rose for Emily, using literary feminist theory critical concepts such as translation of language through embodiment...
Thornton Wilder, an accomplished and exceptional American writer, was frequently influenced by Greco-Roman antiquity. Over the course of my senior research, I have examined the...
When discussing Thorton Wilder, often the conversation is centered around his most famous plays, but his early novels are ripe with interesting characters, locations, and...
In my senior research project, I analyze Thornton Wilder's narrators in his novels The Cabala (1926) and Theophilus North (1973). Because these two novels mark...
Within the massive field of Shakespearean studies, a new wave of revisionist interpretations and studies has exploded in visibility, encouraging intersectional analysis of the Bard’s...
Universally, we have recognized that colonialism has a negative impact on those who are colonized, and that the effects still echo through political and economic...
Literature is instrumental in exacting change both politically and personally, but it can also cause immense harm. A majority of novels that are celebrated for...
Twentieth-century American writer Thornton Wilder believed that “if you take up the complete letters…and if you are patient and watchful you will see another plane...
Thornton Wilder was a great American novelist and playwright. One theme he returned to frequently in his work was how or why we live. In...
Though Thornton Wilder often incorporated classical characters, concepts, and settings into his writing, he had a particular preoccupation with the myth of Alcestis. My research...
How is the theme of love used by Thornton Wilder to depict the characters in The Woman of Andros? My presentation will focus on...
It’s no secret that twentieth-century American playwright Thornton Wilder believed in the Christian religion, and it’s also no secret that he added many biblical references...
This study examines contemporary novels written by white authors and the Black characters they produce. Often cross-racial narratives, or narratives where the writer and characters...
