Browsing English by Author "Douglass, Thomas E."
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Denise Giardina's Storming Heaven: Cultural Marginalization in Appalachia
Fitzgerald, Jason (East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)Using Everett Verner (E.V.) Stonequist's sociological constructs of marginalization and marginal personalities, this study focuses on the extent of marginalization as depicted in Appalachian novelist Denise Giardina's ... -
Issues of Criticism and Authorship in Arthur Miller's All My Sons : A Bakhtinian Reading
Salvadori Heritage, Barbara (East Carolina University, 2011)All my Sons may not be Miller's most known work today, but it is the play that brought him recognition as a playwright. Since its first production, in 1947, critics have assessed the play's content and characters through ... -
Law, History, and Literature as Narrative in The Sense of an Ending
Kulvete, Samuel C. (East Carolina University, 2014)This thesis explores how Tony Webster constructs personal narrative in The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. Using the work of Hayden White, J. Christopher Rideout, and Frank Kermode as a critical foundation, the paper ... -
The "Most Accurate, Least Factual" Writer : Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist
Stotesbury, Marion Suzanne (East Carolina University, 2010)New Journalism, as practiced by Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, and other writers, loosened the accepted bounds of journalism in the 1960s. Embracing these unrestricted journalism practices, Hunter S. Thompson adapted the New ... -
Reimagining Hank Morgan and Billy Pilgrim as American Anti-Heroes : The Dystopian Satire of Mark Twain's A Connecticit Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
Aube, Sean Arthur Alfred (East Carolina University, 2011)Many critics have noticed the ties linking the satirical novels of Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut. This is not surprising as Twain's influence on Vonnegut's work is virtually inescapable. However, thus far critics have not ... -
A Search for Authenticity : Understanding Zadie Smith's White Teeth Using Judith Butler's Performativity and Jane Austen's Satire
Howland, Elizabeth E. E. (East Carolina University, 2009)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the search for authentic self in Zadie Smith's White Teeth. Using Judith Butler's theory of performance and performativity, a close reading of White Teeth provides concrete literary ... -
Voices of Desire : Heteroglossia in Graham Greene's The End of the Affair
Scott, Cheryl Modlin (East Carolina University, 2010)The voice of the author permeates the novel, according to Mikhail Bakhtin, and this voice is not isolated to the words or convictions of a particular character. The characters in the novel are masked with dialogue, ...