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Welcome to the Fun Box
(East Carolina University, 2020-11-18)
As my focus in English is creative writing, my intent for my thesis is fiction work. To be specific, I have written three short stories and three flash fiction stories that I feel especially align to a certain theme, and ...
CULTURAL HAUNTINGS: TRANSCENDING GHOSTS, SPIRITS AND LITERARY GENRES
(East Carolina University, 2020-11-11)
This thesis explores the cultural haunting genre by examining works by LeAnne Howe, Li-Young Lee, and Monique Truong. This project looks to further define and expand the cultural haunting genre to include all of the cultural ...
Superhero Influences: Connotations and Cultural Codes in Comic Book Culture
(East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)
This thesis examines the role and representation of the superhero in establishing socio-political ideology through connotations and cultural codes. Beginning with an analysis of some of the earliest images of Superman and ...
“IMAGINARY LINES”: CROSSING BORDERS IN LESLIE MARMON SILKO’S ALMANAC OF THE DEAD AND GARDENS IN THE DUNES
(East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)
Applying Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands Theory to Leslie Marmon Silko's novels Almanac of the Dead and Gardens in the Dunes shows how Silko's inclusion of borders and border crossings in her writing highlights the history ...
Sexual Violence Against the Outsiders of Society in The Round House, Bitter in the Mouth, and The Color Purple
(East Carolina University, 2020-11-18)
This thesis will examine why the outsiders to society are more susceptible to violence, particularly sexual violence. America has been led predominantly by white males, white males who have oppressed individuals who do not ...
Recreating Spenser: The Irish Castle of an English Poet
(2020-06-23)
This iBook showcases illustrations and subject matter taken directly
from the website Centering Spenser: a digital resource for Kilcolman
Castle, an ongoing open-access digital humanities project based at
East Carolina ...