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Bitely, Amelia R.
“An Improbable Fiction”: How Fans Rewrite Shakespeare.
Degree: BA, English, 2008, Marietta College Honors Theses
► This paper explores how fans construct works of fanfiction based on William…
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▼ This paper explores how fans construct works of fanfiction based on William Shakespeare's plays. Fans situate themselves within the modes of discourse common to online fanfiction communities, and within those modes of discourse, their works serve four primary functions. Writing fanfiction helps to familiarize writers with the content and style of their source texts; it also allows writers to expand upon the events and characters available in these texts; it serves as a medium for subtle critical analysis of texts, which in many ways parallels mainstream literary criticism; and it allows writers to interact with a shared-knowledge community of fanfiction writers and readers.
Advisors/Committee Members: Sullivan, Joseph.
Subjects: English literature; Language arts; Literacy; Literature; Theater
Keywords: fanfiction; fan fiction; Shakespeare; Shakespeare fans; literary criticism; fandom; Internet; Internet fanfiction; online fanfiction; Shakespeare fanfiction; Shakespeare fan fiction
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Horvat, Amy C.
Identifying the Real Alice: The Replacement of Feminine Innocence with Masculine Anxiety.
Degree: BA, English, 2011, Marietta College Honors Theses
► The story of Alice, who once wandered through Wonderland and Looking-Glass House,…
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▼ The story of Alice, who once wandered through Wonderland and Looking-Glass House, outgrew its covers long ago. The characters she met on those original adventures, which seemed so vibrant and alive when Lewis Carroll first wrote them into a black-and-white, type-faced existence, have since sprung from the page in color, in computer-generated animation, and in live-action under the guidance of artistic visionaries Walt Disney and Tim Burton. Although these men have changed the method of delivery, the characterization of Alice and the basic plot of the story, they have all retained a personal connection to the character, and oftentimes the other changes that each creator makes to the story serves to amplify his own personal affiliation with the character.
Advisors/Committee Members: Hares-Stryker, Dr. Carolyn.
Subjects: British and Irish Literature; Film Studies; Literature
Keywords: Alice in Wonderland; Lewis Carroll; Tim Burton; Walt Disney
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Park, Kelly Cynthia.
Exploring Childhood and Maturity in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies.
Degree: BA, English, 2011, Marietta College Honors Theses
► A graceful collision of American literature and Indian heritage, Interpreter of Maladies…
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▼ A graceful collision of American literature and Indian heritage, Interpreter of Maladies exceeds the singular effect of either culture to reach deep and wide into the human experience, instead focusing on the culture differences across generations. By expanding her stories to encompass the questions of age and wisdom "and their relationship to each other" Lahiri connects Interpreter of Maladies to every reader who has ever been young or old. By focusing so closely on the ideas of childhood and maturity and following her characters as they move forward into adulthood or fall back to immaturity, Jhumpa Lahiri creates a remarkable examination of what it means to be human.
Advisors/Committee Members: Hogue, Beverly.
Subjects: American Literature; Families and Family Life; Literature; Modern Literature; Personal Relationships
Keywords: Jhumpa Lahiri; childhood; maturity; Interpreter of Maladies
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Wollam, Ashley J.
Discovering the Narrator-Ideal in Postmodern Fiction.
Degree: BA, English, 2008, Marietta College Honors Theses
► Girded with the belief that narrative is a driving force which guides…
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▼ Girded with the belief that narrative is a driving force which guides our attraction to specific works of fiction and that some narrators are constructed in such a way that results in a greater or lesser attraction on the behalf of readers, I seek to deconstruct the narrator into its principal working components. First, I provide a brief overview of relevant twentieth century narrative theory; second, I identify what I have determined to be the principal components of the narrator-ideal; third, I apply my theoretical model to selected contemporary works of fiction by Elliot Perlman and Jhumpa Lahiri to demonstrate how these components work and where they may be found.
Advisors/Committee Members: Bland, Janet.
Subjects: Literature
Keywords: narrative theory; narrator; narratology; jhumpa lahiri; elliot perlman
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