February 2020 Madison Ingram, Department of English and Modern Languages, Shepherd University In this paper, I compare the literary tradition of the Grail Quest as demonstrated in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur and...
February 2020 Ashley Hess, Department of English and Modern Languages, Shepherd University This essay was written to expose the numerous ways Ovid’s myths can be understood, focusing on those from Metamorphoses. Traditionally, these myths...
June 2018 Alexandra McCarron, Department of English and Modern Languages, Shepherd University The Biblical Book of Job, an examination of human suffering that is cosmic in scope, has attracted a significant amount of critical...
June 2018 Lilli Sutton, Department of English and Modern Languages, Shepherd University In this paper, I analyze the book of Ecclesiastes, especially its messages on the futility of life and death. Ecclesiastes is one...
May 2017 Claudia McCarron, Department of English and Modern Languages, Shepherd University In this paper, I examine the power and reach of the American jeremiad as a tool for social reform by tracing its...
January 2017 Rebecca Barb, Department of English and Modern Languages, Shepherd University The purpose of this paper is to explore the rising theory of ecocriticism and its role in literature, specifically Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a...
May 2016 Chloe Powers, Department of English and Modern Languages, Shepherd University In this essay I show how Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin attempts to create a change in heart of her individual...
December 2015 Emily Spangler, Department of English and Modern Languages, Shepherd University This paper looks at the relationship between two British female writers, Virginia Woolf and Zadie Smith, in relation to the theories of...
December 2015 Shelby E. Taylor, Department of English and Modern Languages, Shepherd University Critical commentators across the spectrum agree that Victor Frankenstein is, at his mildest, unsympathetic towards women and, at his worst, a...
December 2015 Rachel DeGrave, Department of English and Modern Languages, Shepherd University This paper identifies a correlation between Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando, and the use of avian imagery incorporated into the novel. The unique...