| Tracing the Influence on Turgenev's Nihilist Bazarov to His Byronic Roots | |
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A study of Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, focusing on the nihislist character Bazarov. The essay attempts to trace the character's roots to European Byronism and the Byronic hero. Written to fulfill the requirements of English 414: Special Topics in Romantic Literature-Byron and the Byronic Hero, taught by Dr. Terryl Givens. |
 Milton and the Tension of Poetic Inspiration |
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A study of several of Milton's early poems informed by a close reading of Parker's biography, focusing on unresolved tension and its effects on poetic style and content. Written to fulfill the requirements of English 405: Milton, taught by Dr. Louis Schwartz at University of Richmond. |
Translating Oral Performance into Written Narrative: Inter-textual Audience in the Coyote Stories of Simon Ortiz's A Good Journey |
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An analysis of Simon Ortiz's poetic style in his 1977 volume of poetry, A Good Journey. The essay focuses specifically on methods Ortiz uses to translate Acoma oral style and tradition into narrative form. Written to fulfill the requirements of English 541: Special Topic in American Literature-Native American Literature, taught by Dr. Robert Nelson at University of Richmond. I presented this edited version to the ASAIL panel at the 1997 ALA Conference. |
"Richmond-in-Virginia" in the Literary World: Correspondence Between Ellen Glasgow and Carl Van Vechten |
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An attempt to identify mainstream critical opinions of Richmond, Virginia's "literati" and literature in the 1920s and 1930s. The essay focuses on the relationship and correspondence between New York author and critic Carl Van Vechten and Richmond author Ellen Glasgow from 1929 to 1949. Written to fulfill the requirements of English 541: Special Topics in American Literature-Ellen Glasgow and Her Contemporaries taught by Dr. W. D. Taylor at University of Richmond. |
What Rough Beast Indeed? A New Reading of "The Second Coming" Informed by "Demon and Beast" |
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A unique interpretation of Yeats's "The Second Coming" based on rereading a seldom-covered poem in the volume Michael Robartes and the Dancer, "Demon and Beast." The essay looks closely at the relationship between "beasts" in these two poems. Written to fulfill the requirements of English 516: Modern Literature-Yeats and His Contemporaries, taught by Dr. James Pethica at University of Richmond. |
Music and Rhetoric in Tristram Shandy: Challenging Eighteenth-Century Rational Intellectualism |
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A study of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy as a rejection of Lockean rational discourse as a means of communicating to escape solipsistic tendencies. The essay focuses on classical rhetoric and music as affective devices by which humans communicate effectively. Written to fulfill the requirements of English 513: Special Topics in English Literature-Comedy and Satire in Eighteenth Century Literature, taught by Dr. Raymond Hilliard at University of Richmond. |