Browsing English Honours Capstone Papers by Submit Date

Surely All This Is Not Without Meaning: A Pragmatic Re-Reading of Moby Dick

Gerry, Rachel (2017-02-02)

"These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruins": Anne Carson's Shattered Poetics of Grief in Nox

Deighton, Jacquelyn (2017)

Walking Towards the Monstrous: The Masculine Inability to Articulate Emotion in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Newhook, Kate (2017)

"Nothing Sacred, Nothing Gained: Deprogramming and Community in Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions"

Pinsent, Helen (2017)

This article analyzes the combination of narrative techniques that make up Breakfast of Champions' unique style and substance. Taking its cue from the novel's prologue, the article examines Vonnegut's use of defamiliarized ...

“Monstrous Maladies”: Oppression, Transgression, and Degeneration in The Picture of Dorian Gray and “The Yellow Wallpaper”

Payne, Shannon (2017-02-21)

Payne used historical and scientific context to explore the tragic realities behind the beauty of The Picture of Dorian Gray and "The Yellow Wallpaper." Payne firmly situates both works in the context of Victorian ideas ...

"Forty Years on the Pitiless Sea": Masculinity and Sexuality in Moby-Dick

Kennedy, Julia (2017-02-22)

The Divided Selves of Doctor Faustus

Edmonds, Rachel (2017)

Merging Creative Writing and Composition to Produce Competent Writers

Halliday, Emily (2017)

Literature and Medicine: An Examination of the Patient-Physician Relationship through a Survey of Fiction and Poetry

Conley, Daniella (2017)

Sentimentality and Political Agenda: Idealization of Labor in Great Depression-Era American Art

Hill, Allison (2017-03-05)

“You Can’t Do the Past Over” But You Can Remember it: An Analysis of the Gothic, Magical Realism, and Rememory in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon

Davidson, Laura (2017)

What are Magwitch’s Words Worth? An evaluation of Wordsworth's linguistic ideals within Dickens' Great Expectations

May, Tiana (2017-12-01)

Functions of code-switching in James Joyce’s Ulysses: A case study of “Proteus”

FitzPatrick, Rose (2018-01)

The Counterpublics of Political Discourse: Queer Poetic Witchcraft on Facebook

Krueger, Sam (2017)

Passing the Holy Buck: Blameworthiness and Religion in Dr. Faustus and Eve's Apologie in Defense of Women

Gillespie, Madysen (2018-01)

Women with a Pen: Challenging the Eighteenth-Century English Canon

Boyle, Sarah (2018)

The Politics of Reality: Coextensiveness in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping

Mikol, Carmel (Carmel Mikol, 2018-01)

A great deal of scholarly and critical analysis of Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize nominated debut, Housekeeping, focuses on themes of the domestic, definitions of home, and female relationships. Often read as a feminist ...

The Problem of Other Minds: Achieving Empathy in Ian McEwan's Atonement

Judson, Avery (2018)

Imaginary Walls Collapse: Challenging Social Norms and Hierarchies in Allen Ginsberg’s Howl

Kay, McKenzie (2017-12)

The Impossible Urban Pastoral: Howl’s Development of Ecological Consciousness

MacDonald, Charlotte A. (Dalhousie Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 2018-01-25)

Central to the idea of ecological consciousness is the assertion that individual wellness relies on the state of one’s environment, and that the proper functioning of a society as a whole is dependent upon the wellness of ...