ENGL 461/562:
Literary Criticism
(Senior Seminar)

Spring 2006
Conference

22 April 2006

Location:
Ruffner 103 and 115

Beverages and light refreshments will be available.

Readers and Texts

Bridget Marshall, "Stanley Fish: Why Textual Interpretations and the Worlds we Create are Mere Illusions."

Amanda Buerke, "Writers and Readers in Stephen King's Misery."

Melissa Gladstone, "And Now for Something Completely Different: Fanfiction as a Genre of Literature."

Gender Studies Approaches to the Victorian and Modern

Jennifer Farneth, "What Women Want: The Women of Eliot's Waste Land."

Matt Prickett, "Castrating the Bull: Cixous and Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying."

Christina Battaglia, "Dr. Cixous and Mr. Stevenson."

Minds and Emotions

Kristina Cummings, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: An Argument for Emotion."

Jaqui Riffe, "Psychology and Imagery in Edgar Allan Poe."

Rick Ashby, "Conceptual Metaphors in Young Adult Literature." Literature and Culture

Approaches to Late Nineteenth-Century Literature

Fernando Olivencia, "Why Is Mr. Hyde So Ugly?: A Marxist Analysis."

Lisa Martin, "Patterns of the Subconscious: Psychoanalysis and The Yellow Wallpaper."

Lianna Kaker, "Fish’s Yellow Wallpaper."

Approaches to Twentieth-Century Literature

Laine Dowell, "The Power of Language and its Creation of Gender Hierarchies in Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale."

Brittany Berry, "'Go, then. There are Other Worlds Than These': The Break of Traditional Social Dichotomies in Stephen King's The Dark Tower Series."

Jonnelle Davis, "Janie, Defined by a Man or Strong Enough to Stand Alone?: A Feminist Reading of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God."

Jekyll and Hyde: Three Theoretical Perspectives

Eric Long, "'This Hansom Cab Doesn’t Go to Soho': A Marxist Reading of Jekyll and Hyde.”

Kim Goude, "The Split Selves of Henry Jekyll: A Freudian Analysis."

Angie Lawson, "One Man, Many Voices: A Bakhtinian Reading of Jekyll and Hyde."

Feminist Perspectives

Lainie Barrett, "To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf Refutes Herself."

Courtney Gartman, "Anna Laetitia Barbauld: A Study in Defiance of Contemporary Feminist Criticism."

Michelle Yancy, "Howards End: From Cosmopolitan Feminist Intellectual to Spiritual Heir."

Literary Theory Confronts Popular Literature

Janet Jones, "Gender Deconstruction at the Whistle Stop Café."

Kate Ficklin, "The Cute, The Bad, and The Ugly: Masculinity in Fight Club."

Sarah Hitchings, "What a Tangled Web We Weave: Psychoanalysis and Charlotte’s Web."

Old Texts, New Texts

Sommer Jones, "The Gospels: A Textual Analysis."

Kathleen Sullivan, "Robert Frost's 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening': From Ambiguity Comes Great Poetry."

Frances Robles, "Art Imitates Half-Life."

Literature and Culture

Ashley Payne, "Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye: The Shame Revealed."

Wendy Gray, "A Marxist Reading of Muriel Rukeyser's 'Book of the Dead'."