Over the course of the two years that I spent as Masters student at the North Carolina State University, I have explored various genres of writing. From auto-critical essays to literary analyses, to surveys of criticism, to providing purely creative twists and extensions to thrilling Victorian novels - it has been a challenge, and a delightful one at that, to churn out writing of varying lengths based on original and compelling arguments. I give below a few of those essays (unpublished) that I have written over the past two years .
"The Door Unopened: Sheltering Loss in Becoming Another
An Auto-critical Reading of Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky"
(Genre: Auto-critical; presented as one of the papers in a graduate seminar on 20th-century American Prose)
"Plotted to be Upheld in Her Receding: Eliding the Woman in Her Authenticity in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales"
(Genre: Literary Analysis; presented as the final paper in a graduate seminar on Chaucer)
"The Loss of Longing, or the Longing for Loss: A Survey of the Literature on Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping"
(Genre: Survey of criticism; presented as one of the papers in a graduate seminar on 20th-century American Prose)
"Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley's Secret continued."
(Genre: Creative; presented as a final project for a graduate seminar in Victorian Literature)
"Identity through Text as Embodied Context: Being Author Amidst Pirates in the Romantic Era"
(Genre: Survey of criticism, interpretation and critical analysis on a scholarly area of interest in book history; presented as a final paper for a graduate seminar in the History of the Book)
"The Door Unopened: Sheltering Loss in Becoming Another
An Auto-critical Reading of Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky"
(Genre: Auto-critical; presented as one of the papers in a graduate seminar on 20th-century American Prose)
"Plotted to be Upheld in Her Receding: Eliding the Woman in Her Authenticity in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales"
(Genre: Literary Analysis; presented as the final paper in a graduate seminar on Chaucer)
"The Loss of Longing, or the Longing for Loss: A Survey of the Literature on Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping"
(Genre: Survey of criticism; presented as one of the papers in a graduate seminar on 20th-century American Prose)
"Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley's Secret continued."
(Genre: Creative; presented as a final project for a graduate seminar in Victorian Literature)
"Identity through Text as Embodied Context: Being Author Amidst Pirates in the Romantic Era"
(Genre: Survey of criticism, interpretation and critical analysis on a scholarly area of interest in book history; presented as a final paper for a graduate seminar in the History of the Book)