Browsing SEGue: Symposium for English Graduate Students by Title

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    • Little Button 

      Tirado, Stef (2017-04-29)
      "Little Button" is a micro-fiction about suffering from anxiety and coping with the loss of a loved one in ways that may seem out of the ordinary.

    • LUNCHEON 

      Unknown author (2016-04-23)

    • Registration & Refreshments 

      Unknown author (2016-04-23)

    • Rosamond: A study in the Importance of Greek Mythology 

      Boland, Shannon L. (2016-04-23)
      The paper that I wish to present is from my master’s thesis. It deals with Henry the II’s mistress Rosamond and how an author in the 16th century present her story. The author that I would talk about is Samuel Daniel and ...

    • Sweet Apology 

      Marseglia, Angela (2016-04-23)

    • "Ten Ways of Looking at an Addict" 

      Wilson, Ashley (2016-04-23)
      This piece is broken into ten sections. Each section focuses on the titular addict, but takes a different approach to describing her. It juxtaposes the positives and the negatives of the person, a mother, from the eyes of ...

    • The Fifth Floor; Cantrip For My Capture 

      Walden, Lisah J. (2016-04-23)
      She placed a leg in her mouth and dragged the frog’s meat apart from the bone with her teeth. The princess then licked the blood off her fingers, peered up at me and smiled. “The French could never keep their promises.” ...

    • The Moss Will Grow Over Us 

      Tirado, Stef (2016-04-23)
      I would like to present an original poem for the SEGue Conference. The poem, called “The Moss Will Grow Over Us,” mainly focuses on the difficulties of loving and supporting a person with mental illness, specifically when ...

    • The Power of Sound An Exploration of Cooper’s Use of Language in The Last of the Mohicans 

      Keery, Alexandra (2017-04-29)
      This essay examines the use of both language and paralanguage within Last of the Mohicans. Examples of paralanguage in the novel include: the Indian war-whoop, music, animal calls, and all other non-verbal aspects of speech. ...

    • The Truth of the Angel in the House 

      McMahon, Caitlin (2017-04-29)
      The nineteenth century in the United States was a time that saw a resurgence of beliefs that would keep the modern family together. The Angel in the House is a phrase that is used to describe the type of woman that was ...

    • The Un-Unsexing of Lady Macbeth 

      Parker, Sandra J. (2016-04-23)
      To hear Lady Macbeth tell it, all she needs is a little more testosterone to become a bile-breasted, baby-bashing, king killer. “Unsex me,” she cries, appealing to magical spirits to fill her with cruelty so that she does ...

    • “Virtues do not all belong to the whites”: The Portrayals of Americanization and Miscegenation in Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance 

      Bradley, Jennifer (2016-04-23)
      The works of Sui Sin Far, who is widely recognized as the first Asian-American writer, revolve around questions of identity that capture the dissenting voices surrounding Asian-American immigration. A biracial woman of ...

    • "We Got the Mesentery News Wrong" and "Desert Fences" 

      Liu, Sarah G. (2017-04-29)

    • Will Executors as Oath-Takers: A Comparison of the Lombard Laws and Wills in the Middle Ages 

      Robinson, Zachry (2017-04-29)
      Although at first glance the practices of oathtaking mentioned in the Lombard Laws and the legal function of Anglo-Saxon wills or testaments may seem different, in fact they often serve the same or very similar purposes. ...

    • William Shakespeare’s The Tempest: Caliban is a Black African 

      ALSHHRE, ALI. (2017-04-29)
      Caliban’s character in The Tempest is very complex. Though his race is not mentioned by Shakespeare in The Tempest, many writers and critics try to investigate and know what his race is in the play. For example, Caliban ...

    • Xiao Hua 

      Liu, Sarah (2016-04-23)