Browsing English Masters Theses by Title

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    • Usury as a Human Problem in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice 

      Petherbridge, Steven (North Dakota State University, 2017)
      Shakespeare’s Shylock from the Merchant of Venice is a complex character who not only defies simple definition but also takes over a play in which he is not the titular character. How Shakespeare arrived at Shylock in the ...

    • "Where Everything Goes to Hell": Stephen King as Literary Naturalist 

      Perry, Meghan Joy (North Dakota State University, 2012)
      In his bestselling nonfiction book about the horror genre, Danse Macabre, author Stephen King lists among his idols "the great naturalist writer Frank Norris" (336). While King primarily writes horror fiction, he has often ...