American Literary Traditions.

Themes for Students' Final Projects, Fall 97.

If you cannot locate their page, goto http://www.georgetown.edu/users/ and you will find an alpha list for all GU students/faculty usernames on the Web. The homepage for each project should be: altfinal.htm
 

Bill Bednarz  

Elizabeth Brennan 

Kerri Brenner 

Kirsten Catanzano 

Alessia Carega 

Andrea Chiu 

Gena D'Angona 

Sam Franklin 

Sabrina Gates 

Christopher Gohl 

Andy Herlihy 

Blake Hill 

Kimon Kirk 

Kyle Kombrink 

Devin Kuhn 

Laura Lewis 

Anna Linakis 

Pete McMahon 

Tara Meekins 

Shane Mikula 

Jayson Morris 

Trevor Patterson 

Seth Pidot 

Sasha Reife 

Andrew Schneider 

Laura Schoellkopf 

Dorian Stone 

Anne Torrey 

William Toussaint 

Luanne Tunmore 

Jeff Ward 

Linnea Weiss

- Survivor's True Trauma: Dealing w/ Past 

-Across the Novel, Across the World  

-Fear, Destruction, and Survival 

- The Unspeakable Revealed in American Novels 

-Guilt 

-Interaction btwn. Community and Individual 

- Cannibals, Animals, and Monstrous Forms

- Human degradation 

- Themes of Difference 

- Overcoming Dehumanization 

Communities and Survival

- Novels, Storytelling and Destruction 

- A Study in Genocide 

-Why Maus?  Problems of Storytelling 

-Telling as Surviving  

-Loss, Rebirth, Reunification thru Storytelling 

-Changing form of the Novel: Reaction to History

-Masking Identity 

-The Boundaries of Personal Identity  

-Humanity as Seen through Am. Lit. 

-Scarring: Effects of Trauma on the Present  

-Addressing Racism in American Literature  

-Individuals and Community 

-Literature and Community Building   

-Memory as a Source of Suffering and Healing 

-2nd Generation Survivors  

-The American Novel as a Ceremony  

-Survivor's Tale  

Individual and Group Survival

-The Authenticity of Silence  

-Fighting the Traditional Novel 

-Storytelling and the Unspeakable