I’m not a graduate student, or a university professor, and none of these papers are published in any respectable academic circles. I went through undergraduate at the University of Michigan, studying literature from the Bible to Cormac McCarthy, from Beowulf to Shakespeare, so I’m not exactly a literary specialist (although I consider myself partial to medieval texts and postmodern novels). But maybe you’re incredibly bored and want to read some of my old college papers, which I imagine is akin to sneaking into my bedroom and sniffing my old socks. If you’re a high school or undergraduate student in need of some inspiration for your own English lit assignments, these are passable papers by at least my professor’s standards. Just be sure to format your work properly according to the standards set forth by either your course syllabus or the MLA, for Christ’s sake.
If you happen to be a scholar, though, and you want to pick a nerd fight with me, I’ll tell you right now I’m too far out of practice to defend any of these positions. In many of these cases, I don’t even remember what the hell I was talking about. I’m only posting these now for funsies.
List of undergraduate essays written by Brandon James:
“Paul’s Use of Hebrew Scriptures in 1 Corinthians” (2008)
“The Ineluctable Literary Allusion in James Joyce’s Ulysses“ (2007)
“Thomas Gray as a Precursor to Wordsworth: Evidence in Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’” (2007)
“Violence, Revenge, and Machiavellian Didacticism in Titus Andronicus and Richard II“ (2008)
“Visions of Monarchy: The Israelites’ Impotence in the Stories of Gideon and Abimelech” (2008)
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