Project Director

Stuart, Christopher

Department Examiner

Jordan, Joseph P., 1976-

Department

Dept. of English

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

My honors thesis is an exercise in which I approach a singular work with three different theories on authorial intent and analyze how the author figure exists along with the work through the lens of each theory. After providing background for the discourse on authorial intention, I explore the theories of Michel Foucault, Alexander Nehamas, and Reed Way Dasenbrock and then demonstrate what each theory looks like in practice by applying each theory to Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel The Woman Warrior. I consider how the different theories fit together, where they differ, and how practical they are as standards of literary criticism.

Acknowledgments

Thank you, Dr. Stuart, for your support and guidance throughout this project, and thank you, Dr. Jordan, for contributing your thoughts and perspectives. I owe much to you both and am very grateful for your help.

Degree

B. A.; An honors thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

Date

5-2022

Subject

Authors; Criticism

Name

Kingston, Maxine Hong. Woman warrior.--Criticism and interpretation

Keyword

authors; intentions; literary criticism; anti-intentionalism theory; intentionalism theory

Discipline

Literature in English, North America

Document Type

Theses

Extent

ii, 42 leaves

DCMI Type

Text

Language

English

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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