Date of Award
Spring 6-2024
Document Type
Thesis
Language
English
Subjects
Literary Analysis, Nella Larsen
DOI
10.15760/honors.1629
Abstract
For the last 95 years, Nella Larsen's Passing has been a topic of discussion within the literary and scholarly communities. First considered Larsen's folly, her second novella Passing had struggled to received a compliment from critics and was quickly lost to readers until her work was rediscovered in the early 1970s. However, unbound by the restrictive literary trope of the era, scholars now wonder if Larsen's Passing had been a misinterpreted masterpiece. This thesis outlines the initial interpretations of critics and modern understanding of scholars in order to highlight the influences of outside influences when reading a written work from a literary perspective.
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Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/43665
Recommended Citation
Casten, Sara, "A Case Study in Vacillant Literary Analysis: Nella Larsen's Passing (1929)" (2024). University Honors Theses. Paper 1597.
https://doi.org/10.15760/honors.1629
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