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In this senior honors thesis, I seek to analyze criticisms of the "Western canon" particularly through the method of re-writing. I look three main texts: Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, J.M. Coetzee's Foe, and Zadie Smith's On Beauty. I analyze the ways in which each of these texts interacts with the structure of the Western canon in a unique way by reframing or reshaping the classic. Overall, I ... read moreexamine the ways in which canon revision can impact classic works and how it changes the structure of the canon as a whole.read less
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