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Item How Russian Literature Influenced the Modernist Movement: A closer look at who inspired Hemingway, Kafka, Woolf, and others(Southern New Hampshire University, 2023-07-17) McBride, Connor; Harrison, Marlen; Lee, ChristopherThe authors of the Modernist era are best known for their unique styles of writing that deviated from the traditional narrative structures of the past. After World War I, the world began to move in a new direction towards modernity. Modernists used their new ways of writing to not only capture Western sentiment during this time, but to also encourage new ways of thinking as the world emerged from chaos and began anew. However, this essay argues that many techniques that the Modernists used were not as new as scholars often make them out to be. In fact, the techniques such as stream-of-consciousness, unreliable narration, and fragmentation, were all inspired by the authors of 19th century Russia. Alongside the analysis of these literary devices, this essay also examines the influential relationships between certain authors of these eras such as Gogol and Kafka, Turgenev and Hemingway, and Dostoevsky and Woolf.Item Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Me, her Reader(Southern New Hampshire University, 2023-05-16) Ainsworth, Michele; Harrison, Marlen; Lee, ChristopherAt the beginning of her book, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott presents Pilgrim’s Progress as a guidebook for living to the March sisters. In turn, Little Women itself allows the female reader to use Alcott’s text for their own journey to their feminist self. This paper illustrates how Alcott’s book, Little Women influences the develop of agency in its reader. Therefore, the 19th century female writer, Louisa May Alcott continues to have relevance and influence toward the 21st century woman, reflecting the link between feminist thought and literature. By using autoethnography within this paper I am using my own voice and my experiences to illustrate the discovery of how Little Women affected me and my role in society. This paper uses a combination of the theoretical frameworks of both feminism and the reader-response literary theories. The reader-response theory allows me to illustrate my own reactions to Alcott’s book and how I could look up to Jo March as a role model and her sisters as friends. The feminism lens illustrates how Alcott modeled aspiring writer Jo March as herself therefore illustrating how young women can reach their full potential despite how they perform their gender. This paper incorporates arts-based research (ABR) and the form of creating with collage to illustrate creating art provides the creator with the empowerment of agency.