The literary critic Keith Fort claimed that academic essays requiring a thesis that must be proved ultimately limit what students can write about, since “the only ideas that are acceptable are ...

Every Creative Writing and Literature major in U-M’s Residential College has the option to write a thesis over the course of their senior year, working with a faculty advisor to produce a polished ...

Plath’s thesis begins its influence on The Bell Jar’s first page, an opening that revises Dostoyevsky’s. Esther Greenwood, the novel’s protagonist, recalls New York City in the morning.