Senior Independent Study Theses from 1989
Searching For Long-Term Relationships: An Examination of Character Types in Woody Allen's Films, Andrew William Abbott Melissions
Department: English
Beginnings, Shelley Lynn Pearsall
Department: English
Examining Themes of Racial Oppression and Economic Exploitation In: If He Hollers Let Him Go and Lonely Crusade By Chester Himes; in Cane By Jean Toomer, Margaret Pierman
Department: English
Darkness in the Corner: A Creative Project, John Pierson
Department: English
Surface Tension and Other Stories, Paul R. Potts
Department: English
Populist or Repressive Regime? The Dictatorship of Greece, 1967-1974, Dorothea Pousoulides
Department: English
Collecting Names a Novella, Kirsten Leigh Scheer
Department: English
Progressions: The Origin and Evolution of a One-Woman Show, Julie A. Shargel
Department: English
Dare to Be Tandy, Christine Sines
Department: English
Special Language Observed: Slang and Its College Context, Scott M. Spangler
Department: English
H.G. Wells: Prophesy and Premonition in the Scientific Romances, Alison Stenta
Department: English
Graham Greene Properties of His Fiction in Different Media, Charles E. Thorne
Department: English
Connecting: Biocentrism and Communalism in Three Novels By African-American Women, Katherine R. Wolfe
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1988
Perspective on Racism in the United States: Historical Overview and Analysis of Selected Contemporary Literature, Carol L. Anderson
Department: English
A Few Significant Things, Kathryn A. Baldwin
Department: English
Influence and the Contemporary American Poet, Jonathan C. Barclay
Department: English
Folk Tradition of Guthrie, Dylan, and Springsteen, Peter T. Burrus
Department: English
Society As An Influencing Force: Female Friendships in Four of Jane Austen's Novels, Catherine Jean Campbell
Department: English
Poetic Roles: The Response of Four Poets to the First World War, Debra A. Celinski
Department: English
Stowe, Twain, and Styron: Separating Reality From Fiction, Dale Thomas Cochran II
Department: English
"What It Is?", David Cook
Department: English
Depending on the Kindness of Strangers and Readers: An Exploration of Values in the Characters of a Streetcar Named Desire, Mary Winifred Cox
Department: English
Divided Selves of Audre Lorde: a Quest For Autonomy and Self Definition, Dawn L. Crownover
Department: English
Reading Comprehension and Preferences of Seventh Grade Students: An Analysis of the Fry Readability Formula and Children's Literature, Rebecca L. DeNelsky
Department: English; Psychology
Noah Webster and the Early Development of American English, Julie M. DeRitis
Department: English
Emerging From the Ghetto Without Getting Lost in the Shuffle: Jane Martin's Talking With in the Context of Women's Drama, Caroline T. DeWalt
Department: English; Theatre and Dance
Exploring Relational Impossibilities: Women's Lives in Margaret Atwood's Novels, Karen M. Dietz
Department: English
South African Dilemma: Apartheid As Seen Through Fiction, Jennifer Ells
Department: English
It Was Mystery, They Wrote, Garidith K. Enold
Department: English
Breaking Silences: Literature As Political Tool For Cultural Change, Christina Evans
Department: English
Reflections in the Mirror, Michael F. Finnie
Department: English
Retrogression, Harald Magnus Hasiba
Department: English
Rhetorical Analysis of Language Used in Advertising, Susan O. Hollingshead
Department: English
A Slice of Life, David R. Hood
Department: English
Ultimate Utopia: a New Ideal, Wesley Alton Johnston
Department: English
Expression and Reflection of Their Time: The Lyrics of the Beatles, Thomas C. Keenan
Department: English
Pastoral Influence on Shakespeare's Plays, Daniel Kenzie
Department: English
Wordsworth and Shelley: An Examination of Their Poetic Processes, Thomas W. Kincaid
Department: English
Analysis of the Emergence of Self in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Sarah Louise Kotchen
Department: English
Various Issues in Children's and Young Adult's Literature, Ann K. Kroeger
Department: English
Humor in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: From Black Humor to Slapstick, Gregory A. Kunkel
Department: English
Supportive Role of Musical Expression in Musical Theatre Applications, Barbara A. Lockley
Department: English
Judging a Book By Its Reader: Responses to Literary Criticism, Gordon Lubold
Department: English
Broken Stereotypes in Early Twentieth Century Society, Katrine Maier
Department: English
Reading Instruction: An Alternative Approach, Sarah E. Masters
Department: English
Connection Between Past and Present in Four of Sir Walter Scott's Historical Novels, Carrie Lee McGraw
Department: English
No More Heros: A Study of Vietnam Fiction, William J. Porter
Department: English
Margaret Atwood: Gothic Romances and Anti-Gothic Feminist Novels, Sara Wells Potier
Department: English
Lost Diamonds: A Literary Search of the Meaning of Life For the American Jew, Tiffany Michelle Reichert
Department: English
An Empty Room, Suzanne Jacqueline Spoor
Department: English
Language and the Presidency, Gregory John Thomas
Department: English
Rembrandt Meets Kandinsky: Conservative Ideology and the Avante-Garde, James A. Van Dyke
Department: English; Art and Art History
Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Bronte: Two Different Outlooks, Michele A. Voigt
Department: English
Quiet Riot: Cultural Nationalism in Poems By Gwendolyn Brooks and Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Lucia Walsh
Department: English
A Study of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Timothy J. White
Department: English
Heir of Dreams, Cassandra Whittington
Department: English
Storyteller at Work: Life, Process and Product, Elizabeth A. Winans
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1987
Wordsworth and the Philosophy of Nature, Hesham Salem Abdeen
Department: English
Poetry and Prose, Carrie Allison
Department: English
Mothers and Sons in D.H. Lawrence and Tennessee Williams: Assertions of the Self Through Creation, Elisabeth A. Carman
Department: English
Tennessee Williams: Voices of Despair, Patricia A. Cary
Department: English
Thematic Study of Edwin Muir's Poetry, Susan J. Cunliffe
Department: English
Cultural Contexts of the Oxford English Dictionary, Jane Martha Curran
Department: English
Female Friendships: Community For Self in Novels By Women, Kate Dailey
Department: English
D.H. Lawrence and His Portrait of Women: The Changing Art of a Changing Mind, Ruth I. Durkee
Department: English
Shades of Grey: Relationships Between White Women and Black Men in Twentieth-Century Fiction, Jennifer Lee Fowler
Department: English
Art Theme and Creative Imagination: Patterns of Narrative Structure in the Works of Vladimir Nabokov, Robin Kathleen Germ
Department: English
Hiker Looks For Limestone: Poems and Stories by Warren Hedges, Warren Hedges
Department: English
On Editing a Medieval Manuscript: The Text of The Second Shepherd's Play, Alexander C. Helander
Department: English
The Struggle to Gain Identity Knowledge and Love: How Women Have Difficulty Achieving These Characteristics As Revealed Through Love Relationships in Literature, Cynthia Ann Herr
Department: English
A Prospectus For A Novel, Pamela Patrice Hodges
Department: English
Jane Austen: Ironic Humor in Three Major Novels, Lisa R. Hunyadi
Department: English
Jack London's Contradictory Synthesis of Individualism and Socialism, Andrew Kennedy Kelly
Department: English
Triangular Structure of Relationships in Selected Dramas of Tennessee Williams, Lisa M. Klasny
Department: English
Adolescent Romance Novels: Wish-Fulfillment of Realism, Leslie Renee Lancaster
Department: English
Out of Focus: A Work in Progress, Andrew Mayer
Department: English
Jonathan Swift and the Misanthropy of Irish Patriotism, Matthew P. O'Farrell
Department: English
Joseph Conrad: His Deluded Men, His Realist Women, Stephen W. Peacock
Department: English
Organic Perspective of Social Theory and Change As Presented By Sinclair Lewis, Timothy A. Peeples
Department: English
Creative Inspiration: Novel and Film, Kathleen L. Sabol
Department: English
Gingerbread Houses, Tomato Sandwiches, and Chocolate Factories: A Study of Food in Selected Children's Fiction, Courtenay A. Selby
Department: English
Techniques of Social Criticism in Specific Novels by John Steinbeck, Edward James Charles Silverman
Department: English
William Kennery's "Albany Cycle", Michael T. Stocks
Department: English
Language of Anton Chekhov's Shorter Works, Karla Thomas
Department: English
Indian English: the Twice-Born Story, Samrat Upadhyay
Department: English
Freedom As Commitment: Doris Lessing's Inquiry Into the Relation of the Individual to the Collective, John F. Wells
Department: English
Death as a Literary Device in the Works of Stephen Crane, Rocco J. Zazzaro
Department: English
Edith Wharton's Battle For the Individualization of People in Society Through Her Novels of Manners, Justina C. M. Zubricky
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1986
William Blake and Gulley Jimson: Seeing with Imagination, John A. Bromell
Department: English
Forgotten Minority: the Native American in Contemporary Literature 1960-1984, Susan Buckingham
Department: English
Devil in the American Short Stories: From the Mid Nineteenth Through the Mid Twentieth Century, Martha H. Burke
Department: English
"I Learned- at Least- What Home Could Be" Emily Dickinson's Vision For the American Dream, Laurie J. Campbell
Department: English
From Pre-Adolescence to Maturity in Five Fantasies, Dana Sue DeLon
Department: English
Native Son: Towards a Black Aesthetic, Donald L. Dennis
Department: English
Sylvia Plath's Electra Complex, Terry Dontis
Department: English
On Becoming Edith Wharton, Denise H. Haller
Department: English
Norman Holland: Responding to the Psychoanalytical Meaning of Literature, Whitney D. Hinds
Department: English
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: Novels of the Civil War 1969-1984, Joanne Irene James
Department: English
Development and Ensuing Popularity of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Christopher L. Janson
Department: English
Sir Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Universal Significance of the Nineteenth-Century Romance, Jeffrey B. Keiper
Department: English