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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1986

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Re-Vision and Reconstruction: the Evolution of Feminist Consciousness in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich, Maia B. Lueders
Department: English

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Exploration and Discovery in the Novels of Sir H. Rider Haggard, Sandra E. Marcy
Department: English

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Striving For Glory: An Analysis of Literary Subject and Social Meaning in the Works of Ernest Hemingway, Madeleine A. Mitchell
Department: English

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Murray Leinster: The Second Dimension Pulps, Catherine A. Neumiller
Department: English

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John Cheever: The Road Home, Thomas Hammond Peth
Department: English

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Evolution of the American Gothic Tradition From 1798 to the Present, David A. Romick
Department: English

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Stories of Louise Fitzhugh and the Work of Growing Up, Lynne E. Safford
Department: English

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Loren Eiseley: Ambiguous, Inconsistent and Contradictory Scientist, Stylist and Religious Speaker, Thomas B. Ward
Department: English

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Progressive Movement Toward Ernest Hemingway's Flawless Gem "The Old Man and the Sea", Rosalind N. Waskow
Department: English

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From Playwright to Genius: The Evolution That Resulted From Changing Motivations in Eugene O'Neill's Drama, Amy S. Wierman
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1985

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Jack London: An Analysis of His Central Klondike Works, Andrew S. Black
Department: English

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Two Parodies of Popular Detective Fiction, Cynthia L. Boyd
Department: English

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Theme of Initiation As Displayed in Twentieth Century American Fiction, Ellen Buchanan
Department: English

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Self-Knowledge: A Social Responsibility in Jane Austen's Emma, Jane P. Budd
Department: English

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Critics As Readers: Re-Reading the World According to Garp, Mary Clare Campbell
Department: English

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Wallace Stevens: The Relations Between Poetry and Painting, Barbara A. Curran
Department: English

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A Study of Working-Class Women in Victorian Literature: Thomas Hardy, George Eliot and Charles Dickens, Lisa Davies
Department: English

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Sounds of Squeeze and Sculpture: Poems, Barry S. Eisenberg
Department: English

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Decline of Utopia and the Emergence of Dystopia in Twentieth Century Fiction, George R. Fox
Department: English

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Absence, Absence: A Novel, Katherine A. Harper
Department: English

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In Search of the Feminist Utopian Novel: a Study of Four Contemporary Novels, Shah M. Hasan
Department: English

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Ernest Hemingway's Private Heros, John W. Highfield III
Department: English

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Tea With Nora and Other Poems, Amy Holman
Department: English

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Mothering As a Model: the Role of Female Friendships in Identity Achievement in Charlotte Bronte's Villette, Angela E. Hubler
Department: English

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Adam's Pond and Other Essays, Eleanor A. Hutton
Department: English

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Confronting the Absurd: An Analysis of Four Adolescent Novels, Andrew J. Kurtz
Department: English

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Ten Years of Extraordinary Literature For Children: The Newbery Awards From 1970 to 1980, Wendy A. Leech
Department: English

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"The Only Way Is Through": An Analysis of Margaret Atwood's True Stories, Beth Ann Mabel
Department: English

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Kant, Schiller, Schelling and "Empedocles on Etna:" An Essay Concerning the Role of German Aestheticism, Hellenism, and Dualism, Paul Miller
Department: English

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Charles Dickens: His Children and Victorian Society, Scott J. Nicholson
Department: English

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E.M. Forster: The Influence of His Philosophy on His Novels, Joellyn O'Loughlin
Department: English

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Kurt Vonnegut's Apocalyptic Literature, Roland Patzer Jr.
Department: English

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Tracking Human Experience As It Was Lived, Jeffrey W. Priest
Department: English

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The Effects of Apartheid: An Examination of the Novels of Nadine Gordimer, Susan Prophater

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Character Affinities and Industrialism in Three Novels of D.H. Lawrence, Kristen A. Rudd
Department: English

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Analysis and Curriculum of Selected Children's Literature, Carla Viles
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1984

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The Mansion, Monuj Bose
Department: English

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Langston Hughes--A Revolutionary Writer, Peter J. Botti
Department: English

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Enderby Hears Lolita's Siren Song: a Study of Word Play As a Means of Defamiliarization, John D. Calvert
Department: English

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A Minority Literature Curriculum For High School, Jill M. Chambers
Department: English

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Charlotte: A Dramatic Presentation, Jane L. Claspy
Department: English

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Changing World of Sports, Christopher J. Coloracci
Department: English

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From Africa to the Hyborian Age: A Heroic Fantasy, Jeffrey B. Cox
Department: English

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Marlow and His Audience: A Model For Literary and Human Communication, John B. Crozier
Department: English

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Courage to Love, Christin L. French
Department: English

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U.S.A: Dos Passos' View of a Misdirected Nation, Paige Lull
Department: English

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Rock and Roll Lyrics of the Sixties: Voice of Discontent, Andrew G. Mason
Department: English

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Bull Fighting in Boston and Other Poems, David R. Means
Department: English

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Three Victorian Novels in the High School Curriculum: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and the Mill on the Floss, Marjorie Molder
Department: English

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Virginia Woolf's Vision: The Novelist's Artistic Journey Away From the Patriarchal Angel and Back to Her Mother, Elizabeth Novak
Department: English

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Society's Expectations, Marriage, and Motherhood As Portrayed in the Early Works of Doris Lessing, Catherine P. Scott
Department: English

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Snopes: Faulkner's Vision of Evil, Kirsten E. Searle
Department: English

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Stephen King's Fictional World: the Human Response to Horror, Denise R. Short
Department: English

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Kurt Vonnegut: The Search For Man's Meaning and Progression Toward a Philosophy of Life, Jesse L. Smith Jr.
Department: English

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Short Stories, Sharon D. Sterling
Department: English

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Fighting For Identity: A Feminist Perspective on the Works of Kate Chopin, Jill Elizabeth Stewart
Department: English

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The Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity, J. E. H. Van de Vate

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1983

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Dorothy Wordsworth's Scotland Journals: A Consideration of Literary Merit, David V. Capodilupo
Department: English

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Wit and Ignorance the Exposition of the Fool: London Circa 1700, Joseph Farnham
Department: English

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Study of Themes Present in Newbery Award Winning Books Viewed From a Developmental Perspective, Elizabeth P. Fitzelle
Department: English

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Language Arts Program in Montessori Schools, April Gallagher
Department: English

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Historical Development of Ebonics and Its Relationship to Public Education, Darlene G. Kemp
Department: English

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Edwin Milton Wright: The First Forty Years, Mary E. Kerr
Department: English

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Bursting the Boundaries of the Private Self: An Investigation Into Religion, Philosophy, and the Nature of Poetics, Robert J.S. Manning
Department: English

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Thomas Hardy's View of Marriage, John Moore
Department: English

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Myths of Southern Women Depicted in Literature By Women, Kelly J. Mortensen
Department: English

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C.S. Lewis: Images of Christian Morality in the Chronicles of Narnia, Lisa Mullett
Department: English

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Narrative Authority and Female Characters in Four Novels of William Faulkner, Mary A. Neagoy
Department: English

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Profile of a Pioneer: Frank B. Notestein, Carol G. Osborne
Department: English

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Effects of Children's Literature on Attitudes Toward Persons With Handicaps, Jean Marie Peacock
Department: English; Sociology and Anthropology

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Identity in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Christine L. Renz
Department: English

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Vanitas Vanitatum: W.M. Thackeray's Moral Vision, Lisa C. Stearns
Department: English

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Critic With a Conscience: An Alternative to the Censorship of Literature, Joanne A. Steinkamp
Department: English

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"The Arbitrary Vase" and Other Stories, Geoffrey Thomas
Department: English

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Sociological Theories of Alienation and the Literature of Franz Kafka, Stacey L. Vidt
Department: English; Sociology and Anthropology

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Sociological Theories of Alienation and the Literature of Franz Kafka, Stacey L. Vidt

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Women Becoming Poets: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson, Lorraine K. Wilkin
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1982

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Patterns of Self-Definition: Women in the Novels of Gail Godwin and Margaret Drabble, Denise D. Ahlquist
Department: English

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Hide and Seek, Danny O. Aidoo
Department: English

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First and Fourth Amendments in Relation to Factual News Presentation, Susan Katherine Allen
Department: English

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St. Nicholas and the Moral Motif, Alison J. Amos
Department: English

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Anxious Search of Jack Kerouac, Theodore E. Antonuk
Department: English

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Women in Household Words, Jennifer P. Bennett
Department: English

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Selected Social Novels Which Emerged From the British Industrial Revolution, Katharine L. Blood
Department: English

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Another Worthy: a Biographical Study of Wallace Notestein, Jane E. Cairns
Department: English

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Survey of the Collected Poems and Short Stories of John Updike, David R. Coen
Department: English

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Sing a Song of NYC: A Cycle of Songs and Poems, Mark R. David
Department: English

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"The Children of the Bride Chamber" and Other Stories, Laurel Dowd
Department: English

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Meet the Austins to a Ring of Endless Light: Madeleine L'Engle's Circle of Love, Laura A. Elder
Department: English

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Four Studies of the Use of the English Language in Literature and in the Media, Cynthia L. Force
Department: English

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Implied Homosexual in the Works of D.H. Lawrence, Kevin Boyd Grubb
Department: English

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Sapphire - a Self Portrait, June Avis Hayles
Department: English

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Searching For An Identity: Four Short Stories, Brian D. Johnson
Department: English

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Book Censorship and the Right to Know, Cynthia L. Kershner
Department: English

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Jack London, His Literature and Its Reception in the Soviet Union, Diane Langley
Department: English; History

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Prophets Without Honor: Agrarianism and Its Effect on the Literary Careers of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren, Sheryl Lauber
Department: English

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Collection of Short Stories, Katherine Ruth Mulichak
Department: English

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Tippy, Tillie, and Friends, a Series of Original Short Stories For Children, Mary Jennifer Parrish
Department: English

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Inquiry Into the Analysis of Short Stories, Bethany E. Pope
Department: English

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Characterization of Joseph Conrad's Marlow, Blake W. Rhein
Department: English