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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1987

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Cultural Contexts of the Oxford English Dictionary, Jane Martha Curran
Department: English

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Female Friendships: Community For Self in Novels By Women, Kate Dailey
Department: English

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D.H. Lawrence and His Portrait of Women: The Changing Art of a Changing Mind, Ruth I. Durkee
Department: English

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Shades of Grey: Relationships Between White Women and Black Men in Twentieth-Century Fiction, Jennifer Lee Fowler
Department: English

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Art Theme and Creative Imagination: Patterns of Narrative Structure in the Works of Vladimir Nabokov, Robin Kathleen Germ
Department: English

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Hiker Looks For Limestone: Poems and Stories by Warren Hedges, Warren Hedges
Department: English

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On Editing a Medieval Manuscript: The Text of The Second Shepherd's Play, Alexander C. Helander
Department: English

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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

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A Prospectus For A Novel, Pamela Patrice Hodges
Department: English

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Jane Austen: Ironic Humor in Three Major Novels, Lisa R. Hunyadi
Department: English

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Jack London's Contradictory Synthesis of Individualism and Socialism, Andrew Kennedy Kelly
Department: English

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Triangular Structure of Relationships in Selected Dramas of Tennessee Williams, Lisa M. Klasny
Department: English

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Adolescent Romance Novels: Wish-Fulfillment of Realism, Leslie Renee Lancaster
Department: English

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Out of Focus: A Work in Progress, Andrew Mayer
Department: English

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Jonathan Swift and the Misanthropy of Irish Patriotism, Matthew P. O'Farrell
Department: English

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Joseph Conrad: His Deluded Men, His Realist Women, Stephen W. Peacock
Department: English

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Organic Perspective of Social Theory and Change As Presented By Sinclair Lewis, Timothy A. Peeples
Department: English

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Creative Inspiration: Novel and Film, Kathleen L. Sabol
Department: English

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Gingerbread Houses, Tomato Sandwiches, and Chocolate Factories: A Study of Food in Selected Children's Fiction, Courtenay A. Selby
Department: English

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Techniques of Social Criticism in Specific Novels by John Steinbeck, Edward James Charles Silverman
Department: English

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William Kennery's "Albany Cycle", Michael T. Stocks
Department: English

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Language of Anton Chekhov's Shorter Works, Karla Thomas
Department: English

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Indian English: the Twice-Born Story, Samrat Upadhyay
Department: English

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Freedom As Commitment: Doris Lessing's Inquiry Into the Relation of the Individual to the Collective, John F. Wells
Department: English

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Death as a Literary Device in the Works of Stephen Crane, Rocco J. Zazzaro
Department: English

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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

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William Blake and Gulley Jimson: Seeing with Imagination, John A. Bromell
Department: English

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Forgotten Minority: the Native American in Contemporary Literature 1960-1984, Susan Buckingham
Department: English

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Devil in the American Short Stories: From the Mid Nineteenth Through the Mid Twentieth Century, Martha H. Burke
Department: English

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"I Learned- at Least- What Home Could Be" Emily Dickinson's Vision For the American Dream, Laurie J. Campbell
Department: English

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From Pre-Adolescence to Maturity in Five Fantasies, Dana Sue DeLon
Department: English

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Native Son: Towards a Black Aesthetic, Donald L. Dennis
Department: English

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Sylvia Plath's Electra Complex, Terry Dontis
Department: English

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On Becoming Edith Wharton, Denise H. Haller
Department: English

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Norman Holland: Responding to the Psychoanalytical Meaning of Literature, Whitney D. Hinds
Department: English

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Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: Novels of the Civil War 1969-1984, Joanne Irene James
Department: English

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Development and Ensuing Popularity of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Christopher L. Janson
Department: English

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Sir Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Universal Significance of the Nineteenth-Century Romance, Jeffrey B. Keiper
Department: English

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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