Senior Independent Study Theses from 1985
Ernest Hemingway's Private Heros, John W. Highfield III
Department: English
Tea With Nora and Other Poems, Amy Holman
Department: English
Mothering As a Model: the Role of Female Friendships in Identity Achievement in Charlotte Bronte's Villette, Angela E. Hubler
Department: English
Adam's Pond and Other Essays, Eleanor A. Hutton
Department: English
Confronting the Absurd: An Analysis of Four Adolescent Novels, Andrew J. Kurtz
Department: English
Ten Years of Extraordinary Literature For Children: The Newbery Awards From 1970 to 1980, Wendy A. Leech
Department: English
"The Only Way Is Through": An Analysis of Margaret Atwood's True Stories, Beth Ann Mabel
Department: English
Kant, Schiller, Schelling and "Empedocles on Etna:" An Essay Concerning the Role of German Aestheticism, Hellenism, and Dualism, Paul Miller
Department: English
Charles Dickens: His Children and Victorian Society, Scott J. Nicholson
Department: English
E.M. Forster: The Influence of His Philosophy on His Novels, Joellyn O'Loughlin
Department: English
Kurt Vonnegut's Apocalyptic Literature, Roland Patzer Jr.
Department: English
Tracking Human Experience As It Was Lived, Jeffrey W. Priest
Department: English
The Effects of Apartheid: An Examination of the Novels of Nadine Gordimer, Susan Prophater
Character Affinities and Industrialism in Three Novels of D.H. Lawrence, Kristen A. Rudd
Department: English
Analysis and Curriculum of Selected Children's Literature, Carla Viles
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1984
The Mansion, Monuj Bose
Department: English
Langston Hughes--A Revolutionary Writer, Peter J. Botti
Department: English
Enderby Hears Lolita's Siren Song: a Study of Word Play As a Means of Defamiliarization, John D. Calvert
Department: English
A Minority Literature Curriculum For High School, Jill M. Chambers
Department: English
Charlotte: A Dramatic Presentation, Jane L. Claspy
Department: English
Changing World of Sports, Christopher J. Coloracci
Department: English
From Africa to the Hyborian Age: A Heroic Fantasy, Jeffrey B. Cox
Department: English
Marlow and His Audience: A Model For Literary and Human Communication, John B. Crozier
Department: English
Courage to Love, Christin L. French
Department: English
U.S.A: Dos Passos' View of a Misdirected Nation, Paige Lull
Department: English
Rock and Roll Lyrics of the Sixties: Voice of Discontent, Andrew G. Mason
Department: English
Bull Fighting in Boston and Other Poems, David R. Means
Department: English
Three Victorian Novels in the High School Curriculum: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and the Mill on the Floss, Marjorie Molder
Department: English
Virginia Woolf's Vision: The Novelist's Artistic Journey Away From the Patriarchal Angel and Back to Her Mother, Elizabeth Novak
Department: English
Society's Expectations, Marriage, and Motherhood As Portrayed in the Early Works of Doris Lessing, Catherine P. Scott
Department: English
Snopes: Faulkner's Vision of Evil, Kirsten E. Searle
Department: English
Stephen King's Fictional World: the Human Response to Horror, Denise R. Short
Department: English
Kurt Vonnegut: The Search For Man's Meaning and Progression Toward a Philosophy of Life, Jesse L. Smith Jr.
Department: English
Short Stories, Sharon D. Sterling
Department: English
Fighting For Identity: A Feminist Perspective on the Works of Kate Chopin, Jill Elizabeth Stewart
Department: English
The Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity, J. E. H. Van de Vate
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1983
Dorothy Wordsworth's Scotland Journals: A Consideration of Literary Merit, David V. Capodilupo
Department: English
Wit and Ignorance the Exposition of the Fool: London Circa 1700, Joseph Farnham
Department: English
Study of Themes Present in Newbery Award Winning Books Viewed From a Developmental Perspective, Elizabeth P. Fitzelle
Department: English
Language Arts Program in Montessori Schools, April Gallagher
Department: English
Historical Development of Ebonics and Its Relationship to Public Education, Darlene G. Kemp
Department: English
Edwin Milton Wright: The First Forty Years, Mary E. Kerr
Department: English
Bursting the Boundaries of the Private Self: An Investigation Into Religion, Philosophy, and the Nature of Poetics, Robert J.S. Manning
Department: English
Thomas Hardy's View of Marriage, John Moore
Department: English
Myths of Southern Women Depicted in Literature By Women, Kelly J. Mortensen
Department: English
C.S. Lewis: Images of Christian Morality in the Chronicles of Narnia, Lisa Mullett
Department: English
Narrative Authority and Female Characters in Four Novels of William Faulkner, Mary A. Neagoy
Department: English
Profile of a Pioneer: Frank B. Notestein, Carol G. Osborne
Department: English
Effects of Children's Literature on Attitudes Toward Persons With Handicaps, Jean Marie Peacock
Department: English; Sociology and Anthropology
Identity in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Christine L. Renz
Department: English
Vanitas Vanitatum: W.M. Thackeray's Moral Vision, Lisa C. Stearns
Department: English
Critic With a Conscience: An Alternative to the Censorship of Literature, Joanne A. Steinkamp
Department: English
"The Arbitrary Vase" and Other Stories, Geoffrey Thomas
Department: English
Sociological Theories of Alienation and the Literature of Franz Kafka, Stacey L. Vidt
Sociological Theories of Alienation and the Literature of Franz Kafka, Stacey L. Vidt
Department: English; Sociology and Anthropology
Women Becoming Poets: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson, Lorraine K. Wilkin
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1982
Patterns of Self-Definition: Women in the Novels of Gail Godwin and Margaret Drabble, Denise D. Ahlquist
Department: English
Hide and Seek, Danny O. Aidoo
Department: English
First and Fourth Amendments in Relation to Factual News Presentation, Susan Katherine Allen
Department: English
St. Nicholas and the Moral Motif, Alison J. Amos
Department: English
Anxious Search of Jack Kerouac, Theodore E. Antonuk
Department: English
Women in Household Words, Jennifer P. Bennett
Department: English
Selected Social Novels Which Emerged From the British Industrial Revolution, Katharine L. Blood
Department: English
Another Worthy: a Biographical Study of Wallace Notestein, Jane E. Cairns
Department: English
Survey of the Collected Poems and Short Stories of John Updike, David R. Coen
Department: English
Sing a Song of NYC: A Cycle of Songs and Poems, Mark R. David
Department: English
"The Children of the Bride Chamber" and Other Stories, Laurel Dowd
Department: English
Meet the Austins to a Ring of Endless Light: Madeleine L'Engle's Circle of Love, Laura A. Elder
Department: English
Four Studies of the Use of the English Language in Literature and in the Media, Cynthia L. Force
Department: English
Implied Homosexual in the Works of D.H. Lawrence, Kevin Boyd Grubb
Department: English
Sapphire - a Self Portrait, June Avis Hayles
Department: English
Searching For An Identity: Four Short Stories, Brian D. Johnson
Department: English
Book Censorship and the Right to Know, Cynthia L. Kershner
Department: English
Jack London, His Literature and Its Reception in the Soviet Union, Diane Langley
Department: English; History
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
Collection of Short Stories, Katherine Ruth Mulichak
Department: English
Tippy, Tillie, and Friends, a Series of Original Short Stories For Children, Mary Jennifer Parrish
Department: English
Inquiry Into the Analysis of Short Stories, Bethany E. Pope
Department: English
Characterization of Joseph Conrad's Marlow, Blake W. Rhein
Department: English
Maslowian Look at the Fairy Tales, Beth L. Russell
Department: English
Images of Woman in Literature: Brontë, Hardy, Hemingway, and Lessing, Susan L. Sawyer
Department: English
Collection of Short Stories, Anne K. Sherwood
Department: English
Victorian Child As Portrayed By Charles Dickens, Deanna Dawn Smith
Department: English
Changes in Criticism From 1926-1979 of Four Major Novels By Ernest Hemingway, Sydney H. Smyth
Department: English
"How Do You Like the Journal's War?" The Linguistic and Artistic Techniques Utilized By William Randolph Hearst to Instigate the Spanish-American War of 1898, Henry B. Sperry
Department: English
Collection of Attempts: A Selection of Personal Essays, Jerry A. Thompson
Department: English
George Orwell: The Examination of His Social and Political Thought As Portrayed in His Novels, Lisa K. Trimble
Department: English
Reassessment of Zora Neale Hurston: A Harlem Renaissance Writer, Cheryl Ann Turner
Department: English
Study of the Relationship Between Compulsive Masculinity and Delinquency, Gail P. Wagner
Department: English
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine: Its Reflections on the Jubilee Year, Maude M. Wharton
Department: English
How Editing Affects Interpretation: Comparative Analyses of Selected Poems By Emily Dickinson, Jennifer Wick
Department: English
Women's Lives: Limitations on Happiness in the Novels of George Eliot, Kathleen M. Wolf
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1981
Mark Twain and William Dean Howells: a Study of Friendship and Mutual Literary Influence, Linda S. Atkinson
Department: English
Howard Hanson in Rome: 1922-1924, Diane L. Day
Department: English
The Role of Black Soldiers in the Union Army During the Civil War, Charles C. Dearborn
Department: History; English
Creative Choices in An Absurd World, David A. Guiley
Department: English
Transits: a Collection of Five Original Short Stories, Their Criticism and Analysis, Wendy Hunter
Department: English
Lolita: a Question of Value Judgment, Kathryn E. Knall
Department: English
John Taylor the Water-Poet: A Character of the Seventeenth Century, Patricia E. Panek
Department: English
Intellectual and Cultural Interests of Otelia Catherine Augspurger Compton, Elizabeth Ann Seward
Department: English