The full text of Senior Independent Study Theses submitted during and after 2012 are available to download only by College of Wooster users. Unless listed as an exemplar, all other theses are restricted.

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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1982

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Maslowian Look at the Fairy Tales, Beth L. Russell
Department: English

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Images of Woman in Literature: Brontë, Hardy, Hemingway, and Lessing, Susan L. Sawyer
Department: English

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Collection of Short Stories, Anne K. Sherwood
Department: English

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Victorian Child As Portrayed By Charles Dickens, Deanna Dawn Smith
Department: English

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Changes in Criticism From 1926-1979 of Four Major Novels By Ernest Hemingway, Sydney H. Smyth
Department: English

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"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

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Collection of Attempts: A Selection of Personal Essays, Jerry A. Thompson
Department: English

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George Orwell: The Examination of His Social and Political Thought As Portrayed in His Novels, Lisa K. Trimble
Department: English

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Reassessment of Zora Neale Hurston: A Harlem Renaissance Writer, Cheryl Ann Turner
Department: English

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Study of the Relationship Between Compulsive Masculinity and Delinquency, Gail P. Wagner
Department: English

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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine: Its Reflections on the Jubilee Year, Maude M. Wharton
Department: English

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How Editing Affects Interpretation: Comparative Analyses of Selected Poems By Emily Dickinson, Jennifer Wick
Department: English

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Women's Lives: Limitations on Happiness in the Novels of George Eliot, Kathleen M. Wolf
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1981

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Mark Twain and William Dean Howells: a Study of Friendship and Mutual Literary Influence, Linda S. Atkinson
Department: English

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Howard Hanson in Rome: 1922-1924, Diane L. Day
Department: English

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The Role of Black Soldiers in the Union Army During the Civil War, Charles C. Dearborn
Department: History; English

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Creative Choices in An Absurd World, David A. Guiley
Department: English

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Transits: a Collection of Five Original Short Stories, Their Criticism and Analysis, Wendy Hunter
Department: English

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Lolita: a Question of Value Judgment, Kathryn E. Knall
Department: English

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John Taylor the Water-Poet: A Character of the Seventeenth Century, Patricia E. Panek
Department: English

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Intellectual and Cultural Interests of Otelia Catherine Augspurger Compton, Elizabeth Ann Seward
Department: English

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Kaleidoscope of Faces, Sharon Skowron
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1980

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Dorothy Thompson: Her Value As a Journalist, Annette Bennett
Department: English

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Adrienne Rich: a Woman's Voice Singing Old Songs in a New Way, Elizabeth S. Binhammer
Department: English

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World of Doctor Dolittle: A Journey Into Darkness, Sherrey L. Carter
Department: English

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Ways We Sing: Women Writing in America, Tracey Dils
Department: English

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A Comparative Analysis of Characterization in Madame Bovary and the Portrait of a Lady: Emma Bovary and Isabel Archer, Martha M. Dixon
Department: English

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Therapeutic Poetry: A Source of Psychological and Critical Insight, Amy M. Havener
Department: English

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Perverts, and Other Stories, Sabrina E. Johnson
Department: English

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Ibsen: A Progression of the Author's Thought Through Realism and Tragedy, Susan I. Kalajian
Department: English

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Poetic Expression of Meaning Through Language and Being, Michael McCormack
Department: English

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Textual Study of Ulysses: the Evolution of the Character of Bloom Through Available "Circle" Texts, Lori McGrew
Department: English

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Earthenware: a Series of Poems, Amy McMahon
Department: English

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Rural Reflections: a Guide to Holmes County, Deborah T. Miller
Department: English

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Six Perspectives of Women in American Fiction (1794-1925), Christine C. Pelley
Department: English

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Understanding of Religious Belief in Selected Works By T.S. Eliot, Cathy Personius
Department: English

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Literature and the High School: the Students, the Teachers, the Approaches, John M. Romano
Department: English

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William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor: Regional Heritage and the Southern Short Story, Gwen M. Schillinger
Department: English

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Ernest Hemingway's Personal Religion, Mary K. Seaman
Department: English

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Three Victorian Novelists and Their Concern For the Development of the Female Independent Mind, Jennifer L. Watson
Department: English

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Christy, and Other Short Stories, John White
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1979

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Night Vision, Debra Allbery
Department: English

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Clear Pictures of Reality: Eudora Welty's Focus on Individual Perception, Linda J. Buda
Department: English

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Exercise in the Study and Writing of Fiction, Gary Chwazik
Department: English

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Dickens's 'Grotesque Tragi-Comic Conception': Comedy and Humor in Great Expectations, R. Dennis Cullen
Department: English

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C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy As An Expression of His World View, Douglas L. Dill
Department: English

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Investigative Journalism: Exposing the Warts, Barbara J. Emling
Department: English

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SAT Score Decline with Emphasis on the Verbal Component and its Effects on Education, Sharon L. Farmer
Department: English

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The Great Gatsby: the Major Accomplishment of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nancy B. High
Department: English

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From Where I Am Now and Other Stories, Daniel Hunter
Department: English

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Theory of Language in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, Martha E. Jameson
Department: English

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Study of the Culture and Entertainment in the City of Wooster and the University of Wooster in the 1890S, Brenda E. Luger
Department: English

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Critical Reception of William Faulkner: the First Decade 1926-1936, John C. MacDonald
Department: English

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With and Without Marlow: the Characters of Joseph Conrad, Melissa A. Mentzer
Department: English

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Ownership Concentration and the Press: Bridging the Gap Between Freedom and Responsibility, Douglas G. Pinkham
Department: English

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Growth of a Scholar: the Intellectual Development of Howard F. Lowry: Based on His Unpublished Correspondence with Waldo H. Dunn, 1924-1935, Debra L. Sanborn
Department: English

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Study of Henry David Thoreau's Intellectual Development From the Journal of 1845 to Walden, Elizabeth Udris
Department: English

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The Daughters: a Novel, Peg Weissbrod
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1978

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Water Imagery in Spenser's the Faerie Queene, Carol L. Bogard
Department: English

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Double Play: a Novel, Raymond T. Bules
Department: English

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Creative Writing Project, Mark Dickson
Department: English

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Family Story in the 1970's: Essays on American Adolescent Fiction, Amy L. Gebhardt
Department: English

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Tales of Edgar Allan Poe As An Extension of His Aesthetic Theory, David M. Hagelin
Department: English

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Lament, Complaint, and Satire in English Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Richard H. Harrison
Department: English

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Lawrence and Hardy: Broken Fragments of One Whole, A Comparison of Male-Female Relationships in Four Novels, Leslie Jordan
Department: English

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Images in Popular Fiction 1912 to 1952, Samuel Marks Kinney III
Department: English

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Supporting the Basics: a Comparative Study of the Developmental Learning Program at the College of Wooster, Marcia B. Kleinert
Department: English

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N.E.H. and the Liberal Arts College: History, Relationship, and Evolution, Mark R. Klemens
Department: English

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Journalism: Mark Twain's Writing Workshop, David A. Koppenhaver
Department: English

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Darley's Maturation in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, Timothy Lammers
Department: English

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Shaw's Fabian Philosophies Concerning the Role of Women As Reflected By Four of His Characters, Karen E. McCabe
Department: English

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Development of Twain's Comic Vision, Kenneth P. Moore
Department: English

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Analysis of the Fiction Continuum, Christopher Pittman
Department: English

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Charles Dickens: the Plight of the Children in Victorian England As Portrayed in Five of His Novels, Kathy Rohrabaugh
Department: English

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Destiny and the Social Significance of the Individual Quest in King Horn and Havelok the Dane, Anne E. Rowland
Department: English

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Study of the Imagery in Theodore Roethke's Praise to the End Sequence, Nanette Secor
Department: English

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Reading of in Memoriam, Shirley E. Stokes
Department: English

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H.G. Wells and the Dystopian Tradition, Kent Wagner
Department: English

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The Wooster Forum (Creative Project), Joesph T. Williams
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1977

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Saeta, Lorraine Baumgardner
Department: English

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Effects of Language Distortion on Advertising, David C. Brown
Department: English

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Progress of Vision in Blake's Milton, Susan Haringa Brown
Department: English

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Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams: a Comparative Study of Two Author-Physicians, Susan Ann Crandall
Department: English

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The Folk Ballad: A Study of Its Development and The Appraisal of the Views of Its Critics, Emily Jane Dollinger
Department: English

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Four Series About Families in the Realm of Children's Literature: a Comparison in Content, Margaret A. Finney
Department: English

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Yesternight, the Son Went Hence, Deborah Glaefke
Department: English

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Blanche Dubois: Stung By the Gadfly of Need, Heather L. Reeder
Department: English

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Maturing Female in Children's Literature: a Critical Study, Corinne A. Rudman
Department: English

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A Concept of the Irish and Ireland, As Viewed By William Butler Yeats 1889-1939, Gretchen L. Schwenker
Department: English

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Conditions of Being Black and a Woman: a Critical Study, Phyllis R. Smith
Department: English

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Four Stories, David Stockdale
Department: English

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Book of Original Poems, Ronald C. Tompkins
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1976

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Volume of Short Stories, Daniel Amari
Department: English

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Rhetorical Analysis: Concerning Some of the Works of Frederick Douglass, James P. Bressi
Department: English

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Idea of Tragedy in William Faulkner, Matthew Castell
Department: English

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Poems Etc.: A Collection of Sonnets and Verse, Graham J. Dickson
Department: English

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James Thurber: The Women in His Life and Literature, Martha Erickson
Department: English

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World War I and the Lost Generation, Donald R. Frederico
Department: English

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Damn Everything But the Circus, a Story, Stuart A. Gilmore
Department: English

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Opening: Poems From 1975, John Hamlin
Department: English