Senior Independent Study Theses from 1983
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
America Misunderstood: Critical Essays on Theodore Dreiser and John dos Passos, Daniel L. McKenty
Department: Political Science; 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
Kaleidoscope of Faces, Sharon Skowron
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1980
Dorothy Thompson: Her Value As a Journalist, Annette Bennett
Department: English
Adrienne Rich: a Woman's Voice Singing Old Songs in a New Way, Elizabeth S. Binhammer
Department: English
World of Doctor Dolittle: A Journey Into Darkness, Sherrey L. Carter
Department: English
Ways We Sing: Women Writing in America, Tracey Dils
Department: English
A Comparative Analysis of Characterization in Madame Bovary and the Portrait of a Lady: Emma Bovary and Isabel Archer, Martha M. Dixon
Department: English
Therapeutic Poetry: A Source of Psychological and Critical Insight, Amy M. Havener
Department: English
Perverts, and Other Stories, Sabrina E. Johnson
Department: English
Ibsen: A Progression of the Author's Thought Through Realism and Tragedy, Susan I. Kalajian
Department: English
Poetic Expression of Meaning Through Language and Being, Michael McCormack
Department: English
Textual Study of Ulysses: the Evolution of the Character of Bloom Through Available "Circle" Texts, Lori McGrew
Department: English
Earthenware: a Series of Poems, Amy McMahon
Department: English
Rural Reflections: a Guide to Holmes County, Deborah T. Miller
Department: English
Six Perspectives of Women in American Fiction (1794-1925), Christine C. Pelley
Department: English
Understanding of Religious Belief in Selected Works By T.S. Eliot, Cathy Personius
Department: English
Literature and the High School: the Students, the Teachers, the Approaches, John M. Romano
Department: English
William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor: Regional Heritage and the Southern Short Story, Gwen M. Schillinger
Department: English
Ernest Hemingway's Personal Religion, Mary K. Seaman
Department: English
Three Victorian Novelists and Their Concern For the Development of the Female Independent Mind, Jennifer L. Watson
Department: English
Christy, and Other Short Stories, John White
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1979
Night Vision, Debra Allbery
Department: English
Clear Pictures of Reality: Eudora Welty's Focus on Individual Perception, Linda J. Buda
Department: English
Exercise in the Study and Writing of Fiction, Gary Chwazik
Department: English
Dickens's 'Grotesque Tragi-Comic Conception': Comedy and Humor in Great Expectations, R. Dennis Cullen
Department: English
C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy As An Expression of His World View, Douglas L. Dill
Department: English
Investigative Journalism: Exposing the Warts, Barbara J. Emling
Department: English
SAT Score Decline with Emphasis on the Verbal Component and its Effects on Education, Sharon L. Farmer
Department: English
The Great Gatsby: the Major Accomplishment of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nancy B. High
Department: English
From Where I Am Now and Other Stories, Daniel Hunter
Department: English
Theory of Language in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, Martha E. Jameson
Department: English
Study of the Culture and Entertainment in the City of Wooster and the University of Wooster in the 1890S, Brenda E. Luger
Department: English
Critical Reception of William Faulkner: the First Decade 1926-1936, John C. MacDonald
Department: English
With and Without Marlow: the Characters of Joseph Conrad, Melissa A. Mentzer
Department: English
Ownership Concentration and the Press: Bridging the Gap Between Freedom and Responsibility, Douglas G. Pinkham
Department: English
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
Study of Henry David Thoreau's Intellectual Development From the Journal of 1845 to Walden, Elizabeth Udris
Department: English
The Daughters: a Novel, Peg Weissbrod
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1978
Water Imagery in Spenser's the Faerie Queene, Carol L. Bogard
Department: English
Double Play: a Novel, Raymond T. Bules
Department: English
Creative Writing Project, Mark Dickson
Department: English