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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1968

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Structure and Its Relation to Character Growth in Selected Novels of Thomas Hardy, Linda Henning
Department: English

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Tennyson's Idylls of the King: a Study, Nancy Huffman
Department: English

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Studies in Chaucer, George Killough
Department: English

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The Dream as a Symbol in Mark Twain's Later Fiction, Judith E. Kraseman
Department: English

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Language, Thought, and Spelling: a Study of Graphemophonemic Correspondences and the Attitudes to Language Which They Reveal, Laurence J. Krieg
Department: English

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Poetic Journey: a Study of Wordsworth and Coleridge, Paul A. Lewis
Department: English

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Most Mystifying Mystery: a Study of Edwin Drood, Margery May
Department: English

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Edwin Arlington Robbinson and His Early Poetry, Elizabeth M. Morin
Department: English

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Wooster Has Good Stores: a Bibliographical Sketch of Herman Freedlander, Clothing Merchant, Robert Muir
Department: English

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Asparagus Tree and Other Stories, Josephine W. Pettus
Department: English

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Analysis of Selected Plays By Edward Albee and Harold Pinter, Jane B. Russell
Department: English

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Critical Ambiguities: the Reception of Herman Melville, Jane Sennett
Department: English

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Getting Inside: An Experiment in Creative Writing, Melvin Shelly
Department: English

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Study of Selected Plays By Eugene O'Neill, Pamela J. Shope
Department: English

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Concepts of Nature in Chaucer's Parlement of Foules: Their Origins and Their Applications, Connie S. Simpson
Department: English

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Flight Through Paradise: a Memoir, Carolyn Slack
Department: English

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Canus: a Novella, Steven Sokoloff
Department: English

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William Faulkner: the Manipulation of Time and Reality, Kathy Stillson
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1967

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Hawthorne: a New Perspective, Kathleen L. Agena
Department: English

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Creative Writing Project, Susan C. Anderson
Department: English

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Shakespeare's Concept of Kingship in the Two Historical Tetralogies, Ruth Ball
Department: English

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Image Patterns in Comus and Samson Agonistes, Linda Beamer
Department: English

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Tales That Are Told, Wade Boyle
Department: English

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Development of Aesthetic Sensibility in Marcel Proust, Jamie Caulley
Department: English

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Comparative Study of Samuel Johnson and Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Chamberlain
Department: English

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American Studies Abroad: the Development of American Studies in the United States, Europe, and Australia, Carolyn Dobay
Department: English

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Poet and Prophet: a Survey of the Thought of William Blake and Thomas J. J. Altizer, Lynne B. Dow
Department: English

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D.H. Lawrence: Poet, Marcia L. Dunnam
Department: English

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Anti-Utopian Satire: Zamiatin's We and Huxley's Brave New World, Gayle Dutton
Department: English

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Culmination of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Technique: the Great Gatsby, Sue Gotshall
Department: English

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Critical Study of Technique in William Faulkner's Trilogy: the Hamlet, the Town, the Mansion, David Gregory
Department: English

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Morality in the Fiction of Hemingway, Elaine Grier
Department: English

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Christ of Milton's Paradise Regained, Larry H. Haise
Department: English

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Rhetoric of Saul Bellow, Larry Hanawalt
Department: English

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Samuel Johnson's Approach to Biography, Frederic Hargreaves
Department: English

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Laughing Rats and Others, Michael Hutchison
Department: English

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Wild Duck: An Adaptation of Reader's Theatre, Linda Jennings
Department: English; Communication Studies

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Paradox of Thomas Wolfe, Susanne M. Johnston
Department: English

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The Breakup, Karen Kite
Department: English

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Critical Study of the Poetry of Richard Wilbur, John S. Mann
Department: English

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Robert Frost: a Revaluation, Ruthanne McCrae
Department: English

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Faulkner's Negroes Speak, Jerrold C. Meyer
Department: English

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Malcolm Lowry's Inferno, Barbara K. Oder
Department: English

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Some Varieties of the Tragic Literature in Western Literature, Clark Patterson
Department: English

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Kafka's Concept of God in “Das Schloss”, Cathy L. Rhodewalt
Department: English

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Prose Style Analysis and Thomas Hardy, Peter G. Robinson
Department: English

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Study of Walt Whitman's Use of the Organic Theory in Poetry, Carolyn J. Smith
Department: English

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Joyce's Use of Homeric Material in Ulysses, Janet Suter
Department: English

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Of Bulwark's Ever Failing: Study of the Novels of E.M. Forster, Ronald W. Wallace
Department: English

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Poetry of Mathew Arnold: Set in the Context of His Biography and Prose Works Prior to 1867, Charles Webb
Department: English

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Russian Theme As Viewed Through Western Perspective: a Study of Conrad's Under Western Eyes, Turgenew's Fathers and Sons and Koestler's Darkness at Moon, Suzzanne West
Department: English

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Role of Society in Novels of Jane Austen and George Eliot, Paula Wilkes
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1966

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F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway: Representatives of the "Lost Generation", Linda M. Bauer
Department: English

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Through the Looking-Glass: a Study of American Naturalism, Kristi M. Branch
Department: English

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Charles Dickens: His Vision of Good and Evil, Barbara J. Brondyke
Department: English

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Essays Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Symbolism in Modern English Poetry, Donald K. Brown
Department: English

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The Play's the Thing: a Study of Shakespeare's Use of the Play Within the Play, Joan F. Browne
Department: English

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Conrad's Values As Indicated By the Characters in His Novels, Constance A. Crawford
Department: English

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Time and Theme in Conrad's Political Novels, Charles W. Darling
Department: English

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Political Profiles of Samuel Johnson: 1738-1744, Bryan R. Dunlap
Department: English

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Autobiography of Alma Dodds Finefrock, Patricia A. Finefrock
Department: English

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Themes of Isolation in Hawthorne's Fiction, John R. Gardner
Department: English

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Mark Twain - From Freedom to Despair, Carolyn Hay
Department: English

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Study in the Short Story, Kaaren L. Henderson
Department: English

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Three Exercises in a Lyrical Prose With Critical Introduction, Cathleen Hill
Department: English

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Light in August: Faulkner's Prophetic Vision of the New South, Tate B. Hudson
Department: English

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George Bernard Shaw: the Drama of Creative Evolution, Anita Kramer
Department: English

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Comic Genius of R.B. Sheridan, Cas LeClair
Department: English

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Project in the Short Story, Carol Locke
Department: English

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Contributions of Yeats, Synge, and O'Casey to the Irish National Theater, Claudia L. Pask
Department: English

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Richard Realf: a Biography, Pamela Patterson
Department: English

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Contemporary Approach to Medieval Drama, Margaret Philbrick
Department: English

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Victorian Political Novels: a Study in the Form and Theme, Patricia Showalter
Department: English

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Vision of the Noble Man: a Study of Theme in Selected Novels By John Steinbeck, Susan Small
Department: English

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Discussion of the Irony in Wallace Steven's Poetry, Carolyn Tausch
Department: English

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Aristotelian Theory of Tragedy in Relation to Oedipus, the King, King Lear, and Death of a Salesman, Jean Thompson
Department: English

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The Artist and the Activist, and Other Pieces, Robert Tiews
Department: English

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Thackeray: the Decline of Satire, Renée Vance
Department: English

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Emerson - the Poet: a Transitional Figure, Martha Webb
Department: English

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Poetry of Stephen Crane: Dictation and the Shift From Allegory to Symbol, Jane E. Wright
Department: English

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"More Pleasing Stuff": a Study of Shakespeare's Comic Devices, Joyce Yochheim
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1965

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Search For Motive: the Novels of Aldous Huxley, Carolyn S. Andrews
Department: English

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Tenth Grade English Course: An Experimental Approach, Judith G. Barry
Department: English

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Ambiguous Art: Theory and Techniques of Satire in Works By Swift, Huxley, and Orwell, Barbara Bate
Department: English

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Plot Structure and Movement in Four Novels: 'David Copperfield', 'The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.', 'The Woodlanders', 'Middlemarch': a Study of Provincial Life, Elizabeth Bedient
Department: English

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Comparison of John Donne and T. S. Eliot With Special Reference to Similarities in Their Poetry Showing the Influence of Donne on Eliot, Rebecca S. Biefeld
Department: English

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Robert Henryson and William Dunbar, Jean I. Carter
Department: English

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Shakespeare's Women Characters, Sharon W. Cho
Department: English

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Biblical Allusion in Thoreau's 'Journal', Mark P. Denbeaux
Department: English

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Religious Element in Robert Burns' Poetry, Ann Dewell
Department: English

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Elizabethan Views of Poetry, Craig Ewart
Department: English

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Point of View in the Short Story, Peter J. Fabricant
Department: English

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Quixotic Ideal in Conrad's Nostromo and the Narratives of Marlow, Anne Grigsby
Department: English

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Gulliver's Travels, Part IV: Criticism From 1726-1965, Dorinda M. Hale
Department: English

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Short Collection of Short Stories, David Hamilton
Department: English

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Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House: An Experiment in Stylistic Analysis, Edward W. Hearne III
Department: English

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Function of Significant Images of Form in Early Conrad, Beecher H. Hemmett
Department: English

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Literary Reflections of Puritanism in Hawthorne and Melville: a Study of the Theme of Alienation in "Young Goodman Brown" and "Benito Cereno", Martha W. Horne
Department: English

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Beginnings of the English Novel in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding, William B. Johnson
Department: English

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Henry James: Portrayal of Destiny in His Novels of the 1880's, Marcella Kerr
Department: English