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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1965

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Chaucer's and Shakespeare's Treatments of the Troilus and Cressida Theme, Elizabeth King
Department: English

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Brönte Perplex: a Study of the Literary Reputations of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, Marcia A. King
Department: English

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Love's Philosophy in John Donne's Songs and Sonnets, Gretchen Meister
Department: English

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George Bernard Shaw's Dramatic Theory and Its Application in Candida and Saint Joan, Sarah E. Mumma
Department: English

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Control and Complexity: the Function of the Narrator in Henry Fielding, Nancy J. Organ
Department: English

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Chaucer's Use of Conventions: Romance and Fabliau Elements in Fragment A, Jean L. Patterson
Department: English

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History and Method of Parody in English Poetry, Lynn Pierson
Department: English

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One Year This Side of Heaven, Rick Pieters
Department: English

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Anthology of Short Stories, Annette L. Posell
Department: English

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Stephen Crane, Impressionist Poet, Charles E. Rakusan
Department: English

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Chaucer's Treatment of Courtly Love in Troilus and Criseyde, Nancy Roha
Department: English

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Religious Imagery in Selected Poems of Dylan Thomas, Elden Schneider
Department: English

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Adventures of Lewis Carroll in the Wonderland of Literary Success Through the Looking-Glass of a Wooster Senior, Ruth A. Thomas
Department: English

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Instability of Meaning, John C. Veney
Department: English

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Why Theodore Dreiser?, Cynthia Williams
Department: English

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English Women in the Novels of E.M. Forster, Nancy Workman
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1964

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Artistry in Four Mock Heroics, Connine E. Allen
Department: English

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Tragic Dimensions in the Plays of O'Neill, Miller and Williams, Holly Alliger
Department: English

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Social Psychology of the Adolescent in the Novel, Margaret Ann Amos
Department: English

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William Faulkner: the Sublime Reflected From a Distorting Mirror, Rebbeca J. Beard
Department: English

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Spoken English of a German Exchange Student: Its Linguistic Relationship to German, Oxford English and American English, Mary Blum
Department: English

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Realm of Robert Frost, Mary Ann Brady
Department: English

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Rise of Realism in Nineteenth Century American Fiction 1855-1875, Pamela W. Brown
Department: English

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Superiority of "Ligeia" to "Morella", Dean D. Burns
Department: English

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Brief Study of Johnson's Relationship to His Precursors in English Lexicography, Cathryn Chase
Department: English

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Spenserian Stanza: Use and Abuse, Mary A. Compton
Department: English

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Vision of Good and Evil in the Novels of Henry James, Diana P. Coulton
Department: English

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Criticism of William Dean Howells, Rodger L. Fink
Department: English

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Treatment of Eve in Paradise Lost, Sandra Jacoby
Department: English

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Examination of William Faulkner's Use of the Negro Character in His Novels, Judith Lang
Department: English

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Jeremiah of the Bozart, Colin MacKinnon
Department: English

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Concept of Man Developed in the Sermons of John Donne, Marion K. Morris
Department: English

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T.S. Eliot's and William Faulkner: a Study and Comparisons of the Theological Works, Linda Piper
Department: English

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Symbolism in the Novel: a Study and Teaching Unit, Mary A. Stewart
Department: English

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"'However' Replied the Universe": Some Aspects of American Literary Naturalism, James D. Switzer
Department: English

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American Fiction 1890-1910: Patterns and Images, Janice J. Terry
Department: English

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Imagery of Dante's Inferno, or Some Like It Hot, Ann Zimmermann
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1963

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Development of Southern Humor: a Reflection of Southern Sectionalism, 1820-1860, Jean Brand
Department: English

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Historical Development of the Current Controversy in English Grammar, Joan Brink
Department: English

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William Golding, a Christian Novelist, Joan Caplinger
Department: English

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Five Short Stories, Ronald Cinniger
Department: English

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New Look at Whitman, Lynne Cleverdon
Department: English

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Study of James Joyce's Development As a Writer (1882-1914), Barbara Croyle
Department: English

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Nathaniel Hawthorne: An Author's Return to Puritanism, Shirley M. Drake
Department: English

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Changing Ideals in Classical and Christian Heroes, Elizabeth A. Edwards
Department: English

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American Novelists and World War I: Disillusionment and Despair, Deborah P. Elwell
Department: English

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Progression Toward Affirmation, Marion E. Gelinas
Department: English

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Hemingway in Spain: 1922-1940, David R. Goss
Department: English

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Dawn Will Come, James N. Holm
Department: English; Religious Studies

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Art and Art Criticism: Turner and Ruskin, Janet How
Department: English

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Three Voices in the Poetry of Robert Frost, Harriet K. Hudnut
Department: English

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"Great American Novel" From the Scarlet Letter to the Catcher in the Rye, Beatrice M. Johnson
Department: English

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Women in Ernest Hemingway's Fiction, Barbara G. Lindsay
Department: English

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Stream of Consciousness As a Technique in American Fiction, Nancy M. Maxson
Department: English

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Shelley's Concept of Christ As Embodied in the Figure of Prometheus, Susan McDougald
Department: English

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Angry Young Men: A Literary Analysis, James Holt McGavran
Department: English

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Seventeenth Century New England Puritans and the Coming Kingdom of Jesus Christ, Carol Mergler
Department: English

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Drama of Maxwell Anderson, Elizabeth S. Morrow
Department: English

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Machiavelli and Senecan Conventions in Elizabethan Drama, Jean L. Muir
Department: English

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Shifts of Emphasis in the Critical Appraisals of Ernest Hemingway, John Pethick
Department: English

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Analysis of the Comedies of Ben Johnson and William Shakespeare, Mildred I. Reboul
Department: English

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Paradise in Medieval Literature, Elizabeth See
Department: English

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Three Recurring Elements in the Major Novels of Thomas Hardy, Alan J. Sorem
Department: English

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Superman Concept: Shaw's Message to His Age, Barbara M. Taylor
Department: English

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Sound and Sense in the Facade, David Van Epps
Department: English

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Interpretive Essay of the Final Version of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal's Tragedy, the Tower, Barbara Westveer
Department: English; German Studies

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Genesis of Milton's Concept of Liberty, Katherine L. Wigman
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1962

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Pyramus and Thisbe Legend As Treated By Ovid, Chaucer, and Shakespeare, Jane D. Arndt
Department: Classical Studies; English

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Literary Tradition of the South Pacific, Stanton Bishop
Department: English

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Honey and Thistles: Children's Literature As a Medium of Adult Humor, Barbara Buckwalter
Department: English

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Effect of British Periodical Criticism on the Development of American Literary Nationality, Ann E. Carter
Department: English

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T. S. Eliot: His Method, Sources, and Outlook - a Focus on the Four Quartets, Pamela Casner
Department: English

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Elizabethan Women of Shakespeare's Early Comedies, Evelyn S. Cox
Department: English

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Examination of the Works of Henrik Ibsen From 'Brand' to 'When We Dead Awaken', Tracing the Emphasis on the Theme of Self-Realization and His Social Concern., David W. Danner
Department: English

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Tragedy in the American Theater: 1930-1960, Robert M. Dawson
Department: English

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Artist and the Saint: the Sermons and Poems of Edward Taylor, Judith Dod
Department: English

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Robert Browning's Fleshly Heaven Ideas on Immortality As Seen in His Poetry, Nancy E. Graham
Department: English

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W. H. Auden: the Poet and Society, Joan Griewank
Department: English

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C. P. Snow: the Responsibility of 'Strangers and Brothers', Margaret E. Gurney
Department: English

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Jonathan Swift's View of Man, Gilbert J. Horn
Department: English

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The King Arthur of Geoffrey of Monmouth, William Humm
Department: English

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Love and the American Novel in a Changing Culture 1880-1930, Margaret M. Kehe
Department: English

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To Play on the Open Strings..., Willem M. Lange III
Department: English

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Irving's Treatment of the American Past, Sylvia Lewis
Department: English

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Influence of the French Symbolist Poets Upon the Poetry of William Butler Yeats, Ruth M. Long
Department: English; French and Francophone Studies

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George Eliot's Characters: Their Minds, Her Art, Joyce E. Measures
Department: English

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Dos Passos: From Left to Right, Dean C. Messick
Department: English

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Poetic Theory of John Crowe Ransom, Joyce Pollard
Department: English

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Art in Modern Literary Biography: An Introduction to Its Special Problems, Dorothy Powell
Department: English

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Study of Medievalism in Nineteenth Century Poetry: Scott, Coleridge, Keats, Tennyson, Margaret Ramsey
Department: English

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Character and Vision in 'Middlemarch' and 'Daniel Deronda', Cynthia J. Rice
Department: English

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Editorship of the 'Atlantic Monthly' Under William Dean Howells (1866-1881), Wilhelmina L. Smith
Department: English

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Critical Study of William Carlos Williams, Alys Wilson
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1961

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Sinclair Lewis: Babbittry in the Business World, Ethel Bair
Department: English

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Yeats and the Irish Mob, Frederick Bland
Department: English

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Images of American Customers and Manners in Six Novels by Henry James, George M. Case
Department: English

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New England Village in America Fiction 1850-1900, Judith A. Chamberlain
Department: English

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Texture and Tone of Language in Conrad's Early Novels, Jean Chambers
Department: English

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George Eliot's Ethical Concepts and the Development of Her Ability to Represent Them, As Seen Is Four Novels: 'Adam Hede', 'Mill on the Floss', 'Romola' and 'Middlemarch', Judith Comstock
Department: English

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Evolution of a Literary Reputation or the Imperishable Donne, Jean Giltz
Department: English