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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1961

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Study of the Critical Reception of Dreiser's American Tragedy, Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby and Hergesheimer's Java Head, Janice M. Kazmaier
Department: English

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For None to See, Joesph T. Klempner
Department: English

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Journey to Paradox, Susanne E. Lindman
Department: English

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John Steinbeck: Artist As Social Critic, LaVaughn Loomis
Department: English

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Poor White Character of William Faulkner, Joan M. Mackenzie
Department: English

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Study of the Characterization of Satan in the Context of An Infernal Hierarchy in Milton's Paradise Lost, Mary Margaret Madden
Department: English

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Sound and Music in James Joyce's Ulysses, Susan Millett
Department: English

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Roots of Anarchy, Jo A. Moran
Department: English

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Imagery and Symbolism in TS Eliot's Four Quartets As Derived From Medieval Literature, Marilyn Peacock
Department: English

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Allegorical Works of C.S. Lewis, Thomas Scovel
Department: English

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James Fenimore Cooper's Use of the American Indian, Marjorie E. Ward
Department: English

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Scott's Treatment of the Covenanters and His Use of Historical Fiction in Old Mortality and the Heart of Midlothian, William Van Wie
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1960

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Sensuous Imagery in William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, Wilson Bradburn
Department: English

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Europe Through the Eyes of Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Mark Twain: With Particular Emphasis on the Travel Books of Mark Twain, Mary A. Cartlidge
Department: English

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Dance As a Symbolic Pattern in Major Early Novels of Henry James, Eleanor Elson
Department: English

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Fiction of J.D. Salinger: a Study of Three Techniques, Gail Falls
Department: English

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Comparison of Female Characters in Henry James' Four Major Novels, Catharine Kerr
Department: English

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Literary Interests of the Four Year Old Child As Compared With Adult Standards, Carolyn Kolbe
Department: English

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British and American Second World War Poetry, Eleanor Kuykendall
Department: English

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Walt Whitman and the Elegy, Lucy E. Leeds
Department: English

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Composite Beatrice, Patricia Neary
Department: English

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Milton's English Vocabulary, Kay Predmore
Department: English

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Thomas Wolfe: Growth of Consciousness, Carol Riemer
Department: English

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Legend of Tristan and Isolde: A Study of Several Variations, Barbara Tooley
Department: English

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Technique in the Historical Novel: Kenneth Roberts' Oliver Wiswell, Gail M. Waters
Department: English

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English And German Elements In The English Gothic Novel, Mary E. Weinhold
Department: English

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Death and Immortality in Nineteenth Century English Literature: Study of Arnold and Tennyson, Nancy Wimbish
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1959

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Charles Dickens and the United States, Elizabeth A. Bostrom
Department: English

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Edgar Allen Poe--Critic, Poet, and Creative Writer, Joan Bowser
Department: English

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Literary Credo of Stephen Crane, Sue Braham
Department: English

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Background of Shakespearean Tragedy and Its Application to An Analysis of Hamlet, Edward F. D'arms Jr.
Department: English

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Poetry Magazine 1912-1915 and the Development of New Poetry, Susanne Fox
Department: English

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Mark Twain's Pessimism, William Haldi
Department: English

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Comparison of Henry James' Novels With the Contemporary American Scene, Elizabeth H. Howe
Department: English

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Milton's Concept of Free Will in Paradise Lost, Margaret Lindsay
Department: English

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Influence of Shakespeare on Herman Melville, William Lomicka
Department: English

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Mark Twain and the Four Freedoms, Mary E. Morley
Department: English

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Study of Robert Louis Stevenson, His Life and Novels, Winifred Myers
Department: English

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Some Twentieth Century Interpretations of Hamlet's Character, Kathryn Ogden
Department: English

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William Faulkner: "It Is Man Who Is Our Enemy...", Robert F. R. Peters Jr.
Department: English

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Past Is Never Dead: a Study of William Faulkner, Donna Phinizy
Department: English

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Translation of the Norwegian Fairy Tales Asbjornsen and Moe, Muriel Rice
Department: English

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Comparison of the Religious and Political Thought of John Milton and Roger Williams, Susan Roberts
Department: English

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Influence of French Naturalism on English Fiction From 1890-1915, Jean E. Robinson
Department: English

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Herman Wouk, David J. Sanders
Department: English

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Politics in the Novel, Marjorie F. Sanders
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1958

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Selected Themes in Civil War Novels, Shirley S. Allan
Department: English

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John Steinbeck: Regional Writer, Cynthia J. Barrett
Department: English

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Study of Bernard Shaw's Treatment of the Idea of the Life Force in Man and Superman in Relation to the Treatments of the Same Idea By Nietzsche, Butler and Isben, Murray S. Blackadar
Department: English

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Analysis of Short Fiction in 6 Leading American Magazines of 1956, Jo A. French
Department: English

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Little Gidding: History and Symbol, Frederick G. Harold
Department: English

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C.S. Lewis's Use of the Mythical Method in Fiction, Anne G. Hunt
Department: English

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Rebirth Pattern in Psychology, Myth, Metaphysics, Religion and Literature, Charles H. Johnson
Department: English

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Study of the Pulitzer Prize Novels of the Nineteen-Fifties, George O. Kandle
Department: English

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Study of Tragic View: Hamlet and Samson Agonistes, Martha A. Klippert
Department: English

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Albert Camus: His Sense of the Role of the Artist in His Own Time, Shelley L. Lemon
Department: English

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One Plus One Equals Two, Mary R. Linke
Department: English

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Study of the Negro in the American Novel, Emmy L. Miller
Department: English

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Influence of Friedrich Nietzsche Upon the Writings of Kahlil Gibran, Emily Rhoads
Department: English

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"Man of Reason" Comes of Age, Marion Shriver
Department: English

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Theophrastan Character in the Early American Periodicals, 1741-1785, Beverly Stockard
Department: English

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Examination of Baudelaire's Concept of Evil Focused By T.S. Elliot's Evaluation of the Baudelaire's Tradition, Marylin Troyer
Department: English

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Religion and Philosophy of William Allen White As Expressed in His Editorials in the Emporia Gazette, Carol C. Wood
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1957

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American Novels of World War I, Susan Rae Allen
Department: English

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Social, Political, and Economic Theories of H.G. Wells: 1895 to 1919, Mary Alice Baughman
Department: English

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A Study of the Fiction and Reputation of John Steinbeck, Jane E. Black
Department: English

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Spain and Her People: A View of the Spaniard As Seen By Richard Ford, George Borrow, Washington Irving, Mariano Jose De Larra and Ramon De Mesonero Romanos During the Second Third of the Nineteenth Century, Jo Ann Bruce
Department: English; Spanish

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Virginia Woolf As a Novelist and Essayist, Mary E. Buckstaff
Department: English

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Dominant Trends in the Atlantic Monthly's Criticism of British Literature: 1865-1875, Louise Byers
Department: English

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Study of the Various Versions of Troilus and Cressida, Patricia Campbell
Department: English

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Eighteenth Century English Customs and Manners, Leila Davis
Department: English

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Analysis of the Poetry of William Collins, Bonnie Hawk
Department: English

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Pilgrimage of Life: Study of the Wayfaring Image in Allegory, Particularly As Used By Dante, Spenser, and Bunyan, Lois Hoffman
Department: English

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Pessimism of Thomas Hardy As Seen in Eight of His Novels, Thomas R. Justice
Department: English

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Original Short Stories and Analyses of Selected Short Stories By Katherine Mansfield, Sheila McIsaac
Department: English

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Elizabethan Pastoral Poetry and Romance: Its Background and Its Development, Katherine L. Moore
Department: English

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Two Decades of Criticism: A Study of the Critical Analyses of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath, Lois Searfoss
Department: English

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Study of the Development of the Conception of Hell in Literature, Jane L. Szuhany
Department: English

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Discovery, Elisabeth A. Walters
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1956

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Four English Translations of Goethe's Faust, John DeCamp
Department: English

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Regionalism in American Literature: Exemplified in Jesse Stuart, Jeanne Herbert
Department: English

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Short Narrative Forms, George Jr. Hillocks
Department: English

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Studies in the Classical Tradition of Epic Poetry, Patricia Ann Kressly
Department: English

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Novels of Robert Penn Warren: A Search For Self-Knowledge, Jean Ralston
Department: English

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Examination of the Narrative Techniques of Modern Novelists, Particularly Hemingway and Faulkner: An Original Short Novel Also in Progress, Donald Reiman
Department: English

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Plato and Aristotle in English Poetic Theory: Sidney to Arnold, Diane Senior
Department: English

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"Hamlet Through the Ages", Wilma Mae Smith
Department: English

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Sinclair Lewis: His Role As Social Historian, Mary Squibbs
Department: English

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Study of Shakespeare's Globe Theater Based Upon the Construction of a Model, Jane Vander Veer
Department: English

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Study of the Reputation of the Romantic Poets, Wordworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats As Revealed in Their Letters and Journals, William Whiting
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1955

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Study of Some Elizabethan Sonnetiers - Sidney, Daniel, Drayton, Mary F. Crow
Department: English

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Frederick William Robertson, Charles Eaton
Department: English

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Study of the Modern American Nouvelle, Donna J. Hadaway
Department: English

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Beginnings of the Modern Irish Drama: W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, and J. M. Synge, Nancy Harris
Department: English

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Harmony in the Short Story, Kathleen Joy Hatfield
Department: English

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American City Novel, Leila Hazel
Department: English

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Thomas Hardy's Conception of Fate, Annette Kerr
Department: English

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"The Man Arthur", Doris King
Department: English

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Metaphysical Tradition and Its Relationship to the Poetry of T.S. Eliot, Ned H. Martin
Department: English

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Poetry of Robert Burns: From His Loe of Nature to His Songs, Margaret McClelland
Department: English