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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1997

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Carnival Fish, Audra M. Variakojis
Department: English

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Air Underneath My Wings, Mariama K. Whyte
Department: English

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Jennifer Willis Actually Turns in Independent Study, Jennifer Willis
Department: English

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Sneaky Monks and Other Fuzzy Stories, Brad A. Winter
Department: English

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Serving Up the Soul: a Multi-Genre Examination of the American Diner, Susan Wittstock
Department: English

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One Unsatisfied Customer, Derek J. Young
Department: English

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Tent Worms and Other Stories, Kathryn A. Youther
Department: English

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Great Writers of the People: a Fictional Journey Through the Writings of Fyodor Dostoevdky, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, and Douglas Coupland, Joseph J. Zenir
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1996

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Perspectives on Censorship in Adolescent Literature, Erin Martha J. Balsat
Department: English

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Toni Morrison: the Advantage of Post Colonial Writing, Heather S. Bond
Department: English

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Restructuring of the American Canon in the Twentieth Century, Maureen Bowles
Department: English

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Jacob's New Kite: a Study of Self-Esteem in Children's Picture Books, Amy Boyden
Department: English

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Teaching Banned Books: the Case of Little Black Sambo, Elizabeth C. Conrad
Department: English

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Fly on the Wall, Beth Cooperman
Department: English

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The No-Win Situation: Shedding Light on the Indian Woman's Romantic Heterosexual Relations, Meher D'Mello
Department: English; History

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World War One and Its Effects on American Literature: Romantic Vision to Disillusion, Meghan H. Doughtery
Department: English

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Makin' Freedom Languages: a Cyclical Journey in Conversation With Writings By Toni Morrison & Nitozake Shange, Erin I. Dreistadt
Department: English

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Influences on Shakespeare's Fairy Mythology in a Midsummer Night's Dream, Heather Ford
Department: English

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Angel, Whore, Bitch: An Analysis of Mothers, The Cultural Implications and Assessment of Motherhood in Portnoy's Complaint, Life is Elsewhere, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Heidi M. Georgi
Department: English

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Oppression Through Experience: the Effects of the Industrial Revolution on Children As Seen in Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, Anthony M. Humbert
Department: English

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Images of Women in Advertising 1960-Present, Jesmon Idriss
Department: English

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Literary Texts As Ethnographies: the Folkloric Design in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Toni Morrison's Sula By Which the Writers Present Myth of Self and Community, Achila Imchen
Department: English; Sociology and Anthropology

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Entering the Realm of the Unknown: the "Problem" of Convention and Cultural Context in Three Representations of Satan, Amanda L. Junkin
Department: English

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Can You See What I'm Saying?: Comics, the Graphic Novel, and Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Lizbeth A. Leathers
Department: English

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Female Sexuality: An Interdisciplinary and Personal Critique, Deborah J. Lewis

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Contaminations, Matthew W. May
Department: English

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Don't Bother Reading This. You Already Know What It Says., Curtis McClurkin
Department: English

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Medieval Reader in England, 1356-1500, Carolina Miranda
Department: English; History

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Belle Réve: An Analysis of John Berryman's Dream Song, Latasha Naidu
Department: English

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Lay-Z Boys of America: a Collection of Poems, Adam H. Rose
Department: English

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"From Science to Spirit: Metaphor in Walden and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek", Jason R. Rundorff
Department: English

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Sightings: a Collection of Poems, Caleb M. Tiller
Department: English

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My Life: a Personal Narrative, Regan M. Turner
Department: English

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What Is This Creature That I Have Created?, Carmine Vincenzo
Department: English

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Hotel Catarphillus and Other Encounters With the Strangely Usual, Benjamin Wachs
Department: English

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Appearance of Things: a Collection of Short Fiction, Melissa L. Wagner
Department: English

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Text Into Screenplay: An Adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's a Good Man Is Hard to Find, Benjamin B. Wolski
Department: English

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Looking to the North Star: Octavia E. Butler's Use of the Ante Bellum Slave Narrative and Science Fiction in the Novel Kindred, Courtney L. Young
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1995

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Tet Offensive of 1968: Examining the Relationship Between Print Media Discourse and Trends in Public Opinion, Amanda L. Avery
Department: English; Political Science

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Modernism Expanded: Questions of Self, Narration, and Language in Virginia Woolf's to the Lighthouse and Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, Ruth E. Berry
Department: English

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Dragons, Sirens, Warriors, and Goddesses, Naomi A.C. Crummy
Department: English

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Venus of Nazareth, Jesus of Willendorf, Alan DeNiro
Department: English

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From Paradox to Paradigm: Understanding Fiction As Knowledge in the Novels Native Son and Go Tell It on the Mountain, Ben Geiger
Department: English

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Reconstructing Byatt, Michelle Gershman
Department: English

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Formalist Analysis of the French Lieutenant's Woman: Novel Into Film, Kevin M.M. Goheen
Department: English

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Gorge, Michael D. Grau
Department: English

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Geography of the Spirit: Implications of the Escape Motif in the Regionalist Works of Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, and Mark Twain, Kendra L. Hancock
Department: English

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"Freedom Cannot Be Conceived Simply": the Conflict Between Divine and Human Wills in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Joyce Carol Oates, Lisa M. Hannan
Department: English

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Muckraking Tradition: a Dynamic Between Society and Texts, Peter A. James
Department: English

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Saviors and the Saved: a Novella, Jennifer L. Lindquist
Department: English

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Daphne Du Maurier's Gothic Novel Rebecca, Amy K. Madden
Department: English

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Requiem For the Holocaust and Other Poems, Susan K. McGowan
Department: English

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Self-Representation in the Autobiographies of Jean Rhys, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou and Annie Dillard, Stefanie Muntzel
Department: English

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Sandwiches: Text and Paintings, Noah C. Phipps
Department: English; Art and Art History

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Martin Amis: Fiction As Paradox, Elizabeth S. Puterbaugh
Department: English

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Legal and Literary Theory; a Missed Relationship, Caleb R. Shreve
Department: English

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Cultural Consequences of the Vampire in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Ann Rice's Interview With the Vampire; "Bite Me...", Elizabeth A. Staruch
Department: English; Theatre and Dance

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Honor, Social Class and Gender in Plays of Lope De Vega and Shakespeare, Katherine T. Szabo
Department: English; Spanish

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Jean Genet: Construction of the Self As Narrative, Ashley U. Vaught
Department: English

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Words Through the Wall, Gabriele von Bülow Wilson
Department: English

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"A", Elizabeth A. Walter
Department: English

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Approaches to Teaching Three Texts By Twentieth-Century American Women Writers, Emily J. Weidner
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1994

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Looking at Living: An Examination of Distinguishing Characteristics in Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Aaron T. Adams
Department: English

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Maurice Sendak: His Controversial Picture Books, Deanna L. Ashbridge
Department: English

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Bitter Water, John Atkinson
Department: English

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Cultural Awareness of Eroticism, Resistance and Rape: An Enquiry Into the Pain and Joy of Female Sexuality As Portrayed By Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, Amy M. Bacik
Department: English

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Analysis of Shifting Representative of Divorce and New Sibling Relationships in Picture Story Books From 1968-1990, Mary M. Callanan
Department: English

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I Have Loved: A Collection of Poetry, Lucie Carleton
Department: English

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Lexicography and Culture: A Closer Look at the Production of the Great English Dictionaries, Jeremy A. Church
Department: English

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Where No Woman Had Swum Before: Kate Chopin's the Awakening, Antonia M. Conforti
Department: English

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Water Jar, William J. Cook
Department: English

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One Way or Another This Darkness Has Got to Give: A Personal Journey Through the Novels of Leslie Marmon Silko, Richard A. Davis
Department: English

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Eudora Welty: An Experiment With Analytical Fiction, Lucille F. Day
Department: English

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James Dickey and the Psychological Autobiography of Poetry, Michael J. Dittman
Department: English

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Fight Song, John Dreisbach
Department: English

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Analysis of Critical Interpretations of the Concluding Chapters of Mark Twain's the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Sandra J. Eyre
Department: English

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William Faulkner's New South, Robert Felter
Department: English

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Nuclear Construction, Jennifer K. Firlik
Department: English

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Out, Melissa B. Friedman
Department: English

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Examination of Stereotypical Black and White Female Characters in Selected Works By Richard Wright, Cherobia Gates
Department: English

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Look at the Role of Women in the Literature of the 1920s, Jeffrey G. Hoerner
Department: English

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Cultural Dispossession: Three Contemporary South African Author's Exploration of the Past, Hanna C. Howe
Department: English

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Are You There Judy Blume? I Need Some Advice About Adolescence and Alternative Role Models, Andrea M. Hubacz
Department: English

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Biological Mothers- Good But Dead, Roberta R. Lake
Department: English

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Smoke Ring Circus and Other Plays, Amy J. Lambo
Department: English

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A Narrative and Essays From An Existentialist Perspective, Rahyab Lari
Department: English

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Completing the Saga: a Critical/Fictional Investigation of Flann O Brien's Unfinished Novel, Michael P. Mattison
Department: English

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Assessment of New Journalism, Marcus C. McGraw
Department: English

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Elements of the Anti-War Text: a Study of Hemingway, Vonnegut, Heller and O'Brien, Alexander J. McNamee
Department: English

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Fishing For Words: A Collection of Song Lyrics and Poems, Damond A. Moodie
Department: English

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S-A, Judith D. Nichols
Department: English

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Two Short Stories, Paul Pakenham-Walsh
Department: English

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Laughter, Degradation and Carnival in the Literature of Milan Kundera, Mariah D. Pfeiffer
Department: English

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Records of Krishi Shaman, Kristin M. Roehrich
Department: English

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How Censorship Has Affected Literature: Beat Generation Writers, Kristen D. Watt
Department: English

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Expression of the Vietnam War Through Fictional Writing, James P. Webb
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1993

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Tentative Order: A Collection of Poems, Anne C. Adams
Department: English

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Mencken, Lewis, and Anderson Examine the Forces of Nostalgia and Progress in the Making of American Culture, Sarah Adkins
Department: English

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Glance Backwards: Eight Short Stories, Amna Ahsanuddin
Department: English

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Illiteracy in America; A Burgeoning Problem, Kathleen J. Allen
Department: English