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Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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Sex, Desire, and Grace in Walker Percy and Frederick Buechner., Michial D. Farmer II

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Healing springs., Elizabeth Diane Mack

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Cleaning Out, Marni Valerio

Theses/Dissertations from 2006

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Apparitions: Essays on Revisioning my Faith, My Mother, and Myself, Susan Murnan

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Nineteen Eighty-four and the poetics of "orthodoxy-sniffing", Mark R. Myers

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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I that am Lord of Lif: The Christ-knight figure of the Ancrene Riwle, Piers Plowman, and the Faerie Queene, Melissa Ann Conroy

Theses/Dissertations from 2004

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Skin Conditions: The Black Black Woman in African American Literature, Helen L. Fountain

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Western fathers/writing daughters: The place of gender in the autobiographical nonfiction of Mari Sandoz, Mary Clearman Blew, Linda Hasselstrom, and Julene Bair., Nicole Zickefoose

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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Classroom Discourse at the University Level: Negotiation Across Disciplines, Maria Isabel R. D. Barros

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Looking for the Highway: Familiar Essays on the Mythic Journey., Sherman Sutherland

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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An Analysis of Tum-taking in the Montessori Classroom to Illustrate the Classroom Discourse Practices and the Way in Which These Practices Impact the Independent Learning Experience of Students, Kay Burke

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The sought-after trigger: Essays from inside the hunt, Jeffrey Kurrus

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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Stories From the Choir: An Exploration of Narrative Voice in N. Scott Momaday's "House Made of Dawn"., Monica Nicole Kershner

Theses/Dissertations from 2000

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Where Time and Eternity Meet: The Yearning for Transcendence In the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates., John Donnelly Jr.

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The memoirs of Ivan Doig: Donning new roles and revising old myths, Ellen M. Fangman

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Tillie Olsen, counter-revolutionary., Melissa Wilkinson Warr

Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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A study of the sublime in English Romantic aesthetics, Derek T. Leuenberger

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Lost in the savage garden: A nihilistic interpretation of Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles"., Angela S. McMullen

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Memory and remembrance in selected nonfiction works of Elie Wiesel, Jordana L. Nissen

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Synthesizing an understanding of the nature of culture with literary theories sensitive to culture's presence in texts., Janet L. Sutherland

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Manifesting individuality as a Heideggerian approach to Toni Morrison's "Trilogy"., Thuy T. Tran

Theses/Dissertations from 1998

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Recruitment on Paper, Recruitment on the Web: An Examination of the Rhetorical Strategies used in each Medium, Danielle Amorena Glanzer

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The creation of a heroine: Sibling relationships in the novels of Jane Austen, Sandra S. Hannibal

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Delivering us from evil: An introduction to Russell Kirk's supernatural fiction, Ray Andrew Newman

Theses/Dissertations from 1997

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In all its purple flurry: Willa Cather's earliest journalism, Doug Barber

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Social commentary in hard-boiled detective fiction: Seeing the world through the eyes of Marlowe and Millhone., Lisa A. Cook

Theses/Dissertations from 1996

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Breaking boundaries: The autobiographical revolution in Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Edna Wu's Clouds & Rain, Jacqueline P. Franzen

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Uses of sound and music: Euphony and cacophony in "The Silmarillion" and other works by JRR Tolkien, Marian Shalander Kaiser

Theses/Dissertations from 1992

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Measuring entry characteristics of writing program participants: Apprehension and previous exposure to specific writing strategies., Gladys E. Haunton

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The houses that Charles built: The house as symbol in "David Copperfield", "Bleak House", and "Great Expectations", Toni Johnson-Woods

Theses/Dissertations from 1991

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A Jungian analysis of Sir Thomas Malory's Tristram de Lyones, Jeanne Elizabeth Kocher

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A Dance Set: Modern Familiar Essays, Marlene Koeing

Theses/Dissertations from 1990

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John Milton and CS Lewis: Pagan myths, Christian men, Jeff Roesler Stebbins

Theses/Dissertations from 1988

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Parenthetic function, characterization, and the voice of authority in "The Ring and the Book", Bonita Bernadine Dattner-Garza

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Huckleberry Finn: conduct Disordered Adolescent, Emerging Sociopath, or American Hero?, Robert J. Golonka

Theses/Dissertations from 1987

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Your father's crimes: The family cycle of dysfunction in the works of WD Snodgrass, Eve R. Hermanson

Theses/Dissertations from 1985

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Achieving writers' audience awareness by basing a systematic arrangement of modern, practical approaches on Aristotle's "Rhetoric", Michael Dean Baker

Theses/Dissertations from 1984

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The Theory of Transcendence A Movement in the Chain of Being Toward the Good, Joanne L. Kolenda

Theses/Dissertations from 1983

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Faulkner's Satyrikon and tragic vision: "Absalom, Absalom!" and "The Sound and the Fury", Patrick H. Brennan

Theses/Dissertations from 1982

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Humor and satire in The Canterbury Tales, Susan E. Beeman

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Promethean principles of community in three novels by Wright Morris, Diane Wood

Theses/Dissertations from 1981

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Taran Wanderer: The Questing Spirit, Melinda S. Murdock

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Hal Borland's "When the Legends Die" and N Scott Momaday's "House Made of Dawn": Native American alienation, Erin B. Murphy Rinaker

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Three allegorical novels of Mari Sandoz: Slogum House, Capital City and the Tom-Walker, Barbara Wright Rippey

Theses/Dissertations from 1980

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Holding out one's hand in the dark: The theme of touching in selected works of Ursula K Leguin, Donna Dunbar-Odom

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Carriers of the dream wheel myth and ceremony in N. Scott Momaday's" House Made of Dawn" and Leslie Marmon "Silko's Ceremony"., Ronald D. Illingworth

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The splintered fragment, Michael A. Witt

Theses/Dissertations from 1979

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Deathsongs for Cynddylan: An annotated translation of the Heledd poems from the Red Book of Hergest., Anne McConney

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From Eternal to Personal World Order: An Analysis of Milton, Swift, and Twain, Marian O'Brien Paul

Theses/Dissertations from 1976

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Alternatives to meaninglessness in Ken Kesey's "Sometimes A Great Notion", Dennis L. Beckmann

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Flannery O'Connor's mystical salvation through external and internal conflicts., Donna Lou Walker

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Adrienne Rich: A woman's perspective, Marjorie Waterman

Theses/Dissertations from 1975

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Shirley Jackson' s Portrayal of Female Characters iri Conflict, Judith Moran Dirks

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The existential journey of Bigger Thomas: A critical examination of Richard Wright's "Native Son", Marcia Speth

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Willa Cather's refinement of art through progress and change: A study of "The Song of the Lark" and "My Mortal Enemy", Kevin A. Synnott

Theses/Dissertations from 1974

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Myth and initiation in the novels of Fanny Burney, Olive Graham

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Patterns of motion in Wordsworth's "Prelude", Eleanor J. James

Theses/Dissertations from 1973

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Paradise Lost and the book of Job: A comparison of forbidden knowledge, sin intercession, restoration and theodicy, Philip A. Powell

Theses/Dissertations from 1972

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Anne Bronte and the religious novel in the early nineteenth century, Sharon Anderson

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Affirmation and futility: A study of Jack London's vision of struggle in selected Klondike works, William D. Baines

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A study of the dual vision in the novels of Thornton Wilder, Virginia M. Clark

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The Interwar and Post-war Humor of James Thurber, Kenneth Covey Flint

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Isolation and integration: Thematic elements in the fiction of DH Lawrence, Merrilee. Moshier

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Patterns in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath, Denise Levertov, and Howard Nemerov, Cameron G. Northouse

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A study of the sea and the search for paradise regained in "Typee", :Mardi", and "Moby-Dick", Mary Jane Kopperud Ramsey

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Journey within the uroboros: A study of the psychological development of Edward Albee's male characters in connection with the mother archtype, Barbara Schmitz

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Milton's Paradise Lost: From the paradise without to the paradise within, Brian John Wagner

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Initiation in the Novels of Carl Jonas, Pat Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 1971

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Hermann Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game" : A study of three lyrical figures., Jean Shannon Boatright

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An analysis of love themes in the Orlando Furioso, Dolph Duane Johnson

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The earth image of Thomas Hardy, Linda Lewis

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The Elizabethan lady: A dichotomy between courtesy book and drama, Irene Cannon Smith

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The American success myth: A study of the American dream in five plays, Yoshiko Tanaka

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In the beanstalk country: A study of ritualistic violence in three plays of Tennessee Williams, Peter J. Vaccaro

Theses/Dissertations from 1970

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Eros and Miss Austen: A selective mythologycal explication of Jane Austen's major novels, Robert L. Corey

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Romeo and Juliet as a dramatized sonnet, Maxine Elizabeth Crain

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Renaissance kings-mirror literature: The dual vision, Andrea Doerr

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Webster's dark vision, Dianne Fox

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A structural and thematic analysis of the early picaresque novel, Marion Grandone

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God and death in selected works of James Agee, John William Jobst

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Social criticism in the works of Dylan Thomas, John K. Quammen

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Fresh threads of connection: The role of imagery in George Eliot's "Middlemarch", Phyllis C. Ralph

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The utopian tradition: A comparison of "The Republic" and "Utopia" with James Hilton's 'Lost Horizon", Laurence J. Sokol

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The psychological and spiritual quest for personal identity in the poetry of Theodore Roethke, Patrick J. Stricklett

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Prophets of doom: The views of Jonathan Swift and George Orwell, Mardelle J. Susman

Theses/Dissertations from 1969

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Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison: Master and protege, Emmett P. Cribbs

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The cycle of the seasons in selected works of Willa Cather, Daniel J. Daly

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An analysis of the use of light and dark imagery for thematic purposes in the fiction of Robert Penn Warren, Paul Anthony De Leo

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Carson McCullers: "The Tragedy of Spiritual Isolation", Gerald L. Fricke

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The poetic response to the paradox of mutability and permanence: A study of poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Catherine M. Griesel

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The social quest in John Updike's major fiction., Patricia E. Lucas

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A study of dramatic tragedy in the twentieth century, Ann D. Mactier

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Confrontation and conflict in the poetry of John Donne, Roger M. Peirce

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Diversity in the narrative-moralitas relationship of Robert Henryson's The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phyrgian, David M. Raabe

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The code heroine in Katherine Anne Porter's short stories, Phebe Jamison Rosch

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Literary patronage in Renaissance England, Marilyn G. Selwold

Theses/Dissertations from 1968

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The mid-century (1845-1855) Victorianism in the poetry of three major writers, Carole Lee Abernathy

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Pre-romantic elements in the satires of Charles Churchill, E. Clark Bowerman

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The dramatic technique of John Webster: An intensive analysis, Bernice Lucille Derra

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The evolution of the vice character from the morality plays to Renaissance drama, Lois Joan George