Theses, Dissertations, and Creative Activity from students in the Department of English.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Sex, Desire, and Grace in Walker Percy and Frederick Buechner., Michial D. Farmer II
Healing springs., Elizabeth Diane Mack
Cleaning Out, Marni Valerio
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Apparitions: Essays on Revisioning my Faith, My Mother, and Myself, Susan Murnan
Nineteen Eighty-four and the poetics of "orthodoxy-sniffing", Mark R. Myers
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
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
Skin Conditions: The Black Black Woman in African American Literature, Helen L. Fountain
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
Classroom Discourse at the University Level: Negotiation Across Disciplines, Maria Isabel R. D. Barros
Looking for the Highway: Familiar Essays on the Mythic Journey., Sherman Sutherland
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
The sought-after trigger: Essays from inside the hunt, Jeffrey Kurrus
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
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
Where Time and Eternity Meet: The Yearning for Transcendence In the Fiction of Joyce Carol Oates., John Donnelly Jr.
The memoirs of Ivan Doig: Donning new roles and revising old myths, Ellen M. Fangman
Tillie Olsen, counter-revolutionary., Melissa Wilkinson Warr
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
A study of the sublime in English Romantic aesthetics, Derek T. Leuenberger
Lost in the savage garden: A nihilistic interpretation of Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles"., Angela S. McMullen
Memory and remembrance in selected nonfiction works of Elie Wiesel, Jordana L. Nissen
Synthesizing an understanding of the nature of culture with literary theories sensitive to culture's presence in texts., Janet L. Sutherland
Manifesting individuality as a Heideggerian approach to Toni Morrison's "Trilogy"., Thuy T. Tran
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Recruitment on Paper, Recruitment on the Web: An Examination of the Rhetorical Strategies used in each Medium, Danielle Amorena Glanzer
The creation of a heroine: Sibling relationships in the novels of Jane Austen, Sandra S. Hannibal
Delivering us from evil: An introduction to Russell Kirk's supernatural fiction, Ray Andrew Newman
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
In all its purple flurry: Willa Cather's earliest journalism, Doug Barber
Social commentary in hard-boiled detective fiction: Seeing the world through the eyes of Marlowe and Millhone., Lisa A. Cook
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
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
Uses of sound and music: Euphony and cacophony in "The Silmarillion" and other works by JRR Tolkien, Marian Shalander Kaiser
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Measuring entry characteristics of writing program participants: Apprehension and previous exposure to specific writing strategies., Gladys E. Haunton
The houses that Charles built: The house as symbol in "David Copperfield", "Bleak House", and "Great Expectations", Toni Johnson-Woods
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
A Jungian analysis of Sir Thomas Malory's Tristram de Lyones, Jeanne Elizabeth Kocher
A Dance Set: Modern Familiar Essays, Marlene Koeing
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
John Milton and CS Lewis: Pagan myths, Christian men, Jeff Roesler Stebbins
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Parenthetic function, characterization, and the voice of authority in "The Ring and the Book", Bonita Bernadine Dattner-Garza
Huckleberry Finn: conduct Disordered Adolescent, Emerging Sociopath, or American Hero?, Robert J. Golonka
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Your father's crimes: The family cycle of dysfunction in the works of WD Snodgrass, Eve R. Hermanson
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Achieving writers' audience awareness by basing a systematic arrangement of modern, practical approaches on Aristotle's "Rhetoric", Michael Dean Baker
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
The Theory of Transcendence A Movement in the Chain of Being Toward the Good, Joanne L. Kolenda
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Faulkner's Satyrikon and tragic vision: "Absalom, Absalom!" and "The Sound and the Fury", Patrick H. Brennan
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Humor and satire in The Canterbury Tales, Susan E. Beeman
Promethean principles of community in three novels by Wright Morris, Diane Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Taran Wanderer: The Questing Spirit, Melinda S. Murdock
Hal Borland's "When the Legends Die" and N Scott Momaday's "House Made of Dawn": Native American alienation, Erin B. Murphy Rinaker
Three allegorical novels of Mari Sandoz: Slogum House, Capital City and the Tom-Walker, Barbara Wright Rippey
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Holding out one's hand in the dark: The theme of touching in selected works of Ursula K Leguin, Donna Dunbar-Odom
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
The splintered fragment, Michael A. Witt
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Deathsongs for Cynddylan: An annotated translation of the Heledd poems from the Red Book of Hergest., Anne McConney
From Eternal to Personal World Order: An Analysis of Milton, Swift, and Twain, Marian O'Brien Paul
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Alternatives to meaninglessness in Ken Kesey's "Sometimes A Great Notion", Dennis L. Beckmann
Flannery O'Connor's mystical salvation through external and internal conflicts., Donna Lou Walker
Adrienne Rich: A woman's perspective, Marjorie Waterman
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Shirley Jackson' s Portrayal of Female Characters iri Conflict, Judith Moran Dirks
The existential journey of Bigger Thomas: A critical examination of Richard Wright's "Native Son", Marcia Speth
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
Myth and initiation in the novels of Fanny Burney, Olive Graham
Patterns of motion in Wordsworth's "Prelude", Eleanor J. James
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Paradise Lost and the book of Job: A comparison of forbidden knowledge, sin intercession, restoration and theodicy, Philip A. Powell
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Anne Bronte and the religious novel in the early nineteenth century, Sharon Anderson
Affirmation and futility: A study of Jack London's vision of struggle in selected Klondike works, William D. Baines
A study of the dual vision in the novels of Thornton Wilder, Virginia M. Clark
The Interwar and Post-war Humor of James Thurber, Kenneth Covey Flint
Isolation and integration: Thematic elements in the fiction of DH Lawrence, Merrilee. Moshier
Patterns in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath, Denise Levertov, and Howard Nemerov, Cameron G. Northouse
A study of the sea and the search for paradise regained in "Typee", :Mardi", and "Moby-Dick", Mary Jane Kopperud Ramsey
Journey within the uroboros: A study of the psychological development of Edward Albee's male characters in connection with the mother archtype, Barbara Schmitz
Milton's Paradise Lost: From the paradise without to the paradise within, Brian John Wagner
Initiation in the Novels of Carl Jonas, Pat Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Hermann Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game" : A study of three lyrical figures., Jean Shannon Boatright
An analysis of love themes in the Orlando Furioso, Dolph Duane Johnson
The earth image of Thomas Hardy, Linda Lewis
The Elizabethan lady: A dichotomy between courtesy book and drama, Irene Cannon Smith
The American success myth: A study of the American dream in five plays, Yoshiko Tanaka
In the beanstalk country: A study of ritualistic violence in three plays of Tennessee Williams, Peter J. Vaccaro
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Eros and Miss Austen: A selective mythologycal explication of Jane Austen's major novels, Robert L. Corey
Romeo and Juliet as a dramatized sonnet, Maxine Elizabeth Crain
Renaissance kings-mirror literature: The dual vision, Andrea Doerr
Webster's dark vision, Dianne Fox
A structural and thematic analysis of the early picaresque novel, Marion Grandone
God and death in selected works of James Agee, John William Jobst
Social criticism in the works of Dylan Thomas, John K. Quammen
Fresh threads of connection: The role of imagery in George Eliot's "Middlemarch", Phyllis C. Ralph
The utopian tradition: A comparison of "The Republic" and "Utopia" with James Hilton's 'Lost Horizon", Laurence J. Sokol
The psychological and spiritual quest for personal identity in the poetry of Theodore Roethke, Patrick J. Stricklett
Prophets of doom: The views of Jonathan Swift and George Orwell, Mardelle J. Susman
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison: Master and protege, Emmett P. Cribbs
The cycle of the seasons in selected works of Willa Cather, Daniel J. Daly
An analysis of the use of light and dark imagery for thematic purposes in the fiction of Robert Penn Warren, Paul Anthony De Leo
Carson McCullers: "The Tragedy of Spiritual Isolation", Gerald L. Fricke
The poetic response to the paradox of mutability and permanence: A study of poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Catherine M. Griesel
The social quest in John Updike's major fiction., Patricia E. Lucas
A study of dramatic tragedy in the twentieth century, Ann D. Mactier
Confrontation and conflict in the poetry of John Donne, Roger M. Peirce
Diversity in the narrative-moralitas relationship of Robert Henryson's The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phyrgian, David M. Raabe
The code heroine in Katherine Anne Porter's short stories, Phebe Jamison Rosch
Literary patronage in Renaissance England, Marilyn G. Selwold
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
The mid-century (1845-1855) Victorianism in the poetry of three major writers, Carole Lee Abernathy
Pre-romantic elements in the satires of Charles Churchill, E. Clark Bowerman
The dramatic technique of John Webster: An intensive analysis, Bernice Lucille Derra
The evolution of the vice character from the morality plays to Renaissance drama, Lois Joan George