Ramsey Library Special Collections

UNCA SENIOR PAPERS

LITERATURE

All students in the Literature Department are required to write a senior paper or to produce a senior creative writing project. These are written on a variety of literature topics and fulfill the departmental requirement for graduation.  Special Collections, Ramsey Library  holds bound volumes of Literature senior papers from 1966 to the present.

Students in the Literature Department who choose to take a Creative Writing major are required to involve themselves in a year-long, full-length Senior Creative Writing Project. Under the direction of a creative writing faculty member the student may choose to work in the area of fiction, poetry, or drama. The projects, called Senior Papers - Creative Writing, are collected by the department and housed in the Special Collections of Ramsey Library.

Senior papers are also required for those students who choose to teach English.

Students wishing to release their papers for inter-library loan and/or for publication will need to sign and date a RELEASE AGREEMENT.
 

Literature Senior Theses, by year  

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1966

 

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Corcoran, E. E., III
 		 Three Inhabitants of "The Waste Land" no/no
Dillingham, Nancy
 		 The Symbolic Significance of The Great Gatsby no/no
Rickman, Rosalind Characterization Through Symbolism and Allegory of the Major Figures in The Scarlet Letter no/no
Young, Phyllis A. William Faulkner: The Conflict Between Nature and Society
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1967

 

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Carson,
Carole Ann		 Russian Character-Types Portrayed in Dostevsky's Karamozov Family no/no
Ledbetter,
Sandra L.		 An Examination of the Hemingway Code Hero no/no

Link, Ann S.

The Problem of Fate in The Oresteia

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Morgan, Charlene

 Willa Cather's Realism: An Analysis of Character in O Pioneers!

no/no

Pittman, Evelyn		 The Philosophy of Utilitarianism Expressed in Charles Dickens' Hard Times no/no
Stanley, Helen S. The Dramatic and Autobiographical Sources of Billy Budd
 		 no/no
Stevenson,
Nancy A.		 The Relationship of the Body and Soul in Certain of Donne's Poems and Prose Works no/no
     

1968
 

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Miller, Louis K.
 		 Hawthorne and the Evil Nature of Man no/no
Williams, Elizabeth Lynch Asheville and Tom Wolfe: A Study in Chancing Attitudes no/no
     

1969
 

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Clevinger, Mary B. Fitzgerald's Theory of Wealth as Expressed in The Great Gatsby
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Hooker, Carolyn Ball F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald: An examination of antagonism in Tender is the Night and Save Me The Waltz
 		 no/no
Sluder, Sandra Lynne The Effect of Women in the Life of  Joe Christmas
 		 no/no

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1970
 

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Apostolopoulos,
Eula V.		 Mark Twain's Attack on Fundamentalism in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Letters from the Earth
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Baumann, Hurley The Influence of the Philosophy of Henri Bergson of the Writings of Nikas Kazantzakis as Revealed in Zorba the Greek
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Bell, Robert W. The Brand Name Society: Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind
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Jones, Mary Lou Structural and Transformational Grammars in North Carolina Public Schools
 		 no/no
Mitchell, Martin Robert Lowell's Quarrel with History
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Muse, Wilma Littlechild The Clergyman and Jane Austen
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Richards, Laurel Kent The Use of the International Experience in James' Concept of the Expanding Consciousness no/no
     

1971
 

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Braly, Rosamond L. A Comparative Analysis of the Revised and the Original Versions of Bread and Wine
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Comfort, Bill Dostoevsky's Dualism: A study in three characters
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Diamond, Jill A. A Study of the Moral Theme in Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
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Eskridge, Margaret Jane Austen's View of a World of Order
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Hogsed, Linda The Lack of Spiritual Communication in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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James, D.R. "The Fur Coat" and Other Stories
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Shipman, Carol Lynn Henrik Ibsen: A tragic view based in the concept of self-actualization
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Smith, Freida Boone Changes and Growth in Hemingway's Hero from A Farewell to Arms to
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Starnes, Jane Keenan Love and Friendship in The Merchant of Venice no/no
     

1972
 

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Clarke, Patsy M. Romanticism and Realism in Acting Style as Exemplified by Charlotte Cushman
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Dillingham, Sandra Lear's Self-Discovery
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Durham, Susan H. Poetry - Thesis
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Gordon, Emily The Concept of Freedom in the Novels of John Fowles
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Hardin, Patricia The Concept of Nature and Religion Found in Pope's "An Essay on Man" and Wordsworth's "The Prelude"
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Rice, Linda Gail The Character of Lady Macbeth
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Roberts, Glenda Leatherwood
 		 An Examination of Religion in Huckleberry Finn no/no
Rutledge, Mrs. Diane C. A Study in Opposites: The Women in Henrik Ibsen's Plays
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1973
 

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Adams, James I. The Question of Anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice
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Ayers, Barbara The "Loom of Time"
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Brown, Carole The Changing Beliefs and Attitudes of Jack Kerouac
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Cromwell, David Carroll
 		 Richard III as a Machiavellian Villain no/no
Gaffney, R. L.
 		 Motive and Moral in Huckleberry Finn: A Thesis no/no
Grier, Deborah The History of the Lafayette Theatre 1912-1929
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Horecany, Joseph A Search for Values: Jack Kerouac's On the Road and The Dharma Bums
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Kale, Rita Social and Moral Conflict in Three of Falkner's Characters
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Kaltreider, Sallie Middleton
 		 "The Magic Goat" and Other Stories no/no
Kiser, Margaret D. Meyerhold: Russia's Theatre Revolutionary
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Page, Brenda Magic in the Renaissance
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Passmore, Barbara Theory and Practice in Four Novels of Alain Robbe-Gillet
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Penland, Shirley Naturalism in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native
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1974
 

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Cocke, Mary Lou Author: Flannery O'Connor
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Crawford, Sherron Albert Camus: A Passion for Life
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Crenshaw, Kristina Snelling Contraction and Expansion: The Theme of Retreat in the Poetry of Robert Frost
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Gainey, Pat Conflicting Attitudes: The Effect of Materialism on the Works of  F.Scott Fitzgerald
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Gilreath, Claudette The Theology of the Life Force in John Steinbeck's To A God Unknown
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Graham, Sylvia From Technique to Theme in Wilbur D. Steele's "How Beautiful with Shoes"
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Hillebrand, Ellen Twain and Faulkner: Innocence and Initiation
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Kruszewski, Mary G. Slawomir Mrozek: Poland's Playwright of the Absurd
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Lampley, Mary Ann Thunderland Revisited
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Lewis, Judy S. Men and Masters
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McDaniel, Anthony An Analysis of Mark Twain's Success Handling Negro Characters
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McLean, Mary Nathanael West: A Forerunner of the Black Humor Tradition
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Miller, Elena Diane Shakespeare's Use of the Supernatural as a Dramatic Technique in Macbeth and The Tempest
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Outlaw, Mary C. Rebellion and Art in Search of Revelation: A Study of Henry Miller
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Parker, Elizabeth Dylan Thomas and the Archetype of the Quest
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Roper, Vicky Fitzgerald's Heroines: Versions of Zelda
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Stout, Harriet Rodes Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Sensuous Priest
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Thornburg, Jill The Use of the Gothic in the Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
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1975
 

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Glick, Donna Jean Isadora Duncan: The Quest for Freedom
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1976
 

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Barbour, George F. Sivvy and "Daddy"
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Belmore, Mildred Vance Elizabeth Bennett and the Unifying Force in Pride and Prejudice no/no
Blake, Christopher Michael Artistic Inspiration in Les Fleurs Du Mal no/no
Bradley, Frank Low Comic Characters and Subplots in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest
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Buckner, Sue Ann Isabella's Problems of Manners and Morals in Shakespeare's Measure For Measure
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Daniel, Eleanor Page Unconventional Techniques in "The Coal Shoveller"
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Engle, Jeannette What You See is What You See
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Erwin, Charlotte Egerton A Character Study of Medea
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Fletcher, Victoria Parker Euripides' Views of Women and Justice in Medea no/no
Gardner, Nancy Rachel The Thematic Unity of J. D. Salinger's Nine Stories
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Lamb, Janet P. The Meaning of the Catharsis-Clause in Aristotle's Poetics: Three Views
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Radford, Eleanor R. Huck Finn Grows Up: or does he?
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1977
 

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Connor, Charlotte
 		 A Voice to Heed: A Study of the Functions of the Chorus in Agamemnon no/no
Dixon, Lisa Ellen D. H. Lawrence's View of Life in the Growth of Paul Morel
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Fisher, Anthony Lee Henry Miller as "Cosmological Writer"
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Fudge, Robert Bailie The Genesis of Remembrance Rock
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Gleaton, Madge Slade Shakespeare's Use of Order in The Tempest
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Harrington, Dolores Anita Elements of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" as Represented in Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms
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McLain, Marilyn E. The Blackening of the Character of Richard III
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Newman, Barbara Jo Exploring the Character of Hamlet
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Roberts. Terry  Lee The Echoing Sphere: E. M. Forester's A Passage to India
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Singleton, Carol J. The Vonnegut Religious Experience as seen in Cat's Cradle, The Sirens of Titan and Slaughterhouse Five
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Young, Jane L. Freaks in Other Voices, Other Rooms
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1978
 

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Adams, Anslem Snow The Psychological Love of Paul Morel
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Furek, John L. Richard II and the Second Fall of Man
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Jones, Joan W. Reflective Surfaces in Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms
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Monroe, Susan An Interpretation of Chaucer's Use of Gentilesse in the Marriage Group and in Troilus and Criseyde no/no
Sagar, Mary B. David the Shepherd-King as a Tragic Hero
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Shields, Boyd The Ancient Poetess
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Voyles, David Understanding "The Fall of the House of Usher"
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1979
 

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Belt, Stephanie Theme and Technique in "A Poetics for Bullies"
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Jackson, Rebecca J. Death of a Salesman: An American Tragedy
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Leatherwood, Kristi L. Reverence for Life in To Stay Alive
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Moore, Crawford Durham Norris's McTeague as a Specimen of Pessimistic Naturalism no/no
     

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1980
 

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Baber, Lynne Sister Irene and Laura: Prisoners of fear
 		 no/no
Eichelberger, Priscilla D. The Defects of Reason: An examination of Flannery O'Connor's "A Temple of the Holy Ghost"
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Gilbert, Matt A Discussion of Plot, Character and Meaning in Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha
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Hillyer, Patty Meaning Through Hope and Time
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Kierce, Anne Huckleberry Finn: The Instinctive Taoist
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McClendon, Lowery Nietzche's Dionysianism in the Poetry of Hart Crane
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Morro, Dierdre On Marianne Morre's Marriage
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Ratcliffe, June  M. Hard Times and the Industrial Revolution
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Satterwhite, Robert B. The New Technology of Newspapers
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Stewart, M. Valerie Alienation in Waiting for Godot
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Venrick, Reed Gloucester as Foil in King Lear
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West, Mark Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow: A proverb for the paranoid
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Woodie, Sabrina A. The Importance of Pearl in Hawthorne's Psychology of Head, Heart, and Will
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1981
 

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Beck, Robert M. Hermann Hesse: Synthesis and Satisfaction in the Artist
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Brock, Jennifer Edmund and the Nature of Evil in Shakespeare's King Lear
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Burnette, Jane The Reality of Reason and Truth in Jane Austen's Emma and Sense and Sensibility
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Lawson, Margaret The Fall of a King
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Moore, Mona The Divinity of Kings
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Parker, Scott The Reasons for the Needs of Government Intervention in Broadcasting and the Development of the Federal Communications Commission
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Stevens, Jack The Pornography Battle
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1982
 

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Booker, Suzanne Theories of Kingship Affecting Shakespeare's Portrayal of Henry IV and Richard III
 		 no/no
Brown, Annette Pip's Changing Sense of Place
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Buckner, Linda Charles Dickens as an Educational Reformer
 		  
Cantrell, Charles G. New Journalism - Is It a Working  Journalism
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Cole, Roy Huck Finn's Futile Attempt to Escape Civilization
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Crain, Kathy Existentialism in Franz Kapka's The Trial
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Deaton, Marianne The Free Press/Fair Trial Controversy
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Grant, Sharon M. A Man Apart
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Groce, Sheri A Man of all Temperance: The Duke's Role in Measure for Measure
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Rackley, Brenda Shakespeare's Use of the Pool in his Dramaturgy
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Reid, Deborah The Print Media: How it is Protected and Restrained
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Teszler, Vicky The Re-Instatement of Morality in The Tempest
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Vines, Terri Justice in Antigone
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Wilson, Sandra The Ideal Ruler
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Wyatt, Tammy Jarvis Julia Wolfe: In Flesh and in Print
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1983
 

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Belden, Wendy Moliere's Comic Alter Egos
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Buckner, Tonya The New Tower: Black Dialect in the Classroom
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Chiappetta, Graydon World View in the Literature of Paramahansa Yogananda
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Frederick, Madelaine The Miracle of Truth
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Gilman, Joyce Jane Austen's Workout Books: The Metamorphoses of Jane Austen's Heroines
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Hillyer, Lynn Buchanan The Nature of Faulknerian Time in The Sound & the Fury
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Quigley, John J. Money, Religion, and Isolation in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and A Journal of the Plague Year
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Reevie, Robin The Later Works of James Thurber
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Scotchie, Joe Thomas Wolfe's Critique of Business and Success in You Can't Go Home Again
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Seymour, Donna Dreams, Drunkenness and Death in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh
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Wright, Deborah Coming of Age: Two Adolescent Novels
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1984
 

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Burnett, Mary Allison The Trouble with Bartleby
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Howard, Kari D.H. Lawrence and the Modern World
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Jenkins, Lynn A Woman's Role in Pride and Prejudice
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Leon, John Ford The Riddle of Hamlet's Sanity
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Jones, David A Little Breakfast
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Ross, Ann The Call to Heroism
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Skoland, Deborah The Flaw in Society in Henrik Ibsen's Plays
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Stark, Bill Charlton Heston Speaks to Hattie Maynor
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Teresi, Nancy On the Delicate Edge of Dream
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1985
 

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Ammons, Jennifer A. Antigone: A Timeless Heroine
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Erwin, Ellen Thomas Mann and the German Question: Doctor Faustus
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Franks, S. Bruce The Prometheus Myth in Aeschylus and Shelley
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Hall, William Keith Soft Geology
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Hamilton, Heather A Collection of Short Stories
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Hardee, Ray H.L. Mencken: Humor in his Writing
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Harklerode, Katrinia A Death of One's Own
 		 no/no
Harlow, Barbara The World of Paerie in Isak Dinesen;s Short Stories
 		 no/no
Heffner, Loula Homosexuality in Literature
 		 no/no
Lankford, Dawn C. Misfortunes that Followed
 		 no/no
Levin, David White Elephants
 		 no/no
Rickman, Tawana Isak Dinesen and the Power of the Female
 		 no/no
Saracco, Holly Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus as a Christian Tragedy
 		 no/no
Thompson, Tracy The Hills Beyond: Fact of Fiction?
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1986
 

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Coutlakis, John Conrad and Coppola in Heart of Darkness
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Gallagher, DeAnn Discovering the Boundaries of Narrative
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Jackson, Tammy Women in Irish Literature
 		 no/no
Peacock, Wayne The Question of Time in Contemporary Latin American Literature
 		 no/no
Ray, Mary Lynne Symbolic Geography of Paradise Lost
 		 no/no
Ray, Pamela Female Bildung
 		 no/no
Wynhoff, Marty Myself, Outside: Charlotte Bronte as Victorian Feminist
 		 no/no
     

1987
 

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Dedmondt, Wadonna The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Revelation of Mark Twain's Stance on Racism and Nineteenth Century American Social Values
 		 no/no
Grunwell, JoAnne Gradation of the Victorian Womanly Ideal: Dickens' Angels and Fallen Women
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Knupp, Beverly Faullkner, the "Negro" and Honesty
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Lawing, Susan Idiolects in Great Expectations: Charles Dickens' Art of Communication
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Lynch, Sue Anti-Semitism in the Prioress's Tale
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Randall, Sharon An Attempt to Recapture the Past
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Tyrer, Jill Equus: The Creation of a God
 		 no/no
Vergot, Michael Recurrent Language in The Canterbury Tales
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Wike, Dana From Troilus and Criseyde to Troilus and Cressida: Chaucer's Influence on Shakespeare
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Williams, Thurman Butler, Darwin and Evolutionary Theory: New Criticism of an Old Controversy
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Woodhull, Christopher E. M. Forster's Struggle for Domestic Truth
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Woro, Eric Tragic Irony in Samson Agonistes
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1988
 

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Bean, Jennifer Late Medieval Satiric, Chivalric Romances
 		 no/no
Brezillac, Sheri Showing the Dog the Stick
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Browning, Jennifer Lynn The Three Worlds of Franz Kafka: Prague, Judaism and the Family
 		 no/no
Erben, Joan Albert Camus: A Romantic at Heart
 		 no/no
Jacobson, Karla Kristen Aristotle in the Twentieth Century
 		 no/no
O'Bryan, Heather W. Eugene O'Neill: From Playwright of General Experience to Playwright of Autobiography
 		 no/no
Russell, Lorena Feminist Revisions of Joyce's Molly Bloom
 		 no/no
Sands, E. Michele Characters in the Academic Novels of Kingsley Amis, Howard Jacobson and David Lodge
 		 no/no
Valentine, Linda A New Portrait of Eve no/no
     

1989
 

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Chastain, Bret The Influence of Germanic Myths and Legends in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow -- Imitation or Direct Translation
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Dyson, Suzanne Hemingway's Women: The Hidden Strengths
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Fullam, David Chaucer's Troilus: Delite with Subtyl Art
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Matthew-Wood, Dora Carson McCullers: Regionalist or Writer?
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Mulkin, Angela Two and Two Makes Five: Dostoevsky's Existential Man
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1990
 

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Edwards, Arlene The Twentieth-Century Dystopian Novel: Why Now?
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Emerick, Jeanette The Failure of Evolutionary Meliorism in Tess of the D'Urbervilles
 		 no/no
Quinlan, Joseph R. Edgar Pangborn: An Introduction to His Work
 		 no/no
Williamson,
Barbara Lea		 The Necessity of Change no/no
Zachs, Michelle With Tempered Pen: Christine De Pizan's Introduction of the Female Perspective in the Medieval Literary Tradition
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1991
 

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Creasman, Rhonda Spencer's Faerie Queeene and the 'Cult of Elizabeth'
 		 no/no
Hill, Mitzi Father Figures in August Wilson's Work: Responsible but Inadequate Images
 		 no/no
Lowder, Christy M. Eudora Welty's Journeys Into Revelation
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Phaup, John J. Boouderby and Denial in Charles Dickens' Hard Times
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Smith, John Howard Tolstoy's Anna Karenina as an Answer to the Woman Question
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Turman, Andrew Unity of Themes 'In Early Years'
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Ward, Linda M. Anna Tyler's Dysfunctional Families in If Morning Ever Comes and Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
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1992
 

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Bell, Lydia Questioning Traditional Gender Roles: Jeannette Winterson and Androgyny
 		 no/no
Bock, Melody Black Women's Literature: Changing the Traditional View, Mildred Taylor and Toni Morrison
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Cooper, Emily Dickinson and Rich: A Search for a Female Literary Heritage
 		 no/no
Griffin, Greta William Faulkner's Racial Issues and Gender Roles
 		 no/no
Griffin, Teresa Realism in Twain's Writing
 		 no/no
Heffner, Jordan Heroism's Loss of Center
 		 no/no
Hendricks, Amy Wuthering Heights: The Feminist Struggle
 		 no/no
Latta, Philip A. An Introduction to poet Kenneth White
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McGalliard,
Barbara Jollae		 Charles Dickens and the Orphan Child
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1993
 

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Allen, Michelle Leigh Troy Goes Medieval: What Happens when Chaucer meets the Trojans
 		 no/no
Anthony, Shannon E. Magical Realism and Gabriel Garcia Marques's One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Barber, Pam What Makes a Regionalist Writer Transcend the Label: The Cases of Wilma Dykeman and Eudora Welty
 		 no/no
Cando, Allison Complex in Form, Simple in Appearance: Characteristics of Ernest Hemingway's Writing Style
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Cantrell, Donna Clyde Edgerton's Dynamic Southern Woman
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Edwards, Alessa Morality Set Against the Mainstream: Wedekind's Fruhlings Erwachen
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Paul, Larry R. Dante, Bernard, and the Final Vision in The Divine Comedy
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Shelton, Karen Alice Walker's Women and the Development of Her Womanist Philosophy
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1994
 

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Ackerman, Linda Susanne Wright The Sense of Place in Southern Fiction as Exemplified in Selected works of Anne Rivers Siddons, Lee Smith, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Allen, Sarah Addison Alaine Robbe-Grillet and the New Novel
 		 no/no
Bland, Laura Gail Criseyde's Actions for Self Preservation
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Brazelle, Leslie Gariann Family History: Those Who Influenced Kate Chopin
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Brewster,
Nancy Pamela		 Not Blind to the Worth: The Influence of The Leaves of Grass on Victorian British Authors
 		 no/no
Brittain, James Philip The Wasteland in Our Time
 		 no/no
Fox, Michelle Leigh Two Generations Revising the Southern Belle Sterotype: Wilma Dykeman's The Tall Woman and Gail Godwin's The Odd Woman
 		 no/no
Godde, Keith L. Representation of Gullah in Pat Conroy's The Water is Wide
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Hollifield, Adrienne Orality and Literacy Sing the Same Song
 		 no/no
Humphrys, Maureen Are All the Stories True?
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Johnson, Mary Susan Love, Death, and the Tragedy of Time
 		 no/no
Kessaris,  Kimberly Lynn Art for Life: E. M. Forster's Dialectic of Aesthetics
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Kirby, Shanon Dracula and the High School Education
 		 no/no
Knowles, Adrienne Poststructuralist Theory and the Metafiction of Italo Calvino
 		 no/no
Lawson, Gary Beowulf: As Christian First
 		 no/no
Ledford, Teresa Lynn The Holy Grail: A Quest To Find Its Beginning
 		 no/no
McKee, Anne Elizabeth Walt Whitman As America's Poet and His Influence on William Carlos Williams and Carl Sandburg
 		 no/no
Merrill, R. Chad Mark Twain's Use of Humor
 		 no/no
Morse, Melinda
Gay Weems 		The Transcendental Qualities fo Chopin That Make Her Distinctive no/no
Peake, Stephen E. Carver and Updike: Adultery as a Reflection of Contemporary Life
 		 no/no
Phipps, Dana Through the Eyes of a Child
 		 no/no
Pressley, Laurie Nan The Interdependence of Treasure and Honor in Beowulf: Why Beowulf Fights the Dragon
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Proffitt, Dawn Francis An Appalachian Woman in The Winter People
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Shelton, Tonya Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost: A Study of the Poetic Theme of Death
 		 no/no
Suswal, Chris The Knowledge of the Soul: Plato in James Joyce
 		 no/no
Walker, Amy Patricia Exile: Edna O'Brien, Flann O'Brien and the Pervasive Theme of Irish Twentieth Century Literature
 		 no/no
White, Kathy Brigham The Atwood Protagonist: Breaking Chains of Biological Bondage
 		 no/no
Yazan, Murat Fuzuli: An Introduction

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1995
 

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Allen, Dorothy Ann

Feminist Messages in The Joys of Motherhood and The Handmaid's Tale

no/no

Bakkegard, Koren L.

Influence, Imitation, and Originality: Finding the Boundaries of the Effects of  Shakespeare's Sonnets on the Sonnets of  John  Keats

 no/no

Blevins, Andrea

Responsibility for the Fall: Adam Versus Eve

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Bryan, Saskia Nora

Existentialism and Absurdist Theatre: Connections and Interpretations

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Bynum, Angela Genair

Sermons as Literature: Civil Rights Sermons of Dr. Martin Luther King

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Cloherty, Tyler Lynn

Craving Alms of the Sun: Isolation of the Spirit in Wuthering Heights

 no/no

Craddock, John

Widsio and the Construction of Anglo-Saxon Narrative

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Evans, Rick What Mask Do You Wear? no/no
Forga, Donna Suicide : Victimization or Liberation? no/no
Jones, Jessica Life in Literature: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein no/no
Jordan, Jay The Great Language Debate: French, English and Indigenous Tongues in Post- Colonial  African Literature no/no
Keller, Seth Self-Portraiture With a Twist Within Tolstoy's Anna Karenina no/no
King, Melissa E. Feminist Messages in The Joys of Motherhood and The Handmaid's Tale no/no
Laurie, Julie Postmodernism: The Problem of Definition no/no
Nolte, Theresa M. Sula: A Lesson in Women's Friendship no/no
Sconyers, AllyeB Grace Religious Vision and the Poetry of Dylan Thomas no/no
Smith, Clasina Leslie The Garden of Instability: The Interrelationships Between Relativity Theory, Quantum Mechanics, and T.S. Eliot's Burnt Norton no/no
Sykes, Tracy And All Our Songs Are Not Mourning: H/Eros Tales in Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name    no/no
West, Carla D. Christine de Pizan: Can We Call Her a Feminist? no/no

1996
 

  

Andrews, Laura Louise

Hemingway's Women

no/no

Carey, Jennifer

Man's Power, Woman's Power: Gender Roles and Sexuality in Dracula

no/no

Hall, Kim Marie

The Legacy of Barabas and Shylock

no/no

James, Christine

The Influence of Autobiography in Kate Chopin's The Awakening

no/no

McCauley, Sara E.

Travels from the Fifth Dimension to Western Mysticism: Quantum Physics as the Bridge between Madeleine L'Engle's Time Trilogy

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Mehlen, Shelley 

Finding Fertile Ground in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

 no/no
Morgan, Benjamin Virginia Woolf, the Real and the Reflected no/no
Neaves, Joy

Wild Women's Legacies: Community and Heritage in Gloria Naylor's Fiction

 no/no
Sellers, Jennifer The Questions of Conflict, Choice, and Transformation in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables no/no
Thomas, Jonathan What Are You Reading? no/no
Trimmer, Kathleen K Jane Austen: What History Would Be Like no/no

1997
 

  
Allison, Dusty L. Two Toads Diverged in a Yellow Wood, and Sorry I Could Not Travel Both: Ways of Looking at Place, Natural World, and Spirituality in the Works of Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry. no/no
Broaddus, Margot A. A Perspective of Jeannette Winterson: Strength Through the Use of Androgyny and Magic no/no
Chandler, Donna N. Reading With a Blindness of Faith and a Vision of Mystery: Reconsidering Problems of Interpretation of Flannery O'Connor's Fiction no/no
Christopher, Stephanie L. Where the Lines of Fact and Fiction Blur: A Study of Dorothy Allison's Life no/no
Cody, Brook Addie's Chapter: Faulkner, Modernism, and the Failure of Language no/no
Delinger, Summer Edna Pontellier's Defiant Awakening no/no
Fellers, Stephanie The "Unbridaled" Woman: Did Shakespeare Want to Tame the Shrew no/no
Gant, Wanda David Copperfield Rewritten into Great Expectations: The Individuation of Protagonist no/no
Gary, Jessica Cassie Manipulating Gender for Meaning and Equality in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale no/no
Gauthier, Timothy Borgesian Time no/no
Gibson, Matthew Mario Vargas Lllosa's Constantly Recurring Story: The Storyteller as Postmodern Panacea for the Dilemma of Modernism no/no
Gupton, Michael Sacrificial Pawns: The Anti-War Themes of Johnny Got His Gun and Slaughterhouse Five no/no
Holloway, Joi World War I: Ripples In Our Time no/no
Horton, Malcolm Eric Toward a Universal Poetics: Race and Religion in the Works of Robert Hayden no/no
Pisano, Jessica Snow Strindberg's Dream-like Atmosphere: A Modern Realism no/no

Price, Stephanie

 In Defense of Carl Sandburg: Pedagogue of the Common Folk no/no
Ramsey, Tonna Reverse Psychology: Bad Becomes Good in Hamlet no/no
Rosefield, Scott A Place Between God and Man: The Anti-parable in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing no/no
Speer, Julie The Moral Development of Edna in Kate Chopin's The Awakening no/no
Spotts, Laura Yeats, the Mask, and Contemporary Irish Theatre no/no
Sutherland, Catharine  Intimacy in the Art of Eudora Welty no/no

1998
 

  
Austin, Carrie Michelle The Economic Base and the Superstructure of Social Class in Honore de Balzac's Le Pere Goriot no/no
Bolick, Arami H. The Poetics of Juggling: "Combinatorial Play" as NeoRealismo in Italo Calvino's The Castle of Crossed Destinies no/no
Broadway, Gina Marie The Meaning and the Myth: Iconic Animals as Agents of Meaning in Alice Walker's Novel The Temple of My Familiar no/no
Broadway, Matthew Arafa and Gebelaawi: The Relation Between God and Man no/no
Crown, Marissa Truth Telling: Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men no/no
Cuttler, Steven Singing of Walls: The Limitations of John Gardner's Grendel no/no
Harrell, Jr., Kenneth L.  From Acceptance to Autonomy: Ralph Ellison's Engagement with Black Freedom in Invisible Man no/yes
Hollifield, Heather Dawn Mythical Rebellion: The Inverted Myth Structure of Wuthering Heights no/no
Kent IV, Richard Peabody No Circle, No Orbit: Time, Space and Time-Space (Film) in Gravity's Rainbow no/no
Krape, Monique Victoria The Making and Unmaking of Leonard Bast no/no
LaSpaluto, DeAlva Carraway The One Thing Needful: The Ethics of Education in Charles Dickens's Hard Times no/no
Millspaugh, Scott Sims On Earth as it is in Heaven: The Politics of Decadence in D'Annunzio's Il Piacere no/no
Perry, Ellen J. 'Had Such a Lady Spoken for Herself': Christina Rossetti's Tribute to Women no/no
Pirkle, Jacqueline M. Podelski Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale: Chaucer's Intended Associations and Bias no/no
Ramuten, Cayanne Langston Hughes' Transformation of Blues into Poetry no/no
Roy, Amber Venice: Setting as Character in Mann's Death in Venice and James's The Aspern Papers no/no
Troxler, Elizabeth Engle Recycling Time in Magic Realism: Toward an Understanding of the Mythic in Contemporary Literature no/no
Wilbur, Peter Re-Membering the Past as Presence: Robert Creeley's Memory Gardens no/no

1999
 

  
Buchanan, Bonnie Blue Facing Dark Comedy: William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying no/no
Byington, Jonathan C. The Emasculation of Hamlet: The Effects of Spiritual Turmoil no/no
Donaldson, Jr., Alphonso Salvador Dali and Andre Breton's Struggle for the Surrealist Identity through History, Paintings, Prose and Poetry no/no
Fravel, Tamara A. Conrad's Heart of Darkness: A Romantic Hero's Quest no/no
Gaither, Alicia Sunyel  Images of Emily Brontë Within Wuthering Heights no/no
Giles, Ryan The Earnest Game of Geoffrey Chaucer and Juan Ruiz no/no
Hall, April DéShawn Themes of Social Protest in the Work of Two Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance no/no
Heald, Candice (now Candice Heald Cunningham) The Virgin, the Wife and the Widow: Perception and the Power of Choice in the Canterbury Tales yes/yes
Hutchens, Elizabeth Jacobi Solutions to the Marriage Problem: Congreve's The Way of the World no/no
Junge, Troy Alexander Perspectives: On Understanding Charles Olson's The Special View of History no/no
Kirbach, Stephen Mark Epic Convention and the Suspect Structure of Meaning in Susan Howe's Secret History of the Dividing Line no/no
Lowder, David Eugene From the American Dream to the American Nightmare no/no
Monaco, Karen Holden Caulfield's Critique of American Society no/no
Phillips, Sara Elizabeth Patterns of Experience: Augustinian Spiritual Autobiography and T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets no/no
Sanderson, Angela Reneé The Handmaid's Tale as a Postmodern Dystopian Text no/no
Taylor, Amanda Elise Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd": A Study of Transcendental Art no/no
Varner, Miriam Elizabeth "I'm telling you stories. Trust me." : Jeanette Winterson's The Passion as a Work of Metafiction no/no
Vess, Laura Beth Lavender A Disappointing Leader and Judge: The Host in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales no/no
Williams, June Henrichson Isolation, Sorrow, and Disappointment: Anne Brontë and the Shaping of Agnes Grey no/no
Winzeler, Alison Christine Female Resistance in The Tragedy of Mariam: Speech as a Means of Rebellion no/no

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2000
 

  
Browning, Victoria T. Creating Authority through Experience: Christine de Pizan and Her Feminization of the Misogynist Literary Tradition no/no
Caudill, Gray Looking In and Reaching Out: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and the Transcendence of Documentary Tradition no/no
Clere, Sarah Elizabeth What Work Is: Labor’s Relation to Gender in My Antonia and The Professor’s House no/no
Clossey, Brian William The Myth of Disillusionment in the Fiction of the Great War no/no
Cozzarin, Andrew Exceeding Expectations: The Importance of Women in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath no/no
Davis, Alixanne Erin Renaissance Anxieties Concerning Ambiguous Bodies: "Did Clothes Make the Man – or Woman ?" no/no
Duffy, Katrina Forces of Vision: Defining Pecola Breedlove in The Bluest Eye no/no
Gregoire, Terese Annette Publishing Women: Virginia Woolf and the Freedom of the Private Press no/no
Kader, Emily L. Revising and Reclaiming the Myth of Deirdre in Ann Devlin’s Ourselves Alone no/no
Kowal, Julia "This World is Not Conclusion": Emily Dickinson’s Rejection of Determinism no/no
McCraw, J. Aletha Negotiating Nationhood: Sexual Anxiety and Female Rule in Elizabethan England no/no
Miller, Janice E. "Surviving a Small Place with Grace and Intelligence": A Study of Social Convention in Pride and Prejudice no/no
Mitchell, Nona The Empowerment of Women in Fiction Through Fairy Tales no/no
Powell, Ethel Ann Trouble in the Margins: More and Less "The Parts" in Twelfth Night no/no
Ramsey, Lisa Marie One Telling of the Kentucky Tragedy: William Gilmore Simms’ Adaptations of History no/no
Saxman, Elizabeth A. A Construction of Feminism: In Defense of Scarlett O’Hara no/no
Schuller, Tracy A Projection of Self: A Study of Emily Brönte’s Wuthering Heights as Continuation of the Literary Device of Doubling no/no
Scruggs, Kelly E. Identifying Millay: The True Value of a Poet no/no
Sheppard, Debbie "The Clerk’s Tale": Submissive Wives, Child Abandonment, and Limitless Patriarchy no/no
Snipes, Amber Predictions for Reform: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Feminist Ideals in a Utopian Setting no/no
Strivelli, Rachel Astra The Destruction of the Greater Community in One Hundred Years of Solitude no/no
Swing, LeAnna Earls Appalachia’s Celtic Roots: Feminist Deconstruction of Dichotomy and Hierarchy in Lee Smith’s Fair and Tender Ladies no/no
Thurston, Wendolyn L. Irvine Welsh’s Marabou Stork Nightmares: Scottish National Development and the Novel Politic no/no
Tuttle, Johnathan L. Patti Smith and Arthur Rimbaud: Joined at the Soul no/no
Westmore, Gillian "Uncase Thee": Confounding Class Hierarchies in The Taming of the Shrew no/no
Wilson, Sunshine Reflecting Changes: Inclusion of George Herbert in The Norton Anthology of English Literature no/no
     

2001
 

  
Allgood, Amanda Lee Women as Texts: How are They Read? no/no
Benton, Katharine Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop: The Magical Power of Art yes/yes
Bowles, Elizabeth (now Elizabeth Bowles Johnson) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: A Critique of the Effects of Patriarchal Nineteenth Century Europe on Women and Children yes/yes
Calnan, Camilla S. William Carlos Williams’ Levels of Memory: Explored through "Shadows" and "The Descent" no/no
Corriher, Charles Futile Gestures: Aggression, Ethics, and Entropy in Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love no/no
Currey, Mason "The Refuge of Art:" Aesthetics, Escapism and Redemption in Lolita no/no
Gallagher, Theodore Miles A Little More Is Revealed: A Study of the Epiphanies in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man no/no
Galloway, Amy Wicked Women or Admirable Ladies?: The Portrayal of Medieval Females in Boccaccio’s Decameron yes/yes
Goffin, Jordan Mason and Dixon: Drawing Menippean Lines through American History no/no
McDonald, Rachel Confessions of a White Widowed Male: Redefining Narrative Unreliability in Nabokov’s Lolita no/no
Moore, Genevieve " To show my sex the way to freedom’s door" : Divorce and Women’s Dissent in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam no/no
Newton, Jessica The Role of Sacrifice in Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories no/no
Padgett, Kristen M. The Controlling Woman in Eudora Welty’s: A Curtain of Green and Other Stories no/no
Penland, Alison Metcalf Fear in The Cancer Journals: Audre Lorde and Autopathography no/no
Schwartz, Christina S. Storytelling in Full Color or Black and White: Frazier, Chekhov, and Lake Wobegone no/no
Thuot, Christopher Louisa May Alcott’s Moods: A Nineteenth Century Woman’s Struggle Against Nature and Society no/no
Whisenhunt, Laura Adair The Exploration of Reality in Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion no/no
Whitmire, Lesley "They Wasn’t Mine to Love": Motherhood in Beloved no/no
Zace, April The Autobiography of Madame Jeanne-Marie de la Motte-Guyon: Breaking Out of the Traditional Mystical Mold no/no
     

2002
 

  
Arbegust, Bonnie The Construction of Maternal Power in Macbeth no/no
Ashe, Ariel The Furies of Athena: Expressions of Cultural Change in Aeschylus' The Eumenides no/no
Davis, Jennifer L. The Sound and Fury of Faulkner's Continuum no/no
Dunlap, Noah Daniel Not By Force: Cromwell as the Archetype for Satan in Paradise Lost no/no
Harbinson, Heather Ashley An Inveterate Novel Reader Makes  But a Miserable Wife and Mother: Novels that Instruct as Well as Delight no/no
Heimer, Robin Expansion and the Domestic Frontier: Gender Transposition and Its Consequences in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! no/no
Henderson, Stephanie Love, Passion, and Interlocking Triangles in Emily Bronte's: Wuthering Heights  no/no
Huskey, A. Hope Defying Womanhood: Exploring the Power of Choices by Catherine Earnshaw and Jane Eyre no/no
Knox, Helena M. Harry Potter, the Un-Dead, and the Dark Expanse of the Unknown: The Reinvention of the Gothic Novel in Bram Stoker's Dracula and the Works of J.K. Rowling no/no
Lewis, Megan L. Boundary-Crossing Queens: Shakespeare's Cleopatra and Elizabeth I no/no
Machalek, Katherin Elizabeth  What Makes Reason Right?: Education, Obedience and Duality of Reason in Paradise Lost no/no
McGahey, Jacob Ramana The Literary Prophet's Search for Meaning: A Close Look at the Lives and Literary Works of Franz Kafka and Allen Ginsberg no/no
Oelschlaeger, Eric S. Dissemblance and Agency in Elizabeth's Cary's: The Tragedy of Mariam no/no
Williams, Kendra Ecofeminism in Barbara Kingsolver's: Prodigal Summer no/no
Wilson, Kellie Creative Destruction: Images in Sylvia Plath's Poetry no/no
     
2003
 		  
Doshier, Elise This Twittering World: Women and Voice in the Poetry and Plays of T.S. Eliot no/no
Fennell, Julie Wallace Stevens' Neo-Pagan Cosmos no/no
Goode, Mollie East of Eden: Representations of Samuel, Cathy, and Lee. no/no
Hall, Jennifer E. Making Your Own Bed and Laying in it: A Spectrum of Women in Lee Smith's Fiction. no/no
Hansen, Kelly Within the Acceptable Norm: A Study of Jane Austen's Matron Characters no/no
Killerlane, Lisa Theirstory: The Fictional Character's Guide to History. no/no
Lee, Margaret "Faulkner Predicts the Future Through Sons in As I Lay Dying" no/no
McCall, Kristina L. The Plight of the "Slave Mother" and her Desire for Freedom as Told Through Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in Life of a Slave Girl and Toni Morrison's Beloved no/no
McGuire, Meghan H. The Walk of a Queen: The Aisling Echoed in Yeats' Cathleen Ni Houlihan no/no
Parenti, Suzanne Lyn Hemmingway's Habits: A Writer's Life Explained in A Moveable Feast no/no
Pearson, Kimberly Half Savage ...But Hardly Free: Women and Animals in Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights. yes/yes
Rodevick, Stephanie Penelope and Circe: Powerful Feminine Influences in Homer's Odyssey. no/no
Rutledge, Cassie In the Name of Love: A Closer Look at Love in Shakespearean Comedy and Tragedy. no/no
Shell, Traci Banishing a False Image: A Critique of Eve's Representation in John Milton's Paradise Lost and her character in Genesis no/no
Zuehlke, Marian "Mary Shelley's Use of Victor's Relationship To Critique Patriarchal Society" in her novel Frankenstein no/no
     
2004
 		    
Atkins, Emily Theory in Practice: Merging the Political and the Theoretical in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe no/no
Bishop, Lisa Dawn John Milton's Hell and Hell on Earth in Paradise Lost: Mental Hell Verses Physical Hell and Features of the Fallen no/no
Brookshire, Sherry Gothic Perversions in Matthew Lewis's The Monk no/no
Burns, Dennis On Kerouac and Buddhism: A Study of On the Road and The Dharma Bums no/no
Chastain, Charlotte Teh "Good Shepherd": Representation of Authority and Leadership in the Inferno and the Canterbury Tales. no/no
Combs, Kim Medb: A Unique Female Voice in the Old Irish Epic the Tain no/no
Credille, Alyse Translating the Soul: A Look Inside Brian Friel's Translations no/no
Day, Josh T. Horror-Craft: The Fear of Formula and Suspense. no/no
Early, Martha The Structure of The Grapes of Wrath. no/no
Edwards, Susan M. Vulnerable to Interpretation: The Fairies and Craftsmen of A Midsummer Night's Dream. no/no
Ginnane, Michael "You strikes me as ornery": The Function of the Blackface Character in John Berryman's The Dream Songs no/no
Hammond, Shelly Exploration of Womanist Traditions in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe no/no
Hudson, Elizabeth The Art of Fred Chappell's Narrative Techniques in I Am One of You Forever. no/no
Hunsicker, Daven A. The Father, Actual and Literary, In the Poetry of Seamus Heaney. no/no
Hussey, Maya L. Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South: Improving Factory Relations Through Dialogue and Sympathy. no/no
Knight, Carleigh Kate Ruins Where There Was Never a House: Historical Reconstruction in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. no/no
Lusk, Ashley Male Bonds in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night. no/no
MacDonald, Benjamin "I Ain't Saying Nothing": A Study of the Political Ambiguity of the Poetry of W.B. Yeats. no/no
Monk, Dickson Relying on the Unreliable: Postmodern Narrative in Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children. no/no
Peck, Marshall The Hemingway Hero: Characterization of the Undefeated no/no
Rhodes, Amanda M. Domination of "the Other": Rape and Power in The Metamorphoses. no/no
Scovil, Matthew Ambiguity in Milan Kundra's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. no/no
Straub, Nicole Social Emptiness and Disconnection in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho: Superficiality and the Search for Identity. no/no
Turner, Mea Reworking Conceptions: Eve, Mary, and Chaucer's Feminine Characters. no/no
Warren, Adam R. The Regeneration of Innocence: William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" as a Paradigm for Understanding the Spirituality of Literature. no/no
Wilson, Sarah M. From America to the Congo: An Exploration of the Cultural Transitions Made by the Price Family in The Poisonwood Bible Through the Eyes of Leah Price. no/no
     
2005
 		    
Alvarez, Margaret Mao By Way of Neither: Elusive Language/Meaning in The Satanic Verses. yes/yes
Anderson, Laura DeBerry Charting the Mysteries of Suicide & the Adolescent Mind: A Study of the Virgin Suicides and Girl, Interrupted. yes/yes
Asbill, Christopher R The Rhetoric of the Perilous Realm yes/yes
Aultowski, Adam The Unreal City: Holden, Ducks, and Catching in the Rye yes/yes
Averette, Sally The Reformation of Boundaries in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping. yes/yes
Becker, John Alexander Reconciliation and Sundering: The Hermeneutical Experience in James Joyce’s Ulysses & A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man yes/yes
Cooper, Routh Allison Transgressing the Machinery of Myth In As I Lay Dying yes/yes
Drye, Kimberly Voices in the Wind yes/yes
Foster, Nicole Where Do We Go From Here? The Inherent Instability of Jim Coetzee's Disgrace. yes/yes
Gilbert, William C History, Culture, and the Search for Individual Identity in Invisible Man. yes/yes
Gnidovic, Daniel J. Twilight on Corrugated Iron: Steinbeck's Artistry in Cannery Row yes/yes
Goodman, Sarah Vance Seduction of the South: Faulkner's Alluring Character. yes/yes
Judd, Nancy Thompson “History’s Journey” A Quest for Identity In Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage yes/yes
Leonard, Zach Seraph on the Suwanee: A Second Look yes/yes
Levine, Elisa Engaging Struggle, Finding Hope: A Revolution of Emergence in Alejo Carpenter’s The Kingdom of this World     yes/yes
Ludwick, Erin Images of Duplicity: From Maternal Rejection to Male Identification in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath yes/yes
McManus, Mary Frances Rusk The Significance of Metaphor, Imagery & New Technology in Milan Kundra's The Unbearable Lightness of Being & Immortality. yes/yes
Ryan, Dustin Converting the Bread of Everyday Life: Moral Resistance and the Futility of Repression In the “Nausicaa” Chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses yes/yes
Schiefer, Elizabeth Kafka’s Little Modern Fable yes/yes
Schuyler, Rebecca The Metafictional Power Struggle: If on a winter’s night a traveler yes/yes
Smith, Jennifer Lynn The Ambiguous Persona in the Caberet Poems of Langston Hughes’s The Weary Blues yes/yes
Squires, David D. “Reciprocally Rendered Invisible”: Sexual and Textual Representation in the“Ithaca” Episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses yes/yes
Stapleton, Laina M. 'Atticus is a Gentleman, Just Like Me': Morality in To Kill a Mockingbird, yes/yes
Tinsley, Joshua Waging the War of Words: Mythmaking in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. yes/yes
Walker, Will The Blending of Genres in King Lear. yes/yes
Woodside, Jessica Carolyn "Tyler, Please Deliver Me": A Comparison between Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Jack Kerouac's On the Road. yes/yes
Zynda, Danielle 'Reader, I Married Him': Jane Eyre's Problematic Ending yes/yes
     
2006
 		    
Chapman, Melissa Fiction to Film: The Transference of Morals in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire yes/yes
Cheuk, David

Maxing Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior:  Forming Identity through Silence

 yes/yes
Crowder, Travis Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Disguise, Gender Roles, and Goal-Setting yes/yes
Draughon, John Masculinity and Gender in A Farewell to Arms: Creating Understanding in the Secondary School Classroom yes/yes
Hyder, Scott Adam Broken Expectations of Sleeping Beauty in Robert Coover's Briar Rose yes/yes
Jacobs, Debra Orality and the Art of Survivance: The Trickster Figure in Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven yes/yes
Lee, Kara A.

Actions that Speak Louder than Words:Survival, Identity, and the Play of Perspective in Alice Walker’s The Third Life of Grange Copeland

 yes/yes
Mozley, John

Sinking the Titanic:  The Iceberg and its Minimalist Implications on Raymond Carver’s Fiction *

 no/yes
Ogle, Talia Rebecca Jane Austen, Marry Wollstonecraft and Feminism yes/yes
Popkin, Luanne

The Hunger of the Oversoul

 yes/yes
Robinson, Bridget Who Belongs? Insiders and Outsiders in Lee Smith Oral History yes/yes
Wallace, Jessica Lynn "To Be Concerned about Being Grown Up": Preoccupation with the Adult in C.S. Lewis's Boxen Juvenilia yes/yes
Watson, Christopher Reading Against the Grain: The Nature of Interpretation and Critical Appropriation in J.M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K. yes/yes
Wheatley, Matthew

The Role of Phrasal stress in Shakespeare’s Lucrece and the Winter’s Tale

 yes/yes
Wyatt, Denise A Defense for Milton yes/yes
     
2007
 		    
Bennett, Emily The Noise of a Hero: Finding the mock Heroic in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children yes/yes
Boone, Emily The Literary Use of Female Sexuality: Nedjma, Jacobs, and Walker yes/yes
Bruce, Dylan Envisioning Language and Creating the Hyperreal: The Postmodern Condition in Jorge Luis Borges' Ficciones yes/yes
Brumley, Emily Ann Wariinga's Got a Gun:  Feminism and Revolution in Devil on the Cross yes/yes
Buckner, Micah Spain in Our Hearts: Pablo Neruda Poet of the People yes/yes
Carson, Ingrid A Bid for Freedom: Talking Back in Virginia Woolf's Orlando yes/yes
Cox, Tamsen Meserve A Vastness of the Soul:  Ethnic Realism and Magical Realism in Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses yes/yes
Hartis, Daniel A. The Pirate and Rogue in Donald Barthelme's Anti-Fairy Tales yes/yes
Herring, Joel Surface without Aperture:  Interpretive Uncertainty in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians yes/yes
Hicks, Thomas Queering the Mainstream: Armistead Maupin and The Night Listener yes/yes
Huntley, Sandra Searcy Finding Their Places in Time:  An Examination of Alexandra Bergson and Julie Richards yes/yes
Klerekoper, Andrew The Tool of Civilization:  The Use of Violence in W.B. Yeats's The Tower yes/yes
Krulikas, Viktorija Aberrant Characters in Four Flannery O'Connor Stories yes/yes
Lanham, Charlie Media As Authority in Don DeLillo's White Noise yes/yes
Martin, Candace Language, Identity, and Oppression:  Reading Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale as Slave Narrative yes/yes
Mattison, William Courtesy of the Green Knight:  Spirituality and Religious Ritual in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight yes/yes
McManus, Kim Rabindranath Tagore:  A Voice for the Downtrodden no/no
Parrish, Richard Jeremy William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch:  Drugs, Satire, and the Metaphor of Control yes/yes
Pendergraft, Paul "Working for the Common Good": The Sun Also Rises as Ironic Cultural Critique yes/yes
Plemmons, Kellie S. What Lies Beneath:  Motivations for Emma Bovary's Suicide? yes/yes
Salomon, Nicholas Conspiracy or Delusion?:  Paranoia in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 yes/yes
Sheehan, John Patrick Montage and Self-Reflexivity in the "Wandering Rocks" Episode of Ulysses yes/yes
Vernon, Robert D.  Boats Against the Current Born Back Ceaselessly into Our Past:  Narrative Fragmentation and the Construction of Meaning in The Great Gatsby yes/yes
Wilensky, Jesse Daniel Pinter's Penal Panopticon yes/yes
     
2008
 		    
Baker, Amanda

Intentionality: Toni Morrison and The Bluest Eye

 yes/yes
Blair, Kathleen

Fetishizing Innocence, Performing Sickness, and Achieving Wholeness: The Body as Weapon in The Bell Jar

 yes/yes
Crawford, Carly

Cosmic Convergence in Everything that Rises Must Converge: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin as Theological Muse

 yes/yes
DeBoer, Zachary

Carnival Virtues: Sex, Sacrilege, and the Grotesque in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts

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Edwards, Jin

Landscape and the Supernatural within William Butler Yeats's Early Poems

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Gerall, Alina

"And the Leaves of the Tree Were for the Healing of the Nations": Literature and Civil Disobedience in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

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Harvin, Maggie

Katherine Anne Porter's Women and the Institutions that Ensnare Them: Confinement and the Will for Freedom in Flowering Judas and Other Stories

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Metz, Melissa

Freaks, the Grotesque, and Other Sideshow Attractions in the Fiction of Carson McCullers

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Reilly, Rebekah

Fragmented Realities in Salman Rushdie's Shame

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Rikhye, Sonya

The Existential Crisis of Coetzee's Protagonistsin Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace

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Thompson, Halley Flannery O'Connor: Fiction as Theological Parable yes/yes
Travis, Crystal

The Demonology of Mark Twain: Reading The Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

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Walton, Jessica Ain't No Laughing Matter: Southern Humor in Clyde Edgerton's Raney yes/yes
Watson, Gwen Searching for Humanity Through the Eyes of Ernest Gaines: Nonverbal Communication in A Lesson Before Dying yes/yes
Weaver, Amanda The Epic Battle of God and Nature In Tennyson's In Memoriam yes/yes
Wellman, Pamela The truth cannot be anywhere but in the speaking of it: Storytelling and the Action of Ambiguity in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing yes/yes
White, Logan Ignoble Savages: Lester Ballard of Cormac McCarthy's Child of God yes/yes