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Theses/Dissertations from 1993

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Translation of the Capeverdean novel, "Chuva Braba" ("Wild Rain"), Rosendo Evora Brito

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Marriage and money in Charles Dickens's "Our Mutual Friend", Deborah Hughes Burns

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Travel as Metaphor: Traveling Heroines in Novels by Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Brontes, Marcia Bentley Dinneen

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REWRITING THE BODY POLITIC: THE ART OF ILLNESS AND THE PRODUCTION OF DESIRE IN THE DIARIES AND JOURNALS OF ALICE JAMES AND ACHSA SPRAGUE, Susan Grant

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Would it matter if her hair were brown? The ethical contract between the writer and the reader of historical fiction, Barbara Warren Harris

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Dance of re-membered life: An analysis of memory process in the novels of Toni Morrison, Kathleen Moore

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The politics of representation/reading: A feminist critique of Virginia Woolf, Jin Sook Oh

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Editing as parallel to writing and reading, subordinate to communication, and connected to teaching, Karen Marie Petit

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Optical allusions: Technologies of the body visible, Karen Lee Potter

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Narrativity and representation in Louise Erdrich's fiction, Jennifer Leigh Sergi

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Movements and moments: Violence as rhetoric and transgression in American popular culture, 1962-1992, Pauline Uchmanowicz

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Marie de France and Layamon: Cultural subversives, Barbara Gall Von Mettenheim

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Housework redone: The representation of domestic work and homemakers in depictions of the middle class in American literature and film, Marilyn Perkins Wisehart

Theses/Dissertations from 1992

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*Baby Shoe Tattoo*: A Film Script and Critical Preface, Anthony R. Amore Jr.

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Out of the Shadows: A Structuralist Approach to Understanding the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, James A. Anderson

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Lilacs in November, Marjorie L. Briody

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The Jeovah Imperative: Images of Incest and Blood Sacrifice in Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" and Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood", Penelope Hope Goff

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The memo as genre: A paradigm of context and community, Frances Marie Harrington

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Authorized Infidelity: A Confidant Rereading of Charlotte Bronte's Villette, Marie C. Hennedy

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This is my body which will not be given up for you: The postmodern feminist avant-garde and the female body, Carla Marie Oleska

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Disruption is the word: Transgressive poetics of spirituality in the poetry of G. M. Hopkins, Dylan Thomas, and Stevie Smith, Katherine Elaine Powell

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The Bronte Sisters' Quarrel: A Social Discourse Within the Bronte Novels, Terryli McMillan Raine

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Loss and reclamation in "David Copperfield", Anderson Malvin Rearick III

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Woman across time: A literary history, Deborah Ann Brown Robinson

Theses/Dissertations from 1991

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Chretien de Troyes' Perceval: Androgynous development of the hero, Michele F. Cooper

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Meridel Le Sueur's vision of women: Begetters and birthers of change, Rea Cassidy Killeen

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In the belly of this story: The role of fantasy in four American women's novels of the 1980s, Bettina Havens Letcher

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A voice in Ramah: Rhetorical structure and cultural context in "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Pamela Ann Marks

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Lectures and discussion questions of the Franklin Lyceum: A guide to attitudes and ideas in nineteenth century Providence, Regina C. McCaughey-Silvia

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Dunbar and Skelton: A comparative analysis of the satiric court poetry, James A. McGoldrick

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Reading allegory in the old poet and the new: The "Canterbury Tales" and the 1590 "Faerie Queene", Mark A. Sherman

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The land and moral responsibility in the work of Wendell Berry, Edward Donley Taft

Theses/Dissertations from 1990

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A historical and stylistic analysis of "Richard the Redeless" and "Mum and the Sothsegger", Alexander George Belisle

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Visualization and visual perception: The novels of Thomas Hardy, Samuel Walter Best

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"The Dunciad" and "Don Juan" as epic metamorphoses: A study in narrative organization, Luisa Maria Lucas Queiroz de Campos

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Mina Loy: The feminine inscription of modernism, Joan L. Randall

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Dickens and the pastoral ethic, David Michael Wilkes

Theses/Dissertations from 1989

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Edwin Booth's production of "The Merchant of Venice": A promptbook study, Joan B. David

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Thomas Hardy's Victorian Gothic: Reassessing Hardy's fiction and his Gothic sensibility, Norma Walrath Goldstein

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From Aunt Mashula's coconut cake to Big Macs: References to food in recent Southern women's fiction, Darlene Reimers Hill

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A study of rock music videos as the poetry of secondary orality, Barbara Rose Laboissonniere

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A daily school-wide writing program (K-12): Methods and theories, idea handbook, and reference guide, Kathryn Petrone O'Hare

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George Herbert's temple of sanctification, James Frederick Wardwell

Theses/Dissertations from 1988

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Sub-Versions of History in Three Twentieth-Century Novels, Gabriella Schalow Adler

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Joyce and the Dialogical: Literary Carnivalization in Ulysses, Stephanie A. Almagno

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Home Before Morning: A Teleplay, Susan E. Apshaga

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"Dear Uncle George" Ezra Pound's Letters to Congressman Tinkham of Massachusetts, Philip J. Burns

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A descriptive analysis of dialogue and inner speech in selected works of fiction, Raymond H. Clines

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The poetry of A. D. Hope, Robert James Darling

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Orality, literacy, and Chaucer: A study of performance, textual authority, and proverbs in the major poetry, Steven R. McKenna

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Charles Dickens' self-destructive women, Thomas George Mellor

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The chthonic heroine: Revision and reemergence of the archetype, Meredith Anne Powers

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"A map with utopia": Oscar Wilde's vision for social change, Jody Lauren Price

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Professional writers and word processing, Claire Ellen Redmond

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'But we have other lives, I think, I hope': The quest for transcendence in selected novels of Virginia Woolf, Michael J. Woods

Theses/Dissertations from 1987

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SCHEMA RECOGNITION AND INFERENCE: A STUDY OF READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH WRITING, JOAN FRANCES HARRINGTON

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Personality differences between basic and standard writers, William Jude Kelly

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THE HEROES OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S NOVELS, SARAH J. LITTLEFIELD

Theses/Dissertations from 1986

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A PARALLEL TEXT EDITION OF "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN": MATERIALS FOR A CRITICAL TEXT (HARRIET BEECHER STOWE), ELLEN LOUISE MADISON

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CHILDREN IN AMERICAN FICTION, 1830-1920: A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, ELIZABETH GREED PECK

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THE HUCK FINN HERO IN MODERN AMERICAN FICTION, JAMES M. TACKACH

Theses/Dissertations from 1985

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EDITH WHARTON AND THE RE-SHAPING OF LEGEND, BARBARA MARIE COLAVECCHIO

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EDMUND WILSON AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF LITERATURE, JOSEPH R. FARGNOLI

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SATIRE IN THE WORKS OF JOE ORTON. THE GOSPEL MESSAGE: "TO AFFLICT THE COMFORTABLE", A. STEPHEN RUSYN

Theses/Dissertations from 1984

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Style in Children's Literature: A Comparison of Passages from Books for Adults and for Children, Celia Catlett Anderson

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THE DETAIL OF THE PATTERN: MUSIC AND THE STRUCTURAL ANALOGY IN T. S. ELIOT'S "FOUR QUARTETS", WAYNE STEPHEN BERARD

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THE DARK WOMAN OF HAWTHORNE'S ART, ANN W. FERRANTE

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TIME'S FOOLS: TIME IN SHAKESPEARE'S "HENRY IV", ROBERT PETER JACKSON

Theses/Dissertations from 1983

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ART AND HOMOSEXUALITY IN FRANK O'HARA'S POETRY, ALICE C. PARKER

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RECONCILIATION AND SUBVERSION IN THE NOVELS OF CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN, MICHAEL PATRICK SULLIVAN

Theses/Dissertations from 1982

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THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE GROTESQUE: AN EVALUATION OF SHERWOOD ANDERSON'S SHORT FICTION CRAFTSMANSHIP, MICHAEL JOHN FINNEGAN

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A CRITICAL AND INTERPRETATIVE STUDY OF GALWAY KINNELL'S THE BOOK OF NIGHTMARES, Miles D. Parker III

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The Symbol of the Frontier in Selected Novels of Willa Cather, Kevin Michael Plunkett

Theses/Dissertations from 1981

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FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY AFTER THE FALL: A SARTREAN PERSPECTIVE OF ARTHUR MILLER'S EXISTENTIAL HUMANISM, STEVEN RONALD CENTOLA

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A SELF-PORTRAIT OF LANGSTON HUGHES, KATHLEEN ARMSTRONG HAUKE

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ART AND POLITICS IN THE WRITINGS OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, MARY PHOEBE LYONS

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DRAMATURGY OF THE ANTI-CATHOLIC MORALITY IN THE TUDOR HALL WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE SCREEN, MADELEINE OLIVIA ROBINSON

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W. B. YEATS AND HIS "SWEET DANCER", JULIANNE MIA SALVATI

Theses/Dissertations from 1980

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AN ANALYSIS AND DESCRIPTION OF WALT WHITMAN'S COMPOSING PROCESS, CHRISTOPHER CHARLES BURNHAM

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THE SEARCH FOR SELFHOOD IN THE FICTION OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, PHYLLIS LOUISE DOYLE

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RESTORATION IDEALISM: THE INFLUENCE OF PRECIOSITE IN THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM WYCHERLEY, HOWARD ALLEN GOLDMAN

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A MODERN CRITICAL EDITION OF THE 1848-1849 ESSAYS OF THOMAS CARLYLE, PHYLLIS FREILICH HARNICK

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HAVING A MIND OF WINTER: DIALECTICS IN "THE COLLECTED POEMS" OF WALLACE STEVENS, STEVEN TROXEL KNIGHT

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ICELAND AS METAPHOR FOR INTEGRATION IN THE WORKS OF WILLIAM MORRIS, EMILY LOUISE MEREDITH

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WILLIAM DUNBAR'S "TRETIS OF THE TUA MARIIT WEMEN AND THE WEDO": A CRITICAL EDITION, PATRICIA RICKLY

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A PARALLEL STUDY OF TWO BRITISH WOMEN POETS: RUTH PITTER AND ELIZABETH JENNINGS, INDU SURYANARAYAN

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GEORGE ELIOT AND FEMINISM, BARBARA ANNE VONVILLAS

Theses/Dissertations from 1979

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THEATRE OF DISCORD: THE DISSONANCE OF LANGUAGE AND LIGHT IN SELECTED PLAYS OF SAMUEL BECKETT, EDWARD ALBEE AND HAROLD PINTER, ROBERT LAWRENCE MAYBERRY

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PLAYING THE GAME: THE WORK OF TOM STOPPARD, BOBBI (ROBERTA) WYNNE ROTHSTEIN

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THE LYRIC VOICE FROM WYATT TO DONNE: AN ESSAY IN THE POETIC PROCESS, JOHN JOSEPH SALESSES

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A STUDY OF SEXUALITY IN SELECTED AMERICAN NOVELS SINCE 1945, SUSAN FRANCES VIK

Theses/Dissertations from 1978

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Robert Frost: A Twentieth Century Poet of Man and Nature, Pauline Elaine Allen

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MORE AMERICAN ADAMS: WOMEN HEROES IN AMERICAN FICTION, PHYLLIS WHITESIDE BARRETT

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"MY FEMALE FRIENDS": AN EXAMINATION OF WOMEN AND WOMEN'S ROLES IN THE WRITINGS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, PAULA MAURO CASHDOLLAR

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IMAGE AS VISION: A STUDY OF THE EXPERIMENTAL NATURE OF VIRGINIA WOOLF'S EARLY FICTION, THOMAS JAMES CONDON

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THE EMANCIPATED WOMAN IN JOHN DRYDEN'S COMEDIES, SUSAN FLORA GLASSMAN

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THE INTEGRATIVE VISION: RITUAL ACTION IN THE NOVELS OF WILLIAM STYRON, ELAINE AMANDA PALM

Theses/Dissertations from 1977

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A THEOLOGY OF JUXTAPOSITION: MURIEL SPARK AS A CATHOLIC COMIC NOVELIST, JOANNE CATHERINE PARNELL MONGEON

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CHAUCER AND THE GAME OF LOVE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE BOOK OF THE DUCHESS, THE HOUSE OF FAME AND THE PARLIAMENT OF FOWLES, Stephen Hyginus Murphy

Theses/Dissertations from 1976

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A CRITICAL, OLD-SPELLING EDITION OF NAHUM TATE'S "BRUTUS OF ALBA.", ROBERT RUSSELL CRAVEN