Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Translation of the Capeverdean novel, "Chuva Braba" ("Wild Rain"), Rosendo Evora Brito
Marriage and money in Charles Dickens's "Our Mutual Friend", Deborah Hughes Burns
Travel as Metaphor: Traveling Heroines in Novels by Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Brontes, Marcia Bentley Dinneen
Would it matter if her hair were brown? The ethical contract between the writer and the reader of historical fiction, Barbara Warren Harris
Dance of re-membered life: An analysis of memory process in the novels of Toni Morrison, Kathleen Moore
The politics of representation/reading: A feminist critique of Virginia Woolf, Jin Sook Oh
Editing as parallel to writing and reading, subordinate to communication, and connected to teaching, Karen Marie Petit
Optical allusions: Technologies of the body visible, Karen Lee Potter
Narrativity and representation in Louise Erdrich's fiction, Jennifer Leigh Sergi
Movements and moments: Violence as rhetoric and transgression in American popular culture, 1962-1992, Pauline Uchmanowicz
Marie de France and Layamon: Cultural subversives, Barbara Gall Von Mettenheim
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
*Baby Shoe Tattoo*: A Film Script and Critical Preface, Anthony R. Amore Jr.
Out of the Shadows: A Structuralist Approach to Understanding the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, James A. Anderson
Lilacs in November, Marjorie L. Briody
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
The memo as genre: A paradigm of context and community, Frances Marie Harrington
Authorized Infidelity: A Confidant Rereading of Charlotte Bronte's Villette, Marie C. Hennedy
This is my body which will not be given up for you: The postmodern feminist avant-garde and the female body, Carla Marie Oleska
Disruption is the word: Transgressive poetics of spirituality in the poetry of G. M. Hopkins, Dylan Thomas, and Stevie Smith, Katherine Elaine Powell
The Bronte Sisters' Quarrel: A Social Discourse Within the Bronte Novels, Terryli McMillan Raine
Loss and reclamation in "David Copperfield", Anderson Malvin Rearick III
Woman across time: A literary history, Deborah Ann Brown Robinson
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Chretien de Troyes' Perceval: Androgynous development of the hero, Michele F. Cooper
Meridel Le Sueur's vision of women: Begetters and birthers of change, Rea Cassidy Killeen
In the belly of this story: The role of fantasy in four American women's novels of the 1980s, Bettina Havens Letcher
A voice in Ramah: Rhetorical structure and cultural context in "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Pamela Ann Marks
Lectures and discussion questions of the Franklin Lyceum: A guide to attitudes and ideas in nineteenth century Providence, Regina C. McCaughey-Silvia
Dunbar and Skelton: A comparative analysis of the satiric court poetry, James A. McGoldrick
Reading allegory in the old poet and the new: The "Canterbury Tales" and the 1590 "Faerie Queene", Mark A. Sherman
The land and moral responsibility in the work of Wendell Berry, Edward Donley Taft
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
A historical and stylistic analysis of "Richard the Redeless" and "Mum and the Sothsegger", Alexander George Belisle
Visualization and visual perception: The novels of Thomas Hardy, Samuel Walter Best
"The Dunciad" and "Don Juan" as epic metamorphoses: A study in narrative organization, Luisa Maria Lucas Queiroz de Campos
Mina Loy: The feminine inscription of modernism, Joan L. Randall
Dickens and the pastoral ethic, David Michael Wilkes
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Edwin Booth's production of "The Merchant of Venice": A promptbook study, Joan B. David
Thomas Hardy's Victorian Gothic: Reassessing Hardy's fiction and his Gothic sensibility, Norma Walrath Goldstein
From Aunt Mashula's coconut cake to Big Macs: References to food in recent Southern women's fiction, Darlene Reimers Hill
A study of rock music videos as the poetry of secondary orality, Barbara Rose Laboissonniere
A daily school-wide writing program (K-12): Methods and theories, idea handbook, and reference guide, Kathryn Petrone O'Hare
George Herbert's temple of sanctification, James Frederick Wardwell
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Sub-Versions of History in Three Twentieth-Century Novels, Gabriella Schalow Adler
Joyce and the Dialogical: Literary Carnivalization in Ulysses, Stephanie A. Almagno
Home Before Morning: A Teleplay, Susan E. Apshaga
"Dear Uncle George" Ezra Pound's Letters to Congressman Tinkham of Massachusetts, Philip J. Burns
A descriptive analysis of dialogue and inner speech in selected works of fiction, Raymond H. Clines
The poetry of A. D. Hope, Robert James Darling
Orality, literacy, and Chaucer: A study of performance, textual authority, and proverbs in the major poetry, Steven R. McKenna
Charles Dickens' self-destructive women, Thomas George Mellor
The chthonic heroine: Revision and reemergence of the archetype, Meredith Anne Powers
"A map with utopia": Oscar Wilde's vision for social change, Jody Lauren Price
Professional writers and word processing, Claire Ellen Redmond
'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
SCHEMA RECOGNITION AND INFERENCE: A STUDY OF READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH WRITING, JOAN FRANCES HARRINGTON
Personality differences between basic and standard writers, William Jude Kelly
THE HEROES OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S NOVELS, SARAH J. LITTLEFIELD
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
A PARALLEL TEXT EDITION OF "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN": MATERIALS FOR A CRITICAL TEXT (HARRIET BEECHER STOWE), ELLEN LOUISE MADISON
CHILDREN IN AMERICAN FICTION, 1830-1920: A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, ELIZABETH GREED PECK
THE HUCK FINN HERO IN MODERN AMERICAN FICTION, JAMES M. TACKACH
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
EDITH WHARTON AND THE RE-SHAPING OF LEGEND, BARBARA MARIE COLAVECCHIO
EDMUND WILSON AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF LITERATURE, JOSEPH R. FARGNOLI
SATIRE IN THE WORKS OF JOE ORTON. THE GOSPEL MESSAGE: "TO AFFLICT THE COMFORTABLE", A. STEPHEN RUSYN
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Style in Children's Literature: A Comparison of Passages from Books for Adults and for Children, Celia Catlett Anderson
THE DETAIL OF THE PATTERN: MUSIC AND THE STRUCTURAL ANALOGY IN T. S. ELIOT'S "FOUR QUARTETS", WAYNE STEPHEN BERARD
THE DARK WOMAN OF HAWTHORNE'S ART, ANN W. FERRANTE
TIME'S FOOLS: TIME IN SHAKESPEARE'S "HENRY IV", ROBERT PETER JACKSON
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
ART AND HOMOSEXUALITY IN FRANK O'HARA'S POETRY, ALICE C. PARKER
RECONCILIATION AND SUBVERSION IN THE NOVELS OF CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN, MICHAEL PATRICK SULLIVAN
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE GROTESQUE: AN EVALUATION OF SHERWOOD ANDERSON'S SHORT FICTION CRAFTSMANSHIP, MICHAEL JOHN FINNEGAN
A CRITICAL AND INTERPRETATIVE STUDY OF GALWAY KINNELL'S THE BOOK OF NIGHTMARES, Miles D. Parker III
The Symbol of the Frontier in Selected Novels of Willa Cather, Kevin Michael Plunkett
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY AFTER THE FALL: A SARTREAN PERSPECTIVE OF ARTHUR MILLER'S EXISTENTIAL HUMANISM, STEVEN RONALD CENTOLA
A SELF-PORTRAIT OF LANGSTON HUGHES, KATHLEEN ARMSTRONG HAUKE
ART AND POLITICS IN THE WRITINGS OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, MARY PHOEBE LYONS
DRAMATURGY OF THE ANTI-CATHOLIC MORALITY IN THE TUDOR HALL WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE SCREEN, MADELEINE OLIVIA ROBINSON
W. B. YEATS AND HIS "SWEET DANCER", JULIANNE MIA SALVATI
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
AN ANALYSIS AND DESCRIPTION OF WALT WHITMAN'S COMPOSING PROCESS, CHRISTOPHER CHARLES BURNHAM
THE SEARCH FOR SELFHOOD IN THE FICTION OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, PHYLLIS LOUISE DOYLE
RESTORATION IDEALISM: THE INFLUENCE OF PRECIOSITE IN THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM WYCHERLEY, HOWARD ALLEN GOLDMAN
A MODERN CRITICAL EDITION OF THE 1848-1849 ESSAYS OF THOMAS CARLYLE, PHYLLIS FREILICH HARNICK
HAVING A MIND OF WINTER: DIALECTICS IN "THE COLLECTED POEMS" OF WALLACE STEVENS, STEVEN TROXEL KNIGHT
ICELAND AS METAPHOR FOR INTEGRATION IN THE WORKS OF WILLIAM MORRIS, EMILY LOUISE MEREDITH
WILLIAM DUNBAR'S "TRETIS OF THE TUA MARIIT WEMEN AND THE WEDO": A CRITICAL EDITION, PATRICIA RICKLY
A PARALLEL STUDY OF TWO BRITISH WOMEN POETS: RUTH PITTER AND ELIZABETH JENNINGS, INDU SURYANARAYAN
GEORGE ELIOT AND FEMINISM, BARBARA ANNE VONVILLAS
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
THEATRE OF DISCORD: THE DISSONANCE OF LANGUAGE AND LIGHT IN SELECTED PLAYS OF SAMUEL BECKETT, EDWARD ALBEE AND HAROLD PINTER, ROBERT LAWRENCE MAYBERRY
PLAYING THE GAME: THE WORK OF TOM STOPPARD, BOBBI (ROBERTA) WYNNE ROTHSTEIN
THE LYRIC VOICE FROM WYATT TO DONNE: AN ESSAY IN THE POETIC PROCESS, JOHN JOSEPH SALESSES
A STUDY OF SEXUALITY IN SELECTED AMERICAN NOVELS SINCE 1945, SUSAN FRANCES VIK
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Robert Frost: A Twentieth Century Poet of Man and Nature, Pauline Elaine Allen
MORE AMERICAN ADAMS: WOMEN HEROES IN AMERICAN FICTION, PHYLLIS WHITESIDE BARRETT
"MY FEMALE FRIENDS": AN EXAMINATION OF WOMEN AND WOMEN'S ROLES IN THE WRITINGS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, PAULA MAURO CASHDOLLAR
IMAGE AS VISION: A STUDY OF THE EXPERIMENTAL NATURE OF VIRGINIA WOOLF'S EARLY FICTION, THOMAS JAMES CONDON
THE EMANCIPATED WOMAN IN JOHN DRYDEN'S COMEDIES, SUSAN FLORA GLASSMAN
THE INTEGRATIVE VISION: RITUAL ACTION IN THE NOVELS OF WILLIAM STYRON, ELAINE AMANDA PALM
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
A THEOLOGY OF JUXTAPOSITION: MURIEL SPARK AS A CATHOLIC COMIC NOVELIST, JOANNE CATHERINE PARNELL MONGEON
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
A CRITICAL, OLD-SPELLING EDITION OF NAHUM TATE'S "BRUTUS OF ALBA.", ROBERT RUSSELL CRAVEN