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Honors Theses from 2007

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Saturday Night Random, Elizabeth Stovall

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An Epistolary Heritage: An Examination of the Influence of Clarissa, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Julie on Lady Caroline Lamb’s Glenarvon, Delwyn Webster

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Confronting Convention: Ideologies of Gender & Marriage in the Works of Edith Wharton, Naomi Wilson

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Dialectics of Diaspora Space: a Study of Contemporary, Diasporic, South Asian Fiction, Christopher A. Zajchowski

Honors Theses from 2006

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Awakenings: A Collection of Short Fiction and Memoir, Emily Allen

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League of their own: the competition for Jewish-American identity in the novels of Philip Roth, Rebeccah Amendola

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The Virtues of Impurity: Exploring Repulsion in the Works of Samuel Beckett, Marissa Chin

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Northern Door, Emilie Coulson

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Carrying Emptiness: the Ecology and Zen Buddhism of Gary Snyder’s Poetry, Erica Dorpalen

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Some Big Tragedy, Travis Downs

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Modernist Success in a Postmodern Failure: Jackson Pollock and Abstract Expressionism, the Avant-Garde and the Ascension of Late Capitalism, Art after 1945, Russell Gullette

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Land, Consciousness and Continuance: The Poetry of Simon J. Ortiz and Joy Harjo, Ashley Jones-Pierce

The Tastes of a Nation: M.F.K. fisher and the Genre of Culinary Literature, Melina Markos

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A Journey Through Memory and Self in the Works of Edwidge Danticat and Julia Alvarez, Kara McCabe

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The travel imagination and the hybrid reality in the wake of colonialism, James McLaughlin

The Case of Raging Bull: Homophobia and the Masculine Cinema of Martin Scorsese, Michael O’Brien

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Beautiful Reckonings: Thought, Pain, and Complexity in John Keats’s Letters and Poetry, Erin Rhoda

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Women, Erin Rhoda

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Literary love making in Nicholas Sparks novels: Finding the balance between the writer’s life and the writer’s work in bestselling Romantic Literature, Ryan Spanich

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Infinite Jest’s Spectacular Resistance: Subversion and Hope in a Pluralizing Entertainment Culture, Samuel Stark

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Politics and Poetry: The Evolution of Adrienne Rich, Eleanor Thermansen

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Liberating the 'Murderer' A Defense of Ted Hughes and his Decisions Concerning the Composition of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel Through an In-Depth Look at the Major Themes in her Writing and her Life, Emily Tull

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The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself: The Modern and Postmodern Implications for Family and History’s Effect on Individual Identity in Selected Works of William Faulkner, Lauren Woodward

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Liz Wyckoff

Honors Theses from 2005

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The Use and Characterization of Rivers in Modern Literature, Jessica Beetz

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Speechless, Caitlin Dennehy

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Sew and Tell: Making Rebozos, Stories and Thinking about Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo, Melissa Hernandez

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Finding Family Trees: Barbara Kingsolver’s Creation of An Ecological Community, Melissa Hinkle

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How Unpleasant It is to be Locked Out' Gender, Value and The Canon, A Reception Study of Three Modernist Women Writers, Elizabeth Johnson

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On Messalonskee Lake, Michael King

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Quite Off the Beaten Track: The Emergency of Sentimental Travel Writing and Its Influence on Anglo-American Society, Daniel Lynch

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The Extraordinary Ordinary West: Humanity and Realism in McMurty’s Old West Narratives, Ann MacDonald

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So I Guess You Know What I’m Thinking: A Collection of Short Stories, Mary Medlin

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Beyond the Ordinary: The Consoling Power of Fantasy Literature in War, Todd Moore

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Timing is Everything, Gillian Nadel

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Maternal and Cultural Influences on Individual Identity: The Novels of Toni Morrison and William Faulkner, Rebecca Nisetich

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Knowing the Void, Hearing the Sound, and Ordering the Fury: Faulkner’s Agency in the Modern World, Through Art, From The Sound and The Fury to Absalom, Absalom!, Andrew Orr

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Witchcraft, Madness, and Misogyny: A Macbeth Production, Catherine Pappas

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Murder She Wrote, Setting She Did Not: The Creation of Mise-en-Scene in the Film Adaptations of Christie’s Poirot, Nathan Quigley

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Precarious Properties: Constructions of Body and Soul in John Donne and Emily Dickinson, Rachel Ritchie

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Repetition and Revision: Mythology in the Novels of Toni Morrison and William Faulkner, Toni-Lynn Robbins

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Education for the Oppressed: An Examination of the Effects of Literacy on Minority Groups in America, Rachel Sheinbaum

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Exploring the World of Hollywood Through Literature, Lauren Smith

Honors Theses from 2004

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Reinforcement of Patriarchal Society Through Film: An Examination of the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Literature and Film, Rebecca Avrutin

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Hidden Remains: Freud, The Unconscious, and the Irrational in Contemporary American Poetry, Jared Berezin

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The Evolution of Language: Rock-Talk to Earth-Talk, Kristin Flanders

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Breakdancing on Thin Ice, Sarah Getchell

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The Noble Savage in Jean Jacques Rousseau and Three Successors, Chelsie Gosk

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The Musical Idiom: an Exploration of the Language of Music in African American Literature, Laurel Haeusslein

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High Art: Expedition Literature, Erick Lambert

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Searching for the Rules: A Study of John Updike’s Harry Angstrom in Rabbit, Run and the Rabbit Tetralogy, Andrew Lizotte

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Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, Lilla Lund

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The Aesthetics of Adaptation: Plain Jane Goes to the Movies, Emma McCandless

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Writing on the River: Kayak Stories, Henry Munter

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Nikki (a screenplay), Amanda Stanke

Honors Theses from 2003

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The Tender Desire of Ownership: The Function and Construction of Masculinity in Owen Wister’s The Virginian, Jayant Alter

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Screenplay: When It All Comes Down, Anna Capezzera

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Unwilling to Explain: Deceptiveness in Robert Frost, Jamie Cowan

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To Cheer or Jeer: The American Indian Mascot Dilemma, Jonathan Eck

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Appearing Proper: The Woman’s Dilemma in Fanny Burney Evelina and Jane Austen’s Novels, Katrina Fletcher

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A Poster, A Surfer, and E-text: Reconciling the newest roles in literary communication, Erin Hanrahan

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The Bildungstroman: An Examination of Narratives of Female Development, Megan Hoar

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Portraits of Poshlust in Nabakov’s Lolita and Gogol’s Dead Souls, Dennis Kuhnel

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Exceptional Transcendence: A Study of Dickens and Eliot’s Transcendent Characters and Their Unique Abilities to Navigate the Social Systems of Middlemarch, Hard Times, Dombey and Son, and Silas Marner, Chris Reigeluth

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The Surface Tension of Water, Neil Reynolds

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Small Castles, Christiana Salah

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On the Edge of the Shadow: Searching for Evil in a Cross Cultural Comparison Of Native American and Scandinavian Trickster Figures, Justin Stempeck

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Christine De Pizan and (Re)-Visionary Narratives: Writing Women in Fifteenth-Century France, Laura Thomason

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The White-Picket Divide Between Self and Society: Analyzing the Contradictory Ideology of the American Dream, Kira Vassar

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Negotiating Womanhood: Nineteenth-Century American Woman Writers and Constructions of Femininity, Kathleen Zimmerman

Honors Theses from 2002

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Open to Detection:' Dickens’ Bleak House and the Compromise for Social Candor, Todd Bergstrom

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The Angel in the Devil’s Mirror: Victorian Paintings and the Poetry of Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott, Noah Londer Charney

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Wordsworth’s Bioregional Imagination: How Location and Dislocation Contribute to the Poetic Expression of Ecological Values, Jennifer Dakin

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Devilish Icons: Dante’s Christian Depiction of Classical Antiquity in the Inferno, Alexis Detwiler

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A Gaze Redirected and a World Redefined: The Power of Black Female Artists to Revise their Images in Literature and Film, Katherine Dunn

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Watching Fish Swim, Erin Gardner

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The high, pale cast of light': Talking, Touching, and Trauma in Raymond Carver’s Cathedral, Nick Gaubinger

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The Price of Bread and other Stories, Eleanor Jackson

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Life Scars. Art Scars. A Collection of Sonnets, Jaime Muehl

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Chekhov and Carver: Defining Masculinity, David Prinstein

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Knowing God and Nature: A Thesis on The Writing of Annie Dillard and Wendell Berry, David Seel III

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Frontiers of Spirit, Frontiers of Land: Investigating Representations of and by Pioneer Women, Katherine St. Germaine

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You could waste your life that way and never touch the truth': Modes of Interpreting and Generating Meaning in Fiction from Realism, to Modernism, to Postmodernism, John Sullivan

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Misogynists, Madwomen, and Mistresses: Relocating D.H. Lawrence in the Women’s Literary Tradition, Ericka Thoreson

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Nightmares at Noonday': Hemingway, Bullfights, and Healing the Wound, Eric Washer

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The Effect of Childhood Trauma on Contemorary American Poets, Katherine Wentzell

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You could waste your life that way and never touch the truth': Attempting to Discover the Pynchonian Protagonists’s Position in the Postmodern World, Ryan Wepler

Honors Theses from 2001

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Journey to the Source of Healing: The Nature of Healing and the Healing Nature In Two Native American Works, Melissa Alioto

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From the Frontier to the ‘Rez’: The Evolving Role of Native Americans in Film, Stephen Bigelow

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Inside jokes & silence, Jeff Calareso

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Envisioning the ‘Present As History’: Historical Understanding and Interiority In the Works of Sir Walter Scott and George Eliot, Sarah Castille

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Mansfield Park - Jane Austen’s Conservative Social Vision, Michelle Chandler

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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Relics From the Primeval Past Blueprints to the Psychoanalytic Future, Cara Erdheim

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US, Elizabeth Frankel

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Seceding Alice, Allyson Giard

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A Search for 'Life Itself': Looking Beneath the Fetish in Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, Marybeth Maney

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Tomato’s End, Jesse Randzio

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Representation of Mortality in the Sonnets of Keats and Shakespeare, Rachel Rokicki

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Refractory Realities: Imagination, Space, Freedom and the Writings of Wole Soyinka and Toni Morrison, Kimberly Schneider

Words About People…, Kirsten Sisk