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Honors Theses in English

Honors Theses from 2001 2001

Biography, Autobiography, and Memoirs in the Early Twelfth-Century, Jason E. St. Pierre

Fact, Fiction, and Veiled Criticism in Herman Melville’s typee and Omoo, William Webb

Confronting the Postmodern in Three Travel Narratives: The Value of Dislocation, Anne Wullschlager

Honors Theses from 2000 2000

To Read and Live On: Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and the Craft of Fiction, Christine Beveridge

Written for the Screen: a Screenplay, Erik Bowie

La Flâneuse: A Critical Perspective on Woman’s Identification with Mass Culture in Nana, Au Bonheur Des Dames and Dracula, Tacy Conard

Life, Like, A. Greg De St Maurice

Heroines Breaking Boundaries For a Sense of Self, Kelly Fanning

Erec and Enide: A prose version of the poem by Chrétien de Troyes, Reba Frederics

John Keats and the Flight from Class Identity, Karrie Hamel

A Demon in My View: stories influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, James McGrath

Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Susan Glaspell in 1920s America, Amelia Schultz

Touching Ordinary, Christina Tinglof

Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War, Christopher Tracy

Honors Theses from 1999 1999

Women, Men and Chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Le Morte D’arthur, and the Mists of Avalon, Erika Blauch

Thinking Form: A Defense of Free Verse and the Virtues of Traditional Form, Dennis d’Angelo

The Innocents Abroad; Class, Gender, and the Transcendence of Provincialism in the European-based Fiction of Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Ernest Hemingway, Mackenzie Dawson

Listen, Alli DeGroot

Robert Altman’s Vision For Raymond Carver’s Short Cuts, Ezra Dyer

Abraham Sutzkever and Langston Hughes: The Challenge of a Unified and Particular Cultural Nation, Peter Gaines

Slouching Toward Bethlehem: Violence and the Grotesque Body in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor, Kristen Lee

From Objectification to Autonomy: Creation of Identity through the Language of the Wife of Bath, Criseyde/Cressida, and Cleopatra, Julie McMaster

The Trickster Figure and Its Significance in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks and Love Machine, Jennie Record

British War Poetry and German Expressionism in World War I: An Enemy Connection?, Kevin Reddall

The Different Voice: Louise Labe and the Evolution of Women's Writing, Jamie Smith

He of the Prudent Soul': Leopold Bloom and the Mock-Heroic in Ulysses, Braxton Williams

Honors Theses from 1998 1998

The African-American Bildungstroman: The Creation of a Collective Genre, Ellen Bruce

The Harlem Renaissance: The Cultural Reassessment of Afro-American in the American Urban Landscape, Carrie Clough

Across the sea: African musical elements in African-American vocal music and literature, Kate Conklin

Of Poets and Killers: Solipsistc Seekers of Artistic Immortality in Vladimir Nabokov’s Fiction, Harris Eisenstadt

Heroic Endurance: Sequences of Religious Design in Hemingway, Tara Falsani

Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Their Readers: Subterfuge, Challenge, and Transcndance in Victorian Gender Politics, M. Joann Harnden

The Sweet Valley Series: The Transmission and Reeption of Cultural Ieologies Through Popular Literature, Alyssa Hughes

(Re)Written on the body: Intertextuality and the Scarred Black Female Body in Contemporary African-American Women’s Literature, Holly Kozlowski

‘The Importance of Being Earnest,’ by Oscar Wilde: A Production Exploring the Play’s Homosexual Undertones and Emphasis on the Power of Women, Dan Maccarone

Fire Man (a screenplay), Andrew Magary

Waterlogged: A Novella in Four Voices, Brook Pisarsky

Identity and Change in the Scottish Literary Tradition: George Douglas Brown’s The House with the Green Shutters as a Defining Moments in Scottish Literature and Reaction to the False Self-Analysis of the Kailyard School, Andrew C. v. S. Smith

The Predicament of Woman’s Propriety in Hane Austen’s Sense and Sensibiity., Katie Taylor

Temporarily and other stories, Catherine Torphy

This mean and unrefined ore of mine Will make your glist’ring gold but more to shine - Anne Bradstreet, Anne Finch, and the Women’s Writing Tradition in Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Kate Westhaver

quiet ditches, Shelley Wollert

Honors Theses from 1997 1997

Desiring Against Empire: Homoeroticism and Patriarchy in J.r. Ackerley and E.M. Forster, Zahid Chaudhary

In Harmony: a novella, Robert Gee

‘This the childrens heard from our own lips’: History, Orality and the Black Female Body as Text, Caroline Guy

The Woman Behind the Monster: The New Woman and Sexual Politics of the 1890’s, Danielle Herget

Firefall and Other Stories, Rebecca Hoogs

Form(ed) From the Body: The Theatrical Texts of Ntozake Shange & Susan-Lori Parks. An Interpretive Autobiography 'frank', Jenny Johns

Sherman Alexie and the Creation of a Mediational Text: Native Traditions vs. Western Culture or Native Traditions and Western Culture, Jenna Klein

Piedras De Luz, Stones of Light: Translations from Spanish, Nicole Marina LaBrecque

Virginia Woolf and the Constructing, Destructing, and Reconstructing of Gender, Amanda Magary

For Was It Truth and Faithfulness? The Destruction of Camelot Through Passionate Love, Kelsey Miller

Storytelling as it Deconstructs Linear Time in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead, Erika Moore

Beckett: The Drama of Hope and Exile in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy - Malloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable - As Antecedent to His Later Dramatic Works, Andrew Morton

Trails and Other Stories, Alicia Nemiccolo

Strong Women, Brilliant Women: An Analysis of the Empowerment of Women Through Nature n Native American Literature, Kim Parker

A Farmer’s Almanac and other stories, David Regan

Feminine Landscapes, Maternal Groves, and Mystic Gardens: Constructions of Nature in the Contemporary Fiction of African-American Women, Elizabeth Train

Honors Theses from 1996 1996

Moments of Being in the Life and Work of Virginia Woolf, Suzanne Arnold

Fine, Good Women' and 'Meeting Québec', Sarah Borchers

Outside the Discourse of Patriarchy: helene Cixous and Ecriture Feminine, Carrie Califano

Hypertext: You Said You Want a Revolution!!, Dori Deis

Contemporary African-American Literature: Power Structures, Community and Magical Realism in the work of Gloria Naylor and John Edgar Wideman’s Homewood Trilogy, Brant Janeway

(De)Constructing the Good/Evil Dualism: American Gothic Fiction, Psychic Tensions, and the Face of Fear, Sarah Morgan

Naming Personal power: In(ter)dependence in Audre Lorde’s Biomytholography Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Heather Moylan

The Call of the West: Mary Austin and The Desert Experience, Amy Phalon

The Semiotics of Hysteria: Conversatons with Charlotte as Woman, Writers, Hysteric, Jodi Schwartz

Mark Twain and a Textual (Re)Creation of the Child Hero in Four Works: Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Huckleberry Finn, and The Mysterious Stranger, Julia Tatsch

Poet and Child: Unreconciled Opposites in Wordsworth’s Poetry, Brett Wilfrid

Honors Theses from 1995 1995

Pay Inside: Two Elm Street Stories, Darren Bruce

Ken Kesey and the Societal Machine: The Quest for Transcendence of Life’s 'Mundane Certainties', Joshua Burker

The Trouble Inside: Alcoholism in Raymond Carver’s Short Stories and Poetry, Jonathan Cannon

Met-him-pike-hoses: The Joycean Hero and the Novels of Flann O’Brien and John Banville, Brian Gressler

Picking Up Where We Left Off: a novella, Jennifer Kelley

Willa Cather’s Pioneering Women, Kerry Knudsen

Female Awakening Literature Across Cultures, K. C. Lawler

James Welch: Finding Identities from the Past, Deanna Loew

The Quiet Ecstasy of a Woman Artist: Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, Jennifer McIntosh

Driving to the Interior: Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetic of Self, Loss, and the Imagination, Eryn Paini

Transitions in masculinity and Hemingway's developed "code", Daniel Polk

Margaret Atwood: Canadian Women’s Individuality, Nationalism and voice in Surfacing and Cat’s Eye, Karen Rose

Consciousness, Confession, and Suicide: Efforts at Heroism in Camus’s Fiction, Erika Troseth

Honors Theses from 1994 1994

Old Like Hills, Like Stars The Poetry and Oral Tradition of Simon Oritz, Darren DeMonsi

The Female Language Barrier: A Close Reading of the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Adrienne Rich, Annmarie Faiella

For Better or For Worse: Ernest Hemingway’s Nick Adams as the Barometer for 'Lost Generation' Male Marital Attitudes. 1920-1940., Erik K. Mortenson

John Steinbeck’s Phalanx Theory: A Study of the Dichotomous Relationship Between the Needs of the Individual and Those of society in Depression-Era America, Heather Skye Stewart

Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead: A Journey through the Past, as a Guide to the Future, Cecily Totten

Honors Theses from 1993 1993

Lucille Clifton: Speaking in the Affirmative Voice, Signe L. Burns

Different Windows: An Examination of Delano’s Narrative and Melville’s Benito Cereno, Christopher Chamberlain

Rejecting the Dream: A Socio-Historical Reading of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, Alison Coburn

Cinderella’s Legacy, M. Beth Cronin

Melting the Snow Man: Language as a Description, in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens, D. Martin Hergert

The Evolution of the Influence of Hindu Religious Thought on the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Matthew Isham

The Western Imagination-Norman Maclean and N. Scott Momady. Literary Landscapes: Rivers, Mesas, and Big Sky, Matthew Kearns

The Refraction of Culture in 20th C Southern Literature: A Study of the Fiction of Warren, Faulkner, and Welty, Shawn Laurien Lambert

Intruders Upon a Personal New England, Catherine Nash

Myth and Counter-Myth in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Radcliffe

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Wealth: A Dynamic Relationship, Elizabeth Rogers

Cityscape: Two Stories, Leslie Tane

A Universal English: Proposal for a Universal Secondary Language Based on Modified English, Katharine C. Thomas

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