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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Victim or Villain: Female Resilience and Agency in the Face of Trauma in Chimamanda Adichie’s, Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s, Nervous Conditions (1988), Adaobi Juliet Chukwuma

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An Environmental Struggle: Nature’s Role in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney and Robert Frost, Jake Lawson

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The Beast in the Beauty: An Analysis of Cultural Gender Biases and Stereotypes in the Classic Fairy Tale “Beauty and the Beast” and Implications in Modern Retellings, Lauren Lefler

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The Neoliberal Noirs of Gary Indiana, Carson Morgan

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Gentleman Death in Silk and Lace: Death and the Maiden in Vampire Literature and Film, Emily Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Bibliotherapy: A Literary and Linguistic Analysis of Literature, Matthew Curry

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Mankind is Machine: A Monstrous Posthuman Reading of Philip K. Dick’s Selected Works, Gabriel Davis

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The Hysterical Woman: An Analysis of Trauma in Gothic Women’s Literature and Modern Horror Film, Molly Holdway

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Linguistic Features of Metaphor, Metonymy and Narrative Gap in “The Yellow Wallpaper:” A Literary Analysis, Sherry Kaye Ms.

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“It’s Alive!” The Birth and Afterlife of the Gothic Genre, Tanner Linkous

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Consuming the World: Poetic Appetite, Memory, and Identity in Li-Young Lee’s Food Poems, Claire Liszka

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Tell the Bees that Transcendentalism is Lost: The Search for the Lost Transcendental Space in the Bee Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath, Adyson M. Ross

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Führer and Father in Flux: Fascism and Desire in the Works of George Saunders, Don DeLillo, and David Foster Wallace, K. Tyler Wick

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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A Lesson in Mourning: The Evolution of the English Anti-Elegy, K. Matthew Bennett

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Cyberspace vs Green Space: Nature’s Psychological Influence in Neuromancer, Blade Runner 2049, and The Stone Gods, Zackery Castle

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Posthumanism in the Early Modern Period: Jonson, Marlowe, and Shakespeare, Kayli Compton

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Loving the Mountains, Leaving the Mountains: The Appalachian Dilemma and Jim Wayne Miller’s The Brier Poems, Madeline Dawson

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Operatic Mysticisms: Mountains, Deserts, Waterscapes, Andrew Demczuk

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Visions of Christ in The Dollmaker, Ray Fine

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Accepting or Opposing The Status Quo: A Look at The Women Characters in Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1981) and Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2003), Omolola Giwa

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The Whale-Road to Road House: A Study of the Contemporary Transmission of Beowulf, Haley Grindstaff

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At What Price: Insidious Hegemony and Character Archetypes Woven into Until Dawn, Courtney Harvey

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“It is not enough to be in one cage with one self”: The Poetic Subject, Incarceration, and Envisioning Abolition, Emily Price

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Searching for Hades in Archaic Greek Literature, Daniel Stoll

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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From Byronic to Gothic Blood Sucker: Subversion toward a Non-Gendered Identity, Hannah Hoover

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The Failure of Chivalry, Courtesy, and Knighthood Post-WWI as Represented in David Jones’s In Parenthesis, Taylor L. Hubbard

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“It could have happened to any of you”: Post-Wounded Women in Three Contemporary Feminist Dystopian Novels, Abby N. Lewis

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Intuition of an Outsider: From Nothing to Voice in George Scarbrough’s Poetry, William Moore

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Fanfiction: A Look into the Disruptions of Gender Identity through Tropes, Stephanie Preslar

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Blend it Like Beckett: Samuel Beckett and Experimental Contemporary Creative Writing, Sam Nicole Campbell

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Deconstructing the "Woman of Sentiment": Parody as Agency in the Poetry of Phoebe Cary, Scottie Garber-Roberts

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Environmental Cybernetics: Technology and the Perception of Remediated Space, Lucas Gentry

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The Powerful Presence of Dams in Appalachian Poetry, Zoe Hester

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"Wand'ring this Woody Maze": Deciphering the Obscure Wilderness of Paradise Regained, Brooke Johnson

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“Fetch M’Dear”: Healers, Midwives, Witches, and Conjuring Women in Select YA and Toni Morrison Novels, Diane Mallett-Birkitt

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Samuel Daniel’s Lyric Reception: The Role of Poet-Critics from Wordsworth to Winters, Caleb McGhee

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Kind King or Tyrannical Ruler? An Analysis of Hilary Mantel’s Henry VIII in Wolf Hall and Bringing up the Bodies, Amanda S. Nicholson

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Govoreeting with Lewdies: A Critical Discourse Analysis of A Clockwork Orange and its Translations Across Media and Language, Willie Wallace

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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The Dangerous Women of the Long Eighteenth Century: Exploring the Female Characters in Love in Excess, Roxana, and A Simple Story, Jillian Bailey

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When Process Becomes Processing: Managing Instructor Response to Student Disclosure of Trauma in the Composition Classroom, Kelci Barton

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Evolving Mediums: Over the Garden Wall and the Divine Comedy, Karissa Doughty

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Introspections into Rational Fanatics and Thoughtful Deceivers: Examining the Use of Memoirs in the Works of James Hogg and Charles Brockden Brown, Tucker Foster

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Fir-Flower Petals on a Wet Black Bough: Constructing New Poetry through Asian Aesthetics in Early Modernist Poets, Matthew Gilbert

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North of Ourselves: Identity and Place in Jim Wayne Miller’s Poetry, Micah McCrotty

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The Gendering of Death Personifications in Literary Modernism: The Femme Fatale Symbol from Baudelaire to Barnes, Amanda McNally

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'A Dream of Completion': The Journey of American Working-Class Poetry, Lacy Snapp

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Environmental Deterioration in Contemporary Appalachian Literature: A Biblical Ecocritical Analysis of Serena and Strange as This Weather Has Been, Alexandria C. Craft

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New Criticism—Not So New to Tennessee’s High School English Teachers, Seth Grindstaff

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An Intersectional Feminist Perspective of Emmett Till in Young Adult Literature, Claire Jones

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Bertha Harris' Confessions of Cherubino: From L'Ecriture Feminine to the Gothic South, Kara Russell

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“I’ve Been Given the Wrong Mother:” Reconsidering Absent Mothers in Postmodern British Literature, Amanda G. Sawyers

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“All the Foundation of the Earth becomes Desolate” Tracing Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon connections through a Shared Literary Frontier, Adam E. Timbs

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Celtic Water Hags, Violent Children, and Wild Men: Reexamining the Syncretic Nature of Beowulf, James L. Baugher

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Transmutations of Ophelia's "Melodious Lay", Danielle Byington

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The Establishment and Development of the Mockingbird as the Nightingale’s “American Rival”, Gabe Cameron

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The Unkindness of Strangers: Exploring Success and Isolation in the Dramatic Works of Tennessee Williams, Chelsea Nicole Gilbert

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Projecting Culture Through Literary Exportation: How Imitation in Scandinavian Crime Fiction Reveals Regional Mores, Bradley Hartsell

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Composing the Postmodern Self in Three Works of 1980s British Literature, Jonathan Hill

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Only the Earth Remains: Exploring the Machine in Selected Lyric Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Mark Hutton

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Young Adult Literature and Empathy in Appalachian Adolescents, Kelsey R. Kiser

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"Some Things Grew No Less With Time:" Tracing ATU 510B from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century, Rachel L. Maynard

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Get Thee to a Nunnery: Unruly Women and Christianity in Medieval Europe, Sarah E. Wolfe

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews, and The Canterbury Tales: Parallels in the Comic Genius of Henry Fielding and Geoffrey Chaucer, Zachary A. Canter

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Virginia Woolf’s Fictional Biographies, Orlando and Flush, as Prefigures of Postmodernism, Jacob C. Castle

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Keats and America: Attitudes and Appropriations, Jessica Hall

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Reconciling the Past in Octavia Butler's Kindred, Haley V. Manis

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New Appalachians of the Twenty-First Century: Reinventing Metanarratives and Master-Images of Southern Appalachian Literature, Kelsey Alannah Solomon

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Themes of Self-Laceration Towards a Modicum of Control in Nineteenth Century Russia as Expressed by Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov, Jonathan Ball

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Functional and Stylistic Features of Sports Announcer Talk: A Discourse Analysis of the Register of Major League Soccer Television Broadcasts, Marco Balzer-Siber

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Jess's Search for an Understanding of Truth in Fred Chappell's Kirkman Tetralogy, Alex L. Blumenstock

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The Lawrentian Woman: Monsters in the Margins of 20th-Century British Literature, Dusty A. Brice

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Southerner as Other: Exploring Regional Identity through the Southern Vampire, Lauren N. Fowler

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Re-Construction Through Fragmentation: A Cosmodern Reading of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, Beth Katherine Miller

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Redefining the Unrepentant Prostitute in Victorian Poetry, Marijana Stojkovic

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Encounters with the American Prairie: Realism, Idealism, and the Search for the Authentic Plains in the Nineteenth Century, Jacob L. Vines

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Other: Poems, Catherine Pritchard Childress

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“Between the Dream and Reality”: Divination in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy, Robert A. Kottage

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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“To Make Myself for a Person”: The Bildungsroman in Modern Jewish-American Literature, Kari Lynn Keeling

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Translational Wit: Seventeenth-Century Literary Translations of Selections from Ovid’s Heroides, Sean I. Levenson

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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The Digital Folklore Project: Tracking the Oral Tradition on the World Wide Web., Jasen Bacon

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The Rage of the Wolf: Metamorphosis and Identity in Medieval Werewolf Tales., Jessica Lynne Bettini

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The Excursion: A Screenplay Adaptation of Francis Brooke’s The Excursion., Jennifer Sim Daniel

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Communicative Language Teaching in Current Chinese Colleges and Universities., Xiaorong Li

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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Black and White on Black: Whiteness and Masculinity in the Works of Three Australian Writers - Thomas Keneally, Colin Thiele, and Patrick White., Matthew Israel Byrge

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Fatherhood and Fatherland in Chimamanda Adichie's "Purple Hibiscus"., Audrey D. Peters

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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POW/MIC: Prisoners of Words/Missing in Canon: Liberating the Neglected British War Poets of The Great War., Larry T. French

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Replacing the Priest: Tradition, Politics, and Religion in Early Modern Irish Drama., Leslie Ann Valley

Theses/Dissertations from 2008

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The Evolution of Feminine Loyalty Trends in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Appalachian Literature., Candace Jean Daniel

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On the Road from Melville to Postmodernism: The Case for Kerouac's Canonization., Jeffrey Warren King

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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The Adolescent Rebellion against Panoptical Society: A Foucauldian Analysis of Adolescent Development in Contemporary Young Adult Novels., Clarissa Elizabeth Allen

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Hearing Adam: Gender Relationships in the Short Fiction of Caroline Gordon., Linda Elaine Hipple

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Trophies or Treasures: The Burden of Choice for Mothers, Wives, and Daughters in Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Bostonians., Melissa C. Huisman

Theses/Dissertations from 2006

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Double the Novels, Half the Recognition: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Contribution to the Evolution of the Victorian Novel., Lori Elizabeth Baker

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The Narrative Lens: Understanding Eudora Welty's Fiction through Her Photography., Brandon Clarke Ballentine

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Reviving the Subject: A Feminist Argument for Mimesis in Literature., Messina Lyle

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Opium., Donald John Marotta

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Articulation as an Act of Futility: A Deconstructive Exploration of Textual Articulation as It Functions within a First-Person Narrative Structure., Wilson Wright Onstott

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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A Psychological Literary Critique from a Jungian Perspective of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India., David W. Elliott

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Trapped in Bluebeard's Chamber: Rose Terry Cooke and Nineteenth-Century "Desperate Housewives.", Bridget Renee Garland

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Two from the Underworld: Short Fiction., Stephen Glass