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Theses/Dissertations from 2004
The Force is with You: Dylan Thomas's Force as it Exists in His Poetry and Drama., Josh Archer
The Meaning of the Moment: A Collection of Short Stories., Jonathan David Benton
Confronting Manhood: The Struggle of Male Characters in the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines., Katie Fay
Coming Home, Staying Put, and Learning to Fiddle: Heroism and Place in Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain., Heather Rhea Gilreath
Power and Perfection in Karen Finley's The Constant State of Desire: Creating a New Discourse., Melissa D. Greenwood
The Fountainhead: The Evolving Roles of the Heroic Code into the Antiheroic Mode., Erin Hogshead
Growing Up Faulkner: Coming of Age, Identity, and Parental Responsibility in Three Faulkner Families., Heather Marie Hoover
Sexuality and Power in Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story., Michelle Martini
An Application of Contemporary Technical Writing Standards to Benjamin Franklin's Works., Edward Robert Milhorn
Social Influences on the Female in the Novels of Thomas Hardy., Jessica D. Notgrass
Wrestling with Father Shakespeare: Contemporary Revisions of King Lear and The Tempest., Erin Melinda Denise Presley
Theological Dualism in the Poetry of George Herbert., Carolyn Elizabeth Woodruff
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
"And Gladly Wolde He Teche": Chaucer's Use of Source Materials in the "Clerk's Tale.", Robert R. Brandon II
Breaking the Bonds of Silence: The Immigrant Experience in Magical Realist Novels of Katherine Vaz and Chitra Divakaruni., Hillary Dawn Hester
The Story is Everything: The Path to Renewal in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony., Tracy Y. Kilgore
Southern Star., Shanda Schrae Miller
Hopelessness and Despair: Alienation and Oppression in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers., Stacey Reece
History and Ambiguity: Graham Greene's The Third Man and The Quiet American in Print and on Screen., Valentina Reshetova
Imprisoned and Empowered: The Women of Edith Wharton's Supernatural Fiction., Tonya Faye Stansberry
Gospel According to Bristol: The Life, Music, and Ministry of Ernest Phipps., Brandon H. Story
John Fox Jr.'s Commentary on the Roles of Women in the Progressive Era., Heather Mac Sykes
Writing as Conversation: The Importance of Communication in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy., Christie Dawn Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
White Knowledge and the Cauldron of Story: The Use of Allusion in Terry Pratchett's Discworld., William Thomas Abbott
An Investigation into the Current Status of the Paradigm Shift in Technical Writing Textbook Pedagogy., Terre D.M. Byrd
Merry-Go-Round., Lydia Allois Carter
The Detrimental Effects of Organized Religion on Women in Lee Smith's Fiction., Jennifer Renee Collins
Creating a New Genre: Mary Rowlandson and Hher Narrative of Indian Captivity., Rachel Bailey De Luise
Completing the Circle: A Study of the Archetypal Male and Female in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter., Kathy H. Hallenbeck
"In Death Thy Life is Found": An Examination of the Forgotten Poetry of Margaret Fuller., Staci E. Lewis
"Love is Lak de Sea": Figurative Language in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God., Kalina Saraiva de Lima
Ishmael: The Dissolution of a Romantic and the Emergence of a Poet., Allison M. Pepper
Connecting to the Feminine and to the Inner Self in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs., Misty D. Powers
Don't Put Your Shoes on the Bed: A Moral Analysis of To Kill a Mockingbird., MitziAnn Stiltner
Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachian Fiction., Catherine Benson Strain
Waiting for Mary Jane: A Collection of Modern Appalachian Short Stories in the Joycean Tradition., Lorie Ann Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
God in the Darkness: Mysticism and Paradox in the Poetry of George Herbert and Henry Vaughan., Elizabeth Anne Acker
Historical Linguistic Analysis of Traditional English Christmas Carols., Tami Lynn Baker
Weaving Accessibility and Art in Marilou Awiakta's Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother's Wisdom., James David Basinger
Eliza Haywood's Feigning Femmes Fatale: Desirous and Deceptive Women in "Fantomina," Love in Excess, and The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless., Emily Kathryn Booth
Electronic Books: An Overview of the First Two Generations., Todd O. Doman
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Speak English, Think Yiddish-- Adaptation versus Assimilation., Susan L. Gardberg
Maternal Shadows and Colonial Ghosts in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John., Sandra Walton Gillespie
"'Tis Hard to Dance with One Shoe": The Failure of the Fathers in Walker's The Color Purple and McCourt's Angela's Ashes., Gwendolyn Nicole Hale
The Dilemma of Woolf's Androgyny: A Close Look at Androgyny in A Room of One's Own and Orlando., Crystal Gail Holman
Maternal Misogyny: Absent Mothers in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature., Jessica Horn
Pop Culture and Protofeminism: The Novels of Jacqueline Susann and the Second Wave of the Women's Movement., Heather N. Jett
From Arcadia to Heroism: The Progression of the Protagonists in Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited., Tammy J. McInturff
A Comparative Analysis of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Emile Zola's Germinal., Mouhamedoul Amine Niang
The "Jaded Traveller": John Jasper's Failed Psychic Quest in Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood., Linda Poland Pridgen
Medieval Courtly Love: The Links between Courtly Love, Christianity, and the Roles of Women in Tennyson and Morris., Tonya Warden
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
If Only I Knew: The Stranger in the Twentieth-Century Short Story., Ryan S. Otto