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Abrams, Steven, Imagery and character in Macbeth: a play of action.. April 15, 1971

Alden, Patricia, The comic vision in James Joyce's Ulysses. 1967

Alley, Henry, Milton's Adam and Samson: The Growth within the Architecture. 1967

Anderson, Alison, The Diary of Anais Nin: Discovery of the woman and the writer. . 1975

Anderson, Brian, Style and personality in The Blood Oranges: A phenomenological approach to the fiction of John Hawkes.. 1975

Aries, Jane Ellen, Proust/Joyce the word and the World. 1968

Armstrong, Jamie, William Blake's The Gates of Paradise: the power of the imagination. 1970

Barnes, James, Alienation and action in Tennyson's Maud. 1975

Baskette, James R., To define is to distrust. The monogenetic comedy of Sterne and Beckett. 1966

Bean, John C., The concept of love in Hemingway's major fiction before 1941. 1965

Bevan, Ernie, Beneath the surface; multi-vision in Giles goat-boy. 1970

Bledsoe, Cathy, The Journey Home. April 26, 1985

Bliss, Lee, The grotesque in modern southern fiction: a study of selected works by William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty. 1965

Block, Bruce, The modern fool: a study of fools and madmen in Catch-22. 1967

Bowes, Diana, Virginia Woolf's Women in Marriage. 1982

Braunmuller, Jr., Albert R., The structural function of plot and character in Ben Jonson's Alchemist. 1967

Brown, Kenneth A., The Works of Richard Scowcroft. April 5, 1983

Brown, Laura, Jane Austen: the man and his work. March 15, 1971

Buhler, Susan, Love and Marriage. the individual and society in the novels of Jane Austen. 1969

Bunyan, John, Perspective in Women in love: Wayne Booth, Henry James, and the imaginative process in novel-writing. 1975

Callahan, Connie, Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee: Man's predicament in the modern world. April 17, 1972

Cameron, Scott, The struggle for expression: a study of Mormon literature. 1970

Cannon, Peter, A case for Howard Phillips Lovecraft. April 16, 1973

Carlton, Sara, George Herbert: an approach to his ideas on style through his reading of Saint Augustine. 1963

Carrell, Jennifer, Opening Enchanted Doors to the Good: The FAir Folk in Modern Fantasy. March 23, 1984

Chilcott, John, The Road Back to Flux in Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. March 23, 1984

Chittendon, John, The tragedy of a first love in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. 1970

Christensen, Jane P., Mark Twain's development of the one-man crowd scene. 1965

Cioffi, Grant, Industiralism, isolation,a nd loss of artistry in Winesburg, Ohio. April 16, 1973

Claycamp, Leslie Suzanne, Fitzgerald, money and women. 1974

Clayton, Clarissa, Hemingway's Imagery: Perfection and Disintegration. 1982

Cohen, Walter, The involute structure of Vladimir Nabokov's fiction. March 9, 1971

Crandell, Ashley, Notes on Milton's Paradise Lost. April 17, 1972

Crow, Nora, Jonathan Swift: The techniques of second person satire.. 1965

Cutler, Debra Joan, Patterns for a new genre: literary journeys ataken by adults and children. 1975

Davis, Karen, Children in the Fall of Faulkner's South. 1982

Deveney, Karen, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita: the secret of durable pigments. 1965

DiBattista Maria, The Penitential Way. 1969

Diehl, Sarah J., Louise Bogan: An Autobiography in Verse. 1982

DiNapoli, John, Rhetoric and response int he fiction of Aldous Huxley. 1966

Donovan, Margaret C., Myth and Demystification in the Works of Sean O'Casey: A Study of the Dublin Trilogy. 1982?

Douglas, Christine, Kingsley Amis: The anti-romantic. 1975

Dryden, Lanny M., The craft of Graham Greene's fiction: Narrative technique in seven novels. April 16, 1973

Edinger, Bill, Samuel Johnson: the streaks of the tulip. 1963

Fagan, Julie, O, Matter and impertinency mixed!: How familial, sexual, and social pressures generate madness in the novels of William Faulkner. 1975

Fam, Samia, The Frustration of Significance: Dowell's Experience with Knowledge. 1980

Fam, Samia, The Search: A Reading of Absalom, Absalom! and The Moviegoer . 1981

Forward, Jr., Robert H., The Novels of Nathanael West. A critical study.. 1966

Fraser, Christie, The way the wind blows; an essay on Wallace Stevens. Spring 1971

Friedlander, Anne R., Women in Little dorrit. 1967

Galbraith, Tom, The fantasy element in satire: an exploratory essay. 1966

Garvin, David L., The English Lyric from Chaucer to Wyatt. 1969

Gavin, Cristina Miles, A Sense of Eternity. March 23, 1984

Gilbertson, Catherine Jo, The Sot-Weed Factor: history re-invented`. 1971

Gilinsky, Armand, Visions of immortal love: the art of Vladimir Nabokov. 1975

Ginsburg, Gerald N., Gnawing through the thongs and bull-hides: ancient sources for modern verse. 1969

Gioia, Michael Dana, "We Had Always Dwelled Together". The pattern of self-pursuit in Poe. April 16, 1973

Glann, Hilary, Towards a New Definition of the Novel in the Sixties: The Fictions of Richard Brautigan and Kurt Vonnegut. April 4, 1984

Glaser, John P., Vitality of poison; Lord Byron and experience of nothingness. April 15, 1971

Goodfellow, William S., Shakespeare's Henry V.. 1967

Goodhue, Susan, A Study of the Aesthetics of Roger Fry and Virginia Woolf. May 12, 1985

Goodrich, Tom, The mythology of the weather in Wallace STevens. 1969

Gostovich, John, Post-modern fiction: the example of the American war novel. 1970

Gould, Stephanie, literary symbolism in the modern world. 1967

Gregg, Stephen, Probing the Abyss: Class and Character in Forster's Howards End. April 26, 1985

Grossman, Richard, The resurrection of Raskolnikov. 1965

Gunesch, Douglas L., James Joyce: Cycologist and Creator.

Haley, Paul, The landscape of the mind in Beckett's Molloy. 1966

Harris, Duncan S., In desperate defiance: Thoreau as radical idealist. 1965

Harrison, Antony, The creative world: a study of the novels of Joyce Cary, including an analysis of The horse's mouth. 1970

Harrison, Beth, "Bad Dreams" in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction. 1982

Heineman, Alan, J. D. Salinger: an appreciation at midpoint. 1966

Henderson, Celia, The Defence Convention in Verse Satire. 1982

Hendrickson, Steven W., The love poems of Fulke Greville. 1964

Herbert, William, Two generations of Romantic Poets: Increased Skepticism about the Ability of the Imagination to Perceive Objectively. April 2, 1983

Herold, Patricia, The Ocean metaphor: a process of fluidity in four novels of Virginia Woolf. 1975

Hess, Linda, A solitary perfectionist: Yvor Winters and literary criticism in the twentieth century. 1964

Hodge, Michael B., Religion and psychoanalysis in Theodore in Roethke's poetry. April 16, 1973

Howe, Georgiana, Faulkner's As I lay dying: an American comedy. 1963

Hutt, Katherine, William Carlos Williams, Spring and All: Painting with Words. April 22, 1983

Jablow, Betsy, Variations in narrative form: shandeism and the modern novel. 1967

Johnson, Roberta E., The Game-Element in Three Middle English Metrical Romances. 1968

Kahn, Judith, Petrus Alfonsi: "qui miscuit utile dulci" in his Disciplina Clericalis. June 1984

Kaku, Jennifer, The Fate of Innocence: the child figure in English Literature. 1981

Kast, Barry S., Forms of Salvation: REgressive Imagery in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke. 1968

Kaye, Howard J., Satiric method in Aldous Huxley and Evelyn Waugh. 1964

Keeran, Sally, Anna Stessa's rise to notice: a linear look at woman in Finnegan's Wake. April 17, 1972

Kempson, Judson Norris, Historical Narration as self-definition, Quentin Compson and the legacy of the Old South. March 1983

Kime, Wayne R., Nathaneal West's dreamless worlds: Miss lonelyhearts, A cool million, The day of the locust. 1963

Klapper, Lianne, Profane Love and Divine Meditation: Contraries Meet in the Poetry of John Donne. April 3, 1984

Kommers, Tom, The Four Zoas. 1969

Kotz, Steven J., Tamburlaine the Great and the Development of Eponymic Comedy. 1968

Kronman, Craig, Ambiguity in Gerard Manley Hopkins' middle sonnets: a linguistic criticism. 1975

Krupa, Gene, The evolution of ben Jonson's world-view: a study of five of the comedies. 1965

Kugelmass, Joel N., The sea crimson, or setting sail from byzantium: Joyce's Ulysses. 1967

Lamphere, Vicki, Three odes of John Keats. March 23, 1984

Larson, Karin, Why I like Keats. April 15, 1971

Laub, Susan, A discussion of the criticism of Byron's Don Juan from 1819 to the present. 1975

Lavine, Stephen David, The less deceived: Philip Larkin and the Movement. 1969

Lavis, Elaine Kay, Obscurity in the poetry of Edwin Arlinton Robinson. 1963

Lazaroff, Jr., Thomas A., The Road to "Autumn": Toward an experiential Poetry.

Lazer, Hank, Blake's handbook for the imagination; (the theme of creation in Blake's poetry thRough 1795).. April 15, 1971

Lee, Felicia A., Lily Briscoe: Virginia Woolf's Self-Portrait in To the Lighthouse. April 26, 1985

Leedy, David, Image and Idea: The Poetry of Yvor Winters. 1969

Lewand, Kathy, The fate of innocence and child narratives in Faulkner. 1975

Lewin, Jeff, Sylvia Plath: the development of her art. 1967

Little, Mark Wallace Vischer, Time and Titan: A Study of Wyndham Lewis. 1969

Littlefield, Lynn, Elements of romaticism in Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow. 1975

Low, Charlotte, Malory: A study in style. 1965

Mack, Elizabeth Flood, The Dubious Heroes: A Study and Comparison of Romaticisim in Lord Jim and innocence in Absalom, Absalom!. 1980

Maillard, Page, "The Woman is a Stranger": A Study of the Heroine in Jean Rhys's Novels. 1982

Makepeace, Anne, The elliptical approach to identity in Franz Kafka's "Conversation with the Supplicant" and Samuel Beckett's Molloy, Malone Dies, and the Unnamble . 1969

Martin, Dell H., The tiger of wrath, the jackel of lust: Reading Day of the Locust and Miss Lonelyhearts. 1968

Matheny, Ed, George Bernard Shaw's philosophy of art. 1975

Matsui, Connie, Women and the Victorian ideal: Dickens, Trollope, Eliot. 1975

Maxeiner, Tom, The poetry of Yvor Winters. 1966

McClure, Kerin A., Self-knowledge gained through discovery of positive ancestral history: a solution to bourgeois oppression in the novels of Toni Morrison . April 20, 1983

McCoy, Richard, Samuel Beckett's Novels. 1968

McCreary, Mary E., Henry James' In the cage: a study of romantic folly. 1963

McElhany, Myrna L., Sin, heredity and knowledge: the conflict between religion and science in The scarlet letter, Elsie Venner, and The damnation of theron ware . 1963

McInnes, Marion K., Walt Whitman's poetry: Aspects of the style. April 18, 1973

McKinney, Shelly, Fact and Fancy: An analysis of the Sisters in Jane Austen's Works. 1981 ?

McMillan, James, Tin-Protoporphyrin induced suppression of total bilirubin formation and hyperbilirubinemia in adult male wistar rats with common bile duct ligation . June 9, 1986

McMullen, Bruce, Thom Gunn and the heroic gesture. 1974

McNally, Catherine Lineburgh, "A Wond'rous Lovely Storm": The Celebration of tragedy in Three Novels by Willa Cather. May 28, 1985

Merrill, Annie, Roaming with a hungry heart: the journey in the fiction of Paul Bowles. March 23, 1984

Metzger, Vivian, Perspectives on the Pst and present: an examination of William Faulkner and Heinrich Boll. April 2, 1984

Meyer, Regula, The function of family relationships in Henry James' international novels: a study of The American, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Golden Bowl . 1981

Min, Kelly, Appearances versus reality: the role of the disguised heroine in Shakespeare's comedies. 1984-1985

Montgomery, David J., On Alienation, Freedom, and Salvation: Doestoevsky's vision of anarchy and apocalypse in The Possessed. April 13, 1983

Morris, Marilyn Louise, Two villonauds: Ezra Pound and the outlaw-bard. April 15, 1971

Mow, Shannon Sue, Renaissance stoicism and the work of Fulke Greville. Spring 1971

Moynes, Jon, An approach to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 1968

O'Meally, Robert G., Jean Toomer - black apostle. 1970

Olcott, Anthony C., The author's special intention: a study of The real life of Sebastian Knight. March 8, 1971

Olsen, Janeen Ann, How Shakespeare's comic heroines were created. 1974

Ortiz, Ricardo, "All eligible to all": A Consideration of Walt Ahitman's Philosophical Method (with specific reference to the poet's study of Hegel) . March 17, 1983

Parkinson, Lois, A procession of shadows: the reality of the characters in Virginia Woolf's The waves. 1996

Parks, Donalisa, Extraordinary people: Children and "Moral Sense" in the works of Henry James. 1981

Patrick, Susan E., E. E. Cummings: The Artistic Vision. 1968

Pavlis, Timothy, The dimensions of myth in Absalom, absalom!. 1965

Phelps, David S., Choosing Between the Woman Hero and the Heroine. February 22, 1983

Price, Jr., John S., Jonathan Swift and the breaking of the circle. 1967

Pridgeon, James, Scratches on the wall; classicism in Faulkner's novels. 1970

Ransom, Daniel J., Noes on the endings of the Canterbury Tales. April 16, 1973

Ravits, Martha, Fundamentals of Sexology or the Love Passion; in James Joyce's Ulysses. April 17, 1972

Reed, William A., Of dreams, merchants, and kings.. April 16, 1973

Ride, Sally, The "special providence" in Hamlet and The Tempest. April 16, 1973

Robb, Christina, Ego dormio et cor meum vigilat: William Langland in Piers plowman. 1967

Roberts, Nancy, A time of such quality: poems on loss by Thomas Hardy and Eugenio Montale. 1975

Rosenthal, Ellen, Felaweshipe in the Pardoner's Tale: Aspects of Chaucer's use of liturgical parody and literary allusion. June 10, 1973

Rotham, Lynn, The Progression from a solitary revolt to one of solidarity in the works of Albert Camus. April 15, 1983

Rubinstein, Dorothea, An author and her art: a study of Ivy Compton-Burnett. 1966

Salvatore, Burce, History in the short fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1965

Sammons, Todd H., The Morality of Stylistics: An examination of classical and puritan rhetoric in Paradise Lost. April 16, 1973

Sandler, Susan, Broken poetry: William Carlos Williams and the Conditions of Form.

Savery, Pancho, The waking dream: the process of individuation in Pound's Cantos. April 17, 1972

Schwarberg, Ann E., The Route to Reconciliation: God, Man and society in The Scarlett Letter. 1982

Scott, John S., Faulkner's moral vision. 1965

Scott, Tim, Win lose or draw: the relative achievement of Ike McCaslin in Faulkner's "The Bear" and Go Down Moses. 1981

Seidler, Tor, Lawrence and Elliott: morality and personality. April 17, 1972

Selmi, Michael, The ideals of youth: the young intellectual in modern literature. March 18, 1983

Sewall, Lori, She: love and the concept of woman in the poetry of Theodore Roethke. 1970

Shatford, Sara, The Banishment Plays. 1968

Shell, Marc, On change and exchange. 1968

Sherline, Reid, Moments of True Feeling: Towards a reassertion of self over linguistic tyranny in the plays and novels of Peter Handke. April 26, 1985

Siegfried, Charles, The function of doubt in early English tragedy. 1965

Siminoff, David, Mrs. Dalloway - screenplay based on the novel, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia woolf.

Siskin, Clifford Haynes, The Prelude: Books I, II, and IV. April 17, 1972

Slotnick, Linda, Relativity for the millions: the science fiction of Lawrence Durrell. 1964

Slovic, Scott, Indirect autobiography: A phenomenological introduction to the personal essay, fictional narrative, and confessional poetry as modes of self-expression, (Prolegomenon to a fuller study of Loren Eiseley, Jack Kerouac, and James Wright) . March 18, 1983

Smith, David S., Vladimir Nabokov and mnemosyne. 1977

Smith, Glenn K., Death and verbal regeneration in Dylan Thomas. 1966

Spaeth, Nicholas, Seize the fire - a study of the innocence of William Blake. April 17, 1972

Staton, Jana J., The private universe of Pale fire. 1965

Steinberg, Majorie, A Comparison of Cervantes and Sterne. 1968

Stephens, Janet, Redemption and comedy: From Tristia to Gaudium in Shakespeare's Non-tragic Drama. March 11, 1983

Stephens, Susan, The development of the grail as a theme in medieval and modern literature. 1965

Stevens, Laurie A., Rebellion in The Scarlet Letter. April 10, 1983

Stinchcomb, Patricia, The redemption of the non-romantic heroine. Spring 1973

Stockman, Henry, The architecture of "The Temple": a discussion of Herbert's collection of poetry. 1975

Stone, Eugene R., John Keats and the egotistical sublime. April 16, 1973

Strong, John, Lolita: An exemplification of artistic communication. 1970

Sweigert, Elizabeth Anne, The wanderers Henry Adams and Henry james between worlds. April 6, 1984

Tanner, Scott S., Alienation in the Life and Art of Thomas Hardy. April 6, 1984

Thurber, Bart, The graceful moment: a study of The waves in relation to Jacob's room, Mrs. Dalloway and To the lighthouse. 1970

Tonies, Trinidad L., The personal, the political, and the poetic: Adrienne Rich in process. 1982

Treder, Jeffrey D., Howards end and the saving remnant of Matthew Arnold. 1963

Tyson, Molly, Theseus. 1974

Van Oss, Mark T., Reflections on Society: Families in Bleak House. 1981

Veitch, Jonathan, Faulkner and Bergson: "The Palm at the End of the Mind". 1981

Visser, Katrina, Mothers and Others, Mothers and Daughters in the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Virginia Woolf. 1982

Walker, Mark A., The influence of the tall tales on William Faulkner. 1963

Wall, John Joseph, Jr., Mr. Twain and the South: with particular emphasis on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'n'head Wilson, and Life on the Mississippi . 1981

Weatherhead, Andrea, From Pan to Beethoven: The Develpment of E. M. Forster's Musical Symbolism. Winter 1983

Wentworth, Mary C., Paving the way for Einstein's sister: science fiction by women: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin, The Sirian Experiments by Doris Lessing, Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy . May 1983

Wheeler, Cynthia A., Autobiography into art: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night. April 19, 1984

Wilborn, William F., A study of David Jones' In parenthesis. 1966

Williams, Helen, A study of the bourgeois woman in twentieth century literature. 1970

Williamson, Craig B., Lolita: the unsung seduction. 1965

Wiltsee, Elizabeth, this dust of words; a senior honors thesis: samuel beckett. 1970

Winkes, Ken, Myth and the Romantic notion of time. 1968

Woods, Majorie Curry, The Language of Djuna Narnes' Nightwood. 1969

Wormhoudt, Daniel T., Richardson's religion and Clarissa. 1967

Wright, Linda J., Songs of re-creation and revolution: contemporary black women poets. April 17, 1972

Yamaoka, Julia, The death of Rachel and the birth of Benjamin: the mystical quest for divine unity in the Middle Ages. 1974

Yeager, Robert F., Metrical variations in The Canterbury Tales: an interpretation. 1970

Yount, Elizabeth, What will suffice: the consolation of Wallace Stevens. 1966

Zadra, Gina M., The forms and structure of self-discovery in James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover. March 19, 1983

Zweip, Mary, A study of ironic and low mimetic tragic novels: he who is violent and victimized, or she whose lover is beyond her grasp. April 20, 1972

Archer, Elizabeth, Tess Durbeyfield: Not So Simple Dairymaid. May 1991

Atkinson, Patricia, The Fate of Forster's Liberalism in Howards End.. May 1987

Banks, Gabrielle, Chicano Fiction: The Exploration of Space in American Literature. May 1991

Beattie, Lisa, Wedded Women: An Exploration of Female Identities in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding. May 1988

Berry, Julie, Issues of Gender and Sexuality in Marie de France's Lanval. April 1989

Beyreis, Mark, The Gaudy Splendor of the Past: Carnival in William Faulkner's The Hamlet and Absalom, Absalom!. May 1988

Brown, Bruce D., The Historical Incongruity of David Jones: In Parenthesis and the Great War. May 1988

Bruck, Matthew H., Laughing at the Grotesque: a reading of Flannery O'Connor's stories. May 1988

Carter, Kristen, Desire, frustration, and possibility in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts. 1987

Chin, Douglas, The Compromised Artist: Hardy's Censorship of Jude the Obscure. May 1988

Christopher, Noam Jesse, The Curve of an Emotion: Identity in James Joyce's Fiction. May 1992

Cini, Carol F., Edith Wharton's Challenge of Sex Roles in The Age of Innocence. April 1986

Claymon, Deborah S., "Long Day's Journey Into Night": From Script to Film. May 1992

Cordero, Edward M., Out of the Wasteland: A Comparative Study of the impetus behind postwar Japanese and Americna poetry. May 1991

Cudjoe, Frances L., A Reading of the Constructed Identities and Women-Centered Relationships in Brown Girl, Brownstones and Sula. May 1992

Dosanjh, Rajit S., The Occasional Chaucer; Epistolarity and Authorial Presence in Chaucer's Short Poems and Troilus and Criseyde. May 1993

Dow, Joshua, The Awakening to the Unconscious: Kate Chopin and the Development of Eros and Psyche. 1992-1993

Drimmer, Jonathan, Man -- Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger: A Demystification of Man and the universe in The Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts. April 1990

Elgart, Jodi Lynn, Who Writes Whom?: Lyn Hejinian and the Politics of Media Review. May 1993

Elia, Oriana, Chaos Vanquished: Order Within Multiplicity in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. April 1986

Fagel, Brian, This is a Very Queer Place Certainly: A Comparative Analysis of Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds and Felipe Alfau's Locos: A Comedy of Gestures . 1991

Field, Corinne, Tradition and the Feminist Talent: Adrienne Rich's Ideological Re-Vision of T. S. Eliot. May 1987

Fine, Douglas J., Telos at Chaos: Writing Jorge Louis Borges. May 1992

Fu, Lisa J., Women Warriors: Female Rebellion in Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Walker's The Color Purple. Spring 1993

Geary, Stephen W., The theory of Mimetic Desire as a Key to Henry Handel Richardons' Ultima Thule. Spring 1990

Gelpi, Albert, Doubleness and Center: Consciousness in the Works of Katherine Anne Porter. May 1991

Glouberman, Robert, Existential Motifs in Faulkner's Novels.

Grabowski, Douglas, The Delivery of the hero: Men writing fiction in the novels of jane Austen. 1987

Gravitz, Deborah, "Even out of Your Report": Narrative Compromise in Three Shakespeare Romances. May 1987

Hansen, Peri Z., Byron: Poet, Statesman, Philhellene. May 1988

Headrick, Lora Dawn, "A Kind of Grief and Pity": Great Expectations, Absalom, Absalom! and Visions of Narrative Forgiveness. May 1990

Helmich, Bo, The Language of Incarnation: patterns of meaning in some short stories of Flannery O'Connor. May 1992

Hildebrant, Natascha, "Powerful, Feminine, Maternal Hands": Androgyny and the Women in Middlemarch. April 1989

Hope, Miranda, The Right to Speak and the Theatrical Dimensions of Virginia Woolf. May 1993

Huerta, Amelia M., The allegory of the Mass and the "Pardoner's Tale". May 1988

Itoi, Anna, Clothing as Coded Language in The Mill on the Floss and Vanity Fair. May 1991

Jeffrey, Margaret M., A place from which to speak, a place from which to write: conflicts of cultural identity in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and the Poetry of Wendy Rose . Spring 1989

Jennifer Lanoff, "And Live Like Solomon": W. B. Yeats and the poetics of desire. May 1993

Jones, Ceri, The sensual world int he mind's eye: James Joyce's Ulysses and the language of visuality. April 1990

Jones, Michael, What are Poets For?: Considering Heidegger's Question, and some Responses from Adrienne Rich and John Ashbery. May 1988

Kalter, Susan, Rocks that talk like gods: Narrative structure and the voices of women in Bessie Head's Maru and Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane. May 1991

Karagueuzian, Catherine, "So rare a wondered father and a wife": Prospero's subjugation of Miranda in The Tempest. May 1991

Kemker, Aimee, Sifting through the ashes: a study of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur and Walter Percy's Lancelot. April 1989

Kent, Le'a, Textual interplay and the status of the self: three women's autobiographies of insanity, 1956-1974. April 1990

Kinch, Sean, Between the ticks of the clock: Heraldic universe in The Alexandrian Quartet. April 1990

Kirazian, Lisa, Place, Space, and Boundary: The Journey's of Anne Elliot in Jane Austen's Persuasion. May 1992

Klingsporn, Gregory K., The discourse of dystopia: a Foucaltian study of sexuality in the dystopic novels of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. May 1992

Landau, Deborah, "A City Made of Chains": The psychological demands of culture as explored in Anne Sexton's play, Mercy Street. April 1989

Landon, Robert, Fitzgerald's Trinity: REader, anarrator, Hero, and a mystery of Mysteries. May 1991

Lau, Sarah J., Gender and Ethnicity in Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior. 1987-1988

Lee, Christine, Silence in Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes. April 1986

Leichter, James Jensen, Daring pilots in extremity: John Dryden and Anthony Ashley Cooper, the First Earl of Shaftesbury. A Study of Absalom and Achitophel. May 1988

Liau, Chiamin Corii, A photographic plate and a broken cinema: filmic influences in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!. May 1993

Lodato, Amy A., The transcendental poet: gender and metaphysics in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Aurora Leigh".

Lopez-Aguado, Susan, Ideological Implications of Jane Austen's Persuasion: conservative criticism of the aristocracy in a regency world. April 1990

Lopez, Elizabeth, Harrowing Clods: A Study of the Relationship between man and nature in the works of Thomas Hardy. June 1992

Lundgren, Nicholas D., Ecological re-visions of Humanity in Nature: a reading of Jean Toomer's Cane and William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses from a Radical Ecological Perspective . May 1993

Magowan, Kimberly, J. D. Salinger's Sensitive Hero: Seymour Glass as Fragile Seer. June 5, 1989

Mallery, Kathleen, A Key to Eudora Welty: Objects Unlock the Inner World. April 1988

Mann, Julie A., The painter and the word: reading Charles Demuth. May 1990

Manzulli, Mia, Social mobility in Old New York: the social context of Edith Wharton's novels of Manners. March 1989

Martin, Tera, 160, 372 and counting...: The literary response to AIDS. March 1993

Martinez, Michele, Forces of Exile in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses: Character and the Dramatic Narrative. April 1990

Meyercord, Christopher, Quentin Compson: William Faulkner's avatar of the frustrated lover. March 1992

Mohalley, Jacqueline, Conrad's political women: a study of Nostromo and Under Western Eyes. April 1992

Mohlenhoff, Jennifer, Retelling Violence: Public Riot and Private Lives in Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge and Honore de Balzac's L'envers de L'Histoire Contemporaine . May 1991

Murphy, Joseph C., Flannery O'Connor and the Anagogical Imaginiation. Spring 1987

Nedrow, Jeff, Between Perfectionism and Criticism: John Steinbeck's Search for Stylistic Identity. May 1989

Neimann, Paul Grafton, Jr., Creative Violence: Tristram Shandy and the aphilosophy of Wit. May 1993

Olsen, Erica, "Hidden Meaning on the Surface": The Composition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Marble Faun. May 1988

Palmberg, Elizabeth, Reading Henry James' What Maisie Knew: What He Represents, Who She is Not, and Who She Becomes. May 1992

Palmer, Lisa, Emasculated Males and Affirmative Females: The Dispossessed in Athol Fugard's Port Elizabeth Plays. April 1986

Palmer, Sharon, Song of Wittman Ah Sing: Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book as a Novel of the Historical Emergence of Man. April 1990

Peng, Shih-Wei, Wuthering Heights and Emily Bronte's Vision of Childhood. May 1990

Peyser, Marc, The Destruction of Old Women in America: How Society Defeats the Individual in Wharton, Porter, Faulkner, and McCullers. April 1986

Pierce, Todd, The Eye at the Window: A Study of Narrative Consciousness in the Gothic Novel. April 1990

Pinckert, Eric, Ernest Hemingway and the Process of Omission. April 1989

Polhemus, Mack, The Textual Character in Shakespear's Sonnets. May 1987

Ponce, Margo, Lorna Dee Cervantes and the confessional poets: an exploration of Cervantes' work as related to Confessional Poets Robert Lowell and Anne Sexton . June 1990

Price, Hilary, Mother/land: Conceptions of Home and Self in the Fiction of Jamaica Kincaid. May 1992

Przybylko, Eric J., The Rise of the "Angry Young Man": male adolescent perspectives in the fiction of Dickens, Joyce, and Salinger. May 1993

Quan, Gail, Emily Bronte's vision of childhood and its influence on children;'s literature. May 1990

Reed, Laura, Ekphrasis and Meaning: A study of two Renaissance texts. Spring 1989

Regensburg, Kenneth, World and desire in the lives of writings of Henry James and Ernest Hemingway. Spring 1993

Reilly, Robin, Jack Kerouac: the "Whoopeeing Soul" encounters the timeless text of bliss. May 1992

Richard, Andy, "The Evermore Becoming": the painting and the novel in the works of Thomas Hardy. May 1991

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