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American Literature Theses, 1960-Present
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1960
60 David Mascitelli Henry James and the Art of Fiction: A Study of His Critical Theories on the Art of the Novel
1961
61 Nancy Peck Contributions of Longfellow and Whittier to the Building of an American Folklore
1963
63 Jane Choate A Study of the Indian Material in James Fenimore Cooper and Francis Parkman
63 Ann Wadsworth Robert Frost and the American Tradition
1965
65 Susan Stitham F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream
1966
66 Kenneth Andersen The Individuals of the Finer Strein in the Novels of Willa Cather
66 MarilynBarstow Edith Wharton and Ellen Glasgow: The Woman as Novelist
66 Carol Buck A Darkling Bullet: A Discussion of American Civil War Literature
66 Scott MacDonough Frank Norris and Hamlin Garland: Literary Theories and Fiction
1967
67 Deven Hayford The American Language in the Novels of Sinclair Lewis
1968
68 Ann Draper A Study of Porter, Welty, McCullers and O'Connor: As Unique Expressions of the Modern Southern Mind
68 Edson Montgomery Evolution of a Hero: The Hero in the Writings of John Dos Passos
1969
69 Nancy Breuer The Lively Understandable Spirit: Theodore Roethke's Sequence Poems as Models for Transcendence
69 Reginald Fitz Selected Modern American Negro Literature: Transcendence of Race
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1971
71 Katherine Bean Treatment of Women by American Writers: A Focus on Henry James
71 Deborah Eaton Wallace Stevene: Heroes Fat and Lean
71 V. G. Gooding The Prose of William Carlos Williams: The Growth of an American Art
1973
73 Brendan Buckley Some Interracial and Intercultural Relationships in the American Novel
73 Priscilla Stone The Single Mind in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
1974
74 Jane McGill Fate, Freedom and Faulkner: An ExistentialReadingof Faulkner's Characters
74 Anita Rosencrantz EarlyNew EnglandInterior Design: An Expression of A Growing Nation
1975
75 RobertBaldwin Gertrude Stein: Individual and Everybody
75 Denyse Evelyn The Black Poet as Culture Bearer: Discussion of Folk Characteristics in Black Poetry fromDunbarto the Sixties
1976
76 Paul McDonough Two Figures in the Carpet: Henry Adams and Henry James
1977
77 Richard Broad Science and Technology in the Modern World: A Comparison of Henry Adams and Norman Mailer
77 Dennis Parker Some Aspects of MysticalUnionin the Poetry of Taylor, Whitman and Roethke
77 Charles Phillips Velocities and the Apocalypse: Henry Adams, Science, and the Lessons of Education
77 Susan SoltisTheodore Roethke and Robert Frost as Modern Transcendental Poets
1979
79 Mark NeJume The Modern Hero in American Literature: As Evidenced in the Works of Ernest Hemingway, Saul Bellow and Norman Mailer
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1981
81 Jennifer Salmon A Realistic Women's Sensibility In the Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Kate Chopin
1982
82 Hugh Coyle Motion Oblique
82 Elizabeth Currier Household Effects: Two Poems of the Home by Robert Frost
82 T.C. Lucas The Nineteenth Century Novella
82 Curt Mark Craters of the Moon: I Drive Around aLotin this Story
1983
83 Parker Sutton S. R. 's
1985
85 Jon Kelly Shoes Oven
85 Martha Punderson Homespun Highbrow: Comparison of Perceptions of Nature in American Literature 1860-1900
1986
86 Margaret Hanlon Zora Heale Hurston: A Career of Paradox
86 Elizabeth Hutson Vermontin 1970: A Revolution in Land Use Management
1987
87 Melissa Lowman Ethnic Politics in the 1980's:America's Ethnics as Political Interest Groups
1989
89 Dwight Garner Dissonant Dissent: James Agee's Achievement in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
89 Derek Loeser The Crossroads: Jazz and the American Identity: In Ralph Ellison's Essays and Invisible Man
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1990
90 Phoebe Paine T.S. Eliot, Poetic Drama and Tradition
90 Kristen Peterjohn Women and Literature in the 20th Century: A Continuing Struggle Against the Mythology of Motherhood
90 Jennifer Prior The Development of Power: through Renunciation in Emily Dickinson's Poetry
90 Anne Sellers Hinduism and Transcendentalism: The Writings of Emerson, Thoreau and Gandi
90 Amy Thrall Build Therefore Your Own World: Solitary Souls in the Republic of the Spirit
1991
91 Amy Drigotas The Influence ofItalyon Hawthorne, Howells and James
91 Daniel O'Neil James Madison and the Marquis de Condorcet: Conflicting Conceptions of the Separation of Powers Doctrine
1992
92 Alex Blanton Hemingway's Bullfight: A Study Through Hemingway's Spanish Works of His Interpretations of the Bullfight
1993
93 Kim Bedard Wallace Stevens: The Landscape of the Inamgination
93 David Ferris Wax
93 Amy Jamrog The She-Devils, a novel
93 Eric Jones African American Women Novelists: Identity and Community in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison
93 Serena Maurer Positions
93 Jennifer Normandin What to Make of a Diminished Thing: Emerson's Legacy in Robert Frost
93 Cole Odell Everything Falls
93 Jonathan Selwood Unrest, a play
93 Rebecca Worley A Stream of Thought An Analysis of Hemingway's Fishing From Trout Streams to theGulf Stream
1994
94 Jeffrey Bushell When He Turned 48, My Father Only Bought a Sports Car: The Crisis of Aging and Mortality in the American Quest Novel
1995
95 Claire Calvin Traveling the Border Region: Cormac McCarthy's Border Novels
95 SandyDurst Living the Reflection of a Dream
95 Megan Feeney The Regeneration ofVermont's Natives:A CircleUnsound
95 Chris Jervey From the Artwork of Thieves
95 Gordon McGrath The Writings of Henry Roth: The Evolution of a Jewish Immigrant's Ethnic Identity
95 Anne Seilheimer The Spirit of Nationalism: A Study of Class and Culture in Three Phases of 19th C American Art
95 Hollis Rudiger Too Big for This Bed
95 Jennifer Ryan Uses of the Pastoral: The Politics and Poetry of Seamus Heaney and Robert Frost
1996
96 Kara Ryan In Search of Ancestral, Racial and Cultural Identities: Toni Morrison Keeping the Memories and Stories Alive
96 Matthew Feinberg Fantastic Metafictions: Exploration of Fiction, Historical Recovery: Absalom, Absalom!, 100 Years of Solitude, Song of Solomon
96 ElizabethGetzThe Language of Politics: Evolution of Abraham Lincoln's Literary Style During His Political Career
1999
99 Alison FischerIce and Stone: In Search of a Canadian Self (Creative Writing)
99Brian HarrisonThe Cultural and Critical Evolution of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
99 Julia HassRobert McAlmon: Lost in the Generation: A Companion Volume
99 Molly MagillA "Mystrical Country": Hemingway's Latest Novel, True at First Light
99 Joshua NelsonThe Second in Case the First Bar Fell
99 Athena FliakosThe More Things Change...
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2000
00Katie ZugThe Progression of the Short Story Cycle ove the Course of the Twentieth Century
00 Kathryn BarnettIndividuation and Empowerment: A Study of Faulkner's White Female Characters and Constructs of the Feminine within the Southern Mythology
00 Tom LangsdorfE.B. White: A Hundred Feet Tall
00 Abigail DorschelMother's Milk and Child's Blood: Images of Maternal Ambivalence and Renewal in Toni Morrisons' Fiction
00 Philip WalkerBecasue We Care
00 Holly BlaiseSix Stories, Two Others
00 Alexandra BradleyWho Could Possibly Come After...A Discussion of Two Contemporary Authors and Their Latest Novels: Rebecca Goldstein's Mazel and Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls
2001
01 Eleanor HendersonBack inCaliforniaStories by Eleanor Henderson (Creative Writing)
01 Peter Morgan A Landscape of Change and Loss: Man's Relationship to the Natural World as Represented in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! And Go Down, Moses and McCarthy's The Orchard Keeper and Suttree
01 Rosemary NashI Should Have Gone to Palestine Instead of to New York If Jerusalem Had Arms to Embrace Me: Jewish American Portrayals of Aliyah
01 Lauren FerstandigConformity, Intolerance and Mind Control: The Role of Ray Bradbury, Ayn Rand and Flannery O'Connor in the Critique of 1950's Cold War Am. Culture
01 Katherine ClarkRace and Sexuality in Quicksand and Passing: Nella Larsen's Characters as Metaphor for the Black Female Artist
01 Anne PenningtonLiterary Landscape: A Search for Woman's Space in the Fiction of Kate Chopin
2002
02Samantha SeverinNow, Shift (Creative Writing)
02 Claire BowenAmerican Realists With Vision: The Painterly Fiction of Henry James and Edith Wharton
02 Mark JacobsonGallows Hill: An American Literature Thesis in Three Spooky Acts (Creative Writing)
02 Daniel ColonnoEncircling A Feminine Ideal: Nathaniel Hawthorne in Relation to Anne Bradstret, Emily Dickinson, Margaret Fuller and Sophia Peabody
02 Theodore WalkerBoats Will Leave (Creative Writing)
02 Jonathan WoodardAt War With Words Myth, Knowledge and Representation in the Literary Formations of War in the Twentieth Century
02 Kathryn SaundersFiction Found: The Illusive Reality of Eudors Welty's Fiction and Photography
2003
03Paulina MasonLove and Violence in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston: Interrogating the Paradox
03 Joshua BillingsBegining Again: The Legacy of Emersonian Experience in Kerouac, Pynchon, and Johnson
03 Jeremiah MesserShadows in the Great Machine (Creative Writing)
03 Nathan HoganOut of the Fields, Up From the Marshes, Into the Roads (Creative Writing)
03 Hilary Nicholas-AlexanderSprings From the Unheard: The Insistently Emerging Creative Voice in Us All (Creative Writing)
03 Kaitlin GreggTell It Straight (Creative Writing)
03 Dimiter KenarovHis Master's Voice: Literary Traditions and Influences in W.H. Auden's " In Memory of W.B. Yeats and Joseph Brodsky's "Verses on the Death of T.S. Eliot"
03 Robert WainwrightDon DeLillo: Fear and Paranoia in White Noise and Underworld
2004
04Abraham StreepBig Top (Creative Writing)
04 Lindsay GradnerLiving "In the Along": The Creative Evolution and Refinement of Gwendolyn Brooks' Poetic Voice
04 Valerie BenkaSearching for a Future in the Past: A Comparison of William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Toni Morrison's Beloved
04 Sarah GrenertThe Air of Lost Connections (Creative Writing)
04 Edward FlanaganBarrens Blue (Creative Writing)
04 Kate DavisCharting the Geography of the 'Undiscovered Continent': Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickson, and the Construction of Landscape
04 Michael StockwellBefore Moving On
2006
06 Memory PeeblesRiver Bottom Five
06 Tara Micherone Uncommon Schools: A Transcendentalist Philosophy of Education
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