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ETDS from 2018

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Life Sucks: Classifying Transgressive Fiction, Jena Christianson

ETDS from 2017

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Reflection and Acceptance: Small Town Ghosts Represented in Poetry, Adam Junker

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Speak, Little Mute Girl: Representations of Mute Women in Film, Honor Schwartz

ETDS from 2016

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A Poetic Response to Cancer: Scars, Mortality, and the Doctor-Patient Relationship, Jodi Andrews

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Queering the Spheres: Non-Normative Gender, Sexuality, and Family in Three Victorian Texts, Randi Mihajlovic

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Within and Without: Psychoanalysis, Trauma Theory, and the Healing Narrative, Carrie Crisman Oorlog

ETDS from 2015

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Death of the Cowboys: George W. Bush, 21st Century Westerns, and the Failure of Masculine Performance, Mark Brenden

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The Roots of the Orange Tree : Metaphor in Anthony Burgess’s Alternative Reality, Lindsey Clouse

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The Gathering Darkness: J.R.R. Tolkien's Exploration of Evil, David Alden Herbener

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Composing a Literary Adoption Memoir and Self Through Creative Nonfiction Memoir Writing, Jamie K. Nagy

ETDS from 2014

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Relationships, Representation, and the Balance of Power in P.G. Wodehouse's My Man Jeeves, A Damsel in Distress, and Piccadilly Jim, Casey Alsaker

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Beyond Performance: Issues of Female Agency in Eliza Haywood's Fiction, Aubrey Berger

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Shifgrethor as the Deterministic Theme in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, Amber Hanson

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Empowering Students with Critical Pedagogy : Encouraging Social Change in the Composition I Classroom, Katherine Highfill

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No More 'Flawless Victory': Exploring the Inability of the Warrior to Reintegrate into the Domestic State in Post-9/11 War Narratives, Jonathan Koehler

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They, Too Sing America : Braided Narratives About Immigrants and the American Dream, Sheryl Kurylo

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From Novel of Ideas to Pop Phenomenon: The Transmission of Atlas Shrugged into Popular Culture, Stephen E. Snyder

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Consuming Masses:The Zombie Figure in Twenty-first Century Post-apocalyptic Literature and Film, Susanna Vander Vorste

ETDS from 2013

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Post-9/11 SF Films: Terrorism, Warfare, and Dystopia, Jacob Herrmann

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Analyzing Nabokvo's Rendering of Metalanguage and Phonaesthesia in the Gift and Dar, Natalia Vasilyeva

ETDS from 2012

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A Rhetorical Examination of the Barack Obama Phenomenon in the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Steve Binkley

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The Crooked End of Nowhere: Fantastic Fiction and its Adoption of the Gothic and Uncanny, Amanda Braun

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Moments of Grace: Bridging Noir Fiction with Rural-regional LIterature, Thomas P. Flynn

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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Riding the Fence, Leaning to the Left, and Bending Over Backward : Awkward Positions in Teaching Gender Studies Within the College Composition Classroom, Julie Bergan Abraham

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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Choice and the Victimization that Results : The "Special" Women of Edith Wharton, Sandy Buelow

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Leslie Marmon Silko and James Welch's use of the Travel Novel Genre and Native American Gazes in Gardens in The Dunes and The Heartsong of Charging Elk, Jason Benjamin Currie-Olson

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The "Art" of Edith Wharton's Fiction : The Legend and Portrait of Beatrice Cenci, Amy M. Einspahr

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Art in Mourning : Surviving The Survivors in Maus, Sheri A. Morey

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Writing Minnesotan : A Critical Analysis of Dialect and Culture in Upper Midwestern Regional Literature, Devonna Preteau

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The Terror of Insanity : A Study of Hawthorne's Schizophrenic Protagonists, Jaclyn Raw

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The "New Woman's" Voice : A Study of the Female Speakers in the Divergent Poetics of Mina Loy and Edna St. Vincent Millay's Poetry, Laurie Troth

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In Praise of Motherhood and Domesticity : A Re-examination of the Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Kate Chopin, Tanya Larson Vanderlinde

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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The Gump Slump : Challenging Anti-Intellectualism in the College Composition Classroom, Kelly Susan Bradbury-Veldhuisen

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"Do not weep" : The Healing Narrative in the Twentieth Century American War Novel, Naomi Joy Stapleton

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Music As Resource : Comfort and Redemption Through the Use of Blues and Jazz in African American and Native American texts, Michael L. Torrence

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Spiritual Victims : Violence Against Women in the Works of Flannery O'Connor, Sarah A. Tupa

Theses/Dissertations from 2000

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Allure and Appreciation of Natural History in the Writings of Gene Stratton Porter, Cheryl Sahm Birkelo

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The Forgotten Bestseller : Timothy Shay Arthur's Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and What I Saw There or How to Properly Blend Elements of a Genre : The American Potboiler, Christopher Sean Harris

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Love : Inspiration to Transcendental Self-reliance in Alcott's Works, Tamara Arlynn Mannes

Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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Culturally Distinctive Quests for Identity in N. Scott Momaday's House made of dawn, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, and Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, Tim A. Bowes

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Willa Cather and Bess Streeter Aldrich : Portraying Realistic Women of the Plains in The Cult of True Womanhood, Kristen Haar

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Harvesting Their Stories : South Dakota Writers' Perspectives on Pioneering Women 1870-1900, Cynthia A. Stupnik

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The Internet and Critical Thinking in the First-Year Composition Classroom, Amy Thompson

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On the Dangerous Edge of Things : Moral Dilemmas in Greeneland, Jung Hun Um

Theses/Dissertations from 1998

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"Straight Naturalism With All The Guts" : Frank Norris and the Evolution of American Naturalism, Mary A. Akkerman

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The Rhetoric of Oliver Stone's JFK, Jason T. McEntee

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E-prime and the General Semantics Paradigm : Devolution, Revolution, or Evolution?, Lisa J. Roberts

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The rhetoric of imperialism in the Lewis and Clark journals : Camp Dubois to the Mandan Villages, Joan K. Warner

Theses/Dissertations from 1997

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The Universal Female : Female Characters as Catalysts in William Blake's Vala or The Four Zoas, Jeanne A. James-Hansen

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Paula Gunn Allen and Leslie Marmon Silko : Two Approaches to Traditional Keres Myths, Cecilia Ragaini

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The Witness of Landscape : Annie Dillard and Jose Maria Arguedas in Accord with Nature, Susan Helfert Shaw

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A Portrait of a Prairie Daughter : The Development of Beret Holm's Character in Rølvaag's Trilogy, Renee Harms Van Der Werff

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Universality and the Self-discovery Narrative : Three Works by Contemporary Writers, Paula L. Wehmeyer

Theses/Dissertations from 1996

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Images of Women's Power and Powerlessness in the Texts of Lillie Devereux Blake, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, and Susan Petigru King, Karen J. Jacobsen

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A Tolkien Tapestry : Interwoven Epic Threads in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Alan Christopher Jalowitz

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The Evolving Frontier in the Works of Sigurd F. Olson, Steven R. Juenemann

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Senior English and Freshman Composition : Bridging the Gap, Nan Noteboom

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Literature v. Technology : Don DeLillo's Postmodern Contribution, Matthew B. Quigley

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Jean Toomer: Writing a Painting, Ellen K. Sigl

Theses/Dissertations from 1995

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The Erotic Female Voice of Charlotte Mew, Penni Elizabeth Pearson

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Modern Theories of Assessment: A Comparison and Proposal, Amy L. Siebring-Jurrens

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"Unutterable Wo": An Attempt to Achieve the Creative Male Self Through Feminine Influence in the Life and Work of Edgar Allan Poe, Catherine A. Twitero

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An Examination of the Spiritual Conflicts Faced by Louise Erdrich's Chippewa Characters, Jennifer Leigh Widman

Theses/Dissertations from 1994

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Contrastive Analysis of Communicative Styles Between Koreans and Americans, Young-Ah Kang

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Through the Eyes of Children: The Danzig Trilogy of Gunter Grass, Marsha Katherine Klein

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The Ghost of Guy de Maupassant in the Early Work of Willa Cather, Diane M. Leslie

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The Dark Knight From Dawn to Knightfall: The Dynamic American Myth of Batman, Spencer Joray Madsen

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King James I's Influence on the Role of the Weird Sisters in Macbeth, Ronda K. Mehrer

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Pioneer Perspectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" Native American, Melissa Marie Miller

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Fiction as Subversion: The Angel in the House Versus the Victorian Gentleman in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Sara Running Danger

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Violating the "Novel of Manners": Unmothered Females in the Novels of Edith Wharton, Debra J. Seivert

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"Silent, Lone, as Grows a Flower": The Ideal Heroine in Byron's Don Juan, Darla R. Talsma

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Singing Over the Bones: Sharon Olds and the Female Consciousness, Melanie Wood

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The Wine Metaphor in Li Bo and Omar Khayyam, Yuqing Zhang

ETDS from 1993

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Toward a New Masculinist Critical Approach to Willa Cather's Treatment of Male Protagonists in One of Ours: The Limits of Empathy, William Bruce Benham

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Editorial Colon Revision and the Dilution of Narrative Design in Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, Joyce Elizabeth Dooley Stavick

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A Stylistic Analysis of Robert Anson Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Andrew Grover Edeburn

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Visionaries of the American West : Mari Sandoz and Her Four Plains Protagonists, Lisa R. Lindell

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"I've Stopped Being Theirs --": Roles of Women in Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, Beth L. Paulson

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Shattering the Myth : A Feminist Study of Sister-Sister Relationships in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Books, Ellen T. Simpson

ETDS from 1992

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(Re)coding the Code: A Study of Hemingway's Women, Mari Lynn Bakker

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Toni Morrison's Child, Quester, and Ancestor Characters: Discord and Harmony in the Community, Diane M. Steiger

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Native American Connections in the Art of Willa Cather: A Close Neighbor to the Sun, Stephen Cassius Swinehart

ETDS from 1991

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Maggie, Dorothea, Gwendolen: Expectation and Duty in Three Eliot Novels, Bernadette Pauline Degreef

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Variations on the Theme of Loss in American Poetry of the Second World War, James A. Hubley

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Violence : An Attempt at Control, Debra Hunking

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A Functional Grammar Pedagogy Can Resolve Controversy, Marlene J. Lang

ETDS from 1990

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The Dialectic of Contrarieties: Parallels in Chesterton and Milton, Kyle Winston Friedow

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Feminist Themes in the Novels of Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, The Reef, Summer, and The Custom of the Country, Mary Lee Gabel

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Images of Women in Lillian Hellman's Eight Original Plays, Susan Gigstad

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The Concept of the Individual in Five American War Novels, Sheila Goeken

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Travel Accounts by Victorian Women Travelers in China and Tibet, Sue Grant

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Effective Industry Writing: The Power of Cohesive Language, Jeanne Jones Manzer

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Calling for Harmony: Looking at Humanity and Nature in the Poetry of William Stafford, Dan R. Syljuberget

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The Interrelationship of Imagination, Word and Deed in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy and Momaday's House Made of Dawn, Craig Steven Womack

ETDS from 1989

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The Appeal of C.S. Lewis and The Screwtape Letters, Ruth E. Manson

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Religion, Women and Culture in the Works of Ole E. Rølvaag, Nancy Gwen Moose

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An Interdenominational Study of Responses to Evangelical Christian Language, Loren O. Murfield

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Truth Telling Tales : the Verbal Economy of Antony and Cleopatra, Thomas Pearson

ETDS from 1988

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No Time for Tears : A Look at Death in the Salinas Valley Novels of John Steinbeck, Bill Anderson