This community contains the theses of the South Dakota State University, Department of English.
Due to copyright restrictions, the collection contains both open access and university access theses and dissertations. University access items are only available to SDSU users, and on-campus visitors. Non-SDSU users wishing to access restricted materials may request items through their institution’s interlibrary loan services.
ETDS from 2018
Life Sucks: Classifying Transgressive Fiction, Jena Christianson
ETDS from 2017
Reflection and Acceptance: Small Town Ghosts Represented in Poetry, Adam Junker
Speak, Little Mute Girl: Representations of Mute Women in Film, Honor Schwartz
ETDS from 2016
A Poetic Response to Cancer: Scars, Mortality, and the Doctor-Patient Relationship, Jodi Andrews
Queering the Spheres: Non-Normative Gender, Sexuality, and Family in Three Victorian Texts, Randi Mihajlovic
Within and Without: Psychoanalysis, Trauma Theory, and the Healing Narrative, Carrie Crisman Oorlog
ETDS from 2015
Death of the Cowboys: George W. Bush, 21st Century Westerns, and the Failure of Masculine Performance, Mark Brenden
The Roots of the Orange Tree : Metaphor in Anthony Burgess’s Alternative Reality, Lindsey Clouse
The Gathering Darkness: J.R.R. Tolkien's Exploration of Evil, David Alden Herbener
Composing a Literary Adoption Memoir and Self Through Creative Nonfiction Memoir Writing, Jamie K. Nagy
ETDS from 2014
Relationships, Representation, and the Balance of Power in P.G. Wodehouse's My Man Jeeves, A Damsel in Distress, and Piccadilly Jim, Casey Alsaker
Beyond Performance: Issues of Female Agency in Eliza Haywood's Fiction, Aubrey Berger
Shifgrethor as the Deterministic Theme in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, Amber Hanson
Empowering Students with Critical Pedagogy : Encouraging Social Change in the Composition I Classroom, Katherine Highfill
No More 'Flawless Victory': Exploring the Inability of the Warrior to Reintegrate into the Domestic State in Post-9/11 War Narratives, Jonathan Koehler
They, Too Sing America : Braided Narratives About Immigrants and the American Dream, Sheryl Kurylo
From Novel of Ideas to Pop Phenomenon: The Transmission Atlas Shrugged into Popular Culture, Stephen E. Snyder
Consuming Masses:The Zombie Figure in Twenty-first Century Post-apocalyptic Literature and Film, Susanna Vander Vorste
ETDS from 2013
Post-9/11 SF Films: Terrorism, Warfare, and Dystopia, Jacob Herrmann
Analyzing Nabokvo's Rendering of Metalanguage and Phonaesthesia in the Gift and Dar, Natalia Vasilyeva
ETDS from 2012
A Rhetorical Examination of the Barack Obama Phenomenon in the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Steve Binkley
The Crooked End of Nowhere: Fantastic Fiction and its Adoption of the Gothic and Uncanny, Amanda Braun
Moments of Grace: Bridging Noir Fiction with Rural-regional LIterature, Thomas P. Flynn
ETDS from 1993
Visionaries of the American West : Mari Sandoz and Her Four Plains Protagonists, Lisa Rae Lindell
ETDS from 1991
Violence : An Attempt at Control, Debra Hunking
ETDS from 1984
A Comparative Study of Frederick Manfred's Lord Grizzly and A.B. Guthrie Jr.'s The Big Sky, Carol Dornberger-Jackson
ETDS from 1971
The Narrow Room : A Critical Study of the Sonnet Sequences of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ann O. Boultinghouse
A Study of the Thematic Importance of Nine Female Characters of the English Mystery Plays, Linda Lee Boyd
Man and Nature in Herman Melville's "The Encantadas", Jay J. Jackson
An Analysis of Three Approaches to Grammar with Recommendations for a Multiphasal Grammar, Rose Marsha Kessler
The Tension Between Mysticism and Erotic Sensibility in Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market", Linda H. Marquardt
ETDS from 1970
Flannery O'Connor and the Development of the Grotesque in American Literature, Joan Rae Griffin
The Military Image in the Poetry of A. E. Housman, Richard Alan Hudson
The American Negro in Selected Writings of Robert Penn Warren, H. Lynette Olson
The "Republic of the Spirit" : Marital Love in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence, Nancy Lee Preszler
ETDS from 1969
Themes of Isolation and Relationship in Selected Novels of Frederick Manfred, Joan Hilmoe
The Changing Nature of Family Values in Pearl Buck's House of Earth, Sue Min Huang
A Critical Evaluation of Stephen Crane's "The Monster", James M. Schubert
ETDS from 1968
An Evaluation of the Novels of Mari Sandoz, Marian Barnes
An Analysis of Stephen Leacock's Treatment of the Detective Story, Beverly Lamb
Response: A Study of the Genesis, Nature, and Meaning of the Aural Imagery in Henry Vaughan's Silex Scintillans, Lavonne Niklason
ETDS from 1967
The Concept of the Flapper in the Early Writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Janet Foster Carroll
The Programed Approach to the Teaching of Remedial Grammar, Janice Slupe Kleen
A Comparison of the Social Criticism in Melville's Typee and Thoreau's Walden, Mary Riedy
ETDS from 1966
A Study of the Gothic and Promethean Themes in Frankenstein, Lawrence L. Syverud
ETDS from 1965
Evidence of Socio-Economic Classlessness in the Major Fiction of Daniel Defoe, Nicholas J. Goergen
A Thematic Approach to John Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle, James W. Grinnell
ETDS from 1964
An Eclectic Teaching Approach to William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun for Use in an Introduction to Literature Class, Wayne John Viitanen
ETDS from 1963
Major Differences in the Background Evaluation of Top-ranking and Bottom-ranking Students of English at South Dakota State College, Robert Edward Tembeck
ETDS from 1962
Major Differences in the Home Environment of Top-ranking and Bottom-ranking Students of English at South Dakota State College, by Marion Hvistendahl
Major Differences Between Ten Top-ranking and Ten Bottom-ranking South Dakota High Schools: A Study in English, Phyllis Bonner Weichenthal
ETDS from 1961
An Experimental Writing and Grading Procedure for Freshman Composition, Ray C. Newton
ETDS from 1960
A Study of Student Evaluation of the Freshman English Course of South Dakota State College, Charles E. Brickwedel
ETDS from 1959
Attitudes of Students Studying Huxley's Brave New World: An Analysis, David Kenneth Adams
A Study of the Attitudes of Teachers of Technical Subjects at South Dakota State College Toward Student Proficiency in Language Skills, Walter C. Daniel
An Investigation of the Relationships Among Various Language Skills of Freshman English Students at South Dakota State College, Paul A. Elsner
ETDS from 1958
Illusion and Reality: Analytic Teaching Materials for Eight Contemporary Short Stories, Sara Jeanine Deyling
Mysticism in Selected Early Novels of John Steinbeck, Tom E. Kakonis
The Moral Order of William Faulkner, Shirley Lease Kay
A Teaching Approach to Selected Works of Ernest Hemingway, Helen E. Rezatto