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 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
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