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 of 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
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
"Straight Naturalism With All The Guts" : Frank Norris and the Evolution of American Naturalism, Mary A. Akkerman
The Rhetoric of Oliver Stone's JFK, Jason T. McEntee
E-prime and the General Semantics Paradigm : Devolution, Revolution, or Evolution?, Lisa J. Roberts
The rhetoric of imperialism in the Lewis and Clark journals : Camp Dubois to the Mandan Villages, Joan K. Warner
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
The Universal Female : Female Characters as Catalysts in William Blake's Vala or The Four Zoas, Jeanne A. James-Hansen
Paula Gunn Allen and Leslie Marmon Silko : Two Approaches to Traditional Keres Myths, Cecilia Ragaini
The Witness of Landscape : Annie Dillard and Jose Maria Arguedas in Accord with Nature, Susan Helfert Shaw
A Portrait of a Prairie Daughter : The Development of Beret Holm's Character in Rølvaag's Trilogy, Renee Harms Van Der Werff
Universality and the Self-discovery Narrative : Three Works by Contemporary Writers, Paula L. Wehmeyer
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
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
A Tolkien Tapestry : Interwoven Epic Threads in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Alan Christopher Jalowitz
The Evolving Frontier in the Works of Sigurd F. Olson, Steven R. Juenemann
Senior English and Freshman Composition : Bridging the Gap, Nan Noteboom
Literature v. Technology : Don DeLillo's Postmodern Contribution, Matthew B. Quigley
Jean Toomer: Writing a Painting, Ellen K. Sigl
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
The Erotic Female Voice of Charlotte Mew, Penni Elizabeth Pearson
Modern Theories of Assessment: A Comparison and Proposal, Amy L. Siebring-Jurrens
"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
An Examination of the Spiritual Conflicts Faced by Louise Erdrich's Chippewa Characters, Jennifer Leigh Widman
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Contrastive Analysis of Communicative Styles Between Koreans and Americans, Young-Ah Kang
Through the Eyes of Children: The Danzig Trilogy of Gunter Grass, Marsha Katherine Klein
The Ghost of Guy de Maupassant in the Early Work of Willa Cather, Diane M. Leslie
The Dark Knight From Dawn to Knightfall: The Dynamic American Myth of Batman, Spencer Joray Madsen
King James I's Influence on the Role of the Weird Sisters in Macbeth, Ronda K. Mehrer
Pioneer Perspectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" Native American, Melissa Marie Miller
Fiction as Subversion: The Angel in the House Versus the Victorian Gentleman in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Sara Running Danger
Violating the "Novel of Manners": Unmothered Females in the Novels of Edith Wharton, Debra J. Seivert
"Silent, Lone, as Grows a Flower": The Ideal Heroine in Byron's Don Juan, Darla R. Talsma
Singing Over the Bones: Sharon Olds and the Female Consciousness, Melanie Wood
The Wine Metaphor in Li Bo and Omar Khayyam, Yuqing Zhang
ETDS from 1993
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
Editorial Colon Revision and the Dilution of Narrative Design in Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, Joyce Elizabeth Dooley Stavick
A Stylistic Analysis of Robert Anson Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Andrew Grover Edeburn
Visionaries of the American West : Mari Sandoz and Her Four Plains Protagonists, Lisa R. Lindell
"I've Stopped Being Theirs --": Roles of Women in Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, Beth L. Paulson
Shattering the Myth : A Feminist Study of Sister-Sister Relationships in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Books, Ellen T. Simpson
ETDS from 1992
(Re)coding the Code: A Study of Hemingway's Women, Mari Lynn Bakker
Toni Morrison's Child, Quester, and Ancestor Characters: Discord and Harmony in the Community, Diane M. Steiger
Native American Connections in the Art of Willa Cather: A Close Neighbor to the Sun, Stephen Cassius Swinehart
ETDS from 1991
Maggie, Dorothea, Gwendolen: Expectation and Duty in Three Eliot Novels, Bernadette Pauline Degreef
Variations on the Theme of Loss in American Poetry of the Second World War, James A. Hubley
Violence : An Attempt at Control, Debra Hunking
A Functional Grammar Pedagogy Can Resolve Controversy, Marlene J. Lang
ETDS from 1990
The Dialectic of Contrarieties: Parallels in Chesterton and Milton, Kyle Winston Friedow
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
Images of Women in Lillian Hellman's Eight Original Plays, Susan Gigstad
The Concept of the Individual in Five American War Novels, Sheila Goeken
Travel Accounts by Victorian Women Travelers in China and Tibet, Sue Grant
Effective Industry Writing: The Power of Cohesive Language, Jeanne Jones Manzer
Calling for Harmony: Looking at Humanity and Nature in the Poetry of William Stafford, Dan R. Syljuberget
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
The Appeal of C.S. Lewis and The Screwtape Letters, Ruth E. Manson
Religion, Women and Culture in the Works of Ole E. Rølvaag, Nancy Gwen Moose
An Interdenominational Study of Responses to Evangelical Christian Language, Loren O. Murfield
Truth Telling Tales : the Verbal Economy of Antony and Cleopatra, Thomas Pearson
ETDS from 1988
No Time for Tears : A Look at Death in the Salinas Valley Novels of John Steinbeck, Bill Anderson
Iris Murdoch's "Learning Protagonists" : Toward Contingency, Responsibility and Reality, Patrice J. Coleman
The Meaning of Zenocrate in Tamburlaine, Parts I and II, Yoon-Hee Park
ETDS from 1987
A Contrastive Study of the Phonological System of English and Korean, Yeon-Ki Chae
Thomas Mann's Joseph Tetralogy : Echoes Across the Coulisses, Molly Miron
Music School : A Dance with John Updike's Poetry, Nan Steinley
Selected Metaphors in Elie Wiesel, Jane Frances Sundal
Women, Men, and Land, Yuri Yokota
ETDS from 1986
Redemptive Strategies in the Novels of Bernard Malamud, Patrick B. Bjork
A Twentieth-century Sense of "Election" : The Works of John Fowles, by Jerry Cooley. Cooley
ETDS from 1985
Dialect Geography in South Dakota : The Eureka Dialect, Christie Steiger Delfanian
Adrienne Rich:"Re-membering" Women's History and Language, Polly Heins
Keresan Myth and Tradition in the Writings of Leslie Silko, Bernita L. Krumm
Upwards and Onwards :Women's Search for Authenticity in the Novels of Charlotte Bronte, Jean McGruer
William Kloefkorn : His Works and His Women, Jane Jensen Pierce
ETDS from 1984
Love in Major Novels of Carson McCullers, Lynn Margaret Butterbrodt
A Comparative Study of Frederick Manfred's Lord Grizzly and A.B. Guthrie Jr.'s The Big Sky, Carol Dornberger-Jackson
The Short Stories of Djuna Barnes : A Less Disquieting Vision, Patricia Doughty
Robert Bly and the Twofold Consciousness, Mary A. Thelen
The Theory and Practice of Misspelling : A Linguistic Analysis, Judy Frasch Worman
ETDS from 1983
Doodles on the Walls of the Cave : An Interpretation of Four Popular Novels, Carole Krysan
ETDS from 1982
George Herbert : His Method, Salesian or Protestant, Bruce Aardsma