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The Influence of Dorothy Wordsworth on the Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge During the Years 1797-1810

Mayfield, Sara (University of Alabama Libraries, 1931)

"Say quick,"quoth he, "I bid thee say – What manner of man art thou?"
Women in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

Whitehouse, Stella Cocoris (University of Alabama Libraries, 1977)

Criticism of the drama of the Renaissance has yielded an abundance of Marlovian scholarship, great and varied in scope. Particularly, there has been an immense interest in Marlowe's creation of the superhuman hero--the ...
Sector Analysis and the Study of Poetry: A Paradigmatic Explication of Syntactic Structures in John Donne's "Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward"

Katz, Elaine S. (University of Alabama Libraries, 1978)

College instruction in poetry systematically treats, prosody, symbolism, imagery, lexicology, the history of ideas, and critical biography--by no means to exhaust the list. Common sense dictates that it should be possible ...
Discovering The Color Purple: a Study of Black Women's Surivial [sic] in the Fiction of Alice Walker

Johnson, Rhonda (University of Alabama Libraries, 1983)

Out of the women's movement has come a body of women's literature that is different in several ways from that produced prior to it. First, there is simply more of it being written, published, and read. Second, it is becoming ...
The efficacy of peer review in a university-level ESL writing class

Brathwaite, Sara Strickland (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Currently, there is a great debate concerning whether peer review is an effective activity in the university-level English-as-a-Second-Language writing classroom. Peer review offers the unique opportunity for second-language ...
Deus ex machina: the God machine

Pincumbe, Nicholas James (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

God is our salvation from eternal death. That's what Professor Nicholas Updown grew up believing. But what if there is no God? What then? These questions lead Nicholas down an unprecedented path of scientific exploration ...
Something in my eye

Lee, Michael Jeffrey (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Something In My Eye is a collection of unlinked short stories set primarily in the southern United States.
Not here, not dead

De Dominic, Nicholas Paul (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

In this collection of poems, my concern is with patriarchy and story telling, specifically of stories passed from father to son, and the failure of hyper masculinity (cyclical violence, impotence, addiction, &c). The book ...
After Mary Prince: navigating 'authenticity' in 20th-century diasporic women's migration narratives

Simmons, Kathryn Merinda (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This project calls for a renewed consideration of Mary Prince's 1831 Caribbean slave narrative in critical readings of 20th-century women's migration novels. Specifically, I offer readings of how the signs "gender" and ...
The undependable bonds of blood: the unanticipated problems of parenthood in the novels of Henry James

Fishkin, Benjamin Hart (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

A dilemma inherent within any parent-child relationship is that a youth may require attention and guidance that a parent is unable, or unwilling, to provide. How much is a parent willing to "give up" and will this new role ...
Masculinity in peril: mutiny fiction and Victorian man-making

Phillips, Amanda Lynn (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

In Victorian Masculinities, Herbert Sussman identifies the emergence of the "masculine plot" in mid-nineteenth century writing by male authors. The masculine plot, an alternative to the marriage plot's bourgeois domestic ...
A body of suffering: reading Shakespeare's tragedies through cognitive theory

Helms, Nicholas Ryan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

In this thesis I attempt to build and use a cognitive theory of tragedy. I base this theory upon the work of George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and Mark Turner, whose studies of embodied metaphor and conceptual blending offer ...
The great white while

Gnall, Stacy Celine (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This thesis is a collection of poems by Stacy Gnall.
Evil men

Wennermark, Erik (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

A collection of short stories interested in the nature of evil as it relates to the formulation of masculine identity. As means of this exploration, the collection engages a multitude of forms and narrative styles, as well ...
"'[W]ritten with teares in harts close bleeding booke': wounds, skepticism, and the interior of the body in Early Modern romance

Phelps, Paul Chandler (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

"Written with Teares" studies two romances--Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" and Sir Philip Sidney's "The New Arcadia"--and begins with a simple hypothesis: that Spenser's and Sidney's elaboration on wounds demonstrate ...
Any hollow place

Browne, Ryan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This is a collection of poems by Ryan James Browne.
Room where I get what I want

Holmes, Sarah Whitney (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Collection of poems.
Chasing after the funeral

McWhirter, Elizabeth Evans (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This is an original work of fiction.
Landscapes of memory: the cartography of longing

Strong, Frances Justina (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

Landscapes of Memory: The Cartography of Longing examines three disparate twentieth century writers--Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Virginia Woolf--who use similar fictive strategies for the reclamation and revision ...
African-American attitudes toward higher education and their struggle with collective identity and the burden of "acting White"

Cope, Frederick LaRon (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)

This project explores the cultural shift from the value African- Americans during the time of Washington and DuBois placed on industrial and higher education to the value placed by contemporary African- Americans. This ...

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