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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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • The great white while 
    Gnall, Stacy Celine (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)
    This thesis is a collection of poems by Stacy Gnall.
  • 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.
  • "It is a privilege to see so much confusion": Marianne Moore and revision 
    Whisenhunt, Eloise Arnold (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)
    Marianne Moore's Complete Poems is not complete; it contains sixty-six poems, which is about one-third of her published work. What has not been omitted has, in most cases, been revised. Such acts of expurgation and ...
  • (Re)-visiting the madwoman: madness or (self)-identifying the individual 
    Jones, Rachel Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)
    This thesis examines the narratives of Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea and their treatment of Antoinette Bertha Mason Rochester. Jane Eyre describes Bertha as the "lunatic, Mrs. Rochester" while the other novel gives an ...
  • The fortune stick 
    Grimes, Nancy S. I. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)
    Collection of poems and stories.
  • 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 ...
  • Chasing after the funeral 
    McWhirter, Elizabeth Evans (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)
    This is an original work of fiction.
  • 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 ...
  • Ghostwrit(t)er(n) 
    Hurst, Aaron J. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)
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