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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?"
  • The Myth of the Quest and the Novel: The Vision of Hermann Hesse 
    Bradford, Beverly (1974)
    Hermann Hesse was born on July 2, 1877 in Calw, a town in southern Germany. Though born in Germany he was a Swiss citizen because of his father, a Baltic-Russian with Swiss citizenship. He became a naturalized German citizen ...
  • 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 ...
  • Bramble 
    Hamilton, Richard (University of Alabama Libraries, 2008)
    A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts.
  • Room where I get what I want 
    Holmes, Sarah Whitney (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)
    Collection of poems.
  • The great white while 
    Gnall, Stacy Celine (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)
    This thesis is a collection of poems by Stacy Gnall.
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • "'[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 ...
  • Chasing after the funeral 
    McWhirter, Elizabeth Evans (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)
    This is an original work of fiction.
  • Ghostwrit(t)er(n) 
    Hurst, Aaron J. (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)
    N/A
  • 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 ...
  • Any hollow place 
    Browne, Ryan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2009)
    This is a collection of poems by Ryan James Browne.
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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