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Stowe, Poe, and the minstrel show: An observation of minstrel show stock characters in nineteenth-century American fiction	Trying to grow: An exploration of John Irving's use of childhood development, sexual angst and the immaculate protagonist as social critic in "The Hotel New Hampshire", "A Prayer for Owen Meany", and "The World According to Garp"

An examination of the single parent role in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird"	Montparnasse of the 1920s as the catalyst for Hemingway's novel "The Sun Also Rises"

Stumbling toward consciousness: The essential quest of soul in Saul Bellow's "Herzog", "Mr. Sammler's Planet" and "Humboldt's Gift"	The mythical plane of experience in "Moby-Dick"

The restless search of Saul Bellow as analyzed in "Humboldt's Gift"	"Gone With the Wind": Scarlett O'Hara. The new Southern woman

The feminist movement in literature: The advancement of women's social placement in selected works of Henry James	The transformation of Imperial Romance: A comparison of "She" and "V"

The Narcissus myth and failed female transitions in "The Portrait of a Lady", "The Awakening", and "The House of Mirth"	John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" according to the poetic principles of Aristotle

An archetypal examination of the female quest for identity in Hoffman's "The Ice Queen"	T.S. Eliot's search for Eden: An examination of the mythic pattern of expulsion, exile, and redemption

Empowerment in the novels of Eudora Welty	Humor and heroics in American literature: Camping, fishing, and hunting with contemporary short story writer Pam Houston

"A tiny volume bound in leather": Influences of "The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius" on John Steinbeck's "East of Eden"	The patriarchal shadow over the female rite of passage: Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior", Margaret Atwood's "The Edible Woman", and Paulo Coelho's "Eleven Minutes"

Doing more: Mechanization and the arts in the works of William Gaddis	Politics, literature, and consciousness: George Orwell's oeuvre; a displacement influenced by satirical allegory and ironic narrative structure

Early women writers of the frontier Southwest: 1846--1914	Flannery O'Connor versus Toni Morrison: Contrasting representations of the "other" race

Ishmael's sea journey and the monomyth archetypal theory in Melville's "Moby-Dick"	"It's a black thing": The contextualization of African American male morality in the fiction of Walter Mosley

Transcending traditional boundaries: Hemingway's women as guides to supersede gender roles	Ernest Hemingway through the lens of goddess theory

Overlooking the international cultural values in "The Portrait of a Lady"	Defending "To Kill a Mockingbird"

The evolution of an artist: A critical analysis of Chaim Potok's "My Name is Asher Lev"	I've taken care of that live part by writing my poems: Poetry writing as deferment of suicide in the case of Anne Sexton

"Rip[ping] the veil": The work of memory and imagination in Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony" and Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"	Blackness: Arrested development in "The Bluest Eye"

The aristocrat and the pauper: Images of self in Edgar Allan Poe's "William Wilson"	The Enchantment: A play in the style of William Shakespeare

The National Cowboy Poetry gathering: Does it promote the unique regional voices of the American West?	Generation K: Defining the beat brand in "On the Road"

The recuperation of beauty in the novel, "The Bluest Eye", by Toni Morrison	Reclaiming the female body: Chicana literature's resistance to Mexican literature's traditional objectification of women

Those Who Touch the Dead: Questioning biblical literalism through poetry	Defender of the underdog and enemy of the oppressor Mark Twain's satire and commentary on the Church and Big Business

Cubism and its relationship to the theory of relativity and modernism in literature	The Fabulous Rebirth and Death of Yllib Hostic

Erich Fromm's theories and the transition to Robert Jordan in the social development of protagonists in Hemingway's novels	"Somewhere between and among them": Faulkner's historical application of alienation in "Light in August"

Recovering the palimpsest: A comparison of the original and current versions of the seven most extensively revised volumes in the Nancy Drew mystery stories series	What character of woman is Edna Pontellier?

The symbolism of flora as planted in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"	Chivalry in "Huckleberry Finn"

Standing in Creon's shadow: Defining the female tragic hero	The typological imagination: The Bible, Flannery O'Connor, and the medieval Catholic mind

On the surface and in the skin: Looking & living white, feeling (palpably) black in Jessie Redmon Fauset's "Plum Bun" and "There is Confusion" and Nella Larsen's "Passing"	The morality of metaphor in Toni Morrison's "Sula"

A soul aglow: Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr.	An analysis of John Steinbeck's novel "East of Eden" using Northrop Frye's theory of archetypes

An archetypal study of "The Portrait of a Lady" and "The Awakening"	Light through the ages: Images of zoroastrianism in modern science fiction

Women as catalysts in "Zami: A New Spelling of my Name"	Authority and the individual in Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn and Hank Morgan

Character mapping: The quest archetype in novels by Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison	Light in Faulkner: The indomitability of women in William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County novels

Butte literature: Rewriting the cultural stereotype	The Heroine's Journey in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts"

Come alsmost home: A poststructural study of displacement and the search for home in the novels of Chang-rae Lee	Skeptical inquiry and religious awakening in "Beulah", by Augusta Jane Evans

Cruciform fiction: Nailed down by Flannery O'Connor's biblical typology	An examination of hegemonic ideology, society, and judicial power in Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" and parallels with 17th century Puritan society and the contemporary American family court system

Anti-Catholic discourse and The Scarlet Letter: A new historical approach	The telling in the master's room: Constructing female identity in Toni Morrison's A Mercy

Mary Oliver's poetry: Reconciling human suffering, creating awareness, and leveling imbalances in contemporary cultures	Postmodern children's literature: Inviting the reader to play

Vonnegut's carnival	Internal versus external consciousness in The Wings of the Dove

Moby Dick and the Jonah allusion: Melville's prophesy	Paying reverence to the story: The marriage of traditions in Silko's yellow woman stories