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- "How Very Strange to Be Seventy": Representations of the Elderly in Film
- A Hispanic Hollywood: Deconstructing the Paradigm
- Mom, Dad, and Mickey Mouse: Family Forms in Selected Disney Films, 1950-1967
- The Patriarchal Undertones of Modern Movie Musicals
- Making History: A Study of the Cultural Moment in the Historical Films Lady Jane and Nine Days a Queen
- Six Tired Screaming Fairy Queens and One Anxious Queer: The Evolution of the Self-Identified Homosexual in Anglo-American Literature
- Mending the Sacred Hoop: A Critical Examination of Three Novels Written by Native American Women Writers: Grass Dancer, Ceremony, and Love Medicine
- Unmasking the Lone Writer: Feminist Epistemology and a Pedagogy of Writing
- Feminist Frontiers in Aurthurian Legend: A Study of Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon
- "My Enemies Are Those Who Care About Me Most": Female Authority Figures in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and The Journals of Sylvia Plath
- War Stories: Purpose, Courage, and Humanity in the Vietnam Literature of Tim O’Brien and a Short Story “Arclight”
- I'm Gonna Live Forever: Robert A.Heinlein's Explorations of Competence and Immortality through the Character of Lazarus Long
- The Gothic Demise of the Fairchild Family Myth.
- The Cinderella Fairy Tale: A Look at the Numerous Texts and Their Uses in the Elementary Classroom
- The Influence of Multiculturalism On Children's Textbooks A Study of Ginn Readers From 1964-1991
- In the Gothic Tradition: The Relation of Setting and Character in Selected Works of Stephen King
- African American Spirituals as a form of Oral Communication and Oral History
- The Alignment of Self and Other: The Literary Eclipse of Magic Realism and Grotesquerie
- The Race to (D)e-Race: Assimilation and the Death of Native Culture in Invisible Man and No Longer at Ease
- Mothers and Daughters Unite: The Changing Pre-Oedipal Complex in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Paradise
- Laughter and Lightning: Unearthing Magic Realism in the Fiction of Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter, Gloria Naylor and Toni Morrison
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The Influence of Fathers on Daughters in Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Persuasion
- Fanny's Price: The Making of an Anti-Heroine in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
- J.R.R. Tolkien: Literary Creator as Imitator of the Divine or the Hobbit Hubris
- The Literary Prophet: Tolstoy's Moral Vision as Expressed Through His Art
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Re-Examining Harriet Beecher Stowe's Depiction of the African American Matriarch in Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Ladyhood in the Contemporary South: A Study of Mother-Daughter Relationships in James Wilcox's Fiction
- Buy, Sell, or Trade: The Economy of Race and the Maternal Space in William Faulknerís The Hamlet, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and The Sound and the Fury
- Fifteen Years of Criticism on
Kate Chopin
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Certain as the Morning: Morning Scenes in Look Homeward, Angel and Thomas Wolfe's Vision of the American Experience
- A Competitive Distance Runner's Anthology
- A History of History: a short novel
- "The Love Story of J. Alfred Prufrock": An Expression of Young T. S. Eliot's Experiences, Observations, and Beliefs
- "I Had Not Known 'Politics' Had Undone So Many": Politics and Poetry in T. S. Eliot and Muriel Rukeyser
- Golgotha Moves Vesuvius: Protestantism in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson
- The Timeless, Placeless, Rootless World of Max Jacob:A Study of His Prose Poetry and the Aesthetics of Cubism
- The Artist Formerly Known as LeRoi Jones: Style, Statement, and the Importance of Amiri Baraka
- The Rhetoric of the Reader: Classical and Contemporary Approaches to Audience
- African American Spirituals as a Form of Oral Communication and Oral History
- Words and Seeds: Henry David Thoreau and the Language of Investigation
- The Cathedral of Ice: Terministic Screens, Tyrannizing Images, Visual Rhetoric, and Nazi Propaganda Strategies
last update 5/11/2006