Browsing Languages and Literature Undergraduate Theses by Title
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Dancing Queen A Play in One Act
(2002-04-01)Cast of Characters Gracie Abigail Victoria Liz The Mother, late forties The Younger Daughter, late teens The Older Daughter, mid twenties Abigail's Friend, late teens TIME: Early spring, two weeks before high school ... -
Daniel Berrigan: Priest, Poet, And Protestor Bound By Commitment
(1984-04-01)Change in life is inevitable and we expect it. Sometimes, however, its suddenness catches us by surprise. In the literary world, students of a particular author and work refer to this phenomenon as maturity. Poet Daniel ... -
De Magistro Sancti Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis Episcopi
(1933-04-01)The fundamental purpose of this treatise is to turn into English the Latin text of St. Augustine's De Magistro. The method has been but to make clear the thoughts expressed by St. Augustine, although some may still be ... -
Dickens And Capital Punishment
(1984-04-01)The psychology and. punishment of murderers has always been a subject of interest for Dickens. Many of his articles and novels contain references to his attitudes regarding the all-too-frequent use of capital punishment ... -
Die Letzte Am Schafott Gertrud von Le Fort
(1962-04-01)The last 80 years In Germany have been the setting in which modern German Catholic literature was reborn, took its faltering steps, and grew to recognition by the literary world. It has already been accepted by some critics ... -
Dostoyevsky And Solzhenitsyn: Their Bridge Over A Troubled Century
(1974-04-01)The world has heard a great deal about Alexander Solzhenitsyn lately. His audacious works, his unconventional stance among his fellow writers, and finally his unprecedented banishment by the Soviet government have thrust ... -
Down the street the dogs are barking
(2000-04-01)own the streets the dogs are barking traces my life from about the age five to the age sixteen, give or take a couple days. But it isn’t about one girl. No. It’s a story told through the mouths of several girls—myself now, ... -
Dreaming of Trodden Midnight Streets
(2009-04-01)This collection of poems was born out of a desire to honor and preserve those moments and people, that in the past four years, have inspired me, taught me to love, broken my heart, and pushed me to be a better and truer ... -
Dualities In The Death Of Jim Loney
(1994-04-01)James Welch’s novel, The Death of Tim Loney, presents a protagonist who inspires conflicting reactions from the reader. Loney, a half-breed Native American living in Harlem, Montana, struggles to find his identity amid a ... -
Feminine Romanticism In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
(2016-04-01)This thesis explores Romanticism presented in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I incorporate Anne K. Mellor’s work in identifying Romanticism’s two main forms: feminine and masculine Romanticism. The Romantic ideologies as we ... -
Flannery O'Connor: Prophet In The Wilderness
(1972-04-01)As one surveys the gamut of contemporary American literature, one frequently mentioned name is that of Flannery O'Connor. She is a widely discussed contemporary writer — and yet one of the most misinterpreted and ... -
For the Love of Another
(2004-04-01)“For the Love of Another” is a creative nonfiction piece relating the struggle of a high school student through the fall semester of his senior year. The story is set in Helena, Montana, where Stephen McLeod, the main ... -
Fragile Fantasy: A creative work which probes into the minds of various characters whose imagination controls their lives
(1981-04-01)The imagination. This mystery of the mental process is no stranger to us, yet, still speculated upon, it remains unexplained. Just as a spider spins its web out of itself, man constructs a microcosm out of his desires. Man ... -
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poet And Priest: Poetic Expression Of The Integration Of The Voluntas Ut Natura And The Arbitrium
(1982-04-01)Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Stratford, Essex, in 1844, the first-born child to Kate and Manley Hopkins. He attended Highgate boarding school in Essex and because of his excellence in academics was awarded a scholarship ... -
Haiku: Bless You
(1974-04-01)Born of the Japanese tradition, haiku capitalizes on the depth and universal scope of fundamental images (fire, water, vegetation, the seasons, celestial bodies) to make her the property of the world. The following treatment ... -
Happily, No
(1987-04-01)Writing a piece of drama involves marrying the technical to the creative. The former demands the experience of having sat in the theatre, acted, directed actors, Interpreted a script, and written. Combining these well with ... -
Here Comes The Rain: A Compilation Of Poems And Short Stories By Isabella Minudri
(2019-04-01)My thesis, titled “Here Comes the Rain,” is a collection of four short stories and thirteen poems that speak to the beauty that can be found in the midst of life’s most painful moments. From the loss of romance and of ... -
Humanism In The Love Themes Of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream
(1975-04-01)When Shakespeare was born in 1564, the Renaissance had had Its effect on the European continent, beginning gradually during the Middle Ages, gaining momentum in the 1400's and spreading to England in a slightly altered ... -
"I Caught This Morning . . ." A Study Of Gerard Manley Hopkins
(1973-04-01)My interest in Gerard Manley Hopkins began after I read a brief collection of his later poetry for the first time. Hopkins* acute sensitivity and tremendous depth of character reveal the man’s search for meaning in life, ... -
If Words be the Food of Love, Speak On: A Theory of Consumptive Language and Its Application to Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
(2006-04-01)My undergraduate thesis explores the implications of consumption related rhetoric, references to eating, stomach, and digestion etc., within the context of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. I begin by developing my own ...