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Huck Finn Rides Again: Reverberations of Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' in The Twentieth-century Novels of Cormac McCarthy 

Worthington, Leslie (2007-12-15)
This dissertation examines the intertextual significance of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the works of a major contemporary American writer: Cormac McCarthy. As many scholars have noted, Twain’s novel ...

The Importance of the Ancient Greek Blood Ritual to the Tales of Edgar Allan Poe 

Pilgrim, Carey (2008-05-15)
This thesis contends that in several of Poe’s seminal short stories the author inserted as a common theme the ancient Greek sacrifice gone wrong. Uncovering these symbolic rituals will help us to understand Poe as a writer ...

Representations of Catholicism in American Literature, 1820-1920 

Rygiel, Mary Ann (2009-04-30)
This dissertation examines the representation of Catholics and Catholicism in literature by non-Catholic authors in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American prose fiction and travel narratives. Moving ...

The Right to Represent: The Transformation of Topsy in Robert Alexander's I Ain't Yo' Uncle 

Allen, Stephanie (2007-08-15)
For my master’s thesis, I intend to examine the reception of “Topsy” in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin from the date of publication as a novel in 1852 through 1892. I will investigate and demonstrate the struggle ...

Social and Linguistic Conditioning of the Sociolinguistic Variable (ai) among Textile Mill Workers of Columbus, Georgia, and Southeast Alabama 

Topping, Elizabeth (2010-04-08)
The purpose of this study is to examine the the social and linguistic conditioning as well as the frequency of the sociolinguistic variable (ai) among a group of European-American textile mill workers born in Columbus, ...

Sound at Heart and Right in Hand: Mobile’s Road to Secession 

Lu, Ling (2006-08-15)
This study traces Mobilians’ road from moderation to secessionism and analyzes the factors that influenced their decision-making. Mobile’s commercial path of development differentiated it from most of the rest of a rural ...

What Would Mother Do?: Boys as Mothers in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin 

Sims, Jessica (2007-05-15)
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ultimate goal in Uncle Tom’s Cabin is to create a matriarchal society of sons as mothers. By prolonging the differentiation stage in which the son will turn from the mother because she represents ...