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Submissions from 1997
A Change of World takes a Wild Patience Adrienne Rich: Dismantling History and Recreating Experience, Heather Doyle
The Demise of Christianity in the Literature of the 1960s, Derek Januario
The Bell Jar: An Attack on the Pathetic Profession of the 1950s, Matthew P. Johnson
Belief in Religion, Rejection of the System: The Christian Ideals Rooted in James Baldwin’s Philosophy and Literature, Michael McGowan
Religion Fails, Sex Fulfills: Rabbit’s Quest for Significance in John Updike’s Rabbit, Run, Thomas J. Reis
Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar: Esther Greenwood/s Struggle Against a Patriarchal System, David S. Stead
Submissions from 1995
Mmm, Delicious Indeed!: The Birth of Consciousness and Sensual Indulgance in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Travis M. Farrell
Nora Helmer and Edna Pontellier : A Time of Self-Transformation, Patrick Gloss
Mrs , Mallard 's Elixir : An Evolution from Lead to Gold in Kate Chopin 's 'The Story of an Hour ', Julianne Greenwood
Bird Imagerya s it Relates to Women in Kate Chopin' s The Awakening, Jennifer K. HarrIman
Flying the Coop : EdnaP ontellier 1s awakeningin to a neww omanu nder the influence of Adele Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz, Alex Klenert
Death and Madness: Keys Which Unlock Patriarchal Gates, Colleen F. Lynch
A Natural Evolution : Edna's Discovery of Self in Nature, Brennon G. McKeon
“Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds Admit Impediments”, Kathryn Charlotte Roper
A Solitary Soul’: An Analysis of A Woman’s Search for Self, Anne M. Wentworth
Submissions from 1994
To Leave Or Not To Leave Society – That Is The Question! Comparing Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man to Henry Fielding’s Old Man of the Hill, Jessica Amber Barnum
Rage Against War Allen Ginsberg's Anti-War Poetry, Corinne Duffy
The Invisible Past: Ralph Ellison’s Symbols as Keys to the Invisible Man’s Identity, Erika Greatbatch
An American Odyssey: The Figure of the Homeric Wanderer in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, Richard Henderson
Man Without Woman: The Narrator's Search for Identity, Dana Melchar
Conformity and Christianity in the Works of Flannery O'Connor, Danielle Piquette
The Underground Man: The Influence of Feodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Elizabeth Purcell
PARELLEL DEVELOPMENTS:Adrienne Rich's politics of flesh and blood, Rachel Rosenzweig
Submissions from 1993
Faulkner's Macbeth, Meredith K. Barr
The Faustian Myth in Absalom, Absalom!, Cody D’Andrea
William Faulkner'S Decaying South : the Ruined Mansion as Symbol, Jenny Freger
Time and Man in Faulkner’s World, Jill Gover
The Biblical Underpinnings of William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!, Don Hannan
The Trickster Hero in African-American Literature: Old and New, Deanne Langley
The American Civil War and the Female Rite of Passage, Debra Lynn Malewicki
Sins of the Fathers: Faulkner and the Great Sin of the South, Nora Mills
Who Was Our President, Abraham Lincoln? The Differences Between the Public and Private Abraham Lincoln, Erica Proto
“Lincoln, the Man Preceding over the House Divided”: The Man Divided in Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings, Eileen Rindos
The Survival of Religious Inheritance: Familial Religion and Its Effects on the Art of Stephen Crane, Terri Lynn Welch
Submissions from 1992
The World in Balance: From Homer to Dickens, Marie Avioli
Machine Versus Nature, Father Versus Daughter in Charles Dickens’ Dombey and Son, Kelly Birtles
Baklushkin, the “Everyman” of Dostoyevsky’s Russia: A Common Name to the Common Man, Joseph W. Dyjak
Dostoyevsky’s Transitional Phases of Humanity, Lawrence G. Haney II
Images of Education in Charles Dickens’ Hard Times and Dombey and Son, Suzanne Kayata
The Kabak and the Crystal Palace, Thomas Kerins
Dickens: A Portrayal in Parallelism, Jennifer Kouri
THE REFLECTION OF JOHN DICKENS THROUGHOUT THE NOVEL: DAVID COPPERFIELD, Suzanne R. Michelsen
Mr. Dombey: A Grail Knight, G.H. Touchette
Submissions from 1991
Hidden Values, Hidden Morals and Architectural Secrets: An Analysis of Gateshead Hall From Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Sarah Alasso
Lockwood, Nelly Dean and the Ambiguity of a Dual Narration in Wuthering Heights, Alana Fishberg
The Effect of Victorian Patriarchy on Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Linda Frederick
Familial Likeness in Pride & Prejudice, Michelle Novak
The Amiable Couple in Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Emma: Exposing False Illusions about Marrying for Love, Michael Robinson
Austen's Commentary on the Patriarchal Society of Pride and Prejudice as Perceived Through her Character of Elizabeth Bennet, Marsha S. Saylor
