English Language and Literature ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 1977
The Confidence Man: Melville's Problem of Faith, Thomas Vaughan Quirk
The Function of Biblical Sources in the Structure and Meaning of Blake's Milton, Donna Standfier Rix
The Utopia Within: Some Psychological Aspects of Edward Bellamy's Early Writing, Betty Cobey Senescu
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Kenneth Burke's Structuralism: A Structural Description of Narrative and Technique in Faulkner's Fiction of the Southern Aristocracy, Gary E. Barricklow
Little Epics: More Lively and Choleric, Nancy Conrad Martinez
The Sound and the Fury: An Archetypal Reading, Theresa Lee Pearson
Twenty-Two Poems, Michael John Penny
Shared Fire: Reciprocity in Contemporary American Indian and Related Literature, Geri Marlane Rhodes
Rebuilt, Jim Sagel
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Seemly And Due Order: The Significance Ceremony In The Poetry Of Robert Herrick, Patricia D. Campbell
Byronic Heroes And Heroines: The Theme Of Love And Recurrent Imagery, Chanda D. Clary
Love and Alienation: The Sad, Dark Vision of Carson McCullers, Howard Dean Everett
A Shared Way Of Thinking: Johnson, Burke, Reynolds And Gibbon On Ethics, Politics And Aesthetics, Richard A. Friedberg
The Dragon by the Road: An Archetypal Approach to the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor, Charles J. Olson
Away from Concord: The Travel Writings of Henry Thoreau, Robert Sattelmeyer
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
The Prospector and the Pioneer: A Key to the Selected Short Stories of Bret Harte, Emeline Beisman
Browning'S Uses Of Humor., Paul Edward Coggins
Ignoble Captivity: A Plot Convention of Romance-Epic, William T. Cotton
The Two Phases of Swift's Satiric Art, Arthur G. Elser
Consciousness and the Unconscious: Henry James and Jungian Psychology, Marlene L. Hall
The Promethean Archetype, Lois Viscoli
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Willa Cather: A Feminist Study, Sharon R. Barba
Flyting In Pre-Elizabethan Drama, In Shakespeare, And In Jonson, Carol M. Cochran
Much Deceiv'd, Much Failing, Hapless Eve:Iconography And Eve In Milton'S Paradise Lost., Joanne Lewis Cockelreas
Blake's "The Mental Traveller" and the Critics, Ann B. Dunlap
The Indestructible Woman In The Works Of Faulkner, Hemingway, And Steinbeck., Mimi Reisel Gladstein
The Movement Towards Freedom In Paul Goodman'S The Empire City., Eliot Glassheim
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Apostle to the Disillusioned, Paul Nicholas Pavich
Maps, George F. Wetmore
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
"The Countries Sweet Simplicity": Devonshire Life in the Poetry of Robert Herrick, David F. Beer
Shakespeare's Coriolanus:The Icon Of Mars., Claus-Peter Buechmann
The Evolution Of A Black Writer: John A. Williams., Earl A. Cash
The Rhetoric Of Swift's "A Modest Proposal.", Nancy Jean Conrad
Light After Light Well Us'd: The Epic Conclusion of Paradise Lost, Hans-Peter Michael Eller
Daniel Defoe and the Position of Women in Eighteenth Century England: A Study of Moll Flanders and Roxana, Joan Cavallaro Foster
Literary Allusion and the Homilectic Style of E. M. Forster: A Study in the Relationship Between the Tales and the Novels, Robert Franklin Gish
Selected Poems, 1970-1972, Thomas John Hill
The Female Warrior in the Renaissance Epic, Phillip Elliott Parotti
The Fiction of Kate Chopin, Peter James Peterson
Recognition and Reversal in Samson Agonistes, June Haig Simons
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
The Imagination of Gary Snyder, Bert Almon
The Idea Of Evil In The Poetry Of Blake And Shelley:A Comparative Study., Melanie Flossie Bandy
The Holograph Ballads of John Payne Collier from the Hall Commonplace Book, Folger Ms. V. a. 339, Eric J. C. Berryman
The Shifting Voice;A Study Of Robert Lowell'S Poetry., Myrna Bouchey
Paradise: The Failure Of An Ideal., Nancy C. Cotton
Louis Untermeyer and Modern American Poetry, Richard Williams Doxtator
The Queasy World of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Satire in the Novels, James William Goshorn
Backgrounds of Mexican American Literature, Philip D. Ortego
Landscape Imagery in Shelley's Major Poetry: The Forest and Related Settings, Ingrid J. Parker
THE SHORT STORY: An Expression of the Creative Imperative, an Introduction, Mary Muses Woodlee
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
The Organic Unity Of Henry David Thoreau'S A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers., Gail Baker
From Drama To Novel: A Study Of Fielding'S Development., Connie Capers
Masking And Disguise In The Plays Of Etherege, Wycherley, And Cosgreve., John Ellison Carroll
The Consistency Of John Dryden'S Literary Criticism In Theory And Practice., Elmer Joseph Cole Jr.
Henry David Thoreau's Interest in Myth, Fable and Legend, Richard Francis Fleck
The Creative Conflict: Struggle and Escape in Jack London's Fiction, Ronald Gower
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Ernest Hemingway:Four Studies In The Competitive Motif., Taylor Alderman
The Ironic Dimension in Hawthorne's Short Fiction, Isidore H. Becker
A Contrast Of Deofoe'S Moll Flanders And Colonel Jack, With Emphasis On The Thematic Substance And Thematic Unity Of Each., William Burchard Cogswell
Winfield Townley Scott: Conversations on Poets and the Art of Poetry, Donald Dean Eulert
Smitten with Pride: The Persona in Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub, Cole Nessa Foster
Odysseus:The Confrontation With Death, Eric N. Havill
A Consideration Of Some Archetypes In Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur, Philip Lawrence Mead
Politics, Government, and Man in Swift's 1710-1714 Writings and Gulliver's Travels, Phil R. Phelps
A Comparison of the Themes of Edward Albee and Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Thomas B. Stribling
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
The Journal As Literary Form, William Bingham
Howells' Travel Writing:Theory And Practice., Jeames L. Dean
Thomas Hardy's Novels of the 1870's: A Study of English and American Criticism from 1871 to 1967, Mary Frances deMourol
A Study of Some Relationships Between Late Renaissance Music and the Temple of George Herbert, Rosalie J. Eggleston
Court Satire in the Dramas of John Webster, Thomas Middleton, and John Marston, Viva Bentley Fisk
Love and Self-Realization in the Fiction of William Dean Howells, David Lowell Frazier
John Gay'S Comic View Of Society, Bruce Frederick Hann
The Critical Career Of Allen Tate, 1922-1952., Vera Louise Norwood
Samuel Johnson's Part in the Swiftian Tradition: A Study of Johnson as Swift's Biographer, Critic, and Associate Moralist, Jordan Paul Richman
Paradise Lost and the State of Innocence: A Comparison of Plot, Characterization, Genre and Theme, Evelyn N. Saucier
Aspen Conversations, Richard Lee Van Der Voort
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
Gestalten, Layeh A. Bock
A Bibliography Including The Published Works Of Gerard Manley Hopkins And Critisicm Of The Works Of Gerard Manley Hopkins., Edward H. Cohen
The Art Of Living: A Preliminary Investigation Of Dr. Johnson's Attitude Toward Learning, Involving Primarily The Rambler, The Idler, And The Adventurer., Nancy C. Cotton
A Comparative Study Of Antonin Artuad'S Play Les Cenci, Anne-Marie Denes
Julian Hawthorne, Novelist of the Real and the Supernatural: A Study of Bressant, Archibald Malmaison, and A Fool of Nature, Martha Mayes Park
Young Men Taken in and Done for, Daphne D. Vaughn
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
The Escape Motif in the Modern American Novel: Mark Twain to Carson McCullers, Samuel Bluefarb
Influences on and Development of John Dos Passos' Collectivist Technique, William Alfred Evans
The Great Taos Bank Robbery And Other Recollections, Anthony G. Hillerman
Herman Melville'S Use Of Nature In The Encantadas And Selected Poems, Patricia Hogan
The Ceremony Of Innocence., Janusz Kozikowski
Milton and Marvell--and Samuel Parker, Henry F. Lippincott Jr.
The Unifying Theme of Ben Jonson's Works as Shown in Sejanus and Volpone, Dorothy Mumford Logan
The Narrator'S View Of Hester Prynne:A Study Of Narrative Commentary About Hester Prynne In Hawthorne'S The Scarlet Letter., Stephanie Lee Mitchell
Albert Camus's Requiem Pour Une Nonne Translated and Annotated, With Introductory Materials, Donald J. Pattow
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
Poetry Of Conrad Aiken., Henry B. Chapin
The Oval Mirror., David Hugh Conford
The Southern Cross Is Around Here Somewhere., Worley Reynolds
Personalities And Personages: A Study Of The Protagonists In F. Scott Fitzgerald's Novels, Richard Schroeder
Theses/Dissertations from 1964
The Parasite In Renaissance Drama, Marian E. Hurley
The Architectonic Phrase in the Drama of Henrik Ibsen, Genevieve Townsend
Alimbics, Shirley G. Wade
Theses/Dissertations from 1963
Gabriela Mistral and the Standards of American Criticism, Mary Frances Baker Hernández