Research in Western American Literature 1965–1966

330 Western American Literature Research in Western American Literature 1965-1966 Research Editor: Thom as J. Lyon, Utah State U niversity Completed Theses and Dissertations Alexander, Stanley Gerald “Primitivism and Pastoral Form in John Steinbeck’s Early Fiction” (Ph.D.) University of Texas, 1965. Barsness, John A. “The Breaking of the Myth: A Study of the Cultural Implications in the Western Novel in the Twentieth Century” (Ph.D.) University of Minnesota, 1966. Blues, Thomas Orville “The Individual and the Community in the Works of Mark Twain” (Ph.D.) University of Iowa, Aug. 1966. Bowling, Jane “Animal Imagery in Frank Norris’s Collected Fiction” (MA) University of Tennessee, 1965. Casimir, Louis J. “Human Emotion and the Early Novels of John Steinbeck” (Ph.D.) University of Texas, 1966. Charles, Sister Peter Damian, O. P. “Love and Death in the Novels of Willa Cather” (Ph.D.) University of Notre Dame, 1965. Dufva, Diane “Fact vs. Fiction: Leadville, Colorado, as a Setting for Fiction” (MA) Kansas State University, May, 1966. Etulain, Richard “The Literary Career of a Western Writer: Ernest Haycox, 1899-1950” (Ph.D.) University of Oregon, 1966. Feltskog, Elmer N. “Francis Parkman’s The Oregon Trail; A Textual Editon and Critical Study (with) Facsimile Editon, 1892” (Ph.D.) University of Illinois, 1966. Fife, Jim Lawrence “Eugene Manlove Rhodes: Spokesman for Romantic Frontier Democracy” (Ph.D.) University of Iowa, Aug., 1965. Hilton, William C. “John Steinbeck: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, 1936-1963” (MA) Wayne State University, 1965. Lambert, Maude Eugenie “Theme and Craftsmanship in Willa Cather’s Novels” (Ph.D.) University of North Carolina, 1965. Research 331 Lambert, Neal Elwood “The Western Writing of Owen Wister; The Conflict of East and West” (Ph.D.) University of Utah, 1966. McDonald, Walter R. “The Prodigal” (novel) (Ph.D.) University of Iowa, Aug. 1966. Oehlke, Roger William “Frank Norris” (MA) University of Iowa, Aug. 1966. Peterson, Levi “The Ambivalence of Alienation: The Debate Over Frontier Freedom in the Quality Western Novel of the Twentieth Century” (Ph.D.) University of Utah, 1965. Toler, Sister Colette, S. C. “Man As Creator of Art and Civilization in the Works of Willa Cather” (Ph.D.) University of Notre Dame, 1965. Wallis, Prentiss Bascom “John Steinbeck: The Symbolic Family” (Ph.D.) University of Kansas, 1966. Wilcox, Earl J. Jack London and the Tradition of American Literary Naturalism” (Ph.D.) Vanderbilt University, 1966. Works in Progress Brenner, Gerald V. “The Contemporary Western Novel” (Ph.D.) University of New Mexico. Day, James M. “The Mier Expedition in Literature” (Ph.D.) Baylor University. Hunsaker, Kenneth B. “The Twentieth Century Mormon Novel” (Ph.D.) Pennsylvania State University. Kime, Wayne R. “Astoria: A Critical Study” (Ph.D.) University of Delaware Lewis, Merrill “American Frontier History as Literature and Myth” (Ph.D.) University of Utah. ...