Research in Western American Literature

R I C H A R D H. C R A C R O F T Brigham Young University Research in WesternAmerican Literature The following items have been gathered from Dissertation Abstracts, from English department chairmen across the nation, and from notices sent to the editors. Please send notices of completed or in progress studies relevant to the West to: Prof. Richard Cracroft, Dept, of English, A-215 JKBA, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602. I. COMPLETED THESES AND DISSERTATIONS. Aheam, Kerry D. “Aspects of the Contemporary American Western Novel” (Ph.D.) Ohio University, 1974. Albertini, Virgil R. “Frank Norris: Naturalist, Romanticist, Realist” (Ph.D.) 1974 Alkalay, Karen “The Poetry of Theodore Roethke” (Ph.D.) The University of Rochester, 1974. Allen, Patrick Francis “Washington Irving and the Creative Process” (Ph.D.) Indiana University, 1974. Alsmeyer, Henry Louis, Jr. “J. Frank Dobie’s Attitude Towards Physical Nature” (Ph.D.) Texas A &M University, 1973. Aufderheide, Lawrence Richard “American Literary Primitivists: Owen Wister, Stewart Edward White, and Jack London” (Ph.D.) University of Michigan, 1973. Avery, Charles Wayne “Mark Twain’sRacial Attitudes in Huckleberry Finn and Pudd’nhead Wilson” (M.A.) Wichita State University, 1973. Bauer, Walter John, Jr. “The Man-Woman Relationship in the Novels of Frank Norris” (Ph.D.) New York University, 1973. Research 301 Bernstein, Suzy Jahss “The Novels of Frank Norris: An Analysis of Their Structure” (Ph.D.) Columbia University, 1970 Brenzo, Richard Alan “Civilization Against the Savage: The Destruction of Indians in American Novels, 1823-1854” (Ph.D.) University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee, 1973. Breslin, Glenna Louise “Form as Process in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke” (Ph.D.) University of Minnesota, 1973. Brewer, Kenneth “Catching Light” (Poems on Western themes.) (Ph.D.) University of Utah, 1974. Brogan, James Wesley “An American Paradise Lost: The Failed Pastoral of St. John De Crevecoeur” (Ph.D.) Indiana University, 1973. Burt, Donald Charles “Utopia and the Agrarian Tradition in America, 1865-1900” (Ph.D.) University of New Mexico, 1973. Carter, Joseph L. “Hamlin Garland and the Western Myth” (Ph.D.) Kent State University, 1973. Chankin, Donald O. “The Fiction of B. Traven” (Ph.D.) New York University, 1973. Clayton, Thomas Willets “The Indian Case Against the White Man in Pre-Civil War American Fiction” (Ph.D.) Purdue University, 1973. Cleman, John Lawrence “The Wilderness and the Garden: Nature and the Work of George Washington Cable” (Ph.D.) University of Wisconsin, 1973. Clevenger, Darnell Haines “A Comparative Study of the Frontier in the Literatures of Spanish America and the United States” (Ph.D.) Indiana University, 1974. Cooley, Dennis “Keeping the Green: The Vegetation of Renewal in Robert Duncan’s Poetry” (Ph.D.) The University of Rochester, 1972. Crisler, Jesse Shattuck “A Critical and Textual Study of Frank Norris’s McTeague” (Ph.D.) University of South Carolina, 1973. Western American Literature Decker, Sara Josephine Ferris “Violence and Identity in The Deerslayer and Absalom! Absalom!” (M.A.) Wichita State University, 1973. Dervin, James Allen “Washington Irving Tours the Frontier: A New Yorker Sees and Shapes the Raw Material of Frontier Life” (Ph.D.) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1974. Dymond, Richard Bruce “The Impoverished Self: A Study of Selected Fiction of Wright Morris” (Ph.D.) University of Rochester, 1973. Fetty, Audrey Mae Shelley “Biblical Allusions in the Fiction of Willa Cather” (Ph.D.) University of Nebraska — Lincoln, 1973. Foster, Edward Halsey “Picturesque America: A Study of the Popular Useof the Picturesque in Considerations of the American Landscape, 1835-1869” (Ph.D.) Columbia University, 1970. Fountain, Anne Owen “Jose Marti and North American Authors” (Deals with some Western writers in detail: Twain, Helen Hunt Jackson, Irving, Cooper, Harte.) (Ph.D.) Frizot, Daniel Marie Lewis “The Clown Figure in Louis-Ferdinand Celine and Nathanael West, or the Tragic-Comic in Modem Fiction” (Ph.D.) Purdue University, 1973. Gamson, Ian Calder “The American Historian and the Concept of Manifest Destiny, 1845-1849” (Ph.D.) University of Minnesota, 1973. Hearron, William Thomas “New Approaches in the Post-Modern American Novel: Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, and Richard Brautigan” (Ph.D.) University of New York at Buffalo, 1973. Herold, David Edward “A Species of Literary Lion: Essays on [Samuel Eliot] Morrison, [Douglas Southall] Freeman, [Bernard] DeVoto, and [Carl] Becker and the...