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Read PhD Recipients, 1970s
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
| Name | Dissertation title and adviser |
|---|---|
| Adams, Steve 1979 sadams@d.umn.edu |
"'To set all
well afloat': Romantic Structures and Thoreau's A Week on the Concord
and Merrimack Rivers." Adviser - Bales. Professor, University of Minnesota Duluth Steve Adams' Home Page |
| Adamson, William D. 1977 |
"Shakespeare’s Drama of Calumny: Sexual Innocence against Infected Knowledge." Adviser - O’Brien |
| Allen, Carolyn 1972 callen@u.washington.edu |
"The Poetic Persona of
Robert Lowell." Adviser - G. T. Wright. Professor of English, University of Washington |
| Allsup, James 1973 |
"The Magic Circle: A Study of Shelley’s Concept of Love." Adviser - Scoggins |
| Almasy, Rudolph 1976 |
"Richard Hooker and Elizabethan Polemics." Adviser - O’Brien |
| Barber, Eddice 1972 |
"Cotton Mather’s Literary Reputation in America." Adviser - Foster |
| Barnett, Patricia 1974 |
"English Boys’ Weeklies, 1866-1899." Adviser - Anderson |
| Barrada, Mohamed 1973 |
"Stylistic Inquiry: Issues, Problems, and Solutions." Adviser - Allen |
| Becker, Carol 1975 |
"Clothing the Soul, a Study of the Poetic Theory and Practice of George Chapman as Revealed in the Literary forms and Symbolic Figures of Five Major Poems." Adviser - O’Brien |
| Bergman, Charles 1977 bergmaca@plu.edu |
"Paradoxical Vision: The
Style and Stylistics of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke." Adviser - O’Brien. Professor of English, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA |
| Berman, Ruth 1977 berma005@umn.edu |
"Suspending Disbelief: The Development of Fantasy as a Literary Genre in 19th-Century British Fiction as Represented by Four Leading Periodicals: Edinburgh Review, Blackwood’s Fraser’s and Cornhill." Adviser - Madden |
| Bernard, John 1970 jbernard@uh.edu |
"Studies in the Love Poetry
of Wyatt, Sidney, and Shakespeare." Adviser - Unger. Professor of English, University of Houston |
| Betts, Jane 1972 |
"The Marriage of Music and Rhetoric: A Study of the Use of Classical Rhetoric as a Rational for Musical innovation during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance." Adviser - O’Brien |
| Bliss, Michael 1977 |
"The Orchestration of Chaos: Verbal Technique in William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch." Adviser - Solotaroff |
| Bohlmeyer, Jeannine 1971 |
"Michael Drayton: Moral Certainty in Poetic Diversity." Adviser - O’Brien |
| Bond, Reece 1971 |
"Whitman’s Visual Imagination." Adviser - Foster |
| Breslin, Glenna 1973 |
"Theodore Roethke: Poetry that Moves as the Mind Moves." Adviser - Anderson |
| Buchwald, Emilie 1971 |
"The Earthly Paradise and the Ideal Landscape: Studies in Changing Tradition through 1750." Adviser - Monk |
| Burkom, Selma 1970 |
"A Reconciliation of Opposites: A Study of the Works of Doris Lessing." Adviser - G. T Wright |
| Byers, David 1973 |
"An Annotated Bibliography of the Criticism on Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, 1847-1947." Adviser - Madden |
| Carlucci, Nicholas 1977 |
"The Architrenius of Johannes de Hauvilla. A Translation with Introduction and Notes." Adviser - Clark |
| Cavanagh, William 1975 cavanagh@grinnell.edu |
"The Epic Imagination
in Modern Literature: Archibald MacLeishe’s 'Conquistador.'" Adviser - G. T. Wright. Professor of English, Grinnell College, Iowa |
| Christensen, Peter 1975 |
"Trollope’s Satiric Comedy of Manners: Argument, Structure, and Character in the Barset Novels." Adviser - Madden |
| Christianson, Glen 1974 |
"Theodore Roethke: Modes of Selfhood." Adviser - Anderson |
| Collins, Terence 1976 tcollins@tc.umn.edu |
"A Psychoanalytic Introduction
to Reader Response to Racial Literature." Adviser - Anderson. Director (retired) of Academic Affairs and Curriculum, General College, University of Minnesota |
| Connelly, Peter 1970 |
"Three 18th Century Translation of the Iliad." Adviser - R. Moore |
| Cromwell, Alexandra 1975 |
"Thematic and Stylistic Consequences of the Response to the Existence and Decline of Empire and the Colonial Situation in Some British Novels of the 20th Century." Adviser - Anderson |
| Daniel, John T 1973 |
"The Influence of the English Class Structure on the Work of D.H. Lawrence." Adviser - G. T. Wright |
| Donovan, Brian 1974 |
"George Moore’s Fictive Autobiography." Adviser - Anderson |
| Drewicke, Roger 1977 |
"A Study of Form and Emotion in the Poetry of William Collins." Adviser - R. Moore |
| Eyler, Audrey 1977 eyleras@plu.edu |
"William Butler Yeats, Folklorist to Dramatist: The Gaelic Heritage of his Dramatic Fool." Adviser - Anderson. Professor of English, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA |
| Farkas, David 1977 farkas@u.washington.edu |
"Interpretive
Problems in Marlowe's Hero and Leander." Advisers - Clayton & O'Brien. Professor, Department of Technical Communication, University of Washington David Farkas' Home Page |
| Fast, Robin 1979 |
"Emily Dickinson’s Art of Evanescence." Adviser - Roth |
| Fisher, Stephanie 1971 |
"Circe as the Fatal Woman in Milton’s Poetry: Milton’s Concept of the Renaissance Woman." Adviser - McNaron |
| Flanagan, James 1973 |
"The Satirist-Intriguer in Elizabethan and Jacobean Comedy." Adviser - Clayton |
| Fowler, Russell 1971 |
"Lost and Found: The Poetry of Randall Jarrell." Adviser - Unger |
| Foy, Robert C 1973 |
"'Holy Sport'": St. Paul, Recreation, and Shakespearean Drama with Particular Reference to The Comedy of Errors." Adviser - Hurrell |
| Gallant, Christine 1977 cgallant@gsu.edu |
"Regeneration through
Archetype: William Blake’s Changing Myth in The Four Zoas." Adviser - Scoggins. Professor of English, Georgia State University |
| Galle, Burton 1977 |
"Led by Choice. Moral Perception in Selected Victorian Works." Adviser - Madden |
| Gefvert, Constance 1971 cj@ssjd.ca |
"Edward Taylor: An Annotated
Bibliography." Adviser - Griffin. Rev. Mother and President, Sisterhood of St. John the Divine, Toronto |
| George, Rita 1974 |
"Microcosmic Adam: Background Studies of a Renaissance Type." Adviser - O’Brien |
| Gilbertson, Carol 1979 gilbertc@luther.edu |
"The Mower as a Type of
Adam: Andrew Marvell’s Mower Poems and Paradise Lost." Adviser - G. T. Wright. Professor, English Department, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa |
| Glock, Waldo 1970 |
"The Plot of Tom Jones: Its Significance and Effect". Adviser - Montgomery |
| Goldman, Arnold 1972 |
"The Structure of Time in Shakespearean Comedy." Adviser - Roth |
| Guhl, Barbara 1973 |
"Self and Society and the Form of Trollope’s Social Novels." Adviser - Madden |
| Halliday, Patricia Young
1973 |
"The Pursuit of Wholeness in the Work of Doris Lessing: Dualities, Multiplicities, and the Resolution of Patterns in Illumination." Adviser - G. T. Wright |
| Hamilton, William 1970 |
"Alexander Wilson’s America." Adviser - Turpie |
| Hanks, Tom 1976 tom_hanks@baylor.edu |
"Social Satire in the
Medieval English Cycle Play." Adviser - Kendall. Professor of English, Baylor University, Waco, Texas |
| Harvey, Edgar 1975 |
"Pageants of Virtue: Common Strategies of Moral Persuasion in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Ben Jonson’s Masques." Adviser - O’Brien |
| Heath, William 1970 |
"Cyrus Bartol, Transcendentalist: An Early Critique of Emerson." Adviser - Foster |
| Henley, Rosalie 1971 |
"Chaucer’s Parliment of Foules: Three Faces of Love." Adviser - McNally |
| Holdstein, Michael 1971 |
"A Study of Personal and Poetic Identities of John Keats." Adviser - Scoggins |
| Holmberg, Carol 1971 |
"A Study of William Blake’s Fourfold Perceptive Process as Interpreted by William Butler Yeats." Adviser - Scoggins |
| Houlding, James 1977 |
"A Sense of the Past: The Evolution of Moral Standards in Four 19th-Century English Novels." Adviser - Madden |
| Howard, Hubert 1971 |
"A Man of Faire Parts: Thomas Campion." Adviser - R. Moore |
| Hudson, George 1972 |
"The Stone Heart: An Image of the Spiritual Condition of Man in 17th Century Poetry." Adviser - O’Brien |
| Irish, Carol 1977 |
"'A Glorious Title'": Elizabeth I’s Manipulation of her Public Image, 1588-1603." Advisers - Sibley & McNaron |
| Irlen, Harvey 1972 |
"Henry James and the Victorian Novel." Advisers - Roth & Bowron |
| Jackson, Joel 1977 |
"Speech Acts and Reader Response." Adviser - Steinmann |
| Jenkins, Samuel 1975 |
"The Poetry of William Carlos Williams: Images of the Past." Adviser - Anderson |
| Joss, Gerald 1973 |
"American Film Criticism, 1940-1969: A Comparative Study." Adviser - G. T. Wright |
| Karnath, David 1972 |
"The Lying Contest: The Meaning of Form in Mark Twain’s Fictions." Adviser - Roth |
| Kent, Robert 1970 |
"The Poems of John Dyer: A Critical Edition." Adviser - Monk |
| Lape, Dennis 1970 |
"The Masks of Dionysus: Works of Hawthorne and Melville." Adviser - Foster |
| Larson, David 1973 d.larson@csuohio.edu |
"The Man of Feeling in
America: A Study of Major Early American Writers’ Attitudes toward
Benevolent Ethics and Behavior." Adviser - Griffin. Associate Professor, Cleveland State University |
| Linden, Stanton 1971 linden@wsu.edu |
"Alchemy and the English
Literary Imagination: 1385 to 1633." Adviser - O’Brien. Professor of English, Washington State University |
| Lindsay, Clarence 1974 |
"Character and Morality in Conrad’s Fiction." Adviser - Unger |
| Marquit, Doris 1977 |
"Thomas Shepard: The Formation of a Puritan Identity." Adviser - Griffin |
| Mattson, Barbara 1972 |
"A Study of Robert Herrick’s 'Hesperides.'" Adviser - Unger |
| Mazzola, Lars 1974 |
"Labyrinthos: The Animal as Generative Center in the Life of James Joyce." Adviser - Anderson |
| McCabe, Charles 1971 |
"The Sacred Wordsworth." Adviser - Scoggins |
| McCormick, Frank 1977 cffgm@eiu.edu |
"The Embattled Career
of Sir John Vanbrugh." Adviser - R. Moore. Professor, Department of English, Eastern Illinois University |
| McCormick, James 1977 |
"The Distinctive Literary Property: A Study of a Theme in Twentieth Century Criticism." Adviser - Steinmann |
| McKinney, Barbara 1974 bmckinney@mines.edu |
"Images of Dance in Sixteenth-Century
Poetry." Advisers - O’Brien & McNaron. Professor Emerita, Department of English, University of Toledo; presently Adjunct Instructor, EPICS Department, Colorado School of Mines |
| McReynolds, Doris 1970 |
"Images of the Theater in Victorian Literature." Adviser - R. Moore |
| Memmott, Albert 1973 |
"The Theme of Revenge in the Fiction of William Faulkner." Adviser - G. T. Wright |
| Metz, Gerald 1972 |
"The Moment of Timelessness in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats." Adviser - Unger |
| Meyer, Russell 1976 Russ.meyer@colostate-pueblo.edu |
"Tudor Laughter: A Preliminary
Study for a Theory of Humor." Adviser - O’Brien. Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Colorado State University-Pueblo Colorado State University Pueblo : College of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Mish, Frederick 1973 |
"The Influence of Ovid
in John Gower’s Vox Clamanti." Adviser - McNally. Editor in Chief, Merriam-Webster, Inc. (Publisher of dictionaries and other reference works) |
| Moody, JoAnn 1971 |
"Britomart, Imogen Perdita, the Duchess of Malfi: A Study of Women in English Renaissance Literature." Adviser - O’Brien |
| Morgan, Dan 1977 |
"World War I and its Consequences in Selected European and American Novels and Memoirs." Adviser Firchow |
| Morris, Adalaide 1971 dee-morris@uiowa.edu |
"Imagination’s Hymns:
Christian Metamorphoses in the Poetry and Thought of Wallace Steven." Adviser - G. T. Wright. John C. Gerber Professor of English, University of Iowa |
| Muggli, Mark 1978 mugglimz@luther.edu |
"Philip Massinger's Tragedies
and their Dramaturgical Context." Adviser - Clayton. Professor of English and Associate Academic Dean, Luther College |
| Nash, Charles 1975 |
"The Theme of Human Isolation in the Works of Eudora Welty." Adviser - O’Brien |
| Nicholl, Catherine 1971 |
"Scenes of Clerical Life: George Eliot’s Apprenticeship." Adviser - Madden |
| Niehus.
Edward 1971 eniehus@knox.edu |
"The Nature of Development
of the Quixote Figure in the 18th Century English Novel." Adviser - R. Moore. Professor and Director of Off-Campus Study, Knox College |
| Noer, Philip 1970 |
"The Rhetorical Structure of Milton: An Introduction to the Reading of Blake’s Major Prophesies as Poetry." Adviser - Scoggins |
| O’Neill, John 1972 joneill@hamilton.edu |
"An Art Beyond the Reach
of Grace: English Pornographic Verse, 1660-1685." Adviser - R. Moore. Edmund A. Le Fevre Professor of English, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY |
| Orren.
Tyna 1976 |
"True and False Accounts by DeFoe." Adviser - Alkon |
| Patnode, Darwin 1974 dnp48@aol.com |
"Love and Death in the
Jamesian Novel." Adviser - Hansen. California State University, Hayward (retired) |
| Pierre, Gerald 1970 |
"The Influence of Sir William Temple upon the Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift." Adviser - Monk |
| Pollard, David 1975 |
"'All Symmetric': A Study in the Meaning and Unity of the Poetry of George Herbert." Adviser - Unger |
| Postlewait, Thomas 1976 |
"The Design of the Past: Uses of Memory in the Drama of Henrik Ibsen, Samuel Beckett, and Harold Pinter." Adviser - Hurrell |
| Poulakis, Victoria 1970 |
"The Psychological Novels of William Dean Howells." Adviser - Roth |
| Povlacs, Joyce 1970 |
"Actor as Character and Structure in the Plays of John Marston." Adviser - O’Brien |
| Powers, Alan 1976 |
"This Critical Age: Deliberate Departures from Literary Conventions in 17th Century English Poetry." Adviser - Unger |
| Pringle, Marybeth 1977 marybeth.pringle@wright.edu |
"A Stylistic Analysis
of Dialogue and Narrative Modes in James Joyce’s Ulysses." Adviser - Anderson. Professor of English, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio |
| Pulju, Edward 1971 |
"Reality and Artifice in Trollope’s Palliser Novels." Adviser - G.T Wright |
| Pulleyn, Mary 972 |
"Keats’s View of Death." Advisers - O’Brien & Scoggins |
| Ready, Richard 1975 |
"'Not Only' — An Examination of Abstraction in the Writings of John Updike, with a Particular Emphasis on the Olinger Narrative." Adviser - G. T. Wright |
| Rebmann, David 1971 |
"T.S.Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral: A Study of Texts and Criticism." Adviser - Anderson |
| Reddick, Robert 1975 |
"A Transformational-Generative Analysis of Negative Concord in Early West Saxon." Adviser - MacLeish |
| Reidy, James 1971 |
"The Higher Criticism: England and the Periodical Debate of the 1960s." Adviser - Madden |
| Reilly, Kevin 1979 |
"Irish Literary Autobiography: The Goddesses that Poets Dream of." Adviser - Anderson |
| Ren, Shy-Jong 1977 |
"Some English Influences on Natsume Soseki’s Criticism and Novels." Adviser - Firchow |
| Rewak, William 1970 |
"The Shadow of the Butterfly: James Agee’s Treatment of Death." Adviser - G. T. Wright |
| Roman, Christine 1975 |
"Patterns of Recurrence in the Long Poems of William Carlos Williams and T.S. Eliot." Adviser - G. T. Wright |
| Sanders, Ronald 1972 |
"Coventry Patmore and the Poetic Drama of the Victorian Intellectual." Adviser - Madden |
| Saplala, Paz Eulalia 1970 |
"Renaissance Psychology of the Plays of Thomas Middleton." Adviser - O’Brien |
| Sargent, Seymour 1970 |
"Roman History and Elizabethan Drama." Adviser - O’Brien |
| Schermerhorn, Karen 1974 kschermerhorn@ccp.cc.pa.us |
"Women in Wycherley: Their
Role in his Social Criticism." Adviser - R. Moore. Professor of English, Community College of Philadelphia |
| Schneeman, Peter 1972 |
"Ezra Pound and the Act of Translation." Adviser - G. T. Wright |
| Schwandt, Pamela 1970 |
"Pope’s Iliad: The Transformation from Homeric to Augustan." Adviser - Monk |
| Searkingen, James E 1970 |
"The Critical Reception of Gray’s Poems: 1742-1884." Adviser - R. Moore |
| Sisson, Jonathan 1977 |
"Cosmic Synchronization and other Worlds in the Work of Vladimir Nabokov." Adviser - Roth |
| Smith, Lyle 1973 |
"The Elizabethan English Debate Dialogue: Puritan Satire in the Anti-Clerical Tradition." Adviser - O’Brien |
| Snyder, Philip 1977 |
"Stories and Storytellers in Dickens." Adviser - Madden |
| Soucy, Arnold 1972 |
"Linear Patterns within the Cyclical Patterns of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Adviser - McNally |
| Spear, Jeffrey 1975 jls1@nyu.edu |
"'Putting the Fire out with the Sun': The Social Vision of John Ruskin." Adviser - Madden. Associate Professor of English, New York University |
| Spitzmiller, Betty 1977 |
"Ben Jonson’s Nondramatic Poetry: A Study of Matter and Manner." Adviser - Unger |
| Stone, Charles 1971 |
"Dramas of Christian Time: Temporal Assumptions and Dramatic Form in the Medieval Mystery Cycle, the Morality Play, and Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy." Adviser - Hurrell |
| Swanson, Mary 1977 |
"The Themes of Time and Morality in the Dramas of Eugene O’Neill." Adviser- Kwiat |
| Szuberla, Guy 1972 gzuber@uoft02.toledo.edu |
"Urban Vistas and the
Pastoral Garden: Studies in the Literature and Architecture of Chicago
(1893-1909)." Adviser - Kwiat. Professor of English Emeritus, University of Toledo |
| Taubr, Paul 1973 |
"Code Elaboration among Minneapolis Sixth-Grade Children. Variations with Interviewer." Adviser - Allen |
| Thomas
(Faulkenburg), Marilyn 1977 mfaulken@menlo.edu |
"Church, City, and Labyrinth
in Bronte, Dickens, Hardy, and Butor." Adviser - Bales. Professor of Humanities, Menlo College, Menlo Park, California |
| Thompson, Sharon 1973 |
"A Comparison of Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Donne’s Songs and Sonnets by means of a New Method for Analyzing Metaphorical Content." Adviser - Allen |
| Thompson, Ruth 1977 |
"The Quest for Harmony: A Thematic Analysis of the Poetry of W. S. Merwin." Adviser - G. T. Wright |
| Thurin, Erik 1970 |
"Love and Friendship: Emerson and the Platonic Tradition." Adviser- Foster |
| Underwood, Gary 1970 |
"The Dialect of the Mesabi Iron Range in its Historical and Social Context." Adviser - Allen |
| Vanouse, Donald 1971 vanouse@oswego.edu |
"An Artiface Nearer to
Nature: Decadence and Aestheticism in the Writings of Stephen Crane." Adviser - G. T. Wright. Professor of English and Coordinator of American Studies Program, State University of New York at Oswego |
| Walzer, Arthur 1975 awalzer@umn,edu |
"Invention Highest Wrought;
The Rhetorical Art of Henry King’s Poems." Adviser - Clayton. Professor of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota |
| Waniek, Marilyn Nelson 1979 fieldsofpraise@hotmail.com |
"The Schizoid Nature of
the Implied Author in Twentieth Century Ethnic Novels." Adviser -
Anderson. Professor of English, University of Delaware |
| Warner, Kerstin 1973 |
"Thomas Otway’s Strumpet Fortune." Adviser - R. Moore |
| Weintz, Chris 1970 |
"Frederick Goddard Tuckerman: A Prophet of Perfected Grief." Adviser - Foster |
| Wellisch, Robert 1977 |
"The Literary Forms of Walter Pater." Adviser - Madden |
| Wells, John 1971 |
"Herman Melville’s Literary Reputation, 1940-1969." Adviser - Foster |
| Wickenheiser, Robert 1970 rwick@sbu.edu |
"A Study of George Herbert’s
Latin Poems and their Relationship to his English Poems." Adviser
- Unger. St. Bonaventure University |
| Wilson, Bruce 1970 |
"Studies in the Formal Verse Satires of Edward Young (1683-1764)." Adviser - Monk |
Jigna Desai (PhD 1999), associate professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota
