The William Van O'Connor Library
Doctoral Dissertations 1980-1989
1980
Elin Frances Diamond, Ph.D. 1980
Dissertation: Harold Pinter, Comic Traditionalist
Dissertation Committee: Ruby Cohn (dir), Sandra Gilbert, Peter Hays
Stephen Orin Glosecki, Ph.D. 1980
Dissertation: The Boar's Helmet in Beowulf: Reflexes of Totemism and Exogamy in Early Germanic Literature
Dissertation Committee: James Spamer (dir), Marianne Cooley, Winfried Schleiner
Walter Lee Harrison, Ph.D. 1980
Dissertation: Out of Play: Baseball Fiction from Pulp to Art
Dissertation Committee: Jack Hicks (dir), James Woodress, Michael Hoffman
Michael Shannon Kearns, Ph.D. 1980
Dissertation: ANATOMY OF THE MIND. Mid-Nineteenth-Century Psychology and the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne,Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens and Herman Melville
Dissertation Committee: Elliot Gilbert (dir), Jarvis Bastrain, Michael Hoffman
David William Madden, Ph.D. 1980
Dissertation: Versions of the Thing: The Extended Parody in the Contemporary American Novel
Dissertation Committee: Jack Hicks (dir), Michael Hoffman, Peter Hays
John Dunville Nesbitt, Ph.D. 1980
Dissertation: Literary Conventions in the Classic Western Novel
Dissertation Committee: James Woodress (dir), William Baker, Robert Wiggins
1981
Wendy Bean Barker, Ph.D. 1981
Dissertation: Lunacy of Light: Emily Dickinson and the Female Tradition
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Gilbert (dir), James Woodress, Joanne Feit Diehl
Linda Kay Bates, Ph.D. 1981
Dissertation: Toward the Heart of Darkness: Benjamin Franklin's Satires
Dissertation Committee: James Woodress (dir), Max Byrd, Brom Weber
Margaret Bedrosian, Ph.D. 1981
Dissertation: The Other Modernists: Tradition and the Individual Talent in Armenian-American Literature
Dissertation Committee: Brom Weber (dir), Jack Hicks, Robert Wiggins
Andrea Gale Hammer, Ph.D. 1981
Dissertation: Recitations of the Past: Identity in Novels by Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, and Carson McCullers
Dissertation Committee: John Hayden (dir), William Baker, Sandra Gilbert
John Douglas Miller, Ph.D. 1981
Dissertation: Wordsworth and the Concept of Simplicity
Dissertation Committee: John Hayden (dir), William Baker, Robert Hopkins
Louis D. Owens, Ph.D. 1981
Dissertation: A New Eye in the West: Steinbeck's California Fiction
Dissertation Committee: James Woodress (dir), Peter Hays, Jack Hicks
Linda Palmer Young , Ph.D. 1981
Dissertation: "This Spot of Earth": Making Sense of Place in American Literature
Dissertation Committee: James Woodress (dir), Peter Hays, Robert Wiggins
1982
Laurel Ann Weeks Corona, Ph.D. 1982
Dissertation: Man into Beast: The Theme of Transformation in American and European Fiction from the 1860's to the 1920's
Dissertation Committee: James Woodress (dir), Peter Hays, Robert Wiggins
Hans Ansgar Ostrom, Ph.D. 1982
Dissertation: British Romantic Verse Satire
Dissertation Committee: John Hayden (dir), Max Byrd, Robert Torrance
1983
Jon K. Adams, Ph.D. 1983
Dissertation: The Reader Pragmatics of Fiction
Dissertation Committee: Thomas Hanzo (dir), Manfred Kusch, James Woodress
1984
Elyse Marie Blankley, Ph.D. 1984
Dissertation: Daughters' Exile: Renée Vivien, Gertrude Stein, and Djuna Barnes in Paris
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Gilbert (dir), Michael Hoffman, Joanne Feit Diehl
Dale Bachman Flynn, Ph.D. 1984
Dissertation: Salamanders in the Fire: The Short Stories of Edith Wharton
Dissertation Committee: James Woodress (dir), Peter Hays, Linda Morris
William Stanley Haney, II, Ph.D. 1984
Dissertation: The Theory Of The Referent
Dissertation Committee: Thomas Hanzo (dir), Michael Hoffman, David Robertson
Timothy James Lulofs, Ph.D. 1984
Dissertation: Fathers and Sons in Mark Twain's Fiction
Dissertation Committee: Brom Weber (dir), Wayne Harsh, Robert Wiggins
Nora Mahoney McGuinness, Ph.D. 1984
Dissertation: The Creative Universe of Jack B. Yeats
Dissertation Committee: Ruby Cohn (dir), Peter Hays, David Robertson
Stephanie Tucker, Ph.D. 1984
Dissertation: To Mean So Much: Harold Pinter's Stratagems of Resonance
Dissertation Committee: Ruby Cohn (dir), Norma Landau, Arthur McGuinness
1985
Gregory Wayne Bentley, Ph.D. 1985
Dissertation: Shakespeare and the New Disease: The Dramatic Function of Syphilis in Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, and Timon of Athens
Dissertation Committee: Winfried Schleiner (dir), Richard Levin, Raymond Waddington
Susan Burdett, Ph.D. 1985
Dissertation: From Memory to Imagination: From a Poetics of Memory to a Poetics of the Imagination
Dissertation Committee: Diane Murray Johnson (dir), Elliot Gilbert, Robert Hopkins
Alice Eileen Jurish, Ph.D. 1985
Dissertation: And What is Fate But Love? A Study of Marriage and Passion in the Works of Henry James
Dissertation Committee: James Woodress (dir), Everett Carter, Robert Wiggins
Marcelline Krafchick, Ph.D. 1985
Dissertation: World Without Heroes: The Brooklyn Novels of Daniel Fuchs
Dissertation Committee: Peter Hays (dir), Karl Zender, Michael Kramer
John David Weaver, Ph.D. 1985
Dissertation: Franz Daniel Pastorius (1651-c. 1720): Early Life in Germany with Glimpses of his Removal to Pennsylvania
Dissertation Committee: Brom Weber (dir), James Woodress, Clifford Bernd
1986
Carolyn Elizabeth Brown, Ph.D. 1986
Dissertation: The Hollow Saints: A Study of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
Dissertation Committee: Richard Levin (dir), Winfried Schleiner, Alan Stambusky
Kevin John Clark, Ph.D. 1986
Dissertation: American Catharsis
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Gilbert (dir), Alan Williamson, Sandra McPherson
Kathleen Maida Hewitt, Ph.D. 1986
Dissertation: Chaucer's Literary Dreams: Allegories of Origin
Dissertation Committee: Marijane Osborn (dir), Thomas Hanzo, Winfried Schleiner
Jane Honeycutt, Ph.D. 1986
Dissertation: Letters of H. M. and H. H. Brackenridge in the Pittsburgh Archives, 1796-1868
Dissertation Committee: Brom Weber (dir), Robert Wiggins, Wayne Harsh
Susan Jo Leonardi, Ph.D. 1986
Dissertation: A Dangerous Thing: Somerville College and the Somerville Novelists, 1912-1922
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Gilbert (dir), Diane Johnson, Thomas Hanzo
Patrick Dennis Murphy, Ph.D. 1986
Dissertation: The Verse Novel: Dialogic Studies of a Modern Poetic Genre
Dissertation Committee: Michael Hoffman (dir), Alan Williamson, Robert Torrance
1987
Rebecca Jane Kruger Gaudino, Ph.D. 1987
Dissertation: Charlotte Brontë, Religion and the Female Imagination
Dissertation Committee: Peter Dale (dir), Joanne Feit Diehl, Alan Williamson
James Glenn Tipton, Ph.D. 1987
Dissertation: Sacramental Moments in the Poetry of Kenneth Rexroth
Dissertation Committee: David Robertson (dir), Jack Hicks, Gary Snyder
Katsunori Yamazato, Ph.D. 1987
Dissertation: Seeking a Fulcrum: Gary Snyder and Japan (1956-1975)
Dissertation Committee: Jack Hicks (dir), Michael Hoffman, David Robertson
1988
Gail Pliam David, Ph.D. 1988
Dissertation: Diverse (In)Versions: Female Heroics in the Renaissance Pastoral Romance and in Women's Pastoral Fiction From Fanny Burney to George Eliot
Dissertation Committee: Diane Johnson (dir), Richard Levin
Allan James Johnston, Ph.D. 1988
Dissertation: Reinventing the Metaphors: Towards an Ecological Aesthetics in the Writings of Robinson Jeffers, Kenneth Rexroth, and Gary Snyder
Dissertation Committee: Jack Hicks (dir), David Robertson, Alan Williamson
Dixie Lee King, Ph.D. 1988
Dissertation: Marriage and Sexuality in Paradise Lost: Milton and the Puritans
Dissertation Committee: Richard Levin (dir), Winfried Schleiner, Karl Zender
Carl Judson Launius, Ph.D. 1988
Dissertation: It Was A Flood: The Life And Poetry Of Frank Sanford
Dissertation Committee: Diane Johnson (dir), Jack Hicks, David Robertson
Constance Wootten Malloy, Ph.D. 1988
Dissertation: Becoming a Heroine Quietly: The Life and Work of Barbara Pym
Dissertation Committee: Diane Johnson (dir), Carolyn Burke, Robert Hopkins
1989
Charles James Bense, Ph.D. 1989
Dissertation: Emerson and Hawthorne as Cultural Reporters: A Revaluation of English Traits and Our Old Home
Dissertation Committee: Michael Hoffman (dir), Dean MacCannell, Brom Weber
Raymond Allen Craig, Ph.D. 1989
Dissertation: The Stamp of the Word: The Poetics of Biblical Allusion in American Puritan Poetry
Dissertation Committee: Michael Kramer (dir), James Woodress, Raymond Waddington
Gregory Nigel Eaves, Ph.D. 1989
Dissertation: Figures of the Imagination: A Yeatsian Noumenology
Dissertation Committee: Sandra Gilbert (dir), Peter Dale
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