Research in Western American Literature

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R I C H A R D H. C R A C R O F T Brigham Young University Research in Western American Literature The following items, gathered from graduate coordinators in depart­ ments of English across the nation, and from Dissertation Abstracts and secret sources known only to the compiler, represent much of the work in Western American Literature from about September, 1974 through about September, 1975. Some titles are listed which were done in earlier years but which went unreported last year. I have omitted a number of non-western studies dealing with Mark Twain. In general, studies in Western American Literature seem to be down somewhat from the last two years. Please send notices of completed or in-progress studies relevant to Western American Literature to: Prof. Richard H. Cracroft, Chair­ man, Department of English, A-246 JKBA, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 84602. I. COMPLETED THESES AND DISSERTATIONS. Ahearn, Kerry David “Aspects of the Contemporary American Western Novel'’ (Ph.D.) Ohio University, 1974. Anderson, Marilyn Jeanne “The Image of the American Indian in American Drama: From 1766 to 1845” (Ph.D.) University of Minnesota. Axelrad, Allan M. “History and Utopia: A Study of the World View of James Fenimore Cooper” (Ph.D.) University of Pennsylvania, 1974. Baxter, Charles Morley “Black Hole in Space: The Figure of the Artist in Nathanael West's Miss Lonely Hearts, Djuna Barns’ Sightivood, and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano” (Ph.D.) State University of New York at Buffalo, 1974. 322 Western American Literature Beisman, Emmeline B. “The Prospector and the Pioneer: A Key to the Selected Short Stories of Bret Harte” (Ph.D.) The University of New Mexico, 1975. Bradt, David Richard “From Fiction to Film: An Analysis of Aesthetic and Cultural Implica­ tions in the Adaption of Two American Novellas” (Ph.D.) Washington State University, 1974. (Billy Budd, Miss Lonely Hearts.) Burbick, Joan Susan “The Art of Days: Perspectives on The Journal of Henry Thoreau” (Ph.D.) Brandeis University, 1974. Byrd, Charles Lively “A Descriptive Bibliography of the Oliver LaFarge Collection at the University of Texas” (Ph.D.) University of Texas at Austin, 1974. Cauthers, Janet Helen “The North American Indian as Portrayed by American and Canadian Historians, 1830-1930” (Ph.D.) University of Washington, 1974. Channing, Michael Denis “The Representation of Nature in Twentieth-Century American Poetry” (Ph.D.) Stanford University, 1974. Clayton, Lawrence Ray “John A. Lomax’s Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads: A Critical Study” (Ph.D.) Texas Tech University, 1974. Cosgrove, Robert William “Joseph Kirkland and Edgar Watson Howe: A Reappraisal of Their Fiction With Emphasis on Their Realism” (Ph.D.) Purdue University, 1974. Culbert, Gary Allen “Hamlin Garland’s Image of Woman: An Allegiance to Ideality” (Ph.D.) University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1974. Davis, Joseph Addison “Rolling Home: The Open Road as Myth and Symbol in American Literature, 1890-1940” (Ph.D.) University of Michigan, 1974. Deahl, William Evans, Jr. “A History of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, 1883-1913” (Ph.D.) Southern Illinois University, 1974. DeFlyer, Joseph Eugene “Partition Theory: Patterns and Partitions of Consciousness in Selected Works of American and American Indian Authors” (Ph.D.) The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1974. Research 323 Dervin, James Allen “Washington Irving Tours the Frontier: A New Yorker Sees and Shapes the Raw Materials of Frontier Life” (Ph.D.) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1974. Dussere, David Philip “A Critical Biography of Charles Heber Clark (“Max Adeler”) : Ameri­ can Journalist and Humorist” (Ph.D.) University of Arkansas, 1974. Fitzmaurice, James Earl “Migration Epics of the Trans-Mississippi West” (Ph.D.) University of Maryland, 1974. (The Prairie, Children of God, The Way West, The Last Frontier, Spirit Lake, Giants in the Earth, and The Grapes of Wrath.) Fleming, Patricia Jean “The Integrated Self: Sexuality and the Double in Willa Cather’s Fiction” (Ph.D.) Boston University Graduate School, 1974. French, John Thatcher “Adamic Redemption in American Literature: 1945 to the Present” (Ph.D.) McGill University (Canada), 1974. Gilbert, Susan Hull “James Fenimore Cooper: The Historical Novel and the Critics” (Ph.D.) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1974. Gilgen, Read Grant “The Short Story of the Absurd in Spanish America” (Ph...