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 lists of scholarly works completed or in progress have been gleaned from responses to letters sent to Departments of English across the country and from Dissertation Abstracts. Please send data on any uncited works to Richard H. Cracroft, Associate Professor of English, A-215 JKBA, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84601. I. COMPLETED THESES AND DISSERTATIONS: Aadland, Daniel Arthur “Indian Country, A Novel” (Ph.D.) University of Utah, 1972-73. Allen, David Arthur “Willa Cather: A Critical Study” (Ph.D.) University of Denver, 1972. Allred, Jared Rulon “A. B. Guthrie, Jr.: The Artist in the Wilderness” (Ph.D.) University of Utah, 1972-73. Avery, Charles Wayne “Mark Twain’s Racial Attitudes in Huckleberry Finn and PudcL’nhead Wilson" (M.A.) Wichita State University, 1973. Bolton, Richard Russell “Portrayal of the Garrison Military in American Fiction, 1946-1970” (Ph.D.) Washington State University, 1972. Brauer, Ralph “The Horse, the Gun, and the Piece of Property: Changing Images of the TV Western” (Ph.D.) University of Minnesota, 1972. Briggs, Arlen John “Nathanael West and Surrealism” (Ph.D.) University of O regon, 1972. Burkhardt, Peggy Craven “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Defenders” (Ph.D.) University of Iowa, 1971. Cameron, Alexander J. “The Image of the Physician in the American Novel: 1859-1925” (Ph.D.) University of Notre Dame, 1972. Western American Literature 189 Carpenter, David “Alberta in Fiction” (Ph.D.) University of Alberta, 1973. Cherewick, Janice “Elements of Romance in Selected Fiction of the Canadian West, 1920-1970” (M.A.) University of Alberta, 1973. Codiga, Christopher Robert “The Relationship between Man and Nature in America’s Southwestern Deserts, 1941-1971” (M.A.) University of Oregon, 1972. Coon, Gilbert Dennis “A Study of A. B. Guthrie, Jr., and His Tetralogy” (Ph.D.) Washington State University, 1972. Corser, Cristin D. “The Indian as Symbol of Transcendent Spirituality in Oliver La Farge, Frank Waters, and Edwin Corle” (M.A.) Brigham Young University, 1973. Decker, Sara Josephine Ferris “Violence and Identity in The Deerslayer and Absalom, Absalom!” (M.A.) Wichita State University, 1973. Digbold, Robert Kent “A Critical Edition of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative” (Ph.D.) Yale University, 1972. Dinn, James M. “ ‘Only Two or Three Human Stories’:Recurrent Patterns of Action in the Major Fiction of Willa Cather” (Ph.D.) University of Notre Dame, 1973. Dunnivant, James “Ken Kesey and the Fictive Image of the Western Male in Contemporary American Fiction” (M.A.) Sonoma State College, 1973. Evers, Lawrence Joseph “The Literature of the Omaha” (Ph.D.) University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1972. Farrington, Thomas Arthur “The Control of Imagery in Katherine Ann Porter’s Fiction” (Ph.D.) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1972. Harver, Hyla Hope “The Influence of Scientific Theories of Expression on G arland’s Main-Travelled Roads” (Ph.D.) University of Tulsa, 1973. Hood, Charles E. “Hard Work and Tough Dreaming: A Biography of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.” (M.A.) University of Montana, 1969. Homer, Taunalee “The Reconciliation of Opposites: Universal Patterns in Five Novels Characterizing the American Indian” (M.A.) Brigham Young University, 1973. 190 Research Ifkovic, Edward Joseph “God’s Country and the Woman: The Development of an American Identity in the Popular Novel, 1893-1913.” (Ph.D.) University of Massachusetts, 1972. Jain, Suevita Gael “John Steinbeck’s Concept of Man” (Ph.D.) University of Nebraska, 1972. Jenson, Sidney LaMarr “The Middle Ground: A Study of Wallace Stegner’s Use of History in Fiction” (Ph.D.) University of Utah, 1972-73. Johnson, Kenneth “The Lost Eden: The New World in American Nature Writing” (Ph.D.) University of New Mexico, 1973. Junzels, William J. “The Use of Motive:American Mythologies in the Poetry of Gary Snyder” (Ph.D.) State University of New York at Buffalo, 1973. Justin, Jeffrey Arthur “Unknown Land Poetry: Walt Whitman, Robert Bly, and Gary Snyder” (Ph.D.) University of Michigan, 1973. Karnath, David Leigh “The Lying Contest (The Meaning of Form in Mark Twain’s Fictions)” (Ph.D.) University of Minnesota, 1972. Kogelmass, Harold “The Search for Identity: The Development of the Protean Model of Self in Contemporary American Fiction...