This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana Department of English. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Machiavellian thought and Shakespeare's history plays, Edward Peter Canty
Kuwassi Palaver, Peter Corley-Smith
Even a stone [poetry], Roger Dunsmore
"Nada" and other stories, Dennis Douglas Gordon
Walk with Clark's crows, Thomas Roy Madden
Before and After Photos of the Heart, J. D. Reed
Mark Twain and the frontier of human possibility, William Keith Robertson
"Wanting to Leave Montana" and other poems, David G. Slabaugh
Plumb Bob Man, George Venn
John Ruskin and the sociology of art, 1856-1860, David Darrell Werner
Nabokov's Ada and the texture of time, Dwight Alan Yates
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Five stories, John Phillip Bauernfiend
April in Sabinas Hidalgo and other stories, Brian Bedard
Fiction of Sherwood Anderson| An archetypal approach, Calvin Bruce Benson
Doctor Said and other stories, Margaret Alicia Carson
Pinter play| Where it happens, Barbara Ann Croghan
John Crowe Ransom| A study of the literary strategy in his poems, Grey Elliot
Along the Focal Length, Marshall Lewis Gaddis
Structure in relation to the artist in "The Alexandria Quartet", Carole Ann Granger
Designs on a classic| [Poetry], William M. Velde
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
Beret Holm| Study of a homesteading heroine, Anne V. Anderson
It was Written, Duane F. Bassuer
Tragic vision of Herman Melville, a quest for immortality, Lynne Stout Blumberg
Concept of will in the novels of William Golding, Orvis C. Burmaster
Red eye, the cauldron of morning| A study of the later poetry of Sylvia Plath, Laurel Ann Hebert
Thomas Hardy's representation of human will in The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure, and Tess of the D'Ubervilles, Jean Sasaki Joe
William Styron| A modern traditionalist, Kari Gjertsen Johnson
Meaning and metaphor in John Donne's elegies, Freda Mahlstedt Jones
Stone Love This Man; poems, Terrence Lee Moser
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
Bertolt Brecht and the Theatre of the Absurd| A comparison, Ruth Gibson Carrington
Somber dolphins, Frederick M. DeMarinis
Image of an idea| Didactic expressionism in medieval drama and its reflection in modern drama, Olga Wik Erickson
In progress, a novel, Jerry Leroy Harris
Imagery in Coriolanus, Lois Margaret Jarka
On the rim, Ed Lahey
Introduction to the poetry of Robert Graves, Howard Zankner
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
Dignity in Arthur Miller's drama, Frederick William Gilliard
To Harbors Lockjawed, Herbert Gottfried
Par Lagerkvist, religious atheist, Eric Warfield Johnson
Little Dorrit, Joan Murphy Jonkel
Lucky Jake and other stories, Everett Dean Phelps
Comparative study of Marlowe's and Chapman's Hero and Leander, John Baxter Sinkhorn
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
Riddle of experience, Armand Elroy Falk
Spiritual fiddlings, a study in the poetics of Wallace Stevens, Michael M. Kreisberg
This way, the world; a play in three acts, Roger Sample Megerth
Theses/Dissertations from 1964
Moral tone of John Ford's tragedies, James J. Antonich
Drapier's letters| A study in Swift's rhetorical and satirical methods, Elmer Joseph Cole
Novels of James Gould Cozzens; a study of the theme of passion and reason, self division's cause, William N. Dehon
Moral world of William Golding, Kristie Langlow Farley
Characterization in the comedies of Sir George Etherege, Leland Wayne Farley
Henry James and the anomalous particular case, a study of his technique as revealed in "The Turn of the Screw", David Clarence Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 1963
Shorter poems of Herman Melville, Mary Clearman Blew
Darwin's The voyage of the Beagle and Melville's "The Encantadas", James Robert Corey
Frost's married women| Empathy or antipathy with nature, Suzanne Smith Gilluly
Imagery as a key to meaning in John Webster's "The White Devil", James Tate May
Theses/Dissertations from 1962
Hemingway's Nick Adams| Archetype of an era, William Martin Burke
Study of kingship in Shakespeare's history plays, Michael D. Linn
Theses/Dissertations from 1961
Jonathan Swift as a poet, William Burchard Cogswell
Fire of imagination| A comparison of the philosophical ideas of William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Emmet Edwin Hoynes
Wright Morris and the American mother, Alice Anne Lory
T. S. Eliot| In pursuit of tradition, Donald Bernhardt McLeod
Study of place names in Missoula County, Montana, Don Bert Omundson
Henry James's independent women, Barbara Fleming Taber
Paul van Ostaijen, the poet, Hidde Van Ameyden van Duym
Theses/Dissertations from 1960
Chekhovian hero| An approach to mood, Mary Garrett Dieterich
Huckleberry Finn| Realist vs. romanticist, Mary Dorene Erickson
Recognition| An aspect of modern tragic drama, Mary A. Gerhardstein
Cultural perspective of the Saint Nicholas miracle play, Mary Frances Jeske
Risus Sardonicus, Barbara Knight
Investigation of the punctuation practice in the 1957 County Agricultural and Home Demonstration Agents' reports at Montana State College, Robert Norman Noyes
Critical study of six short works by Kay Boyle, Ronnalie J. Roper
Theses/Dissertations from 1959
McTeague| A study in determinism, romanticism, and fascism, Leonard Anthony Lardy
Greek Atreidae dramas and Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra"| A study in contrasts, Emil Ponich
Search for form| the verse dramas of T. S. Eliot, Carol Sue Rometch
In search of the underground, John M. Schwarz
Comic element in Christopher Fry, Frances Therese Zender
Theses/Dissertations from 1958
Hemingway heroine| A study in definition and function, David Burt
Ambassadors, a process of vision, Edwin Frank Casebeer
Five short stories, Mary Merchant Jasperson
Five tales, Robert Louis Schafer
Theses/Dissertations from 1957
Hroswitha of Gandersheim| A study of the author and her works, Henry Ernest Burgess
Practical criticism of representative short stories taught in Montana high schools, Hugh B. Campbell
Content analysis methods applied to literary criticism| Plays of Christopher Marlowe, Molly Lynn Duffell
Gibbons' Funeral; a short novel, Robert Cyrus Noe
Study in the comparative reputations of John Donne and Abraham Cowley, Marjorie Jones Ryan
Theses/Dissertations from 1956
George Bernard Shaw and the aristocratic ideal, Leslie Andrew Lawrence
Robert Henryson| a critical essay, Elizabeth Grace Morris
Theses/Dissertations from 1955
Two thirds of a ghost, Barbara Corcoran
Never was the man put out, William Wright Nye
Labyrinth of Edwin Muir, Catherine Tzouganatou
Theses/Dissertations from 1954
"New Criticism" and the study of poetry, Jane Ellen Brown
Cuchulainn compared with other folk epic heroes, Barbara Jean Fant
Strenuous bard| A study of imagery in early Celtic poetry, Margaret Ripley Hansen
Margaret Fuller, conversationalist, 1839-1844, Roxana Marie Warren
Survey of public speaking in Montana high schools for the academic year, 1953-1954, Joan Gibson Wing
Theses/Dissertations from 1953
Aspects of the comic spirit in Meredith's "Modern Love", Robert Gerald Ross
Structural principles in the cantos of Ezra Pound, William C. Strange
Malaise in John Davidson, Joseph Thomas Ward
Theses/Dissertations from 1952
Development of Herman Melville's religious thought| an essay in interpretation, Francis Louis La Forge
Three worlds of experience---the social, the solitary, the visionary---in Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse", Frank Clifford Mauldin