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 1995
Alaskan collection, R. Glendon Brunk
Four short stories| Alaska quartet, Michael C. Childs
Flight of the ouzel| [Essays], Colin Backlund Chisholm
Every building wants to fall| [Stories], Rhian Ellis
Girl with large foot jumping rope, David G. Gilbert
Transformation and appropriation of the primitive in Melville's "Typee", "Moby-Dick", and "The Confidence-Man", Robert J. Hackett
This place used to be somebody, Sarah Fogarty Hamilton
Walking Backwards| Poems, Mark Holthoff
Echo and Shell, Carmen Gail Hoover
Rhythm, and other stories, Jeff Hull
Postmodern hero in Angela Carter's fiction, Robert Michael Johnson
Tollhouse, Beth Judy
Wallace Stevens' notes toward a new idiom, James Keller
Nighttime in the experimental forest| Short stories, John R. Lennon
Madagascar| Short stories, Richard L. Nunez
Deepest place we have: Bioregionalism narrative and postmodernism in western environmental literature, Jeffrey Odefey
Iron Lung Girl| And other stories, Mary B. Park
Falling in place| An examination of Raymond Carver's short fiction, Daniel C. Peters
To liberate the particular| Politics and poetics in Charles Olson's "The Maximus Poems", Kurt Andrew Slauson
Mykonos, Alexander Speyer
Six short stories, Jack Thorndike
Houses of mystery, Kathy Witkowsky
Her Slender Dress, Susan Yuzna
Otis in the summer of love, Eric Zuckerman
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Imagining empowerment| A discourse of betrayal in Angela Carter and Tom Spanbauer, Jon Robert Adams
Distances| A collection, David A. Belman
Outpost| [Poems], Ryan J. Benedetti
Roots and rhizomes, Judy Blunt
Guest house and other stories, Clellan Coe
Endless elaborations| Anticlosure in Wallace Stevens' "An ordinary evening in New Haven", Gary Mike Cronin
Nature as salvational metaphysician in D.H. Lawrence's "The White Peacock" and Lady Chatterley's "Lover", Christine K. Frame
Weather, Henrietta Spencer Goodman
Medium, Wendy L. Guild
Blue of knowledge, Richard Stevenson Hunt
"Ever so many generations hence": Rereading The People vs Abbot (1838), Anne Lee Kaufman
Three steps ahead: Redefining roles for women in Japanese fiction, Tracy T. Koncilja
Man himself| [poems], Al Nyhart
Catch as Catch Can| A collection, Donna L. Oetzel
Hunters and gatherers, Caroline Patterson
In the path of becoming| Anais Nin's artistic development and search for feminine identity, Anne Elizabeth Pulis
Folk tales, Victoria Rostovich
And a river went out of Eden| The estuarial motif in Hemingway's "The Garden of Eden", Howard A. Schmid
Last Light We Failed to Put Out| A collection, Joseph A. Smalley
Poetry of witness| Vietnam War veteran-poets (challenging American myth), James Soular
"Pragmatists" and other stories, Robert Stubblefield
"Musing among the vegetables"| The unveiling of the soul at work in Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway", Margaret Leigh Tillman
Five or six occasional pieces, Mary Vanek
Literature as mandala, Craig Weston Walker
Reader's digest for the dammed| Three stories and a chapter, Jacques St. Whitecloud
Altar states| A collection of personal essays and novel chapters, Florence Skelton Williams
Bestiary| [Poems], Matt Yurdana
Wallace Stegner, John Wesley Powell, and the influence of scientific revolutions, Matt Yurdana
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
West of Wisdom, Kristin Bloomer
Noise beneath the static| [Poems], Kevin E. Casey
Influence of oral language vs. literary language structures and devices on young children's engagement in and comprehension of read-aloud texts, Peggy Christian
Creation of self and personalism in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Beloved, Virginia Costello
Accounts of the Chinese People's Volunteers Prisoners of War: A Translation, Jin Daying
Hostage, and other stories, Jean Maslowski Emery
Writing a western woman's life| Agoraphobia in Dorothy M. Johnson's "The Hanging Tree", Jean Maslowski Emery
While I was walking, Jeannie Fairfax Goodman
Jailhouse Springs, Robert Hackett
"Ignis fatuus" of authenticity| Stephen Crane, Cormac McCarthy, Michael Ondaatje and the problem of capturing the West, Matthew Dale Herman
Suicide notes, Colin Hester
Medicine| [short stories], Michael Lancaster
No place called home| A collection of short stories, Mia Laurence
State of wanting, Amy Linn
Robots of the Great Northwest| Part one, David Neu
Making sense of it all| [stories], Michael Nevers
Revising palimpsest| Narrative and history in the postmodern novel, Peter Alexander Nowakoski
Growing season, Penny Orwick
What did I miss| Stories, Michael Todd Pearson
Flotsam, jetsam, lagan| Poems, stories, drama and essays, Craig Brian Rayle
Nash, Rambler| A novel, Frank Sennett
Vision Without Witness, Rebecca A. Snow
Six stories, Peter Soliunas
Motel, John Starkey
Zitkala-Sa| The native voice from exile, Dorothea M. Susag
Confidence game| Three essays and two stories, Margaret Leigh Tillman
Collected Stories, Marsha Walker
Exposing the soul, Glenda S. Wallace
Out from heaven| A novel, Terry Wean
Notes for a primer, Beth Wolfson
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Budging, Kelly Barth
"Oh love that will not let me go"| An examination of Welty's "Fictional Mothers", Kelly Lee Barth
River voices, Pontiac bones, David Ridley Braden
What I do While I am Here, David Cates
Third sister raises her broom, Laurel Josephine Cheff
Dancing in Joseph's Coat, Mary F. Chen
Re-vision as revision| Women narrating the past in The Woman Warrior, Housekeeping, and Cat's Eye, Michele Lee Cox
Storyteller's landscape| A consideration of authorship in American Indian literatures, Hugh Coyle
What does not kill us, Claire Davis
When the music's over| Fiction, J. Mark Dudick
Male narrative night at the movies| Poems, Kathy Dunne
How much longer now?, Martha Elizabeth
Deeds of trust, Lee Esbenshade
Principles of Navigation| Stories, Peter Warren Fong
Psalm for the turn of the century| Poems, Joel Friederich
Consolation of Physics, Robin Luz Hamilton
Four stories, Maria Healey
Little River and other stories, James Nicholas Heil