The English Department Dissertations and Theses Series is comprised of dissertations and thesis authored by Marquette University's English Department doctoral and master's students.
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Reading American Women's Autobiography: Spheres of Identity, Spheres of Influence, Amy C. Getty
"Making Strange": The Art and Science of Selfhood in the Works of John Banville, Heather Maureen Moran
Writing Guadalupe: Mediacion and (mis)translation in borderland text(o)s, Jenny T Olin-Shanahan
Writing Guadalupe: Mediacion and (Mis)Translation in Borderland Text(o)s, Jenny T. Olin-Shanahan
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Setting the Word Against the Word: The Search for Self-Understanding in Richard II, Richard J. Erable
The Contribution of Normative Expectations to Chronic Stress: A Focus on Stress in Clergy and Seminary Students' Wives, Anne Huebner
Contextualizing Spiritual Authority in 'The Book of Margery Kempe', Mary L. Morse
The depiction of religion in eighteenth-century English literature from Swift to Johnson, Beverly Trescott Mueller
The Problem of Obscurity in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens, Charles Puthota
"Spheral Change": D.G. Rossetti Envisioning An Alternative Victorian Masculinity, Jay D. Sloan
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Cantles of Contention: A Kierkegaardian Reading of Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, and Antony and Cleopatra, Michael G. Bielmeier
The Petrarchan Convention and Tudor Court Politics in Poetry of Thomas Wyatt and Philip Sidney, Ok-Sook Hong
The Otherness of blackness: Emergent Ambiguities in Early American Prose Literature, David L. White
Old times not forgotten: Family and storytelling in twentieth-century Southern literature, Lisa Ann Cade Wieland
Old Times not Forgotten: Family and Storytelling in Twentieth-Century Southern Literature, Lisa Ann Cade Wieland
Willa Cather and the American Idiom, Li Zhu
Submissions from 1997
The theologization of English: A history of the rise and development of academic English studies in Britain and America, Joel Robert Christenson
Discipline and Charity: John Milton's Christian Virtue As Self-Completion, Verda Mankowski Jaroszewski
The Clothes That Make the Man: The Assumption of Male Disguise in Three 17th-Century Dramas, Kathleen M. Maurer
"When Wit's More Ripe": A Defense of Shakespeare's Pericles, Sharon L. Muendel
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Unjustified Margins: Vernacular Innovations and Latin Tradition in Gower's Confessio Amantis, Patricia Batchelor
The Wounding of Spenser's Fairie Queene: The Literal and Metaphorical Imagery that Guides the Reader's Journey, Christine M. Manion
"Shouting from the Bottom of the Pit": Jennifer Johnston's Dialogue with the Reductive Power of Discourse, Barbara E. McLaughlin
After All There was Nothing Impossible in It: Polemic and Utopia in the Writing of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jennifer Ruth Thomson
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
The Mulatta Text and the Muted Voice in Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: Revising the Genre of the Slave Narrative, Rebecca Anne Ferguson
The Publishing History of Aubrey Beardsley's Compositions for Oscar Wilde's Salomé, Joan Navarre
Eugene O'Neill's Orientalism and the Search for Life: An Americanized Taoistic Response, Yuan-Xia Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
The Rhetoric of Imprisonment in Dickens, Donna Rae Foran
John Fowles's Panoptic Vision, Patricia G. Lantier
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Audience Response to Discontinuities in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Linda Clare Tolman
"A Viper and Engine of the Devil": The Violent Woman and Female/Female Violence in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Wendy J. Wenner
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
The Mentoring Relationship: An Investigation of Communication Functions, Perceived Importance, and Gender, Amy S. Korpi
Seamus Heaney and His Reader: Orchestrating the Discourses, Catharine Malloy
Female mentor relationships in Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady", "The Bostonians", and "The Golden Bowl", Deborah L. A Reitz
Female mentor relationships in Henry James's The portrait of a lady, The Bostonians, and The golden bowl, Deborah L. A. Reitz
Ezra Pound's Ideogrammic Poetics, Fan A. Shen
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Questioning Tradition, Language, and Myth: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney, Michael R. Molino
Samuel Hazo: The Poetry of Resistance, David P. Sokolowski
Subordination to Prominence: The Development of the Meredithian Heroine, Lisa Beranek Terasa
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
'Beyond the fields we know' : the short stories of Lord Dunsany, John D. Rateliff
Reference and Structure: Literary Modernism and the Philosophy of Language, Terrence J. Riddell
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Williston Bibb Barrett and the Myth of the Fall in Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman and The Second Coming, Bernadette Prochaska
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Grounded and Ungrounded Desire Through Four of Willa Cather's Novels, Edmund B. Miller
For Love or Money: The Economics of Illicit Sexuality in English Eighteenth-Century Legal Sources and Prose Narratives, Kristen Hoffman Senior
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
John Dryden and the Affirmation of Tradition, Andrew J. Auge
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
Revelation and Concealment, Woman and the Novels of Fanny Burney, Joanne L. Cutting-Gray
The Renaissance Representation of the Other: Travel Literature, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton, Nae Heui Kang
THE RECIPROCITY OF SPACE AND SELF IN FOUR NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVELISTS: JANE AUSTEN, GEORGE ELIOT, CHARLES DICKENS, AND THOMAS HARDY, LAURALEE WEISS ZLOGAR
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Social and Personal Transformation through Relationships in the Major Romances of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jerome Burns
John Masefield in the Twentieth Century, A Reputation Study, Lee Hammer
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Language in Technocracy: Samuel Beckett and the Word, Phillis Carey
A LABORIOUS 'NEW BIBLE': CARLYLE'S RELIGIOUS SEMIOSIS, BRYCE J CHRISTENSEN
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Mannerist Motifs in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil, Mary Beshear
Normative Values in Ernest Hemingway's Fiction, James Bernard Mulvey
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Building an American City: The Fiction of Thornton Wilder, Michael Joe Vivion
Submissions from 1980
PREACHING WITHOUT BOOK: THE RHETORIC OF RELIGION IN THE NOVELS OF GEORGE ELIOT, LANCE DAVIS CHASE
Preaching Without Book: The Rhetoric of Religion in the Novels of George Eliot, Lance Davis Chase
Jonson's Comic Circle: The Theatricality of the Comical Satires, Terrance Dunford
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Thorton Wilder: Perspective in Fiction and Belief, James Warren Blake Jr.
Kingship in John Gower's Confessio Amantis, Kenneth B. Grant
Thematic Development in the Poetry of Charles Tomlinson, Michael John Hennessy
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
The Textual History and Definitive Textual Apparatus for Soldiers' Pay: A Bibliographic Study of William Faulkner's First Novel, Francis John Bosha
BEYOND THE MEANING OF HISTORY: THE QUEST FOR A SOUTHERN MYTH IN FAULKNER'S CHARACTERS, KATHLEEN SHINE CAIN
The Rhetoric of Right in Shakespeare's History Plays, Walter W. Cannon
"No Place for Paragraphs": The Correspondence Between Hart Crane and Waldo Frank, Stephan Harvey Cook
EDGAR ALLAN POE'S QUEST FOR SUPERNAL BEAUTY, LAWRENCE GEORGE DOTOLO
Edgar Allan Poe's Quest for Supernal Beauty, Lawrence George Dotolo
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Roy Fuller's poetry, Michael Conlon
Harold Frederic's Social Vision: A Critical Study, Christopher Simoni
HAROLD FREDERIC'S SOCIAL VISION: A CRITICAL STUDY, CHRISTOPHER SIMONI
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
The Genetic Structuralism of Lucien Goldmann: The Status and Problems of Method, William Boelhower
The Dialecticism of Transcendence and Immanence in the Poetry of Richard Wilbur, Lou Ann Kriegisch
FROM INNOCENCE THROUGH EXPERIENCE: A STUDY OF THE ROMANTIC CHILD IN FIVE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVELS, DONNA MARIE PERRY
The Tripartite Structure of the Works of Sir Thomas Malory, Patricia Carol Roby
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
The Implications of Deviation from Order in Jacobean Comedy, Jerome Burns
Tennyson and The Defense of Romantic Faith, Albert F. Moritz
Irony in Chaucer's Tale of Melibee: False Prudence Exemplified in Fragments C and B2, Joyce H. Wells-Powell
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Pan-Humanism in the Novels of George Eliot, Joseph John
Shaun The Post: James Joyce's Use of the Catholic Notion of Perfection in Finnegan's Wake, Philip W. Kenny
Shaun the Post: James Joyce's Use of the Catholic Notion of Perfection in Finnegans Wake, Philip W. Kenny
THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THREE OF FAULKNER'S FAMILIES, COLLIN GILLES MATTON
The Modern Pilgrims: Marriage and the Self in the Work of John Updike, Linda Marie Plagman
Blake's Archetypal Tyger; a More Comprehensive View, James P. Shea
Blake's Archetypal Tyger: A More Comprehensive View, James P. Shea
The Dilemma of the Talented Woman: A Study in Nineteenth Century Fiction, Susan E. Siefert
Cognitive Style, Self-Concept, and Expressed Willingness to Help Others, Douglas M. Soat
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Patterns of Imagery in Carson McCullers' Major Fiction, Donna M. Bauerly
Conceptual and Artistic Limits of Eight Nineteenth Century British Literary Utopias, Mary Ann Klein
Structure and Meaning in the Strangers and Brothers Novel Sequence of C.P. Snow, Robert Roland Neuman
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
The "Atmospherical Medium": A Study of the Romantic Milieu in Hawthorne's Major Fiction, Regina Hansen
NIGHT JOURNEY UNDER THE SEA: THEODORE ROETHKE'S SEARCH FOR THE SELF, SUZANNE HELEN HUDSON
Ernest Into Game: The Truth of Fiction in The Canterbury Tales , Theresa Moritz
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
The scent of blood and roses : a consideration of anti-semitism in Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale", Sr. Patricia Kenny
Wonder: Sunshine and Shadow Celebration in the Poetry of Richard Wilbur, Virginia Levey
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees: A New Interpretation, David McCosh
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
The Poor-Rich Gain: An Examination of the Love Relationships in Shakespeare's Sonnets, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece , Robin C. Mitchell
Theses/Dissertations from 1961
Cathy: The First Three Chapters of An Original Novel, Beverly K. Butler
Theses/Dissertations from 1960
Sherwood Anderson's Idea of the Country Weekly Newspaper, John H. Sullivan
Theses/Dissertations from 1957
The Dramatic Criticism of Henry James: An Examination and Evaluation, Bernardine McKenna