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Research in Progress in Western American Literature

1980; University of Nebraska Press; Volume: 14; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/wal.1980.0023

1948-7142

Richard H. Cracroft,

Archaeology and Natural History

R I C H A R D H. G R A C R O F T Brigham Young University Research in Progress in Western American Literature While the number of doctoral dissertations completed during the past year and listed in Dissertation Abstracts remains about the same as last year, it may be of interest to note that most of these works continue to deal thematically with the literary West, while only a few focus their attention on specific Western authors. The trend to probe the roles of women as participants and as Western authors remains healthy, as does the newer trend of examining the image of the West in the film. But, through deep arroyos or across high plateaus, the imaginations of West­ ern scholars continue to amaze and delight. Even a cursory sweep of the horizon of titles reveals fascinating areas of investigation and under­ scores again a rich variety and range of scholarship in Western Ameri­ can literature. Send notices of completed or in-progress M.A. or Ph.D. studies rela­ tive to the literature and history of the American West to: Richard H. Cracroft, Chairman, Department of English, A-246 JKBA, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602. Ph.D. DISSERTATIONS COMPLETED: Barrett, Phyllis Whiteside More American Adams: Women Heroes in American Fiction (Ph.D.) University of Rhode Island, 1978 Benson, Peter Edward Regional Realism and Regional Magazines in the American 1890s (Ph.D.) State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1978 312 Western American Literature Bluth, John Frederick Confrontation With an Arid Land: The Incursion of Gosiutes and Whites into Utah’s Central West Desert, 1800-1978 (Ph.D.) Brigham Young University, 1978 Brown, Jerome King William Gilmore Simms and the American Historical Romance (Ph.D.) University of Kansas, 1978 Bums, Leslie Edward A Psychological Reading of Wright Morris’ Early Novels (Ph.D.) New York University, 1978 Buttry, Delores Jean Knut Hamsun: A Scandinavian Rousseau (Ph.D.) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1978 Callaway, Donald Goodwin Raiding and Feuding Among Western North American Indians (Ph.D.) University of Michigan, 1978 Carey, Larry Lee A Study of the Indian Captivity Narrative as a Popular Literarv Genre, Ca. 1675-1875 (Ph.D.) Michigan State University, 1978 DeMouy, Jane Krause The Seeds of the Pomegranate: A Study of Katherine Anne Porter’s Women (Ph.D.) University of Maryland, 1978 Doty, Mark Allen “Tell Me Who I Am” : James Agee’s Search for Selfhood (Ph.D.) Indiana University, 1978 Doyle, Frederick German Prisoners of War in the Southwest United States During World War II: An Oral History (Ph.D.) University of Denver, 1978 Engel, Mary Frances Bankrupt Dreams: The Isolated and the Insulated in Selected Works of Canadian and American Prairie Literature (Ph.D.) Kent State University, 1978 Gallagher, Thomas Augustus, Jr. The Movies of John Ford (Ph.D.) Columbia University, 1978 Gleason, G. Dale Attitudes Toward Law and Order in the American Western (Ph.D.) Washington State University, 1978 Research 313 Goboni, Mark William “Symbols for the Wordlessness”: A Study of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden (Ph.D.) Ohio University, 1978 Halaas, David Fridtjof High Country Journalism: The Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier, 18591881 (Ph.D.) University of Colorado at Boulder, 1978 Hamilton, Charles Mark The Salt Lake Temple: An Architectural Monogram (Ph.D.) Ohio State University, 1979 Heiney, Diane Lorraine Stage/West: A History (Ph.D.) New York University, 1978 Hewitt, William Phillip The Czechs in Texas: A Study of the Immigration and the Development of Czech Ethnicity, 1850-1920 (Ph.D.) University of Texas at Austin, 1978 Holm, Thomas Mark Indians and Progressives: From Vanishing Policy to the Indian New Deal (Ph.D.) University of Oklahoma, 1978 Hoy, Helen Elizabeth The Portrayal of Women in Recent English-Canadian Fiction (Ph.D.) University of Toronto, 1977 Hulan, Richard Huffman Camp-Meeting Spiritual Folksongs: Legacy of the “Great Revival in the West” (Ph.D.) University of Texas at Austin, 1978 Hunter, Carol Ann A Study of Osage Mythology: A Literary Perspective (Ph.D.) University of Denver, 1978 Jeske, Jeffrey Michael The Origins and Development of the Puritan Idea of Nature (Ph.D.) Kent State University, 1978 Krause, Janet Boettcher Self-Actualizing Women in Willa Cather’s Prairie...