Thesis Titles

University of Idaho

Dept. of English
University of Idaho
P.O. Box 441102
Moscow, ID 83844-1102

 

M.A. and M.F.A. Theses in the English Department, ~1996-2004
Using the information below, you can check out any thesis from the UI library.
              Note: this list does not include all students who earned graduate
                degrees within this time period and who wrote theses.

Last updated Tuesday January 03, 2006.

M.A. Theses

 Author

Title

2004 Cheryl A. Dudley Feminist revision of scripture in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping
2004 Ali Ayed Saeed Al-Shahrani Error analysis of Saudi Arabian writers
2004 Ianina Arnold Dialogism, Carnival and Identity in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
2004 Daniel Christianson The One and the Many: Jewish Figuration in Charles Dickens
2004 Allison Machlis "Nature erring from itself": The Unnatural Transgressions of Desdemona and Jessica in William Shakespeare's Othello and The Merchant of Venice
2004 Christopher Ritter Annular fiction: Recursion in the Works of David Foster Wallace
2004 Patrick Rolland Nowhere and Everywhere: Migration and National Allegory in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
2003 Andrew J. Ploeg Deconstruction and the Divine: Literature, Theosophy, and the Language of Truth
2003 Rebecca M. Goodrich Hard proposition: the Klondike diary and imaginary letters of Roscoe Ellsworth Young
2003 Gail Z. Eckwright Old West/new West in Molly Gloss's The jump-off creek and Wild life

8/22/2003

 

 

 

Jerry Entze

"A Hard, Straight Picture": The Adapting of Steinbeck to Film

 

Michael Smith

The Sacred Profanity of Nothing:  John Donne's Paradoxes and The First Anniversary

5/17/2003

 

 

 

Jesse Thomas

Musical Intermediality in the Novels of Anthony Burgess

12/20/2002

 

 

 

Leisa McCormick

Negotiating Roles in the On-Line Classroom

 

Charles Noble

The Hunter Figure in American Culture: Land Relationships and Representations of Violence

8/23/2002

 

 

 

Tabetha Bissegger

From Orphan to Angel:  The Evolution of Female Identity in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

 

Brian Clark

Moving Through the Dark:  Emily Dickinson as Wisdom Poet

 

Gwen Sullivan

Guides for the Lost and Wandering:  Functions of Riddles and Music in The Hobbitt and The Lord of the Rings

5/18/2002

 

 

 

Danielle Jones

It is Her Eye/I That Lingers:  The Crypt, Self-Portrait, and Specter in Linda Bierds' The Profile Makers

 

Clayn Lambert

Liminal Progressions and Rhetorical Development in The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher, Written and Compiled by Himself.

 

Molly Michaud

Conquering the "Regne of Femenye": The Dynamics of Power in Chaucer's Knight's Tale

 

Lisa Tauber-Freeman

The Heart of Motherhood and Motherhood's Heart: Reading the 'Maternal' in Mary Shelley's The Last Man and Lodore

12/21/2001

 

 

 

Deokja Kim

Survey of Korean Students' Attitudes Toward an Emphasis on English in Korea

8/10/2001

 

 

 

Monica Hafer

Beowulf, Zarathustra, and Batman:  The Communicative Nature of Texts Through Time

 

Shawn Rider

New Medium, New Masters:  Daniel Clowes and the Making of American Comics Literature

5/19/2001

 

 

 

Yulia Borisova

"Exploring the 'Frontiers of Consciousness': Music in T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets and Andrey Bely's Second Symphony

 

Nathanael Gilbert

Dreams of Paradise, Visions of Utopia: Myth Making in Three Prose Romances by William Morris

 

Laura Gruber

Writing the West:  The Literary Landscapes of Mary Hallock Foote

 

Patricia Thomas

'All That Men Desire':  The Plurality of Gender, Desire and Form in Christopher Marlowe's "Hero and Leander"

 

Thomas Woodley

Moving Toward Stasis:  A Textual-Ethical Consideration of the "Elect" in John Fowles' The Magus

8/4/2000

 

 

 

William Boni

Contemporary Falconry Literature as Nature Writing:  An Ecocritical Interpretation

 

Kent Sweeney

A Reader Response Criticism of the Good Samaritan Parable

5/13/2000

 

 

 

Jennifer Cellio

From Scientific Realism to Scientific Pessimism: The Evolution of Thomas Hardy's Tragic Fiction

8/6/1999

 

 

 

William Dickson

Integrating the Ecological Self:  Henry David Thoreau's Study of Humans in Nature

 

Heather Mather

Living with the Sibyl:  Caves, Crypts, and Bodies of Trauma in Mary Shelley's The Last Man

5/15/1999

 

 

 

Reenie Arnold

The "Master of Deformation":  Langston Hughes and African-American Humanity and Individuality

 

Mary Bolin

Grace:  A Contrastive Analysis of a Biblical Semantic Field

 

Kurt Bouman

Back Again:  An Investigation of Repeated Academic Failure in Freshman Composition

 

Craig Henley

Quantum Language:  Life, Literature, and Postmodern Moment

 

Audra Manion

Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine I and II: Contradictions in Humanist Thought

 

James Mayo

James Welch's The Death of Jim Loney:  A Postcolonial Interpretation with Ethnographic Background

 

Amy Minervini

Female Flirtation:  The Destabilizing Discourse in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and in Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, and Jude the Obscure

 

Jeffrey Santarlasci

Ethics and ESL Writers:  Instructor Attitudes Towards Composing Practices

 

Kelly Wingert

"The Dizziness of Freedom":  Interpreting the Romantic Sublime Through Kierkegaard

12/18/1998

 

 

 

Katherine Craine

Discourse Comprehension in Hypertext

 

Jeffrey Nelson

A System for the Evaluation of ESL Web Sites

 

Daniel Vanek

Craftsmanship, Vision, and Poetic Truth:  W. S. Merwin, Aesthetics, and His Critical Reception

7/31/1998

 

 

 

Jennifer Hoene

'In wand'ring mazes lost':  Chaos and History in Paradise Lost

 

Katsunori Konno

Bridging the Gap between the TOEFL Reading Section and Skills and Strategies Needed in Academic Contexts: A Comparison of Faculty Surveys and a Test Item Analysis

5/16/1998

 

 

 

Clyde Northrup

J. R. R. Tolkien's Theory of Imagination:  Some Echoes in Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Sir Philip Sidney, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

 

 

12/19/1997

 

 

 

Wendy Secrist

George Eliot and Subversion of Victorian Marriage Ideals

8/1/1997

 

 

 

Cindy Bell

Resting at the Knees of Silence

 

Hanmin Yi

Contrastive Phonology and Hierarchies of Difficulties in Korean and English

5/17/1997

 

 

 

Carol Rasmussen

The Nature of the Sublime in Longinus and the Gospel of John

8/2/1996

 

 

 

Eric Isaacson

Still Remains

5/18/1996

 

 

 

Kevin Donovan

"As clene and eek as cleer as ye were born": Chaucer's Pardoner, the Mother church, and Psychoanalysis

 

Thomas Drake

Community Theatre and Other Poems

 

Scott W. Erickson

Defining the Tourist Sublime: Yellowstone Park and the American Romantic Ideal

 

Rebeca Fromdahl

A Wilderness of Time and Space: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead

 

Kenneth Johnston

Wild Water, Drifting Sentiments

 

Jay Salisbury

"Imaged 'Mid Mortality": Percy Shelley and the Rhetorical Structures of a Romantic Ideology

 

Paul Sogge

Controlling History: Harriet Beecher Stow and the Byron Controversy

1996

 Hamako Furuhata

 Assessment of Japanese students' perception toward traditional methods vs. the natural approach and total physical response methods of learning English

  Tanya Gonzales La relación of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: its place in the American literary canon
  Carol A. Rasmussen Nature of the sublime in Longinus and the Gospel of John
  Sharee Paull Negotiating self: a Fanonian reading of Louise Erdrich's Tracks and The Beet Queen
     
     

 8/4/1995

John Hendee

A Sage Companion

1993-1995   There are some titles missing here.

5/16/1992