English Department Past Disserations

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Austin, Wade
Harry Crews: the atmosphere of failure
Dissertation | 1983
Major Professor: Dr. Michael Dunne

Badley, William John
A new reading of Andrew Marvell's Mower poems
Dissertation | 1993
Major Professor: Dr. Charles Durham

Belcher, Rebecca H.
Eliminating barriers and expanding borders through white trash literature: a study of Dorothy Allison, Connie May Fowler, and Kaye Gibbons
Dissertation | 2000
Major Professor: Dr. Will Brantley

Bentley, Louise Davis
Human relationships in Robert Frost's dialogue poems
Dissertation | 1979
Major Professor: Dr. Michael Dunne

Blann, Troy Robinson
Throwing the scabbard away: Byron's battle against the censors of Don Juan
Dissertation | 1987
Major Professor: Dr. Greg Coleman

Bone, Martha Denham
Dorothy Parker and New Yorker satire
Dissertation | 1985
Major Professor: Dr. Larry Gentry

Brown, Kenneth Mac
Provincialism, duplicity, and veneration: William Faulkner's Snopes family
Dissertation | 1993
Major Professor: Dr. Michael Dunne

Byrd, Sheila Hovis
The inexhaustible variety of life: satire of the nouveau riche in Petronius' Satyricon, Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
Dissertation | 1996
Major Professor: Dr. Larry Gentry

Campbell, Jane Powell
The commonplace within the fantastic: Terry Bisson's art in the diversified science fiction genre
Dissertation | 1998
Major Professor: Dr. Charles Wolfe

Campbell, John Libby
Timon of Athens: an existential and psychological approach
Dissertation | 1976
Major Professor: Dr. John McDaniel

Christopher, Beverly Bailes
Faulkner's verities: positive and negative illustrations in Yoknapatawpha
Dissertation | 1982
Major Professor: Dr. William Beasley

Clark, Stephen Kay
"A place in the story" the perspective of Shakespeare's common soldier
Dissertation (DA)--Middle Tennessee State University, 1985
Major Professor: Dr. John McDaniel

Clayton, Maria A
CAI Portfolio English 111: a new direction for freshman composition at
Dissertation | 1998
Major Professor: Dr. Ayne Cantrell

Cleary, Michael
Saddlesore: parody and satire in the contemporary western novel
Dissertation | 1978
Major Professor: Dr. William Connelly

Coleman, RoseAnne
Student-teacher conferencing: showing the pigeons in the magician's sleeves
Dissertation | 1992
Major Professor: Dr. Larry Mapp

Cook, Edith S
Writing as therapy: Bergman's teaching model of composing and reading psychoanalytically
Dissertation | 2000
Major Professor: Dr. Angela Hague and Dr. David Lavery

Corey, Jean T.
The gendering of literacies: the reading and writing practices of adolescent girls in rural Appalachia
Dissertation | 2000
Major Professor: Dr. Ayne Cantrell

Crum, Claude
In Flowing Script: James Still's Lasting Legacy
Dissertation | 2004
Major Professor: Dr. Sara Lewis Dunne

Cusic, Donald F.
The poet as performer
Dissertation | 1988
Major Professor: Dr. Charles Wolfe

Dannreuther, Daphne Davis
Shakespeare's "fantastical trick": a reader-response approach to the problem comedies
Dissertation | 1986
Major Professor: Dr. John McDaniel

Davis, Oliver James
Fathers who fail their children: a study of selected poems by William Wordsworth
Dissertation | 1988
Major Professor: Dr. Greg Coleman

Dunne, Sara Lewis
The foods we read and the words we eat: four approaches to the language of food in fiction and nonfiction
Dissertation | 1994
Major Professor: Dr. Angela Hague

Edmundson, Louie Jones
Theme and countertheme: the function of Child ballad 155, "Sir Hugh, or the Jew's daughter," in James Joyce's Ulysses
Dissertation | University, 1975
Major Professor: Dr. William Connelly

Edwards, Mary Janet Bailey
Vonnegut's Dresden story: the cathartic struggle
Dissertation | 1997
Major Professor: Dr. Larry Gentry

Emery, Helen LaVerne
The interrelation of literature and sociology in the explication of three English novels
Dissertation | 1973
Major Professor: Dr. Charles Wolfe

Farrokh, Faridoun
Samuel Johnson: a poet double-form'd
Dissertation | 1977
Major Professor: Dr. William R. Wolfe

Frazier, Thomas B.
Everybody has one: Stephen King and the Jungian shadow
Dissertation | 1994
Major Professor: Dr. Linda Badley

French, Ellen Brown
Archetype and metaphor: an approach to the early novels of Elie Wiesel
Dissertation | 1981
Major Professor: Dr. William Connelly

Gentry, Deborah S.
The art of dying: suicide in the works of Kate Chopin and Sylvia Plath
Dissertation | 1992
Major Professor: Dr. Michael Dunne

Greenwood, Edward L.
The poetry of the King James Version of the Bible in the college literature class
Dissertation | 1976
Major Professor: Dr. Charles Durham

Harris, Stuart Evan
Clyde Edgerton's depiction of a South in transition
Dissertation | 1994
Major Professor: Dr. Larry Mapp

Hopper, Carolyn H.
Writing across the curriculum an overview of its movement in American colleges and universities
Dissertation (DA)--Middle Tennessee State University, 1985
Major Professor: Dr. Larry Mapp

Houston, Helen Ruth
The Afro-American novel, 1965-1975 a descriptive bibliography of primary and secondary material / by Helen Ruth Houston
Dissertation (D A), 1976
Major Professor: Dr. William Beasley

Hubele, Donald E.
The American epic: a divided stream
Dissertation | 1995
Major Professor: Dr. William R. Wolfe

Hunt, Crosby
Frozen moments in the interior stadium: style in contemporary "proseball"
Dissertation | 1993
Major Professor: Dr. Michael Dunne

Hutton, Clark
A Thomistic Study Of Angels And Demons In The N-Town Plays
Dissertation | 2004
Major Professor: Dr. William Connelly

Jamil, Adil
"Word over all, beautiful as the sky" a Hegelian interpretation of Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps
Dissertation (DA)--Middle Tennessee State University, 1984
Major Professor: Dr. William Beasley

Jones, Rosalyn
Upward mobility: a historical narrative, the John W Jacobs story
Dissertation | 1983
Major Professor: Dr. Charles Wolfe

Klemt, Barbara Ann
John Denver's autograph: his lyrics as a cultural and literary record
Dissertation | 1994
Major Professor: Dr. Charles Wolfe

Lee, Frank Lewis
An interdisciplinary examination of the personal religion of Henry VIII
Dissertation | 1987
Major Professor:

Legg, Raymond E.
The intellectual tourist: a study of Aldous Huxley's spirituality
Dissertation | 1996
Major Professor: Dr. Larry Gentry

Lewis, Beverly Renee'
Bred en Bawn en a Brier-Patch': A Study Of The African American Trickster Tradition
Dissertation | 2003
Major Professor: Dr. Allen Hibbard

Lindsey, Doris L.
A rationale for the inclusion of world literature courses in the general education curriculum
Dissertation | 1974
Major Professor: Dr. William Holland

Little, Nancy Glass
The imagistic feast feeding imagery in selected plays of Shakespeare
Dissertation (DA)--Middle Tennessee State University, 1984
Major Professor: Dr. John McDaniel

Little, Sylvia Pierce
"Passion's passing bell": dying into life in The eve of St Agnes, La Belle Dame sans Merci, and Lamia
Dissertation | 1983
Major Professor: Dr. Greg Coleman

Long, Tim
Take What You Need: Musical, Cultural, and Literary Influences on Bob Dylan
Dissertation | 2002
Major Professor: Dr. David Lavery

Mackin, Randy
George Scarbrough
Dissertation | 2002
Major Professor: Dr. David Lavery

Meehan, William Francis
Style complexity in the novels of William F Buckley Jr
Dissertation | 1996
Major Professor: Dr. Michael Neth

Moore, Harry V.
Change dire and delectable: time as meaning in Paradise Lost
Dissertation | 1995
Major Professor: Dr. Charles Durham

Painter, Alice Lorraine
A rhetorical search for the implied author and his created reader in the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dissertation (DA)--Middle Tennessee State University, 1984
Major Professor: Dr. Michael Dunne

Pardue, Mary Jane
The mystery of mass appeal: critical clues to the success of Agatha Christie
Dissertation | 1988
Major Professor: Dr. Charles Wolfe

Patterson, Dorothy M.
Unburdening 'de mule uh de world': black women's rhetoric of self-definition in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Alice Walker's The Color Purple
Dissertation | 2001
Major Professor: Dr. Jackie Jackson

Quain, Timothy J.
Evolution of the theory of case grammar concepts and applications
Dissertation (DA)--Middle Tennessee State University, 1986
Major Professor: Dr. Reza Ordoubadian

Ray, Brian
Reclaiming Arthur: Malory's Anglicization of the Arthurian Tradition in Le Morte D'arthur.
Dissertation | 2001
Major Professor: Dr. William Connelly

Ray, Charles Eugene
An interdisciplinary study based on four selected novels by AB Guthrie, Jr
Dissertation | 1974
Major Professor: Dr. Charles Wolfe

Reaves, Monetha Roberta
The popular fiction tradition and the novels of Mary Stewart
Dissertation | 1978
Major Professor: Dr. William Holland

Riley, William Patrick
Encounter criticism: identity development through prose fiction
Dissertation | 1975
Major Professor: Dr. Michael Dunne

Rogers, David
Planets and predictions: Shakespeare and the Copernican revolution
Dissertation | 2000
Major Professor: Dr. Ayne Cantrell

Rummage, Ronald Glynne
The raceless novel of the 1930s: African-American fiction by Arna Bontemps, George Henderson, Countee Cullen, Jessie Fauset, and Zora Neale Hurston
Dissertation | 1994
Major Professor: Dr. Robert Petersen

Russell, Judith
Queers, freaks, hunchbacks, and hermaphrodites: psychosocial and sexual behavior in the novels of Carson McCullers
Dissertation | 2000
Major Professor: Dr. Will Brantley

Sánchez, Jaime
Oral narratives of Elena Lezama de Rodriguez: a female view of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1928
Dissertation | 1998
Major Professor: Dr. Robert Petersen

Satterfield, Avis Mason
Emily Bronte, Virginia Woolf, and the theme of transcendence
Dissertation | 1992
Major Professor: Dr. Angela Hague

Satterwhite, James Hunter
Developing creativity through songwriting in secondary education composition classes
Dissertation | 1991
Major Professor: Dr. Charles Wolfe

Schipper, Jan
Becoming frauds: unconventional heroines in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's sensation fiction
Dissertation | 2000
Major Professor: Dr. Linda Badley

Shipman, Sandra
A theoretical paradigm for a developmentally based kindergarten through twelfth grade writing program
Dissertation | 1992
Major Professor: Dr. Larry Mapp

Starr, Charlie
The Triple Enigma: Fact, Truth, and Myth as the Key to C. S. Lewis's Epistemological Thinking
Dissertation | 2002
Major Professor: Dr. Ted Sherman

Sypult, Sharron Elizabeth
Medley
Dissertation | 1987
Major Professor: Dr. Michael Dunne

Taylor, Patricia Thomas
Religion, politics and sex: matters of decorum in Jane Austen
Dissertation | 1988
Major Professor: Dr. William R. Wolfe

Thigpen, Charles Allen
English programs in church-related senior, liberal arts colleges in Tennessee
Dissertation | 1975
Major Professor: Dr. Ralph Hyde

Thompson, Richard G.
The lovable heathen of Happy Valley: Mark Twain's assault on the Christian religion in Huckleberry Finn
Dissertation | 1984
Major Professor: Dr. William R. Wolfe

Vantrease, Brenda Rickman
The heroic ideal: three views
Dissertation | 1980
Major Professor: Dr. Larry Gentry

Venanzio, Ayne Cantrell
The metaphysical anguish of Samuel Beckett: a study of his dramatization of the irrationality of existence
Dissertation | 1976
Major Professor: Dr. Frank Ginanni

Waters, Betty-Lou
Sex-based differences in the written composition of freshman students at
Dissertation | 1976
Major Professor: Dr. Reza Ordoubadian

Werlein, Halsey Ewing
The relative modernity of Milton's Of Education
Dissertation | 1993
Major Professor: Dr. Charles Durham

West, James Attlee
Mastery learning and teaching grammar to prospective
Dissertation | 1980
Major Professor: Dr. Greg Coleman

White, Gwendolyn Hale
Subjugation and emancipation in the fiction of Lisa Alther
Dissertation | 1985
Major Professor: Dr. Larry Mapp

White, Helen Baker
Kinesics as a linguistic study: with a special emphasis on classroom boredom
Dissertation | 1980
Major Professor: Dr. Reza Ordoubadian

Woodard, Branson L.
Rhetorical dimensions of Samuel Johnson's Rambler
Dissertation | 1982
Major Professor: Dr. William R. Wolfe

Woodland, Natalie Nesbitt
The satirical edge of truth in The Ring and the Book
Dissertation | 1977
Major Professor: Dr. Ralph Hyde