This page collects the digitized full text of Masters Theses from the Department of English at Eastern Illinois University.

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Theses from 1976

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The Endless Journey: William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath: A Comparative Study, Sherri L. Lawrence

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Page and stage: A structural investigation of Agatha Christie's "Three Blind Mice" and "The Mousetrap", Martha Morrow

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Illusion vs. Reality in The Tragedy of Hamlet, Glendora S. Plath

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Predestination as a Motif in Faulkner's Light in August, Virginia A. Riegel

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Beckett's Manipulation of Audience Response in Waiting for Godot, Robert Carl Themer

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Joe Christmas: A Hero in Conflict in Faulkner's Light in August, Carole Booker Winkleblack

Theses from 1975

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An Analysis of the Death-Rebirth Archetype in John Donne's "Songs and Sonets", Eva Diane Fletcher

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The Creative Imperative: A Metaphysic in Lawrence Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet", Stephen Franklin

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The Use of Modals in Everyday English, Helen Whitlock Howe

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Existential Elements in the Works of Ernest Hemingway, Carl Klemaier

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A Neoplatonic Reading Five Donne Poems, Yuko Miyazoe

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Recapitulation and Alteration in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy, Elizabeth Anne Shapland

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The Suicidal Nature of Chivalry: A Study of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, Timothy A. Shonk

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George Willard's Progress toward Maturity in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Patrice Grassinger Spencer

Theses from 1974

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Hermann Hesse and Vedanta Philosophy: A Discussion of the Correlation Between the Basic Themes in the Later Novels of Hermann Hesse and the Traditional Philosophy of India, James Edgar Carnahan

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Freudian Dream Symbols in Q.E.D., Melanctha and Ida, Victoria M. Davis

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Whitman's and Melville's Civil War: A Comparison of Drum-Taps and Battle-Pieces, Martha M. Gower

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The Innocent Character in Twain's Public Scenes, Connie J. Link

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Stone Imagery In The Poetry Of Sylvia Plath, Louana L. Peontek

Theses from 1973

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Edward Taylor: The Recurrent Theme of the Mystical Union, Naomi Ruth Gieseking

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Chaucer's Poetics and the Evolution of the Narrator in Troilus and Criseyde, Judith I. Green

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Middle Class Follies Reflected in the Comedies of Thomas Shadwell, Lila Elaine Horn

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An Analysis of the Treatment of Platonic Love in Ford's Nondramatic Works and Independent Tragedies, Kathryn M. Jackson

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Between Two Worlds Become Much Like Each Other: Man In and Out of Time in the Four Quartets, James Thomas Jones

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The Robe and Crown Imagery of Edward Taylor's Poetry, Juliana Kaufman

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Metaphorical Metaphysics: The Doctrine of Reincarnation in the Works of Herman Melville, Ruth A. Riegel

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Thomas Hardy's Shorter War Poems, Anne Marie Rodgers

Theses from 1972

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The Fool in Lear Exposes a Foolish Lear, Anthony John Cuccio

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Applications of the Halle-Keyser Theories of Metrical Stress, Gary Forrester

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The Whole of Harmonium Music in Relation to the Poetry of Wallace Stevens, Mary Alice Hollowell

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The Machiavellian Influence Manifested in Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great and The Jew of Malta, Carol L. Janssen

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The Politics of Henry Fielding: A Whig Journalist and Essayist, Martha Ann Klestinski

Theses from 1971

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The Biblical Parallels of Suffering in Jude the Obscure, Denny Lee Brandon

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Two Who Laugh New Englandly: A Study of the Yankee Wit of Dickinson and Frost, Mary K. Coleman

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Thornton Wilder's Recurring Theme of Love, Bette L. Bails Johnson

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Jean Toomer's Cane: The Death of an Era, Christine Ann Lamberti

Theses from 1970

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The Displacement of the Child-Figure in American Fiction, 1850-1910, Karen Hahn

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A Study of Representative Critical Evaluations of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939-1949), Lyle C. Jensen

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The Heaven Below the Heaven Above, Ellen Childs Kylander

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The Search for Self-Identity in William Faulkner's Light in August, Joyce Lock

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The Critical Tenets of Dr. Samuel Johnson as Represented in The Life of Pope, M. Kathleen Parienti

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Sherburn and Pope, Jean Ellen D. Parsons

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"The Grave and I ... Our only Lullaby": An Interpretation of Death as a Metaphor for Isolation in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson, Thomas W. Rea

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Disease, Age, and Physician Imagery in Richard II and Henry IV, Parts I and II, Maureen Shannon Townsend

Theses from 1969

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Faulkner's View of the Moral and Social Dissolution of the South, Patricia Lindsay Kerr

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Two Studies Of William Golding's Lord Of The Flies, Duane M. Lawson

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The Dialectic of the Theology of Browning's Bishop Blougram, Sylvia Eunice Lowe

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The "Deor" Legends: Their Dissemination in Germanic Literature, Doris Larraine Mabry

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John Steinbeck's Method of Characterization, Claudette Oliver

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The Moral Structure in Joseph Conrad's Nostromo, Lourdine Webb

Theses from 1968

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The Basic Conceptions of Love Presented in the Novels of Thornton Wilder, Susan Annette Champlin

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Edward Taylor's Boxes, Locks, and Keys, Virginia L. Evans

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Three Unholy Churchmen of Robert Browning's Poetry, Everett L. Millhorn

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A Study of “The Disappearance of God” as It Appears in Arnold's Thyrsis and Tennyson's In Memoriam, Leland Dale Rhyne

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The Moral Universe of Hamlet, John Schneider

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From Romance to Realism: A Study of Sinclair Lewis's Early Novels Culminating in Main Street, Sylvia Walborn

Theses from 1967

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The Tragic Possibilities of William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Carol R. Gray

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Similarities Between Lazarillo de Tormes and Early English Novels, Emily M. Marsland

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God's Spies: A Study of the Theological Concepts of Evil and Grace in Spy Novels, Joan S. Raymer

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"Gulliver's Voyage to Lilliput": A Transcript of History, Barbara Ann Rodgers

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Hamlet the Existentialist: A Comparison of Hamlet and Kierkegaard, June B. Stark

Theses from 1966

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Literary Criticism of Shakespeare's King Lear, Daniel Lee Burcham

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A Study of Representative Critical Evaluations of D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, Georgine Hawley

Theses from 1965

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The Religious Ideas of William Butler Yeats in A Vision, Beverly Ann Klaus

Theses from 1962

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The Influence of Economics Upon the Voice of John Steinbeck: Some Evidence from Selected Readings, Bernard Earl Eagleton

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Sage of Bluffdale: John Russell, Editor and Writer, Helen E. Sanders

Theses from 1961

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Fun with Poetry in the Middle Grades, Mable M. Booker

Theses from 1960

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Introducing Children to Literature, Donna Deming

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High School Journalism, Robert Ernest Stuckey

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A Study of Motivation in Selected Plays of Shakespeare's Plays, Robert Edward Zimmerman

Theses from 1958

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Some Differences in the Comedy of Manners Plays from the Restoration to Somerset W. Maugham, Tressa C. Bennett

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A Comparison of Chaucer's Troilus, Pandarus, and Criseyde with Those of Shakespeare, Carolyn Miller Fischer

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Tennyson's Gareth, an Inspiration to Youth, Mary E. Kessler

Theses from 1956

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Elements of Reform in the Wesleyan Movement, Elizabeth Browning Baker

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Methods of Teaching Shakespeare in High School, Kenneth E. Bidle

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Some Plebeian Characters in Shakespeare: Their Sources and Use, Clarissa Flenniken

Theses from 1955

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The Function of Music in the Elizabethan Drama and Theater, Genevra H. Dvorak

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A Study of the Elements Which Determine Man's Life as Noted in Greek and Shakespearean Drama, Wilma E. Winters

Theses from 1953

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Geographical Influences in Selected Writings of Louis Bromfield, Esther D. Ross