• The sociolinguistics of heritage language education 

  Leeman, Jennifer; Showstack, Rachel (Taylor and Francis, 2022-03-30)

  Sociolinguistics are of paramount importance in heritage language (HL) education because the macro-sociolinguistic context shapes HL speakers’ language experiences, knowledge, and use, as well as their socioaffective ...

• Eternal rivers : An historical novel of southern Kansas, 1865- 1974 

  Edwards, Philip S. (Wichita State University, 1951-06)

  It has been my purpose, in completing this thesis, to write an historical novel of southern Kansas, dealing with the period of 1865 to 1874. For a study of the life of this period, and the events which actually took place, ...

• A critical study of the material of James Fenimore Cooper's Leather-stocking series 

  Hamill, Joy E. (Wichita State University, 1951-06)

  The following chapters will be a study of the novels within the skeleton of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leather Stocking Series. By this, it is meant that the novels included in the series will be individually examined in an ...

• Herman Melville: Realist 

  French, Isabelle P. (Wichita State University, 1949-05)

  It seems to have been decreed that there are two broad groups into which all literature, and hence, all writers, must fall, the Realistic and the Romantic. In contrast to the romancer who creates a vision or interpretation ...

• A study of the attitude of United States fiction toward the Mexican 

  Dobel, Sister Mary James R. (Wichita State University, 1948-07)

• A study of the religious imagery in the poetry of Richard Crashaw 

  Greenawal, Sister Mary V. (Wichita State University, 1945-06)

• An analysis of the influence of the Quakers on Daniel Defoe 

  Reeve, Juliet (Wichita State University, 1943-03)

  Every biographer of Daniel Defoe has something to say concerning his relations to the Quakers. Yet all are so vague that the reader interested in pursuing the question as to just what was Defoe's relationship to this ...

• A study of the development of counterpoint in the narrative technique of modern fiction 

  Anderson, Nellie L. (Wichita State University, 1942-06)

• From the eyes of monsters: Literary transformative monsters as agents of empathy 

  Overman, Blake A. (Wichita State University, 2022-05)

  Literary monsters, the embodiments of human fear and anxiety, have existed in narratives for as long as stories have been told. Traditionally the monster is an antagonistic force, but what happens when the audience begins ...

• Poetic accomplishment of Langston Hughes 

  Andrews, James E. (Wichita State University, 1940-06)

• The social protest novel of the twentieth century 

  Gossett, Lucille R. (Wichita State University, 1940-06)

• The influence of Landor's Imaginary conversations on the development of Browning's dramatic monologues 

  Harris, Katharine L. (Wichita State University, 1939-05)

  The friendship of Walter Savage Landor and Robert Browning has been of considerable literary significance. Even though a wide difference in age existed--thirty-seven years-- they were attracted to each other. Greater ...

• An analysis of the literary importance of Gerard Manley Hopkins 

  Dicus, Mary V. (Wichita State University, 1937-06)

  It is only in recent years that the attention of students of literature has been directed to the merit s of the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poet who, paradoxical as it may seem, is rightly classified as the ...

• Catholic imagery in the poetry of Francis Thompson 

  Gorges, Sister Mary E. (Wichita State University, 1937-06)

  In this study an attempt will be made to explain allusions drawn from Catholic sources; to clarify the underlying thought implied in the imagery; furthermore, to illustrate the qualifying effect ot this imagery upon ...

• Kansas in American poetry, by Mildred Aldridge Turner 

  Turner, Mildred A. (Wichita State University, 1935-07)

  In this dissertation, Kansas in American Poetry, only poems which are written about Kansas have been considered. Some of them were written by native born Kansans, some by men and women who have adopted Kansas as their ...

• Rupert Brooke: A bibliographical study with annotations 

  Waugh, Maurice C. (Wichita State University, 1933-06)

• The success of Edwin Arlington Robinson's failures: A treatment of his poetry 

  Wentworth, Rosemary J. (Wichita State University, 1933-06)

  Several authors have treated Robinson’s failures as failures, but they have failed to show that behind every failure is a gleam of light; that these poor specimens of humanity have some sort of a place in the world. My ...

• Confusing words 

  Walsh, James M. (Wichita State University, 1933-06)

• Contributions of English women novelists to the novel through the eighteenth century 

  Berry, Edith F. (Wichita State University, 1933-06)

  The purpose of this thesis is to discover the contributions which some of the English women novelists of the eighteenth century made to the development of the novel. Although the form and scope of the English novel were ...

• A study of the treatment of Arthurian legends since the eighteenth century in the literature of Great Britain and America 

  Nickel, Hope (Wichita State University, 1934-06)

  The treatment of the old legends by modern authors differs widely from that of Malory or Tennyson. It is my purpose to show the variation in this treatment by comparing the modern development with that of Tennyson ...

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