• 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 ...

• A study of the archaisms and neologisms from the British press of 1933 

  Isely, Flora Kunigunde Duncan, 1886-1971. (Wichita State University, 1934-06)

  Words persist in popular print and in spoken language long after they disappear form the page of the literary writer. They are likely to persist longest in isolated places, away from cultural centers, among people of the ...

• Infantilism in English literature 

  Miller, Enola (Wichita State University, 1934-05)

  Until recent years, all the principal characters in English literature were adults. Children had no place in literature except as they might affect their elders and their elders’ relations to one another. It was not ...

• Local attention: Melbourne on the map in Fergus Hume’s "Mystery of a Hansom Cab" 

  Lanning, Katie (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2021-11-27)

  Contrary to Machalias’s and Kipperman’s depictions of the novel as stuck in a colonial outpost, Hansom Cab presents a Melbourne that is mappable, traversable, and modern. The mysteries that populate Hume’s novel are driven ...

• The man's a man if he is black: Conrad, modernism, and race (Again) 

  Boynton, T. J. (Indiana University Press, 2021-06)

  Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus" has played a major role in discussions of modernism's relationship to both race and colonialism, but two of its racial/colonial aspects have gone under-remarked. First, the ...

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

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

• Scanner darkly: unpopularization in the Burney Newspaper Collection 

  Lanning, Katie (Routledge, 2021-01-18)

  This essay explores the paradox of inaccessibility in popular archives. Often understood as democratizing, even digital databases of popular literature ironically contain a series of barriers: an extraordinary paywall and ...

• Writing self-efficacy and linguistic diversity of first-year composition students: An exploratory study 

  Wadman-Goetsch, Ellery Glenn (Wichita State University, 2020-12)

  This study investigates the potential relationship between student writing self-efficacy and marginalized linguistic identities. A total of sixty-nine first-year composition students across two semesters responded to ...

• Protest in the work of Richard Wright prior to 1956 

  Harris, Cassie M. (Wichita State University, 1957-07)

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