Thesis (M.A.)--University of Melbourne, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [74]-78).

Thesis (Honors)--Liberty University Honors Program, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available through Liberty University's Digital Commons.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-246). Also available via World Wide Web through OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains x, 246 p. : ill. (some col.). Advisor: Janet Hickman, College of Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-246).

This thesis examines how poetic responses to the Holocaust in America, when they emerged, have differed from the novels addressing the same subject; how the Second World War has challenged, in a way the First World War did not, basic humanistic assumptions regarding the image of man, the role of God, the benefits of civilisation & culture, and the humanising power of art or reason; and how this impact has influenced modern trends in poetry. After an extensive background section documenting the impact the Holocaust and Second World War have made upon the literary imagination, an extensive review is conducted of the varied critical positions and criteria, both aesthetic and ethical, from which American literary responses have been evaluated. Among the major critical positions is the belief that there should be no literary response to the Holocaust; that this literary response must primarily serve to document and testify; that the Holocaust should not be addressed imaginatively by non-victims; and that the Holocaust should not be used as a metaphor to convey some other subject or theme. These and other critical standpoints are discussed in relation to works by ten American poets whose poetry is representative of the ways in which the Holocaust has impacted on the poetic imagination, the breadth of poetic responses to this atrocity, and the range of difficulties and corresponding criticisms which are associated with almost all attempts to respond creatively to the Holocaust. The poets examined are Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Denise Levertov, Stephen Berg, Van Brock, W.D. Snodgrass, William Heyen and Charles Reznikoff. Where illustrative, comparisons to relevant European poets have been made, including Nellie Sachs and Paul Celan. It was concluded that certain poets (Levertov, Rich, Heyen), as well as certain critical standpoints (Ezrahi, Langer, James Young) did more justice to the reality of the Holocaust and the challenges it poses to the literary and poetic imagination. Bibliography: p. 135-140.

This thesis aims to investigate the religious beliefs/practices of Jewish victims of the Holocaust to discover whether these beliefs/practices were experienced as helping them to deal with the horror they were faced with in a spiritual and psychological sense. I am calling this spiritual survival in contrast to physical survival as most of the Holocaust victims did not survive physically. I intend to research this by reading diaries and other works written, as much as possible, during the actual time of the Holocaust. These materials are somewhat limited as even the materials to write with were hard to come by. Therefore, writings by survivors will also be used. I will analyse the materials with the use of two main areas of psychology; firstly, developmental psychology which looks at the development of a sense of self and secondly, recent research on trauma. / Thesis (MArts(ReligionStudies))--University of South Australia, 2003.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2002. / Title from title page screen, viewed February 23, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Charles B. Harris, Alvin Goldfarb (co-chairs), Rebecca Saunders, Roberta Seelinger Trites. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 294-304) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006. / Title from title screen. Jared Poley, committee chair; Alexandra Garbarini , Hugh Hudson, committee members. Electronic text (169 p.). Description based on contents viewed Apr. 30, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-169).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Auburn University, 2007. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographic references (ℓ. )

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, University of Sydney, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 398-427).