Theses Dealing with Hispano-American Language and Literature-1948

The extraordinary length of the present list of Master's and Doctor's theses is partly due to the fact that Stanford and Southern California have brought their titles up to date. Theses completed prior to 1948 bear their respective dates below, others are to be taken as of 1948. Again no information has come from Mexico, Cuba, or Puerto Rico, but a report has arrived from Canada, encouraging the hope that further items will be forthcoming from that country. In the past certain titles have been repeated after their first appearance, usually because they represented completion of the doctoral degree or publication of the dissertation, but sometimes-as is the case with several this yearbecause of some change in either title or subject or adviser. This information is given in parentheses following the other data in such items. Doctor's theses announced previously as in progress, if not repeated for one reason or another below, will be found in earlier lists.* When Professor Leavitt published his Bibliography of Theses... , the first in the series referred to in the footnote, he remarked: It will be observed that the subjects.., .have in general been diversified, but a glance at the index will show that there has been some (169). Since no means of systematic cross-checking had existed prior to that time, some duplication was inevitable even on the doctoral level if the thesis remained unpublished or if the subject happened to be treated simultaneously by two authors. To be sure, continues the remark cited, most cases of this sort have been Master's theses, in which a large amount of research may not have been required; but with so wide a field before one, it seems hardly advisable to follow far in the footsteps of another. Despite this admonition and the annually published news of theses done or under way, many more duplications have occurred since, though happily few among Ph.D. theses. Of course, limitations of library facilities do narrow the range of possible subjects in some universities, and coincidence does give rise to simultaneous handling of a subject occasionally. With due regard for all concerned, and without prejudice, it must not be taken amiss if the compiler here offers a partial outline of subjects that have been repeated frequently, some of

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