Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- " "Janey (1)
- "Kane (1)
- A Humble Administrator" (1)
- A Soldier Servant (1)
- Adaptation theory (1)
-
- Animals (1)
- Anton Chigurh (1)
- Apocalypse (1)
- Cats (1)
- Cormac McCarthy (1)
- Dogs (1)
- Eschatology (1)
- George Bentley (1)
- Grief (1)
- Humanity (1)
- Joyce (1)
- Language (1)
- Lewelyn Moss (1)
- Nature (1)
- New Woman (1)
- Our Manifold Nature (1)
- Sarah Grand (1)
- Sheriff Bell (1)
- Speechlessness (1)
- Temple Bar (1)
- Ulysses (1)
- Victorian periodical press (1)
- W.B. Yeats (1)
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network
"Goin' To Hell In A Handbasket": The Yeatsian Apocalypse And No Country For Old Men, Connor Race Davis
"Goin' To Hell In A Handbasket": The Yeatsian Apocalypse And No Country For Old Men, Connor Race Davis
Theses and Dissertations
On its surface, Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men appears to be a thoroughly grim and even fatalistic novel, but read in conjunction with W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming"—a work with which the novel has a number of intertextual connection—it becomes clear that there is a distinct optimism at the heart of the novel. Approaching McCarthy's novel as an intertext with Yeats' poem illuminates an apparent critique of eschatological panic present in No Country for Old Men, provided mainly through Sheriff Bell's reflections on the state of society.
Dogs, Cats, And A Lambkin: Speechlessness And The Animal In Ulysses, Pierce R. Watson
Dogs, Cats, And A Lambkin: Speechlessness And The Animal In Ulysses, Pierce R. Watson
Theses and Dissertations
This essay explores the status of the animal and the consequences of animal speechlessness in Ulysses, mainly focusing on encounters with dogs and cats. Through these animal encounters, Joyce provides a foundation for understanding the complications faced by the Bloom family in grieving their deceased infant son.
Obliterating Middle-Class Culpability: Sarah Grand's New Woman Short Fiction In George Bentleys Temple Bar, Nicole Perry Clawson
Obliterating Middle-Class Culpability: Sarah Grand's New Woman Short Fiction In George Bentleys Temple Bar, Nicole Perry Clawson
Theses and Dissertations
Scholars interested in the popular Victorian periodical Temple Bar have primarily focused on the editorship of George Augustus Sala, under whom the journal paradoxically began delivering controversial content to conservative middle-class readers. But while the Temple Bar's sensation fiction and social realism have already been considered, critics have not yet examined Temple Bar's New Woman fiction, which was published during the last decade of the 19th century and George Bentley's reign as editor-in-chief. While functioning as editor-in-chief, Bentley sought to adhere to the dictates found in the 1860 prospectus, to "inculcate thoroughly English sentiment: respect for authority, attachment …