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Paul Eluard, Brenda Catron

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

Presented to the faculty of the Humanities School of Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Brenda Catron on November 29, 1979.

Characteristics Of The Narrator: Chaucer’S The Canterbury Tales, Gerald Cecere

Masters Theses

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C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy: Metaphysical Theology In Science Fiction/Fantasy, Douglas L. Semark

Masters Theses

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Chaucer's Literary Road From Romance To Reality, Kendal E. Mitchell

Theses & Honors Papers

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George Orwell's Exploitation Of Two Propaganda Techniques In Animal Farm And 1984, Linda Ann Ramsey

English Language and Literature ETDs

Two recurring patterns in George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 are counted and analyzed in relationship to Orwell’s theme: in Animal Farm, a passive phrase with the agent deleted and replaced by “it”, and in 1984, a negative pattern beginning with “it.” These patterns are shown to e typical of propaganda. The effectiveness of passive and negative patterns as propaganda is explained through a discussion of psycholinguistic research on comprehension time. These patterns are shown to work as propaganda in the fictional worlds of the novels. Orwell’s interest in propaganda and style are reviewed, and his ironic intent in Animal …

A Survey Of Adolescent Reading Habits And Influences : A Study In Selected Parochial Secondary Schools, Sylvia J. Davis

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Adolescent literature, written by authors with a concern for the illiteracy in the United States, and read by students growing in their ability to comprehend life, is a vital link in the personal exploration and adjustment needed by young persons as they proceed into adulthood. Many polls have been conducted by teachers and librarians to learn which authors and topics are meaningful to the young student at the secondary level. It is hoped that this study might assist the teacher in understanding the reading habits of students in a parochial atmosphere by providing a background to evaluate assignments given and …

The Theory Of Contraries In Robert Frost's Narratives, Peggy E. Wahlen

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Robert Frost's theory of contraries pervades both his short, lyric poems and his longer, narrative poems. This theory, which is the idea that life consists of two opposing elements, is recognized by the critics to be one of the most common themes running through his lyric poems. However, the narrative poems are almost exclusively approached critically from the standpoint of form and style.

This thesis shows that the theory of contraries is an important concept in the narratives. The framework of Frost's theory has been applied to three areas pertinent to his treatment of the men and women in his …

Creative Imagination In Joyce Cary's Trilogies, E. Christian

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

This thesis describes Joyce Cary's theories of creative imagination and how the characters in his two trilogies reflect those theories. To Cary, creative imagination is essential for society's improvement. He believes that everyone--not just artists and writers--can have creative imagination, and in his novels he shows the results of living with and without it.

Joyce Cary was born in 1888, in Ireland. His mother died when he was nine, but his close-knit family gave him the security he needed to develop his creativity. As a boy he voraciously read adventure stories and led a gang. Throughout his life he dealt …

Spring Into Summer : A Novel, Jeff Wuorio

Senior Scholar Papers

Spring into Summer is a novel based on my experiences as a student living in London for a year. The central character, an American under-graduate student studying history, attempts to complete a piece of work by his older brother who is killed in a car accident several months prior to his brother's departure for England. The narrative traces the younger brother's efforts and eventual failure to work on the history; in so doing, he also fails to become more like his older brother whom he greatly loved and admired. Thus, a doppelganger, or "Double" of sorts is used.

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High Anxiety, Andy Plante

Senior Scholar Papers

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Two Anti-Heroes: Leopold Bloom And Sai'd Aboul NaḥS, Samia Mehrez

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Language Motivation And Language Needs Of Secretarial Studies Students: A Study Made On A Sample Of The Public School Graduates Studying In The Secretarial Studies Program At The American University In Cairo, Wafaa Sami El-Mancabadi

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Sources Of Determinism In American Naturalistic Fiction And Theodore Dreiser's Place In The Movement, Nevine Ghourab

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Yeats And The Noh Drama, Elizabeth Rogers Hayes

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Chekhov, Work, Idleness, And The New Life, Mahmoud El Lozy

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Grotesque In The Fiction Of Joyce Carol Oates, Kathleen Burke Bloom

Master's Theses

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Reaction To Religious Elements In The Poetry Of Robert Browning: An Introduction And Annotated Bibliography, Vincent P. Anderson

Master's Theses

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A Philosophical Study Of John Henry Newman's The Idea Of A University, Discourses I-Ix, Mark William Haley

Dissertations

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The Theory Of Sermon Rhetoric In Puritan New England: Its Origins And Expression, Charles Lee Van Hof

Dissertations

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A Booke Of The Travaile And Lief Of Me Thomas Hoby, With Diverse Thinges Woorth The Notinge, 1547-1564: A Modern Edition With Introduction And Notes, Steven J. Masello

Dissertations

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Fielding's Clergymen, Kathleen Marie Puhr

Masters Theses

Henry Fielding presented more clergymen in his fiction than any other major novelist except Trollope, and his non-fictional writings--notably articles in his journal, The Champion--also reflect his interest in the status of the clergy in eighteenth-century England. In his series of articles entitled “An Apology for the Clergy,” Fielding establishes the criteria by which he feels clergymen should be judged and lists the qualities of the “true” and “false” clergymen.

This study reveals that while Fielding in his non-fictional works clearly explains the traits of the true clergyman, his fiction does not contain a clergyman measuring up to his …

A Question Of Influence: William Cowper Brann And Henry Louis Mencken, Dale Owen Bishop

Theses and Dissertations

A major critic of H. L. Mencken and a co-worker of his on the Baltimore Sun have both theorized that Mencken was influenced by a little-remembered Texas iconoclast who was assassinated in 1898, William Cowper Brann. Investigation revealed that Brann and Mencken agreed on many topics such as Prohibition, politics and religion among others. Mencken's early style compares well with Brann's, and they shared many techniques and preferences for particular words standard in the debunker's vocabulary. Research revealed that Mencken even published an article in 1900, at the age of twenty, in the magazine that had formerly been published by …

Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Chronology Of Conflict And Reconciliation, Donna Newcomer Shriver

Legacy ETDs

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Matthew Arnold, The Development Of A Social Critic, Annette Hoines

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Since time began, mankind has learned to cope with change as a consistent element of life. History is partly a record of man's response to changes in people, in physical circumstances, in social conditions, in moral attitudes. Change, therefore has always been an integral part of living, but in Victorian England, the changes taking place were so tremendous, so numerous and so widespread in their effect as to have a dominating influence on the work of certain authors or the period. The Victorian period, during the decades 1850 – 1870, rife with change and turbulence, saw the rise of Matthew …

Philip Roth's Confessional Narrators: The Growth Of Consciousness., Alexander George

Dissertations

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The City As Metaphor In Selected Novels Of James Purdy And Saul Bellow, Yashoda Nandan Singh

Dissertations

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Fitzgerald's Use Of The Four Elements In The Great Gatsby, John Philip Hawkins

Masters Theses

A great deal has been written about the conscientious effort that went into the design of F. Scott Fitzgerald's popular novel, The Great Gatsby, with its various allusions and numerous symbols. A careful reading of this novel will unveil the author's preoccupation with numerous metaphysical images, particularly the four elements--air, earth, water, and fire--which are considered to be the essential components of all matter.

Fitzgerald uses the four elements in The Great Gatsby to coordinate mood and physical settings, to give dimension to the settings, and to bring characters into sharper focus. The novel employs four settings, each one …

"Tales Of The Jarvis Valley": A Study Of Dylan Thomas' Early Fiction, Nancy C. Parrish

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Saul Bellow's Henderson The Rain King: A Fusion Of The Comic And The Serious, George William Russo

Masters Theses

Bellow's comic vision points to a compromise between the romantic notion that self-perfection is attainable and the pessimistic notion that man is ultimately impotent and thus destined to fail. Through Henderson, Bellow shows that although man does not--and ultimately cannot--completely free himself of somatic demands and limitations, he is nevertheless not defeated by them and thus not left a victim of emotionless observations.

Bellow draws upon four sources in Henderson's nature to create the humor in the novel and highlights Eugene Henderson as a comic hero by dramatizing that Henderson proves to be his own ironist. These sources can be …

Feminism In Henry James's "The Bostonians", Helen Eugenia Hester

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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