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Confrontation And Conflict In The Poetry Of John Donne, Roger M. Peirce
Confrontation And Conflict In The Poetry Of John Donne, Roger M. Peirce
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In tracing the heritage of the concern over the relative values of the material and the immaterial, one can see that the problem was considerably significant in Medieval thought as a great deal of the philosophical writings of the Age were dedicated to the problem of the universals. The question of whether reality existed in the form or the particular, however, was not a speculation peculiar to the Middle Ages. The academic controversy, as far as one can determine, found its germination in the Hellenic tradition of Plato and Aristotle; a brief recall of its ancient history, then, would seem …
Literary Patronage In Renaissance England, Marilyn G. Selwold
Literary Patronage In Renaissance England, Marilyn G. Selwold
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The artists’ position in society changed dramatically during the Renaissance. From being a Craftsman like any other, the artist became a creator of the Fine Arts. From functioning in political or religious ways, he began to express more and more his own or his patron’s ideas. “The Renaissance thus became the first great modern age of the individual patron. Merchant prince and despot competed for the services of the greatest architects, sculptors, painters, and scholars.” This aspect, however, is neglected in most studies of English literature. Whereas the Medici are almost synonymous with the Florentine renaissance, it is almost forgotten …
The Poetic Response To The Paradox Of Mutability And Permanence: A Study Of Poets Of The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries, Catherine M. Griesel
The Poetic Response To The Paradox Of Mutability And Permanence: A Study Of Poets Of The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries, Catherine M. Griesel
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I have been living through a year, not merely existing in an abstraction called time. The year has meant to me participation in a cycle, the awareness of an ebb and flow, of being part of a vital and complex process…. At this moment I am standing on the threshold of a new year waiting to begin a new cycle of months forever familiar and forever new. “Seasons return”… though sooner or late each of us must add, “but not for me.” Thus, Joseph Wood Krutch, twentieth-century American naturalist, ends his book The Twelve Seasons.
The Code Heroine In Katherine Anne Porter's Short Stories, Phebe Jamison Rosch
The Code Heroine In Katherine Anne Porter's Short Stories, Phebe Jamison Rosch
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The year 1922 marked the beginning of the fiction-writing career of one of the twentieth century’s finest short story writers, Katherine Anne Porter. In a review of The Leaning Tower and Other Short Stories in 1944, Edmund Wilson says, “she is absolutely a first-rate artist, and what she wants other people to know she imparts to them by creating an object, the self-developing organism of a work of prose.”
The Cycle Of The Seasons In Selected Works Of Willa Cather, Daniel J. Daly
The Cycle Of The Seasons In Selected Works Of Willa Cather, Daniel J. Daly
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Willa Cather’s reputation as a coherent symbolist needs no real amplification. Starting with O Pioneers!, her novels are emphatic manifestations of her artistic use of symbolism. Cather's poems and short stories are in some cases earlier evidence of her skill in this area. Moreover, a clearly observable pattern of symbolism, motif-like in its coherency and regularity, manifests itself throughout her works. Cather, and her poetry, short fiction, and novels, exhibits a sensitivity to the seasonal cycle, an attention which exerts a strong influence upon the total meaning of her art.
Carson Mccullers: "The Tragedy Of Spiritual Isolation", Gerald L. Fricke
Carson Mccullers: "The Tragedy Of Spiritual Isolation", Gerald L. Fricke
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This passage, one of the most eloquent ever penned on the theme of spiritual isolation, is particularly applicable to the five novels of Carson McCullers. Her basic thesis is that love gives a meaning of life, but, paradoxically, love is doomed to failure because of a breakdown in communications resulting in spiritual isolation. Life then is a never-ending cycle; there is the struggle to achieve understanding and an identity, but the more man struggles the seemingly more complex becomes obstacles that he must surmount. Thus, the quest becomes all-important. The effort to attain identity gives substance to life, but if …
The Social Quest In John Updike's Major Fiction., Patricia E. Lucas
The Social Quest In John Updike's Major Fiction., Patricia E. Lucas
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The choice of subject matter for this thesis has, in part at least, been prompted by the uproar caused by the publication of the Couples by John Updike in 1968. Re-viewers could not make up their collective minds about the book-whether it was exceedingly filthy and obscene because of the inclusion of irrelevant explicitness in dealing with the sexual interrelations of the couples involved, the true story of Updike and his Ipswich, Massachusetts friends, or a comment on contemporary life which is indicative of the sociological directions of middle class man. A minority of the reviewers, however, did appear to …
A Study Of Dramatic Tragedy In The Twentieth Century, Ann D. Mactier
A Study Of Dramatic Tragedy In The Twentieth Century, Ann D. Mactier
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Aristotle, in The Poetic, defines dramatic tragedy as “imitation of a worthy or illustrious and perfect action, possessing magnitude, in pleasing language, using separately the several species of imitation in its parts, by men acting, and not through narration, through pity and fear effecting a purification from such like passions”.
An Analysis Of The Use Of Light And Dark Imagery For Thematic Purposes In The Fiction Of Robert Penn Warren, Paul Anthony De Leo
An Analysis Of The Use Of Light And Dark Imagery For Thematic Purposes In The Fiction Of Robert Penn Warren, Paul Anthony De Leo
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A prominent feature of the interwar period, and of that since 1945 in American literature, was the Southern Renaissance. This literary rebirth had important consequences in poetry and criticism through the work of a number of writers. Robert Penn Warren was one such writer who “sowed the seeds” for his Southern rebirth of literature. Warren, along with such American writers as Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, J. D. Salinger, and John Updike, endeavored to unearth the answer to the question of how a man should live in a fragmented and fractured society. In seeking this information, man was in turn seeking …
Diversity In The Narrative-Moralitas Relationship Of Robert Henryson's The Morall Fabillis Of Esope The Phyrgian, David M. Raabe
Diversity In The Narrative-Moralitas Relationship Of Robert Henryson's The Morall Fabillis Of Esope The Phyrgian, David M. Raabe
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Most of the recent critical comment of Robert Henryson’s The Moral Fabillis of Esop The Phrygain has been directed toward the relation between the two parts of each fable: (1) the narrative itself and (2) the moralitas, an allegorical interpretation which follows each narrative. The moralitas interpretations do not always follow expected patterns and, in fact, may seem highly artificial and contrived when compared to the more natural and familiar animal stories which make up the fables themselves. It is probably this element of the unexpected in Henryson’s interpretations of the thirteen fables that has called attention to the fable-moralitas …
Richard Wright And Ralph Ellison: Master And Protege, Emmett P. Cribbs
Richard Wright And Ralph Ellison: Master And Protege, Emmett P. Cribbs
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Negroes from Africa have been in America since 1620 when twenty Africans were sold to the white settlement of Jamestown, Virginia. Since that date, Negros have made a contribution to American history through their blood and sweat, their songs, and their cultural heritage. Yet, a peculiar institution of slavery arose on American soil, and black men and women were subjected to a subservient, second-class status.