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Modern Theories Of The Function Of The Novel, Barbara Wykes
Modern Theories Of The Function Of The Novel, Barbara Wykes
English Language and Literature ETDs
The purpose of this thesis is to examine some of the current theories of the function of the novel so that the author and the reader may find some insight into the reasons for writing or reading.The theories which will be discussed dominate the period covering the years from the end of the first World War to the present. This thesis will discuss seven theories of the novel which dominate this period. These theories may be divided into two groups. The theories in the first group discuss the the relation of the novel to society. The five theories which fall …
Celtic Mythology In The Poetry Of George Russell (A.E) And William B.Yeats, Thomas B. Heaphy
Celtic Mythology In The Poetry Of George Russell (A.E) And William B.Yeats, Thomas B. Heaphy
English Language and Literature ETDs
The purpose of this study is to investigate elements of Celtic mythology in the Poetry of George Russell and William Butler Yeats. The plan to be followed in this study is first to summarize the latest concepts of myth in its relationship to literature; second to present a brief summary of the relationship of Celtic mythology to the revival period in Ireland in the nineteenth century; third to illustrate the importance of Celtic mythology on the poetry of Russell and Yeats, and in particular to suggest the basic difference in the concept of mysticism by these two writers.
The Literary Tradition Of The Scientific Romance, Frank Davis Adams
The Literary Tradition Of The Scientific Romance, Frank Davis Adams
English Language and Literature ETDs
The following dissertation has two primary purposes. The first is to plead for a recognition of the scientific romance as an independent genre in the school of the novel. The second purpose is to examine the twentieth-century examples of the scientific romance. Although I have gone rather thoroughly into the matter of defining the "scientific romance" in the first chapter, it would be well here to give a brief, general definition of the form. A scientific romance is an imaginative story which employs as its background or framework extensions of facts of actual or hypothetical science. The science thus utilized …
An Analysis And Interpretation Of The Structural Elements In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Archie Bussell
An Analysis And Interpretation Of The Structural Elements In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Archie Bussell
English Language and Literature ETDs
Very much and very excellent and scholarly work has been accomplished in the field of Chaucerian criticism; but this criticism, in the main, has been in such fields as technique and interpretation of Chaucer's poetry, Chaucer's pilgrims, tale-order, in the structure and explication of the original tales, and in special studies like the "Marriage Group" or "preestes.thre." It should be said in the beginning that this study does not pretend to throw any light upon such problems as have already been thoroughly investigated. My approach is to examine the structural elements between and among the tales which bind the tales …