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Alejo Carpentier : CivilizacióN Y Barbarie, MaríA Luisa P. ValdéS

Master's Theses

El proposito de este trabajo sera demostrar la interpretacion y la importancia que Alejo Carpentier da a los terminos 'Civilizacion" y "Barabarie". El pensamiento del autor, en la mayor parte de sus obras gira alrededor de estos dos conceptos que provocan, precisamente, el conflicto en que se ven envueltos los protagonistas, que no saben o no pueden leegar a una solucion valida.

Se ha de insistir principalmente en el tema de la barbarie, por ser esta la preoccupacion mayor del autor, visible en la mayoria de sus obras. El aspecto negativo tiene, en la mente de Carpentier, una importancia mucho …

James Branch Cabell : Laughing Existentialist, George R. Hazelton

Master's Theses

In the history of American literature, there have been numerous authors whose popularity and critical acclaim were long in coming often delayed long past their deaths. Melville, for example, comes immediately to mind. Others have enjoyed a brief notoriety and have then slipped into oblivion for years until their "rediscovery."

One of the prime vehicles for renewed interest in ignored American authors has been the critical consideration of American humorous literature that has flowered during the 1940's, 50's and the 60's, This criticism, given impetus by Walter Blair's Native American Humor (1937)has made Seba Smith, Edgar Wilson Nye, and Finley …

The Thematic Relationship Of Laurence Sterne To David Herbert Lawrence, Frederick Thornett Hardy

Master's Theses

Among the pioneer novelists of the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne stands out as an unexplained curiosity. In many ways the most modern of the early novelists, he is regarded as the first stream-of-consciousness author, and thus the forerunner of the most significant school in today's fiction. Sterne constructed his original style from ideas derived from the seventeenth century philosopher, John Locke, in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding. A less obvious but equally defendable fact is that this philosophical work provided Sterne with a thematic as well as stylistic bridge into the twentieth century. The clearest illustration of this relationship is …

An Examination Of The Influence Of August Strindberg Upon Eugene O'Neill, Mary Emily Parsons Edwards

Master's Theses

Eugene O'Neill made no effort to hide the names of those writers and literary works which were important to him, and most of his biographers cite the fact that from the commencement of his playwrighting [sic] career O'Neill was influenced by the Swedish writer August Strindberg. O 'Neill himself was, in fact, one of the first to call attention to the kinship between his work and that of his "Master." In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, he indicated that he was delighted to have an opportunity to discuss the debt Ameri­can drama owed to the modern drama of Europe, and, …

Ring Lardner As Dadaist, Buford Donald Fisher

Master's Theses

This thesis is not a history of Dada, nor does it attempt to trace any direct influences that Ring Lardner may have on current literature. What it does strive to achieve is proper understanding of one facet of Lardner's work.

During the period that the Dad ists were actively trying to establish a new order by destroying the old (and theoretically, Dada itself), Lardner was creating nonsense playlets . His critics, for the most part, could not comprehend his intentions, so this aspect of his work was relegated to obscurity.

Half a century later, Dada has become more relevant historically; …

La Obra De Gabriel Garcia Marquez : Mito Y Critica, Maria Aranzabal Garcia

Master's Theses

El propósito de eate estudio será mostrar la importancia que tienen el mito y la cr tica dentro de la narrativa del escritor Gabriel Garcia Marquez. La novela Cien anos de soledad ha sido escogida como centro de este trabajo porque en ella se ve mejor expresado el tema que nos ocupa, Serán mencionadas otras obras de Garcia Marquez solo como referencia, en aquellos aspectos que sirvan para mejor aclarar el contenido de este estudio.