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Eudora Welty : From "The Wanderers" To The Optimist's Daughter, Juli Ling Miller
Eudora Welty : From "The Wanderers" To The Optimist's Daughter, Juli Ling Miller
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
The writings of Eudora A. Welty have been published since 1936. They include four collections of short stories and five novels. Although she is a highly anthologized southern writer and winner of several literary awards, serious criticism of her works has been limited to her early short stories or the regionalism of her novels.
The scope of this thesis includes a traditional analysis of "The Wanderers," a story in The Golden Apples (1949) collection which has received cursory study, as well as an analysis of her latest published novel, The Optimist's Daughter, (1972) which has yet to be studied by …
Escape In Thurber : From Delight To Delirium, Carol Richardson Boyko
Escape In Thurber : From Delight To Delirium, Carol Richardson Boyko
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
James Thurber (1894-1961) is the outstanding American literary humorist of the twentieth century, whose writing spans two periods of American humor: pre- and post-World War II. Pre-war humor is characterized by a debunking of traditional values: the sanctity of women and marriage, patriotism, hero worship, and the supremacy of common sense. The hero of this era is the victim, the slightly neurotic man who does not fit into high-pressured city life. Post-war humor moves from playfulness to bitterness, from misogyny to misanthropy, from man's displacement in inhuman society to man's displacement in the world.
The theme of escape in Thurber …