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Milton's Paradise Lost: From The Paradise Without To The Paradise Within, Brian John Wagner
Milton's Paradise Lost: From The Paradise Without To The Paradise Within, Brian John Wagner
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In the eighteenth century, Miltonic criticism centered around Paradise Lost as an orthodox creed: “the heterodox elements were not noticed, and the poem appealed equally to Anglicans, Dissenters, Roman Catholics, and Deists.”
Journey Within The Uroboros: A Study Of The Psychological Development Of Edward Albee's Male Characters In Connection With The Mother Archtype, Barbara Schmitz
Journey Within The Uroboros: A Study Of The Psychological Development Of Edward Albee's Male Characters In Connection With The Mother Archtype, Barbara Schmitz
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In “Archetype and Signature” Leslie Fiedler discusses the concepts created by I. A. Richards of “staying inside the poem,” and regarding the poem as an “essential experience.” He further defines Richards “new criticism” by giving it slogan—“a poem should not mean but be.” Ultimately, Fiedler finds both this approach of the work of art and Eliot’s “objective correlative” (a poem succeeds only insofar as it is detached from the subjectivity of its maker) wanting. He sees the poet's life as a “focusing glass” through which all aspects of his work must pass and feels that a sense of the life …
Isolation And Integration: Thematic Elements In The Fiction Of Dh Lawrence, Merrilee. Moshier
Isolation And Integration: Thematic Elements In The Fiction Of Dh Lawrence, Merrilee. Moshier
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D. H. Lawrence asserts in his essay “The Spirit of Place” that the state of mind of an individual determines whether he can discover his personal freedom. This freedom is not a political, but a personal, mental one in which the individuals being grows towards wholeness and integration. Certain aspects of one's environment may facilitate this development, says Lawrence: Men are free when they are in a living Homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when active and …
Patterns In The Poetry Of Sylvia Plath, Denise Levertov, And Howard Nemerov, Cameron G. Northouse
Patterns In The Poetry Of Sylvia Plath, Denise Levertov, And Howard Nemerov, Cameron G. Northouse
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Nearly all would agree that the first purpose of literary criticism is to determine the artistic merit of a written work. Of course, this general agreement founders when it is carried to its logical step: deciding on the criteria for this aesthetic evaluation. The multiplicity of critical approaches currently appreciated create a morass of aesthetic criteria that largely leaves the initial purpose of literary criticism without any definitive statement. We all know the purpose of criticism is to discern art from non-art, but the subjectivity of this intended purpose, coupled with its sheer simplicity of expression, leaves the critic with …
A Study Of The Sea And The Search For Paradise Regained In "Typee", :Mardi", And "Moby-Dick", Mary Jane Kopperud Ramsey
A Study Of The Sea And The Search For Paradise Regained In "Typee", :Mardi", And "Moby-Dick", Mary Jane Kopperud Ramsey
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In Typee, Mardi, and Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, the sea functions as a symbol which expresses Melville's changing worldview. The most important characteristic of a symbol is that its referent is non-ostensive. That is, the symbol refers not only to an intangible concept but also one that can only be defined completely or comprehended fully. It may be that symbols are derived from man's awareness of the absurdity of his existence. Man is not responsible for his birth, nor can he avoid his death. During his empirical existence he craves some kind of order, unity, reason, and meaning in this …
A Study Of The Dual Vision In The Novels Of Thornton Wilder, Virginia M. Clark
A Study Of The Dual Vision In The Novels Of Thornton Wilder, Virginia M. Clark
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“The art of literature springs from two curiosities, a curiosity about human beings pushed to such an extreme that it resembles love, and a love of a few masterpieces of literature so absorbing that it has all the richest elements of curiosity… The training for literature must be acquired by the artist alone, through the passionate assimilation of a few masterpieces written from a spirit somewhat like his own, and of a few masterpieces written from a spirit not at all like his own.” Thus, early in his writing career, Pulitzer Prize winner, Thornton Wilder, identified the sources of his …
Initiation In The Novels Of Carl Jonas, Pat Williams
Initiation In The Novels Of Carl Jonas, Pat Williams
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Carl Jones is a native Omahan who writes of midwesterners in a setting strongly suggestive of Omaha. He satirizes the folkways and institutions of the breadbasket area, but he should not be categorized as merely a regional writer because he explores themes of universal concern to man. One of the most important of these themes is man's quest for meaning and dignity in a world which is often enigmatic and cruel. It is that quest which all of Jones' novels are concerned, and it is that theme—initiation--which forms the subject of this thesis.
Affirmation And Futility: A Study Of Jack London's Vision Of Struggle In Selected Klondike Works, William D. Baines
Affirmation And Futility: A Study Of Jack London's Vision Of Struggle In Selected Klondike Works, William D. Baines
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The period initiated by the Civil War and terminated by the turn of the century was a time of marked growth and change in the United States. Industrialism, a relatively significant factor in the national makeup prior to the war, was greatly stimulated by the event and was by 1900 a dominant force in the country, making its affect felt in all phases of the American experience. During this period of shifting national emphasis, the United States came to know the poverty of the industrial masses and the blight and overcrowding of urban centers sired by the necessity of industry. …
Anne Bronte And The Religious Novel In The Early Nineteenth Century, Sharon Anderson
Anne Bronte And The Religious Novel In The Early Nineteenth Century, Sharon Anderson
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To the introspective, sensitive, religious individual, the opening years of the 19th century must have indeed appeared to be a “Fire-Whirlwind” in which destruction in creation were simultaneous and immediate. It was an era of religious transition and uncertainty. The traditional religious beliefs and values were rapidly crumbling, in new currents of thought proliferated. Writing in 1884, J. A. Froude recalled that the first half of the century had been “an era of new ideas, of swift if silent spiritual revolution…. All were agreed to have done with compromise and conventionalities…. The present generation which has grown up in an …
The Interwar And Post-War Humor Of James Thurber, Kenneth Covey Flint
The Interwar And Post-War Humor Of James Thurber, Kenneth Covey Flint
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Formally speaking, comedy dates back as far as tragedy, to the beginning of drama in late sixth and early fifth century B. C. Athens. There, comedy's early development paralleled that of tragedy, which in later years would receive considerable critical attention. Comedy began in a far from quiet way with “the vestiges of a broken-down ritual plot, with parabasis (or village processional song), agon (or dispute), iambic lampoon, actors, animal costumes, and scenes of Megoric Dorian farce”—all the makings of the more contemporary circus. In a quite well-ordered way it preceded through what critics have called “Old Comedy,” “Middle Comedy,” …