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Faulkner's Satyrikon And Tragic Vision: "Absalom, Absalom!" And "The Sound And The Fury", Patrick H. Brennan
Faulkner's Satyrikon And Tragic Vision: "Absalom, Absalom!" And "The Sound And The Fury", Patrick H. Brennan
Student Work
Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!, having escaped the pejorative category of “regional literature” by virtue of their technical excellence, occupy estimable positions in the main body of twentieth-century American literature. Part of the widespread interest they arouse is owing to the hold that the Old South has over the American public at large. As the precipitator of the American Civil War and as the repository of the aristocratic way of life that in its way mirrored the feudal societies of Europe, the Old South has given rise to a body of legend that is steeped in …
An Edition, With An Introduction, Notes, And A Parallel Latin Text, Of Sir Robert Howard's Translation Of Statius's "Achilleis", Roger Wesley Hatch
An Edition, With An Introduction, Notes, And A Parallel Latin Text, Of Sir Robert Howard's Translation Of Statius's "Achilleis", Roger Wesley Hatch
Doctoral Dissertations
This edition offers a critical old-spelling text of Sir Robert Howard's translation of Statius's Achilleis (1660). Sir Robert's annotations on his translation are given in the form of photographic copies, and the Latin text which Sir Robert seems to have principally used, that of 1658, is given in the form of an unedited typed transcript, and is presented next to the text of the translation in a closely parallel manner. The first section of the introduction offers reasons why Sir Robert's Achilleis is significant and includes a brief discussion of extant Roman epics and of Renaissance and eighteenth-century translations of …
The Influence Of Eighteenth-Century British Landscape Aesthetics On Narrative And Pictorial Responses To The British North American North And West 1769-1872, I S. Maclaren
Digitized Theses
This study undertakes a consideration of a century of travel writing by Britons who explored, surveyed, traded, hunted, prospected, botanized, and established missions in the British North American North and West between 1769 and 1872. Its particular concern is how Britons employed the principles and conventions of eighteenth-century British landscape aesthetics to describe and depict northern and western terrain.;An aesthetic mode of perceiving nature, as has been argued by perceptual geographers, art historians, and literary critics, constitutes one way that a society forms it understanding of reality. For the eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Briton, the Sublime and the Picturesque were the …
Keats And The "Service Of The Time Being", Joanne Lorna Buckley
Keats And The "Service Of The Time Being", Joanne Lorna Buckley
Digitized Theses
This dissertation is an exploration of Keats's poems and letters with an eye to discovering his attitude toward the viability of poetry in a post-Lockean universe. Keats's concern with the subjective limitations of imagination in the face of scientific advancement in his time and its effects on his poetry are thus its subject.;The Echo and Narcissus myth, as it relates to the reflexive imagery in Keats's work, is used as a paradigm of the Lockean split between reflection and sensation and its relation to the poetic process. Certain motifs related to Keats's reflexive imagery are then examined, including the motifs …
The Disimprisoned Epic: A Generic Study Of "The French Revolution", Mark Douglas Cumming
The Disimprisoned Epic: A Generic Study Of "The French Revolution", Mark Douglas Cumming
Digitized Theses
"The Disimprisoned Epic" attempts to offer the most comprehensive generic study to date of The French Revolution. It begins by considering the artistic experimentation and generic speculation prevalent in early nineteenth-century European literature and criticism, and their reflection in Carlyle's early critical essays. It then proceeds to examine how the genres discussed by Carlyle in his criticism reappear in paradoxical contexts in his own literary experiments, treating particularly the generic designations that Carlyle offers--though never simply or unproblematically--for his "novel" Sartor Resartus, his satire (or "pasquil") "Count Cagliostro," his "romance" "The Diamond Necklace," and his "epic" The French Revolution. After …
Us And Them: Technological Hierarchies In Fowles And Pynchon, Frederick John Daw
Us And Them: Technological Hierarchies In Fowles And Pynchon, Frederick John Daw
Digitized Theses
John Fowles and Thomas Pynchon, like many contemporary writers, have noted that modern Western societies are dominated by arbitrarily created hierarchies. The major purpose of their fiction is to expose arbitrariness by increasing our desire to be self-conscious about our creation of social reality. The novels reveal the dualism and solipsism which are the results of the creation of hierarchies, and the authors argue for a type of ambivalence which can mediate the poles of unsuitable dualisms and move us to an "interface," or privileged position, which is not dominated by either pole of a duality.;Fowles' and Pynchon's works reveal …
Mimetic Process In The Sermons Of John Donne, Paul Wesley Harland
Mimetic Process In The Sermons Of John Donne, Paul Wesley Harland
Digitized Theses
This dissertation argues that Donne's homiletic method manifests a fictive and processive structure which imitates God's historically revelatory working with his people. Integral to this mimetic structure are several dramatic techniques which forward the action.;Donne's "theory" of mimesis may be constructed by analyzing his comments concerning the imitation of historical precedents. Such comments reveal Donne's trust in the ability of experience to purify the soul and his belief that growth may be incuded by doubt, affliction, and virtuous choice, actions which imitate the actions of the faithful witnesses who make up Christ's body. Donne asserts that the beauty which best …