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Emily Dickinson: "The Face We Choose To Miss", Donna Marie Stephens
Emily Dickinson: "The Face We Choose To Miss", Donna Marie Stephens
Theses & Honors Papers
The majority of Emily Dickinson’s poems deal with love, immortality, and death. There is no doubt that she was preoccupied with two distinct subjects, death and immortality. An important point that this thesis stresses is the fact that Emily’s preoccupation did not muffle her senses, but instead enlivened them. It is essential that one must consider the biographical influences that affected Emily throughout her life, but even more importantly, one must also recognize the correlation between Emily’s preoccupation with these two subjects and the deaths of so many of her closest friends. Due to this, her death and immortality poems …
The Role Of Narrator In Selected Works Of Edgar Allan Poe, Frances M. Smith
The Role Of Narrator In Selected Works Of Edgar Allan Poe, Frances M. Smith
Theses & Honors Papers
This thesis focuses on the role of narrator in selected works of Edgar Allan Poe. The thesis finds that Poe exerts a lot of effort fashioning the narrator. He discredits his reliability to discourage a face-value credibility. He puts him in a dream state to give him access to his subconscious mind. He makes himself and other characters representative of the functioning of the inner mind. He creates deceptiveness in his nature and then makes him alert the reader to the deceptiveness in his nature and then makes him alert the reader to the deception so that the reader will …
Maggie Tullier's Thorny Wilderness: George Eliot's Use Of Natural And Social Environment To Develop The Character Of The Heroine In "The Mill On The Floss", Nelle Mcfather
Theses & Honors Papers
During this writer's year of pursuit of the Master of Arts degree in English, the critical catechism has been applied to the work being studied in every class: "Does this work stand up to the test of time and, if so, why?" The first part of the question can be glibly answered by the fact that the work in question is being read and taught in modern classrooms, or is included on a current suggested reading list. The second part of the question, the "why?" is more complex. What makes one "out-dated" novel gather dust on an obscure shelf while …
Mark Twain's Uses Of Suffering In The Writer-Character-Reader Triad, Virginia Armiger Grant
Mark Twain's Uses Of Suffering In The Writer-Character-Reader Triad, Virginia Armiger Grant
Theses & Honors Papers
This thesis studies Mark Twain’s uses of suffering in the writer character reader triad. In the book Huckleberry Finn, Twain himself seems to identify more closely with Huck than he does with Tom, as evidenced by the first person narrative in Finn and the more serious, more carefully developed autobiographical incidents in that book. Perhaps because Twain’s later life was so bleak and unhappy, he poured all of his self-defeat and pessimism into his thoughts for Huck’s old age.
James A. Michener: Social Historian, Elizabeth Conrad
James A. Michener: Social Historian, Elizabeth Conrad
Theses & Honors Papers
This thesis studies the works of James A. Michener as a social historian. Six of his novels, three international and three American, have been examined and shown to be reflections of his deep interest in our country and other lands. His works contain a vast amount of information about the regions or topics. Additionally, they provide the reader with a record of historical events in the manner expected of a historical work. The mind of James Michener has, indeed, created works that ring with beauty and truth. The novels examined in this thesis are infused with the moral sense of …