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Gabriel Harvey: Catalyst In The English Literary Renaissance, Gary L. Tate
Gabriel Harvey: Catalyst In The English Literary Renaissance, Gary L. Tate
English Language and Literature ETDs
Gabriel Harvey moved through the English literary Renaissance like a pigmy among giants. In an era of large personalities and great talents there was little hope of lasting fame for a mediocre personality, no matter how much this fame might be desired. Harvey lacked the giant imagination of a Shakespeare, a Spenser, or a Marlowe; he lacked the aplomb and knowledge of the world of a Sidney; and he lacked the insight into the foibles and follies of men of a Jonson. His learning and ambition filled part of the gap left by these deficiencies, but neither of these attributes …
"Symmetric History": A Study Of Thought Patterns In The Prose Works Of Thomas Hardy, Edith H. Peterson
"Symmetric History": A Study Of Thought Patterns In The Prose Works Of Thomas Hardy, Edith H. Peterson
English Language and Literature ETDs
The history of Hardy criticism may be divided into three main categories. The first of these grew out of the natural curiosity of Hardy readers regarding the exact locations of his disguised places; and thus there appeared, in the early twentieth century, a fair number of books identifying "Casterbridge," "Weatherbury," "Egdon Heath," and all the rest of Hardy's thinly veiled towns, villages, and natural features of the West of England. Herman Lea's authoritative Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) put an end to place-hunting; for there could be little added to this exact and painstaking achievement which answered every question about the …
Shapeshifting And Associated Phenomena As Conventions Of The Middle English Metrical Romances, Clarence Edward Long
Shapeshifting And Associated Phenomena As Conventions Of The Middle English Metrical Romances, Clarence Edward Long
English Language and Literature ETDs
One of the most popular and vigorous genres of medieval English literature is the metrical romance. For more than three hundred years it was the chief literary fare of nearly all classes of Englishmen, from the most literate like Chaucer, who could afford to burlesque the type, to the illiterate who derived enjoyment merely by listening to a retelling of these adventurous, chivalric, romantic tales. Each century since the fifteenth has seen more or less of a revival of interest in the metrical romance. The sixteenth century Englishmen, if he could read at all, whetted his nationalist spirit by reading …
Milton's Conception Of Original Justice And Of Original Sin, J. Franklin Murray S. J.
Milton's Conception Of Original Justice And Of Original Sin, J. Franklin Murray S. J.
English Language and Literature ETDs
This study was begun with the conviction that a systematic exposition of the theology of original sin would throw new light on the meaning of Paradise Lost. The traditional and the Reformational conceptions of the conditions of innocent and fallen man examined here will provide, I hope, a basis for determining more accurately both Milton's own ideas and his adaption of them to his artistic purpose. Recent criticism has raised important questions about the meaning of Paradise Lost: Were Adam and Eve really fallen before they fell? Was their fall a "climax of self-realization," a maturation, or was it a …
A Study Of The American Woman As She Is Presented In The American Drama Of The Nineteen-Twenties, Charles G. Wiley
A Study Of The American Woman As She Is Presented In The American Drama Of The Nineteen-Twenties, Charles G. Wiley
English Language and Literature ETDs
The American woman as she has been represented in a select number of American plays produced on the American stage from 1920 to 1930 forms the subject of this study. Particular consideration has been given to such matters as the thoughts, feelings, manners, morals, and social conduct of the women in the plays - all of which throw light on the behavior, characteristics, and ideals of the woman of the twenties as she was presented on the American stage.
Nine Stories, Albert W. Vogel
Nine Stories, Albert W. Vogel
English Language and Literature ETDs
The nine short stories contained herein are submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a masters degree in creative writing. The purpose of this masters thesis is to contribute to my preparation as a writer.
Max Beerbohm--A Critic Of His Time, Conrad J. Stack
Max Beerbohm--A Critic Of His Time, Conrad J. Stack
English Language and Literature ETDs
The primary intent of this study is to present some of the major factors involved in the great leveling process that swept over the social, economic, and artistic structure of Edwardian England and their effect on Sir Max and his works.