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Eastern Illinois University

English Language and Literature

1976

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Joe Christmas: A Hero In Conflict In Faulkner's Light In August, Carole Booker Winkleblack Jan 1976

Joe Christmas: A Hero In Conflict In Faulkner's Light In August, Carole Booker Winkleblack

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The Theme Of Othello, James Irving Krumrey Jan 1976

The Theme Of Othello, James Irving Krumrey

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The Sound And The Fury: A Study Of Jason Compson And His Relationships With Women, Shari J. Fitzgerald Jan 1976

The Sound And The Fury: A Study Of Jason Compson And His Relationships With Women, Shari J. Fitzgerald

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Illusion Vs. Reality In The Tragedy Of Hamlet, Glendora S. Plath Jan 1976

Illusion Vs. Reality In The Tragedy Of Hamlet, Glendora S. Plath

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Page And Stage: A Structural Investigation Of Agatha Christie's "Three Blind Mice" And "The Mousetrap", Martha Morrow Jan 1976

Page And Stage: A Structural Investigation Of Agatha Christie's "Three Blind Mice" And "The Mousetrap", Martha Morrow

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Father And Sons In Bernard Malamud's The Natural And The Assistant, John Timothy Dailey Jan 1976

Father And Sons In Bernard Malamud's The Natural And The Assistant, John Timothy Dailey

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The Endless Journey: William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying And John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath: A Comparative Study, Sherri L. Lawrence Jan 1976

The Endless Journey: William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying And John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath: A Comparative Study, Sherri L. Lawrence

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Predestination As A Motif In Faulkner's Light In August, Virginia A. Riegel Jan 1976

Predestination As A Motif In Faulkner's Light In August, Virginia A. Riegel

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Romanticism And Evangelical Christianity In William Cowper's The Task, Carol V. Johnson Jan 1976

Romanticism And Evangelical Christianity In William Cowper's The Task, Carol V. Johnson

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In The Task, dated 1785, William Cowper clearly anticipates certain major themes in early nineteenth-century British Romantic poetry. In his individual presentation of the central Romantic themes of this "transitional" work, however, Cowper differs significantly from the major Romantic poets whose work his own most resembles. This is largely due to the strain of Evangelical Christianity that pervades the poem, as the result of his contact with the Evangelical Revival that swept England during the second half of the eighteenth century. The orthodox Christian doctrine and morality that underlie the Romantic themes in The Task, together with the …


Beckett's Manipulation Of Audience Response In Waiting For Godot, Robert Carl Themer Jan 1976

Beckett's Manipulation Of Audience Response In Waiting For Godot, Robert Carl Themer

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This thesis examines one of the many paradoxes of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot--that although on the surface Beckett reduces his characters to the barest minimum in human terms, the spectator still finds himself, mysteriously, identifying with those pathetic stage creatures and their plights.

The dual purpose of this paper is to examine the methods Beckett used to foster this sense of spectator-character likeness and to assess its impact upon the spectator. It explores the contrast between the near-caricatures, Pozzo and Lucky, and the more complexly humanized Vladimir and Estragon. It discusses Beckett's universalization of character, time, place, and …