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Rough On A Tangent, Cynthia Wynne Wooley

English Language and Literature ETDs

Rough on a Tangent is a novel which charts the progress of Rita, a novice detective in Los Angeles, as she follows her first real investigation to Madrid and back. The case concerns her housemate, Kurt, who gets involved with a spiritual cult which is using a new form of biochemical warfare to gain power. I have used the detective story genre to explore Rita's journey of self discovery. These first four chapters comprise part one of my novel.

The Anglican Clergy In The Novels Of Barbara Pym, Isabel Ashe Bonnyman Stanley

Doctoral Dissertations

Barbara Pym, a mid twentieth-century British novelist of manners, peoples her twelve novels and shorter works with Anglican clergymen and the "excellent women" of a certain age who are their parishoners. This study examines the development of clerical types in her novels, shows how these types are descended from earlier writers such as Jane Austen, the Brontës and Anthony Trollope and traces the fortunes of the mid twentieth-century Anglican Church in her work.

My research was facilitated by having access to Barbara Pym's letters, journals and personal papers in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and by having the opportunity to interview …

The Fable In Medieval Literature, Ashraf Abdel Fattah Eissa

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Patriarchy And Women: A Study Of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'", Margaret Victoria Delashmit

Doctoral Dissertations

Charlotte Perkins Gilman reached within her own gothic world for the inspiration for "The Yellow Wallpaper," and in doing so, she created a gothic heroine to whom women of her own and succeeding generations could relate. This study examines the elements in Gilman's life that helped her to create this story; but unlike many other studies, it treats "The Yellow Wallpaper" as a work of art apart from its author as much as possible. This study interprets the story as an example of the female gothic and examines Gilman's philosophy of literature and her skill in employing the narrative voice …

The Tongue's Worth: The Use Of Language To Preserve Culture In Havelok The Dane And The Mabinogion, Robin Davidson Smith

Theses & Honors Papers

Most Americans are unaware of how far back the cultural dichotomy goes, its source, or how significant it is in determining our behavior. Therefore, the use of language to preserve culture in Havelok the Dane and The Mabinogion is examined. The Mabinogion and Havelok the Dane are quite different in provenance, style, and purpose; yet, there are similarities. Each work has pathos, humor, excitement, and human emotion. Most importantly, each explores the questions of who we are, what we are, what we might become, and why we are, with seriousness, sympathy, and an occasional chortle at the ridiculousness of us …

A Harrogate Mystery, Laura Urness

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

A short story by Laura Urness.

Gold-Speckled Wings: Hawthorne And The English Romantics, Judith E. Carr-Beck

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the School of Arts and Science at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of Master of English by Judith E. Carr-Back on May 4, 1990.

Dante’S Ulysses And Guido Da Montefeltro: Anti-Epic And Anti-Confession In The Commedia, Katherine A. Oubre

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

Autobiography And The Language Of Memory, Maha Gamil Khairy

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Temporality And The Ontological Experience In The Works Of Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse And Edward Al-Kharrat The City Of Saffron, Maggie Hosni Awadalla

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Small Crimes Of Arthur Payne, Franklin T. Young

Masters Theses

Prologue

People ask how I could love a man with Arthur Payne. They say he was cruel, he sold out, he never loved me, that he thought no more of killing a man than a housefly. They're right. All Arthur cared about was the message he was created to deliver. Our shared days--the September afternoons we walked alone the shore at Cape Ann with our pants rolled up, and the fringe of the Atlantic foamed between our bare toes, or the city hours when Arthur followed me as I took pictures of black kids in scuffed British Knights trying to …

Knowing God In William Blake: A Study To Find Meaning In His Work Through Plato, Swedenborg, And Mystical Tradition, David B. Gabel

Institute for the Humanities Theses

This project takes a look into the philosophical and theological sources found in the work of William Blake as they culminate in his epic poem Jerusalem. This study includes an examination of the philosophies of Plato and Emanuel Swedenborg, the mystical pathway, the Jewish mystical tradition known as Kabbalah, and finally an examination of the works of Blake himself. We work from a three-fold premise: 1) that mystical experience occurs, 2) that archetypes exist in the collective unconscious, and 3) that these archetypes can be known through intuition and mystical experience. The focus is on those elements which are characteristic …

The Beach Scene In James Joyce's Novel A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man & Thomas Mann's Novella Death In Venice, Mona Hamed Sallam

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

"As If She Had No Secrets": Approach, Recognition, And Coming Of Age In Alice Munro's Lives Of Girls And Women, Catherine Laura Sweeney

Honors Papers

Munro's fiction contains these two elements at odds, in tension with one another, but they are, for her characters, part of the same process of reckoning with the world. Munro's protagonists, once inside the deep cave, find the familiar linoleum--and the cave itself becomes more mysterious because of this paradoxical discovery. Meanwhile, Munro herself seems to go through a similar process in the act of writing. Her likening of art to a pattern of approach and recognition is applicable to her work, and perhaps, to the work of many writers. Writers go into secret places, hoping to come out with …

The Irish-American Experience In The Novels Of William Kennedy: Ethnicity And Narrative Method, James B. Denigan

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

In Pursuit Of "Our Heroine's Biographer": A Study Of Narrative Method In Henry James' The Portrait Of A Lady & The Ambassadors, James C. Davis

Honors Papers

Henry James' novels The Portrait of a Lady (1881) and The Ambassadors (1903) are highly psychological; they address the complexities of the human mind, from motives and morals to flaws and potentials. The author is far more concerned with the way his characters' minds respond to events than with the events themselves. If we enjoy reading James it is largely because of the fascinating tensions he creates which give rise to these responses. Whether these tensions arise between characters or between an individual and his or her external circumstances, James sounds the depths of his characters' responses, demanding through the …

Gravity's Rainbow: Modernist Discourse Vineland: Postmodernist Discourse, Ted Mouw

Honors Papers

To locate Gravity's Rainbow as a postmodern text within modernist discourse is probably sort of an odd thing. Obviously, the books' thematic depictions of linguistic colonialism and discourse of control (capitalism), suggest the inscription of power relations into formulations of truth and rationality, and a postmodern analysis of discursive operations and hierarchies. Yet, I want to stress here the ways in which we have been oriented to access and reproduce the text through modernist discourse.

Frowning Babe Or Brightening Glance? Blake And Yeats's Particular Uses Of Metaphor, Daniel Muir

Honors Papers

The first significant evidence of Blake's influence on Yeats was the three volume edition of Blake's works published by Bernard Quarich and edited by Richard Ellis and W. B. Yeats in 1893. Within the history of Blakean criticism, the volume is unique. It is the product of Ellis and Yeats's occult viewpoints combined with enthusiastic but imperfect scholarship. The first two interpretative volumes of the edition, entitled "The System" and "The Meaning," include extreme restatements of other nineteenth-century interpretations, as well as several disposable ideas that reveal more about the editors' viewpoints than Blake's own. Among the most outlandish is …

John Dryden: Persuasive Principles In "Absalom And Achitophel" And "Religio Laici", Kathy Seymour Albertson

Legacy ETDs

No abstract provided.

The Fiction Of Truth: Intergenerational Conflict In The Life And Works Of Flannery O'Connor, Elizabeth Reed

Honors Papers

Aside from the fact that most of Flannery O'Connor's works are set in the South where she lived nearly her entire life, her idiosyncratic characters and the consistently horrifying fates that they meet could not seem further removed from the widely accepted image of the author herself.l This image, instigated by her loved ones and perpetuated by critics, is of a witty, intelligent, and above all else devout Catholic who was stoic in the face of a crippling disease that cut her life short. Despite the limits placed upon her by illness. O'Connor is described as having been socially receptive …

Situational Ethics In Wilkie Collins' "Woman In White" And "Moonstone", Flora Christina Buckalew

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Playing To Mean And Meaning To Play: A N Examination Of The Game Between The Poet And His Audience In "Sir Gawain And The Green Knight", Judy Cicatko

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

"The House Of Life" And "In Memoriam": The Relationship Of Death To Love And Art, Cathleen Marie Calvano

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

The Shaping Of Consciousness: Conventional Adventure Language And Gothic Imagery In James' "Daisy Miller" And "The Portrait Of A Lady", Andrea Mary Lafreniere

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Faces On A Bit Of Ivory, Mary Begley

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Seven Short stories Submitted as a Master's Thesis

The White Witch: Emily Dickinson And Colonial American Witchcraft, Amy M. Sparks

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Tristram Shandy And The Editors: A Question Of Reading Perspective, Karen Whisler

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Subtle Subversion: Gaskell's Use Of Scripture In Her Social Purpose Novels, Jennifer P. Morey

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

Christina Rossetti: A Feminist Visionary, Cindy K. Currence

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.

A Rhetorical Analysis Of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman, Gail E. Rogers Sulkin

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.