Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Institution
- Keyword
Articles 1 - 11 of 11
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
The Parties Quarrae, Michael E. Malone
The Parties Quarrae, Michael E. Malone
Institute for the Humanities Theses
During Thomas Jefferson's educational days in Williamsburg, Virginia, he was fortunate to have the association with three learned men, William Small, George Wythe, and Lt. Governor Francis Fauquier. The men met often at the governor's palace during the years 1760-64. Jefferson referred to their association as the "parties quarrae."
Most historians agree that the time spent with Small, Wythe, and Fauquier had profound influence on the establishment of Jefferson's "enlightenment" philosophy. Little, however, is known about the details of the regular meetings in the palace.
The focus of this creative project is the fictional discovery of Jefferson's "lost" Autobiography, finished …
Finding A Sense Of Ease In The Creation: Or, Pynchon's Disinformational Map To The Stars, Gregory Lee Kenyon
Finding A Sense Of Ease In The Creation: Or, Pynchon's Disinformational Map To The Stars, Gregory Lee Kenyon
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Beneath The Umbrellas Of Benevolent Men: Validation Of The Middle-Class Woman In "Little Women" And "Five Little Peppers And How They Grew", Sandra Burr
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Springing From The Same Root: Religion And Art In The Fiction Of Willa Cather, Christopher Richards Carter
Springing From The Same Root: Religion And Art In The Fiction Of Willa Cather, Christopher Richards Carter
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Debate, Social Criticism And Rhetoric In The Left Hand Of Darkness: An Analysis Of Strategy, Ellen Irene Elfstrom
Debate, Social Criticism And Rhetoric In The Left Hand Of Darkness: An Analysis Of Strategy, Ellen Irene Elfstrom
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Broken Branches: The Search For Ancestry In Toni Morrison's Novels "Song Of Solomon" And "Beloved", Joan Potter Thomas
Broken Branches: The Search For Ancestry In Toni Morrison's Novels "Song Of Solomon" And "Beloved", Joan Potter Thomas
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Americans Define Themselves In The New World, Judith Richards
Americans Define Themselves In The New World, Judith Richards
Masters Theses
The purpose of this study is to show how the different groups who settled in the English American colonies which later became the United States described themselves during the colonial period. The focal work is Letters from an American Farmer by Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. In his chapter "What is an American?" Crevecoeur goes into detail in his descriptions of settlers living in the American colonies just before the Revolutionary War.
Crevecoeur's descriptions are compared with those of earlier writers who wrote at the time of settlement. These writers are selected to be representative of their colony or region. …
A Proud Crow In A Pigeon's Nest: The Independent Zora Neale Hurston In "Mules And Men", Olivia T. Lo
A Proud Crow In A Pigeon's Nest: The Independent Zora Neale Hurston In "Mules And Men", Olivia T. Lo
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Perpetual Journey: Jonathan Edwards' "Personal Narrative" And Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Pamela A. Masden
The Perpetual Journey: Jonathan Edwards' "Personal Narrative" And Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Pamela A. Masden
Masters Theses
Scholarly readers seem to have avoided a comparison of the writings of Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) and Benjamin Franklin (1706-90). Although they were born three years apart, they are rarely represented in anthologies as having been contemporaries, primarily because Edwards was a Puritan preacher and Franklin was an "Enlightenment" politician and inventor. However, when we disregard these critical constraints and assumptions, we find that as writers and thinkers, they have a great deal in common.
In my thesis, I have examined the autobiographies of these contemporary works: Edwards' "Personal Narrative" (c. 1739-42) and Franklin's Autobiography (1771-88). The theoretical approaches of Jane …
Freedom And Association In The Poetry Of Robert Frost, Adrian Marcus Thirkell
Freedom And Association In The Poetry Of Robert Frost, Adrian Marcus Thirkell
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Killer Trees And Homicidal Grass: The Anthropomorphic Landscape In The American Prose Narrative Of The Vietnam War, Timothy F. Poremba
Killer Trees And Homicidal Grass: The Anthropomorphic Landscape In The American Prose Narrative Of The Vietnam War, Timothy F. Poremba
Masters Theses
Reading the landscape of Vietnam (the climate, the jungle, the topography) as an anthropomorphic character in the American prose narrative of the war provides a unique insight into the inner landscapes of the men who fought there and now write about it. William V. Spanos writes that the urge to name--to anthropomorphize--is man's method for dealing with the existential nothingness of being. Zohreh T. Sullivan, in discussing the landscape of Joseph Conrad, perceives landscape as a projection of the author's own psychic turmoil. Furthermore, Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space recognizes the imaginative value that man places on space, …