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Journey To The Frontiers Of Perception: How Women Wrote About The Westward Movement During The Nineteenth Century In Relation To Land, Animals, And The Domestic Sphere, Brandi Dale Spelbring
Journey To The Frontiers Of Perception: How Women Wrote About The Westward Movement During The Nineteenth Century In Relation To Land, Animals, And The Domestic Sphere, Brandi Dale Spelbring
Masters Theses
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Walt Whitman: The Optimism Of An Evolutionary Pantheist, Katherine R. Hults
Walt Whitman: The Optimism Of An Evolutionary Pantheist, Katherine R. Hults
Masters Theses
E.M. Forster may have best described Walt Whitman's prevailing optimism in the following passage:
He is the true optimist—not the professional optimist who shuts his eyes and shirks ... but one who has seen and suffered much and yet rejoices. He is not a philosopher or theologian; he cannot answer the ultimate question and tell us what life is. But he is absolutely certain that it is grand, that it is happiness, and that 'wherever life and force are manifested, beauty is manifested.' (Allen, World 52)
Whitman was aware of the social taboos and social evils of his time, witnessing …
Pirsig's Phaedrus: The Journey Of The Shaman, Joseph E. Levora
Pirsig's Phaedrus: The Journey Of The Shaman, Joseph E. Levora
Masters Theses
Robert Pirsig, in both his novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lila, explores the conflict one man has with the beliefs and values of the culture he is living in. This conflict leads him to mental collapse and eventually a kind of rebirth into a new outlook and way of viewing the cultural values and beliefs of the society he is living in. In this thesis, I propose that Phaedrus, the central character of both of Pirsig's novels, can be compared to a shaman. I am not suggesting that Pirsig deliberately intended the reader to view …