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An Analysis Of Form And Vision In Chekhov's Major Plays, Mary Moylan Oppenheimer
An Analysis Of Form And Vision In Chekhov's Major Plays, Mary Moylan Oppenheimer
Master's Theses
In his art Chekhov confronted and gave expression to the major questions of man's existence. It is the thesis of this paper that Chekhov saw the central fact and problem of life as that of displacement: that in life man frequently finds himself "out of place" either psychologically or physically (sometimes both) and that inevitably he is completely displaced by death.
Images Of Despair And Hope In Three Plays By Jean-Paul Sartre, Philip Lewis Preston
Images Of Despair And Hope In Three Plays By Jean-Paul Sartre, Philip Lewis Preston
Master's Theses
Jean-Paul Sartre has altered his outlook on life and his intellectual involvement in society several times during the last forty-five years, and further changes are certainly possible. Nevertheless, through his pro-communist stance during the years of French Occupation, his denouncement of the Communists after the 1956 Hungarian revolt, and his more recent position of anti-intellectualism, Sartre has endeavored to define how a man can achieve freedom and hope.
The Symbolist And Decadent Elements In The Lyrical Dramas Of Oscar Wilde, Nancy G. Nuckols
The Symbolist And Decadent Elements In The Lyrical Dramas Of Oscar Wilde, Nancy G. Nuckols
Master's Theses
The terms decadence, aestheticism, art for art's sake have been used interchangeably to describe the movement in literature that flowered during the 1890's in England. Despite the fact that the English aesthetics and decadents were a relatively small group, they were vocal and colorful. Many contributed to the numerous aesthetic and semi-aesthetic periodicals with such titles as The Chamelion, The Butter, The Rose Leaf, and The Hobby Horse. In this way the decadents presented the new trends in art and literature to the general public. In London during the 1890's the literacy taverns were full of these decadent artists who …
The Method In Beckett's Madness : A Critical Study Of Samuel Beckett's Drama, Robert Grattan
The Method In Beckett's Madness : A Critical Study Of Samuel Beckett's Drama, Robert Grattan
Master's Theses
This paper presents an argument for a better under standing of Samuel Beckett's drama, a type of drama which is typical of our modern world, a drama of experimenta tion, of revolt, and of paradoxes. This is the Theater of the Absurd.