Grand,
2014
Georgia Southern University
Longing Eyebrows,
2014
Georgia Southern University
Longing Eyebrows, Eamon Loingsigh
Irish Studies South (Archived)
No abstract provided.
Seamus Heaney Memorial Reading College Of William And Mary, Virginia, Sept. 30, 2013,
2014
Georgia Southern University
Seamus Heaney Memorial Reading College Of William And Mary, Virginia, Sept. 30, 2013, Henry Hart
Irish Studies South (Archived)
No abstract provided.
Tuck It In,
2014
Georgia Southern University
The Music Of What Happens (In Memoriam: Seamus Heaney),
2014
Georgia Southern University
The Music Of What Happens (In Memoriam: Seamus Heaney), Julie Henigan
Irish Studies South (Archived)
No abstract provided.
Heaney And Ellmann At Emory,
2014
Georgia Southern University
Heaney And Ellmann At Emory, Ronald Schuchard
Irish Studies South (Archived)
No abstract provided.
To Seamus Heaney In Heaven,
2014
Georgia Southern University
To Seamus Heaney In Heaven, Iggy Mcgovern
Irish Studies South (Archived)
No abstract provided.
Editor's Note,
2014
Georgia Southern University
General Editor’S Introduction,
2014
Georgia Southern University
General Editor’S Introduction, John Countryman
Irish Studies South (Archived)
No abstract provided.
Table Of Contents,
2014
Georgia Southern University
Table Of Contents, John Countryman, Rand Brandes
Irish Studies South (Archived)
No abstract provided.
William Blake: The Misunderstood Artist Of The 19th Century,
2014
Minnesota State University, Mankato
William Blake: The Misunderstood Artist Of The 19th Century, Jeannie Campe
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
The purpose of this project is to examine the artistic vision of William Blake as well as his impact on literature. William Blake was one of the most misunderstood artists of his time, which led to a life of isolation and poverty. Determined to follow his “Divine Image,” Blake remained unappreciated until his twilight years, although he was still virtually unknown except for a small group of followers. William Blake is important today because of his innovative work stemming from his frustration with standard poetic tradition and techniques. This project explores Blake’s collection of poems entitled Songs of Innocence and …
Beowulf: God, Men, And Monster,
2014
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Beowulf: God, Men, And Monster, Emily Bartz
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem translated into Modern English in 2000 by Samus Heaney. My paper hypothesis that the central conflict of Beowulf is the struggle between the decentralising and supernatural ways of the ancients (Shield Sheafson, Gendel, and Grendel's Mother) and the centralising and corporeal values of modern heroes (Hrothgar, Beowulf, and Wiglaf). The poet traces a definitive move away from the ancient's pagan heroic values to his own Christian heroic values. However, as in the poet's contemporary culture, certain pagan traditions, such as familial fidelity, persist in Beowulf. The poet's audience, the Anglo-Saxons, honoured their pagan ancestors …
Mcwilliams, Ellen. Women And Exile In Contemporary Irish Fiction,
2014
Rhode Island College
Mcwilliams, Ellen. Women And Exile In Contemporary Irish Fiction, Maureen T. Reddy
Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought
No abstract provided.
The Queer Gothic Hero's Journey In Oscar Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Gray,
2014
University of Southern Mississippi
The Queer Gothic Hero's Journey In Oscar Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Kyle Leon Ethridge
Master's Theses
This study of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray argues that the novel participates in a Gothic subversion of the archetypal hero’s journey. The novel employs Gothic devices to supplant heroic narremes. As the novel progresses, both Dorian (as a type of hero-character) and the narrative repeatedly deny or subvert the normative idea of heroism later reified in Joseph Campbell’s archetypal theory. While Campbell’s hero attempts to secure and universalize a heterosocial story, Wilde’s hero is recuperated through a reconfiguring of normative failure as queer success. What is ostensibly a failure of the normative hero to achieve his quest …
A Document In Death And Madness: A Cultural And Interdisciplinary Study Of Nineteenth-Century Art Song Settings On The Death Of Opelia,
2014
University of Southern Mississippi
A Document In Death And Madness: A Cultural And Interdisciplinary Study Of Nineteenth-Century Art Song Settings On The Death Of Opelia, Jennifer Leigh Tipton
Dissertations
In the nineteenth century the character of Ophelia transformed from a minor role in Hamlet into one of the great muses of the Romantic period. Ophelia’s rise to an archetype of feminine madness was not a result of Shakespeare’s pen alone, but of the accumulation of interpretations of her character from actresses, artists, critics, writers, musicians, and social attitudes toward women. This paper focuses on nineteenth-century interpretations of her death, specifically art song.
A brief survey of the nineteenth-century European cultural and social climate pertaining to Ophelia is included in the paper:
*Shakespeare in France and Germany
*Nineteenth-Century Actresses in …
Wit In The Early Modern Literary Marketplace,
2014
University of Southern Mississippi
Wit In The Early Modern Literary Marketplace, Danny Childers
Dissertations
The concept of wit undergoes a transformation in the sixteenth century from having associations with the intellect, with its cultural productions, and with classical study towards more direct associations with the writing trade and with clever wordplay. This transition, as I will demonstrate, relates specifically to tensions between humanist culture and the early modern literary marketplace. This dissertation begins by examining the early sixteenth century humanists' concept of wit and goes on to examine the presentation of the concept by four late sixteenth century writers—John Lyly (1553-1606), Thomas Nashe (1567-1601), Robert Greene (1560-1592), and William Shakespeare (1564-1616). I argue that …
"Why Don't You Speak Ordinary English?" She Said Coldly: Linguistic Rebellion In "The Prussian Officer" And Lady Chatterley's Lover,
2014
Northern Michigan University
"Why Don't You Speak Ordinary English?" She Said Coldly: Linguistic Rebellion In "The Prussian Officer" And Lady Chatterley's Lover, Nicole R. Koroch
All NMU Master's Theses
Criticism of D. H. Lawrence’s novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, tends to focus on issues of sexual awakening, the natural world, and figurations of gender and power. However, little examination has been done on the instances of language as a rejection of authority through the character of Mellors, a returning soldier and a gamekeeper. In the novel, Mellors speaks both a “broad” vernacular as well as “proper” English and this linguistic variance reveals two significant aspects of Mellors’ character. Here, I will implement Jacques Derrida’s theory of differance to show that just as the “a” in differance, as a graphic …
Welsh Manipulations Of The Matter Of Britain,
2014
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Welsh Manipulations Of The Matter Of Britain, Timothy J. Nelson
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
"Welsh Manipulations of the Matter of Britain" examines the textual relationships between Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae and the Welsh Brut y Brenhinedd in the Cotton Cleopatra manuscript. This thesis initially provides an overview of the existing scholarship surrounding the Welsh translations of Geoffrey's Historia with a specific focus on the Cotton Cleopatra Brut. The textual examination of the two histories begins with an extended commentary on the general textual variations between the two texts before concentrating on the specific changes that were made in the Cotton Cleopatra to reflect the adapter's pro-Welsh nationalistic and political biases. The general …
Detecting Arguments: The Rhetoric Of Evidence In Nineteenth--Century British Detective Fiction,
2014
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Detecting Arguments: The Rhetoric Of Evidence In Nineteenth--Century British Detective Fiction, Katherine Anders
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
My dissertation argues that within the mid- to late-nineteenth-century British detective novel, the abductive arguments used to build circumstantial evidence (indirect evidence), or "clues," form the method of the detective, but those arguments are not logically certain. In order to resolve the mystery of the detective novel, to discover how the crime was committed and who committed it, circumstantial evidence proves insufficiently conclusive, so confessions, a more logically conclusive (direct) form of evidence, begins to appear frequently in detective novels. Confessions conclusively confirm the events of the crime, the guilt of the criminal, and reveal the inner workings of the …
Beyond The Pages: The Significance Of The Social Self Proposed In Jane Austen's Persuasion,
2014
Seton Hall University
Beyond The Pages: The Significance Of The Social Self Proposed In Jane Austen's Persuasion, Veronica Grupico
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
This paper focuses on Austen's novel Persuasion and how she rejects the Romantic notion of the self defined by individualism, which leads to the breakdown of society. Instead of the Romantic self, with its emphasis on self-examination, retrospection, and emotion, Austen advocates for an older notion of the self, a view based in eighteenth-century notions of social networks, mutual responsibility, and the moral function of emotion. Persuasion links Romanticism’s self, which was popular at the time that Austen was writing, with the breakdown of society, arguing that not just social stability but much-needed social vitality depends on the interdependence and …
