Detective Fiction Reinvention And Didacticism In G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown,
2014
Liberty University
Detective Fiction Reinvention And Didacticism In G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown, Clifford Stumme
Masters Theses
In the Father Brown stories, G. K. Chesterton reengineers the classic detective story so that it can be a vehicle for didactic messages. Through a rethinking of mysteries, a repurposing of secondary characters, and a subversion of Holmsean-type detectives, Chesterton is able to insert philosophic ideas into his stories while still entertaining readers. Differing from earlier detective stories, the Father Brown mysteries showcase an acceptance of the spiritual and a natural empathy for all characters whether criminal or no. In my research, I show how, through these stories, Chesterton posits messages that are new to the mystery genre and how …
Eye For The Gap: Frenzy, Liberty, And The Nietszchean Chorus In Conor Mcpherson's The Weir And Shining City,
2014
Georgia Southern University
Eye For The Gap: Frenzy, Liberty, And The Nietszchean Chorus In Conor Mcpherson's The Weir And Shining City, Frances Krieg
College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations
This study situates The Weir and Shining City by Conor McPherson as embodying elements of Dionysian aesthetics as elucidated by Friedrich Nietzsche. Working through the lenses of Samuel Beckett’s linguistic philosophy and the premium of theater as established by Nietzsche, Artaud, and Brecht, the aim of this paper is to demonstrate how McPherson pierces the boundaries of language in drama by establishing his audience as chorus. Background information on Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy and McPherson’s own comments on the plays are included with the research on the plays themselves. This work articulates the chorus itself but also the choral, …
Polish Or Work? Four Women Novelists And The Professionalization Of Accomplishment, 1796-1814,
2014
Wilfrid Laurier University
Polish Or Work? Four Women Novelists And The Professionalization Of Accomplishment, 1796-1814, Ada Sharpe
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
Polish or Work? Four Women Novelists and the Professionalization of Accomplishment, 1796-1814 examines the ways in which cultural models of accomplished, industrious femininity find expression in four novels written by women during the Romantic period: Amelia Opie’s The Father and Daughter (1801), Mary Brunton’s Self-Control (1811), Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian (1796), and Frances Burney’s The Wanderer (1814). This dissertation reads accomplishment as a pervasive and familiar cultural practice that writers use to interrogate domestic ideology and middle-class women’s position in commercial society within the space of popular fiction. I focus, specifically, on instances in which the genteel heroine turns privately …
The Role Of Strangers In Victorian Novels: A Psychoanalytical Study Of Their Repressions, Functions And Aspirations,
2014
Edith Cowan University
The Role Of Strangers In Victorian Novels: A Psychoanalytical Study Of Their Repressions, Functions And Aspirations, Mohammad Ahmed Al-Abdulrazaq
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
The aim of this study is to examine the stranger characters in three Victorian Novels, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. The exploration of the characters is based on the analysis of their psyche to understand how they are utilized by the Victorian writers. The study highlights how the fictional strangers can assist in the course of the action of the novel and function as a stimulus by which the actions and thoughts develop plausibly and feasibly. Utilizing the views of Freud, Erikson and others the study will allow for …
[Introduction To] The Cambridge Companion To Paradise Lost,
2014
University of Richmond
[Introduction To] The Cambridge Companion To Paradise Lost, Louis Schwartz
Bookshelf
This Companion presents fifteen short, accessible essays exploring the most important topics and themes in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost. The essays invite readers to begin their own independent exploration of the poem by equipping them with useful background knowledge, introducing them to key passages, and acquainting them with the current state of critical debates. Chapters are arranged to mirror the way the poem itself unfolds, offering exactly what readers need as they approach each movement of its grand design. Essays in Part I introduce the characters who frame the poem's story and set its plot and theological dynamics …
Situating Digital Archives,
2014
Dartmouth College
Situating Digital Archives, Michelle R. Warren
Dartmouth Scholarship
This essay is the introduction to an essay collection about the Middle English Prose Brut manuscript purchased by Dartmouth College in 2006. I consider how the competing pressures of access and preservation condition scholarship in medieval studies. I suggest several analogies between the digital humanities in general, digital philology in medieval studies, and the historical practices of medieval writers: hacking, dark archive, and prosthesis.
“A Power Beyond The Reach Of Any Magic”: Mythology In Harry Potter,
2013
Fordham University
“A Power Beyond The Reach Of Any Magic”: Mythology In Harry Potter, Daniella Rizza Fcrh '11
The Fordham Undergraduate Research Journal
J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter novels have over the last decade become a worldwide phenomenon, but why? It is perhaps because of the mythical elements that underlie Harry’s story, particularly the myths of the child and the hero. Comparing the Potter novels to works by mythological theorists Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, it is clear how Rowling both uses and updates traditional mythological structures and elements in the novels. The Harry Potter novels both incorporate the standard myths of the child and the hero, which accounts for the series’ immense ability to grab the reader, and update these myths, making Harry’s …
Civility And Gower's "Visio Anglie",
2013
Brock University
Civility And Gower's "Visio Anglie", Lynn Arner
Accessus
Deploying conventions from medieval courtesy manuals, Gower’s Visio Anglie assigned varied degrees of authority to Englishmen and women at the bodily level, a system of signification in which food, physical appearances, and overall comportment were key elements. Echoing courtesy manuals, the Visio constructed corporal marks of distinction, interpreted physical signifiers as indices of people’s inner character and value, and classified bodies into social groups accordingly. Offering understandings of civility that began with codes of bodily conduct and that expanded to claims about the cosmos, the Visio’s corporal regulatory system promoted particular understandings of citizenship and governance that sought to …
The Effects Of Processing Fluency On Restorative Environments,
2013
Indiana State University
The Effects Of Processing Fluency On Restorative Environments, Andrea Ahles
All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
White Pilgrim, The [Supplemental Material],
2013
Marquette University
White Pilgrim, The [Supplemental Material], Kate Barnhart
Gothic Archive Supplemental Materials for Chapbooks
No abstract provided.
Psychometric Analysis Of The Appreciative Advising Inventory,
2013
Indiana State University
Psychometric Analysis Of The Appreciative Advising Inventory, Nancy J. Crone
All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Analysis Of Stakeholder Expectations Of Effective Indiana High Schools,
2013
Indiana State University
Analysis Of Stakeholder Expectations Of Effective Indiana High Schools, Doug Miller
All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Effects Of Autonomy-Supported Learning On Academic Achievement In Indiana Schools,
2013
Indiana State University
Effects Of Autonomy-Supported Learning On Academic Achievement In Indiana Schools, Nicole L. Singer
All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Ncaa Compliance: An Examination Of Ncaa Division I Compliance Officers’ Perceptions On The Educative Process,
2013
Indiana State University
Ncaa Compliance: An Examination Of Ncaa Division I Compliance Officers’ Perceptions On The Educative Process, Tonya L. Gimbert
All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Performative Gender And Pop Fiction Females: "Emancipating" Byronic Heroines Through A Feminist Education,
2013
Liberty University
Performative Gender And Pop Fiction Females: "Emancipating" Byronic Heroines Through A Feminist Education, Joy Smith
Masters Theses
"I can be a regular bitch. Just try me." With this phrase emblazoned across her t-shirt, Lisbeth Salander, pierced, tattooed, and bedecked in leather, waltzes from the pages of Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. This woman who subverts authority, maliciously tattoos and sodomizes a man, and intentionally distances herself from close relationships of any kind has somehow managed to capture both the attention and admiration of the American audience. This disheartening phenomenon stems from a renewed interest in the Byronic heroine, a female possessing those traits traditionally assigned to Byronic heroes and men, and the rise of …
To Lift The Leaden-Eyed: Ernest Boyer’S Career In Higher Education,
2013
Indiana State University
To Lift The Leaden-Eyed: Ernest Boyer’S Career In Higher Education, Drew Moser
All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Hardy, Darwin, And The Art Of Moral Husbandry,
2013
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Hardy, Darwin, And The Art Of Moral Husbandry, Owen Roberts-Day
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This study of the influence of Charles Darwin on Thomas Hardy's tragic novels centers on two key concepts in the work of Darwin. The first is Darwin's narrative of the evolution of morality, which describes moral decisions as a struggle for survival between various instincts, habits, and customs, both within the individual and within society as a whole. Of particular importance is the role of reason and sympathy in overcoming base and selfish instincts. The second is the idea, introduced in Origin, that the work of scientific breeders represents an act of Conscious Selection, a separate form of evolution …
Old English Ecologies: Environmental Readings Of Anglo-Saxon Texts And Culture,
2013
Western Michigan University
Old English Ecologies: Environmental Readings Of Anglo-Saxon Texts And Culture, Ilse Schweitzer Vandonkelaar
Dissertations
Conventionally, scholars have viewed representations of the natural world in Anglo-Saxon (Old English) literature as peripheral, static, or largely symbolic: a “backdrop” before which the events of human and divine history unfold. In “Old English Ecologies,” I apply the relatively new critical perspectives of ecocriticism and placebased study to the Anglo-Saxon canon to reveal the depth and changeability in these literary landscapes. Overall, this interdisciplinary study of Anglo-Saxon texts brings together literary and environmental sources and modes of inquiry to explore the place of humans (and non-humans) within the natural environments of Anglo-Saxon England, as well as the ways in …
What Jane Saw,
2013
Mount Holyoke College
What Jane Saw, Kate Singer
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
Review of Professor Janine Barchas' "What Jane Saw?" a website that reconstructs Joshua Reynolds's 1813 retrospective art exhibit, which Jane Austen attended, with particular attention to the Regency social and cultural history depicted in Austen's novels.
Frances Burney’S Cecilia: A Publishing History, By Catherine M. Parisian,
2013
Indiana University South Bend
Frances Burney’S Cecilia: A Publishing History, By Catherine M. Parisian, Lee Kahan
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830
No abstract provided.
