Creation And Beauty In Tolkien's Catholic Vision: A Study Of The Influence Of Neoplatonsim In J.R.R. Tolkien's Philosophy Of Life As “Being And Gift” (2020) By Michael John Halsall,
2020
The Hill School, Emeritus, Pottstown, Pennsylvania
Creation And Beauty In Tolkien's Catholic Vision: A Study Of The Influence Of Neoplatonsim In J.R.R. Tolkien's Philosophy Of Life As “Being And Gift” (2020) By Michael John Halsall, John Wm. Houghton
Journal of Tolkien Research
Book review by John Wm. Houghton of Creation and Beauty in Tolkien's Catholic Vision: A Study of the Influence of Neoplatonsim in J.R.R. Tolkien's Philosophy of Life as “Being and Gift” by Michael John Halsall
Song: The Emotional Storyteller In The Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe,
2020
College of the Holy Cross
Song: The Emotional Storyteller In The Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe, Sadie O'Conor
The Criterion
Edgar Allan Poe argues in his Marginalia column that “indefiniteness is an element … of the true musical expression.” Music is a powerful device for expression because of its intangible yet deeply rooted connection to human emotion; it captures ideas that cannot always be put into words. In a similar way, we can never truly “hear” music if it is only described on a page. Poe used this phenomenon on a literary level to illustrate a character’s deep, almost indescribable longing for something that they would rarely reveal to the other people in their stories. The references to instrumental music …
Aspects Of Character: Quantitative Evidence And Fictional People,
2020
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Aspects Of Character: Quantitative Evidence And Fictional People, Jonathan Cheng
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
“Aspects of Character” uses quantitative evidence to trace new timelines in the literary history of characterization. The guiding premise of this work is that digital libraries and mathematical perspectives can shed new light on the practices used to configure fictional people. Using texts from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, this dissertation analyzes how different aspects of characters have transformed throughout history, coordinating quantitative experiments with the critical perspectives of literary scholars. This project begins by analyzing the characterization used in works of fiction that were reviewed by prestigious publications. This first experiment pushes back on a historical truism about “well-crafted” …
Women's Self-Definition Through Poetry,
2020
James Madison University
Women's Self-Definition Through Poetry, Olivia Samimy
MAD-RUSH Undergraduate Research Conference
This project looks at five female poets across history – Anne Bradstreet, Aphra Behn, Forough Farrokhzad, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath – to explore the various challenges they faced writing in their patriarchal societies. Further, it looks at the way they each used their poetry to define themselves and their own identity. This project seeks to explain why this act of self-definition is significant, and why it so often drew criticism from the writers’ respective societies. What was discovered, is that the act of a woman crafting her own self-definition through poetry is a privilege in a patriarchal society, where …
Polyxena: A Study Of A Minor Character,
2020
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Polyxena: A Study Of A Minor Character, Susan Nakasora
The Mythic Circle
No abstract provided.
Golden Halls,
2020
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
The Creator Goes Into Town,
2020
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
The Elf Maiden,
2020
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
The Tale Of Zabia Lalka,
2020
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Rescue,
2020
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
The Magpie And The Ape,
2020
Independent
The Way Of The Wolf, The Way Of The Stars,
2020
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
The Way Of The Wolf, The Way Of The Stars, Tim Callahan
The Mythic Circle
No abstract provided.
Centaur War,
2020
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Sonnet Xliii: Old Hero,
2020
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
The Twenty-One Blue Horses,
2020
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Danaids,
2020
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Will Time Get Better,
2020
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Hand Of Fate,
2020
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Logos,
2020
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
The King's Mariners,
2020
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
