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Character Development In Representative Victorian Novels, George T. Mitchell

All Master's Theses

This is a study of how characters are developed in five

representative Victorian novels. Character is studied on the

basis of a moral stance which motivates actions. Because the

concept of the moral stance is primarily dependent upon the

individual character, the characters in this paper are studied

in relation to themselves. There are many events and relationships

in the novels which are not discussed here , aspects of

the respective narratives which would illumine other interpretations

but which are irrelevant to this particular study.

Qualities Of Prose, Victoria Louise Stokes

All Master's Theses

This paper identifies four qualities of prose: unity of content, cohesion, continuation, and tone. After examining handbook definitions, the need for new definitions of these qualities was evident. Each quality is defined and a type of catalogue of representative examples is offered to aid the definitions.

The qualities of prose are part of the overall act of communication and are offered only as theory. No attempt has been made to demonstrate how to write prose which would include the qualities.

Lights And Shadows - 1972, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

Front Matter

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Scott And Jamieson: The Relationship Between Two Ballad-Collectors, Harriet Harvey Wood

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Smollett's Humphry Clinker As A "Party Novel", Wolfgang Franke

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Sir Thomas Urquhart And "The Admirable Crichton", Constance Kidde

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

The Minor Poems Of Robert Henryson, I. W. A. Jamieson

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Dialect In The House With The Green Shutters, J. Derrick Mcclure

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Additions To Florence H. Ridley's "Check List, 1956-1968", Robin Fulton

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Contributors To This Issue

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Carlyle's Protean Letters: The Duke-Edinburgh Edition. I-Iv., Carlisle Moore

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

The Fool In Lear Exposes A Foolish Lear, Anthony John Cuccio

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Politics Of Henry Fielding: A Whig Journalist And Essayist, Martha Ann Klestinski

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Machiavellian Influence Manifested In Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine The Great And The Jew Of Malta, Carol L. Janssen

Masters Theses

The concepts developed by Niccolo Machiavelli and presented in The Prince exerted a profound influence on the dramatists of the Elizabethan age. However, before they were incorporated into Elizabethan dramas, these ideas were perverted and disparaged by Innocent Gentillet, Gabriel Harvey, Father Parsons, and others. The result of this perversion is that Machiavelli's original ideas are barely recognizable, at times, in the Elizabethan interpretations, of those ideas.

The key ideas of Machiavelli are these: the ruled majority of the people are passive, weak, mutable, inconsistent, simple, and ungrateful, so they can be easily subjected and controlled by the Prince; the …

An Annotated Bibliography Of Historical Fiction For The Revolutionary Period Of The United States, Glen Wayne Jordan

Graduate Research Papers

I chose to write an annotated bibliography for my research paper for I felt that I needed some knowledge of the kind of book material I will be working with in a secondary school library. This would give me a chance to look over and read many books that I have been unfamiliar with until now.

Dissonant Symphony: Multilevel Duality In The Fiction Of John Steinbeck, Raymond Griffith

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The American Dream And Its Culmination In Walt Whitman, Matthew F. Ignoffo

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Lethe, By David Garrick: A Critical Edition, James A. Luotto

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Dame Edith Sitwell's "Later Poems: 1940-1945", Ellen Misko

Dissertations

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Writer's Book By Sherwood Anderson: A Critical Edition, Martha M. Curry

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Chaucer And Fourteenth-Century English Thought, Gertrude Jurschak

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

More Unidentified Or Disputed Articles In Blackwood's Magazine, Brian M. Murray

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Four Issues Of The Poems Of Ossian, Robert Donaldson

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

The Ancient Mariner's Conversion : Coleridge, Religion, And The Rime, Meta Margaret Lale

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

My thesis that Coleridge employed universal images of the supernatural and traditional Christian symbols to illustrate the Mariner’s religious conversion in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The basis for this proposition is that Coleridge made religion the Rime’s theme. The following validations of the religious theme proposal will be offered in these chapters: (1) The religious theme synthesizes two popular but unsatisfactory thematic statements: “estrangement” and “sacramental vision.”; (2) Coleridge’s philosophical system is founded upon the postulation of a supernatural reality. The Mariner’s conversion may be seen as his change from Aristotelian conceptualism (which recognizes one reality - nature) …

The Echo Structure Of Death As A Regenerative Force In Clea, The Fourth Book Of Lawrence Durrel's [Sic] Alexandria Quartet, Mareta Suydam Tucker

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

One of the principal techniques used by Lawrence Durrell in creating the rich and varied Alexandria Quartet is echo structure. Echo structures of similar construction (ether directly stated or implied) suffuse the text with additional meanings and achieve thematic significance and completeness.

The symbolism of death and a new birth, or rebirth is a dominant means of conveying this in the Quartet, and particularly in Clea, its fourth and final book. Echo structure is created by the writer’s establishing actions, images, archetypes, allusions and characters in an early portion of the Quartet and generally suspending that entity until changed or …

The Poetry Of Gerard Manley Hopkins: An Incarnation Of Love, Jenny Norman

English Theses & Dissertations

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T. S. Eliot's Theory Of Dramatic Communication, Janelle G. Reinelt

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Thomas Stearns Eliot wrote only seven dramatic works, which include the unfinished fragments Sweeny Agonistes and the pageant play, The Rock. These works show the ways Eliot put into practice his own theories about the relationship of drama and verse. Although their relative merits are the subject of considerable critical controversy, each play affords a rich theatrical experience. This study attempts to assess the real value of Eliot’s work and seeks to explore the relationship between his avowed intentions to communicate in the theatre, and the finished product of his labors. Necessarily, we must examine his views on art, religion, …

The Stage History Of John Webster's The Duchess Of Malfi, Kathy Lynn Emerson

English Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

William Faulkner: Innocence, Idiots, And A Moral Order For Yoknapatawpha, Joseph Scott Drips

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi includes characters and situations that are often described as unexpected, abnormal, and even grotesque. Isaac Snopes of The Hamlet, Benjy Compson of The Sound and the Fury, and Jim Bond of Absalom, Absalom! represent three of the most extreme character portrayals found within the works of William Faulkner. They are described as idiots. This paper views these idiots as a continued development of a character type. To complete this study the idiots are described: (1) through the theme of innocence, (2) as a part of the moral order depicted in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, and (3) …