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Serious Domestic Drama As Tragedy : A Study Of The Protagonist, Charles Turney

Master's Theses

Domestic drama is the most popular genre employed by the modern dramatist. The question may arise as to whether or not tragedy is any longer desired by the playgoer. In these representative plays, taken from many countries and written on a variety of themes all centered around domestic life, as judged by the criteria established in the first chapter, few of these dramas succeed as tragedies. This is not to be interpreted to mean that the so-called "tragic impulse" is dead. Those plays which are classed as tragedy are pure tragedy-- dramas at the peak of intensity demanded by the …

Roger Ascham's Unrecognized Contributions To Education In The Schoolmaster, Harold L. Askew

Theses

In the late sixteenth century, Roger Ascham, English scholar and author, wrote The Schoolmaster, in which he outlined some principles of education and of learning. The purpose of this paper is to note some of these principles and to illustrate their use in education.

The Experimentalist, 1959, Vol. 5, No. 5, Suny Geneseo English Club

The Experimentalist

SANS MERCI ...................................Bruce A. Sweet 7
SELF RESIGNATION ......................... Richard Hilts 7
RENDEVOUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Prouty 8
I FEEL AS A MAN WITH A TORTURED SOUL ... John J. Carney Jr. 10
FREEDOM ................................... Jean Delfs 11
HATCHING A HORSE .......... retold by Mary Pavlik 12
TWO NOVELS BY FAULKNER ....... Eugene Healy 13
MATURATION ............................. Karen Kahkonen 15
LONELY SENTINEL ....................... Judy VerPlank 15
VINCENT IN THE MINES .............. Bruce A. Sweet 16
DIALOGUE ............................ John J. Carney, Jr. 18
THEDA …

A Streetcar Named Desire: A Study Of Determinism In Modern Drama, John Skelly Kundtz

Master's Theses

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Realism Of Garbriel Marcel, John R. Crocker

Master's Theses

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Symbolism In The Short Stories Of Katherine Anne Porter, Mary St. Peter Smith

Master's Theses

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The Nature Of The Absolute In The Writings Of Solovyev With An Appendix Containing An Unpublished Translation Of Chapters Forty-Three And Forty-Four In Solvyev's Criticism Of Abstract Principles, Edward Casimir Wojciechowski

Master's Theses

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Richard Ii On Tv: A Critical Analysis Comparing The Nbc Television Production With Shakespeare's Original Play, James A. Brown

Master's Theses

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Coventry Patmore's "Psyche's Discontent" And The Child's Purchase": An Explication, Kevin Edward Gallagher

Master's Theses

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The End Of The Affair And The Religious Sentiments Of Graham Greene, Michael Gallagher

Master's Theses

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Hamlet: A Study In Dramatic Art, John Francis Keating

Master's Theses

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The Wreck Of The Deutschland": Seed Poem In The Flowering Of Gerald Manley Hopkins' Poetry, Marie Jeanne Petrone

Master's Theses

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Look Homeward, Angel: Great American Novel, Richard G. Polakowski

Master's Theses

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The Counting House, A Play In Three Acts, Robert Joseph Helland

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This play concerns a revolution that occurs in a small, independent nation. The nation is called Hebrus, and it is a jungle country. One great industry has made the land prosperous, an industry founded by a brave, hard, and ambitious American. His name was Gemaedan. The wealth that the industry gave him, and the power that was hie as its owner made him a proud man. The people of Hebrus loved him. As he grew older, and wealthier, he returned to America. He died there, leaving to hi son , Max, a symbol of his power: the machete he had …

William Faulkner As Moralist : A Fable, Jean Marie Anderson

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In August, 1954, William Faulkner’s twentieth book of fiction, A Fable, was published. As might be expected by anyone knowing of Faulkner’s previous career and critical reception, the reviewers received it with widely divergent opinions. None seems to have found the book an unqualified success, the word “failure” occurs in many of the reviews, and a number confess inability to find motivation for various actions or the pertinence of certain episodes, More than one reviewer reveals quite obviously that he has not been able to follow the plot.

As a matter of fact, the runner is one the few main …

A Historical Survey And Evaluation Of The Most Prominent Theories That Shakespeare Did Not Write The Works Attributed To Him, Lola Vida Johnson

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The question of the authorship of the plays, poems, and sonnets traditionally attributed to the pen if William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon has now been before the public for over one hundred years. Many of the most noted poets, playwrights, and nobles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have been assigned the authorship of these works. The controversy can be compared to the controversy over Homer’s authorship. In 1975, Friederick Augustus Wolf proposed that Homer did not write The Iliad and The Odyssey. By 1900, Wolf had been disproven, but the question was one of great importance when it was first …

Our Nature Still: Three Original One-Act Satirical Dramas, Valdon Laverne Johnson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

To almost every student of literature, there inevitably comes a desire to create literature which is of his own making. The three plays which comprise this thesis represent this writer's attempt to accomplish two ends: first, to make literature of his own, and second, to work with the techniques of playwriting.

The Intellectual Identity Of James Branch Cabell, Tom Towers

English Language and Literature ETDs

The literary career of James Branch Cabell is as strange as any in the entire history of American letters; certainly it is unparalleled in the twentieth century. The nation's most famous critics, within a single decade, lionized and anathematized Cabell to extents seldom matched in the criticism of this century. For a time, every American with any intellectual ambitions read eagerly each new Cabell novel; and then, almost at the moment of Cabell's greatest popularity, the very critics who had made him an international literary figure suddenly saw in him a villain responsible for the appalling emptiness of American literature, …

Terre Haute During The Civil War, Ronald H. Ridgley

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Shoulder The Sky, Frederick P. Hayes

English Language and Literature ETDs

An original manuscript by the author.

An Experiment In Copper Repousse Of The Stations Of The Cross, M. Winifrid, Sister O.S.B. Mesker

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A Study Of The Teaching Combinations In The Public Secondary Schools Of Indiana During 1955-56, Leonard Paul Murtaugh

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The Boyhood Influences Reflected In Ernie Pyle's Life And Writing, Sidney M. Silverman

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A Study Of The Opinions Held By Indiana Public School Music Teachers About Certain Means Of Strengthening Their Relations With Their Communities, Philip L. Shields

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Religion And Tradition In The Novels Of George Eliot, Viva Fisk

English Language and Literature ETDs

Readers and critics of the past have overemphasized George Eliot's loss of belief in the literal truth of Christianity to the extent that they have read her novels as rationalistic attacks on religion. She never denied religious values: her religion broadened to include such concepts as the value of tradition, of values inherited from the past, and of love and understanding as social forces. I turn to the novels to show these attitudes and ideas of George Eliot about religion and tradition precisely because so many commentators have neglected the novels and written only about women.

Brand Whitlock: His Life And His Fiction, Juanita Smith Kytle

English Language and Literature ETDs

Brand Whitlock lived a varied and active life during an extremely complex period of our history. The threads have not, by any means, been disentangled, but there are some generalizations which may be made. Even though they offer the difficulties that all generalizations do, the following tentative conclusions may be of some help in fitting the man into his time; they may be used, perhaps, as a framework on which to hang the complexities.

Early And Modern Criticism Of Browning's Pauline, Paracelsus, And Sordello, Leota Jean Lapaz

English Language and Literature ETDs

A study of certain of the critical comments -- both favorable and unfavorable -- that have been published on Pauline, Paracelsus, and Sordello should add materially to a better understanding not only of the poems themselves, but also of their relation to the totality of Browning's work. Such a study is the subject of this thesis, which may be regarded as having a three-fold purpose: (1) To focus attention upon the three poems with which Browning began his career; (2) to establish and comment upon early and modern critical opinions of the poems; and (3) to determine whether …

The Art And Mind Of O. E. Rølvaag, Paul M. Reigstad

English Language and Literature ETDs

This study is primarily a discussion of the novels of the Norwegian-American writer, O. E. Rølvaag. Though one cannot read his books without recognizing their importance as historical documents and social criticism, my main objective has been to consider his merit as a literary artist rather than to evaluate his cultural program. I have quoted frequently from his letters, many of which here appear for the first time, in order to reveal the development of ideas that recur as dominant themes in the novels.

Myth In Marlowe's Dramas, Agnes Therese Hinkley

English Language and Literature ETDs

To be intelligible to his age, a playwright must mirror and reflect the feelings and thoughts of the age, and Marlowe is no exception. How did Marlowe help shape Elizabethan myth through his imaginative use of myth in his dramas? How did he use Renaissance myths as the bases for his tragic conflicts? Two points of view are considered in this examination of myth in Marlowe's dramas: (1) the nature or the myth; (2) the structural importance of the myth

Provoking Pandora: The Use Of The Pandora Symbol In English And American Literature Since The Elizabethan Age, Hilda Collins

Theses & Honors Papers

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