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Dickens' Social Criticism With An Exemplification Of It In Three Of His Novels, Loraine Kreuz

Bachelors’ Theses

The humanitarian novel, with which Dickens' name is preeminently associated, is the most available record of the deep and far-reaching philanthropic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1938 --, Phi Sigma

The Voice of the Phi Sigma

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1938 February, Morehead State Teachers College. English Department.

Quill & Quair Magazine

1938 February issue of the Quill & Quair magazine.

Hawthorne's Women, Catherine Kraemer

Bachelors’ Theses

As prescribed by the law of widowhood, a twenty-seven years’ old woman had begun its hindoo-like observance by seclusion, - a seclusion which only death, forty years later, would break. Seldom after this event was the four-year old boy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, to have any close family ties with his bereaved mother whose husband died at sea. It was the beginning of events and factors which were to overshadow Hawthorne’s attitudes and reactions to womanhood, and which would ultimately be cast in his novels.

There were three women who were to indelibly impress the receptive mind of Hawthorne; they were: Mrs. …

A Comparative Study Of Four Autobiographical Novels, Florence Marion Olson

English Language and Literature ETDs

The purpose of this study is to analyze and compare four biographical novels written in the century ending with the year 1914 and to note especially the growth in the conception of personality which resulted primarily from the introduction of the new sciences.

Prototypes Of Meredithian Characters, Esther N. Herseth

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

"If a man's work is to be of value the best of him must be in it," wrote George Meredith to Mrs. J. B. Gilman of Concord, Massachusetts. To this credo he subscribed during this long career as a writer. The rare gifts of a richly endowed nature he brought to his work, for he was a philosopher, a poet, a humorist, and a subtle psychologist. The characters he created in his novels add much to his merit as a writer and it is with the delineation of certain of these characters and their prototypes in actual life, that I …

Some Aspects Of Education In The English Novel Of The Nineteenth Century, Dorothy M. Bailey

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The "Oblique Light" Of George Meredith's Social Philosophy, Helen Leitenstorfer

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Walt Whitman As A Critic Of Literature, Maurice O. Johnson

University of Nebraska Studies in Language, Literature, and Criticism

In these pages the emphasis will be placed not upon Walt Whitman's literary theory, but upon the theory which underlay his criticism of other writers, both ancient and modern. Whitman made ample statement of his literary theory, and it has been expounded by almost everyone who has had anything to say of the poet himself, of his Leaves of Grass, or of his prose writings. To ascertain a theory upon which Whitman based his literary criticism one must examine his chaotic prose and scrappily recorded talk with an eye to selection and organization. One must with purpose arrange the materials …

A Discussion And Analysis Of The Novels Of Frank Norris, Albert Fred Mazzie

Bachelors’ Theses

In all my attempts to find some material on Frank Norris, I have been balked by tne scarcity of works written on his life and endeavors in the field of fiction. Many books have a chapter or references to discuss his novels. No one has yet written, however, to my knowledge, a book dealing exclusively with him and his untiring labors in writing the stories which he has left behind him.

Dramatic Technique In The Dido Episode Of Vergil's Aeneid, Mary Magdeleine Mueller

Bachelors’ Theses

My purpose in selecting Vergil’s tragedy of Dido as a thesis topic was to present this story from a different point of view than it is usually considered. A great deal of material has been written on various aspects of The Aeneid, but very little work has been done with the Dido episode, at least considering it as an exemplification of the characteristics of Greek tragedy. For this reason the ideas and statements given here are, necessarily, largely original and unqualified. The scarcity of authoritative sources created a difficulty, for there was decidedly little material with which to confirm …

The Poetry Of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Geraldine Cox

Bachelors’ Theses

The late Thomas Hardy once remarked that there were only two great things in the United States: what he called our "recessional buildings", and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Such praise of Miss Millay's work is proof that she has reached an enviable position in twentieth century li­terature. To our way of thinking such approbation from the late dean of modern novelists exceeds even the honor of winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1922 with the poem, The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver.

Dickens' Interest In The Theatre, Alberta M. Speicher

Graduate Thesis Collection

In this study I have not been concerned with Charles Dickens as the man, or humorist, or novelist; but I have confined my investigation to Charles Dickens' interest in the theatre.  I shall show how he tried to express his theatrical ambitions by acting, producing, and directing plays though he was really a novelist; and how his entire career was colored by his interest in these various aspects of the theatre.

A Critical Study Of The Browning-Wedgwood Letters, Alma Augusta Shaffer

Theses

In 1864, three years after the death of his wife, Robert Browning engaged in a correspondence with Frances Julia Wedgwood, an intellectual spinster of thirty. Miss Wedgwood was a woman of distinguished ancestry, being a descendant also of Sir James Mackintosh, and a relation by marriage of Charles Darwin. Miss Redwood had long been an admirer of Browning's poetry. She herself had written several novels, so it was natural that sooner or later an occasion should arise when she and Robert Browning would meet.

Joseph Altsheler : His Contribution To American Fiction For Boys., Ona Belle Demaree 1898-1951

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Chivalric Ideal In The Work Of Sir Walter Scott, Margaret E. Remy

Graduate Thesis Collection

During the school year of 1936-1937 I became intensely interested in the study of the Chivalry as brought out in Dr. Harrison's graduate course on The Arthurian Legend.  I was curious to know how Sir Walter Scott, with some of whose novels and poems I was acquainted, had used the chivalric ideal in his work.  Out of that curiosity grew the desire to study further the chivalric ideal and its relation to Scott.  The result of my study of the past year is the survey following.

What Is Literature?: An Attempt At A Philosophical Definition, Donald James Ranney

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Abraham Cowley, The Transitional Poet, Stella F. Sheehy

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

American Elements In The Drama Of The Revolutionary Period, Geraldine E. White

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Coleridge's Idea Of The Drama As The Basis Of His Shakespearean Criticism., Virgina Seabert

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Of Ellen Glasgow. An Inscribed Portrait, Ellen Glasgow, James Branch Cabell

Of Ellen Glasgow: An Inscribed Portrait

The Of Ellen Glasgow: An Inscribed Portrait booklet shown here is James Branch Cabell’s own copy with its mailing envelope. It notes it is a hand-printed in an edition of "Ninety-seven and twelve copies." (i.e., 109 copies), bound in grey wrappers, tied with red cord, with red lettering on front cover; in grey envelope.

The Holy Eucharist In Modern Poetry, Mary Pudentiana Baum

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Francis Thompson: The Man And The Poet In Sister Songs, Paul Lynch O'Connor

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Graveyard School Of Poetry, Mary Teresa

Bachelors’ Theses

Interest in the death theme has been pronounced all through the ages because the subject is of such vital importance to man. Poets and writers have expended their best literary efforts in treating death in its every aspect. The purpose of this thesis is to study in particular, a certain group of poets commonly spoken of as The Graveyard School. Their poetry on death will be treated in such a way as to show the hopelessness and pessimism of the various writers.

1937 November, Morehead State Teachers College. English Department.

Quill & Quair Magazine

1937 November issue of the Quill & Quair magazine.

An Analysis Of The Naturalism Of Frank Norris, James L. Loughlin

English Language and Literature ETDs

Long before Frank Norris was born (1870), a multitude of forces were at work shaping the civilization which was to form the background of his short life. Centuries before, the Reformation had occurred, and great minds since that time had been continually struggling to shape the confusion accompanying the new freedom into something compatible with the new universe in which a greater part of humanity found itself. Carl L .Becker, in one of a series of lectures at Yale University, as described the changes in thought since the Middle Ages.

The Critical Principles Of Irving Babbitt In The Light Of Those Set Forth In Jacques Maritain's Art And Scholasticism, Alice Willard Hollis

Bachelors’ Theses

The writings of Irving Babbitt have caused con­siderable comment in Catholic circles. First of all, be­cause his criticism of the trends of thought developed by Rousseau in the nineteenth century is so nearly like their own.

Sara Teasdale: Her Life And Work, Virginia Mcknight

English Language and Literature ETDs

This study of Sara Teasdale was made not only in an attempt to learn more about her as a woman and as a poet but try to relate the two, to explain why she wrote the type of poetry which she did, why some of her poems express such a joyous love of life and others such as disillusionment. The latter expression is more understandable when the facts of her life are known. The studies of her imagery and stanzaic forms aid in forming an opinion of her ability as a poet and also tend to characterize her as a …

John M. Synge In The Irish Literacy Renaissance, Willis D. Jacobs

English Language and Literature ETDs

It is one purpose of this paper to analyze the diction and syntax, in an attempt to establish the characteristics and peculiarities of the language. The analysis will be extended. Where did Synge acquire his powerful, flexible, and lilting dramatic cadence? The impish George Moore says that Synge listened to Ireland, "like a hare in a gap." ¹ Certainly the folk speech of peasant Ireland influenced the poetry of the plays. There are other influences too; and those this study hopes equally to explain.

English Didactic Verse Of The Eighteenth Century, Mary Bernard Byrnes

Bachelors’ Theses

Didactic poetry is defined by Edmund Gosse as "that form of verse the aim of which is less to excite the hearer by passion or move him by pathos than to instruct the mind and improve his morals."