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J.R.R. Tolkien's Calendars, Or The Saga Of Hador The Incompetent, Darrell A. Martin

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Finds inconsistencies in The Lord of the Rings appendix relating Middle-earth’s calendars to the Gregorian.

The Effectiveness Of Fiction Versus Nonfiction In Teaching Reading To Esl Students, Becky Kay Appley

Dissertations and Theses

In recent years with the growing emphasis upon communicative activities in the classroom, controversy has risen as to which type of reading material is best for teaching reading in the ESL classroom, fiction or nonfiction.

A study was conducted with 31 students of which 15 were taught with non-fiction and 16 were taught with fiction. Both groups were taught the same reading skills. Each group was given three pre-tests and three post-tests in which improvement in overall language proficiency and reading comprehension in the areas of main idea, direct statements and inferences was measured. Also, each group was observed for …

Reviewed Works: The Philosophy Of Language In Britain: Major Theories From Hobbes To Thomas Reid. By Stephen K. Land; The Figural And The Literal: Problems Of Language In The History Of Science And Philosophy, 1630-1800. By Andrew E. Benjamin; Geoffrey N. Cantor; John R. R. Christie, James C. Mckusick

English Faculty Publications

Review by James C. McKusick. The Philosophy of Language in Britain: Major Theories From Hobbes to Thomas Reid. by Stephen K. Land; The Figural and the Literal: Problems of Language in the History of Science and Philosophy, 1630-1800. by Andrew E. Benjamin; Geoffrey N. Cantor; John R. R. Christie. Some of the most interesting and important recent work in the intellectual history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has concerned itself with the philosophy of language in relation to science and literature. This kind of work promises a fresh understanding of the linguistic and figural basis of the …

Irish-American Fiction And The Ethnic Identity Of Irish-Americans, Mary Carty

Honors Theses

As the largest immigrant group in the history of the United States, the Irish have had a tremendous impact on American society. Politically, the Irish flooded city government offices, eventually working up to the nation's highest office. Economically, they swelled the ranks of the labor market that was so crucial to America's growing industry. Religiously, they took over the leadership and strengthened the establishment of the Roman Catholic church in America, bringing to it their own parochial brand of Irish Catholicism. The Irish also influenced American culture with their successes in literature and the arts, and with their widespread emphasis …

Cradle Of The Copperheads: Education And The Career Of Jesse Stuart, Paul Douglass

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

No abstract provided.

Quenti Lambardillion: Turkish Delight, Paul Nolan Hyde

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Addresses the wealth of material in The Lost Road and Other Writings, the fifth volume of The Histories of Middle-earth, and uses it to attempt a translation of the “1916 Quenya poem.”

Letters, Stephen Schaper, Diana Lynne Pavlac, Jorge Quinonez, Loretta Gallagher, Betty J. Irwin, Bob Acker, David Doughan

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

No abstract provided.

The Silmarillion As Aristotelian Epic-Tragedy, David Greenman

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Illustrates how the First Age narratives in The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales implement key ideas from Aristotle’s Poetics. Identifies the history of the first age as Aristotelian epic-tragedy.

Three Worlds In Sidney’S Defence, Joseph Fargnoli

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter Vol. 12, Nos. 3, 1988, Eugene O'Neill Society

Eugene O’Neill Newsletter

The Eugene O’Neill Newsletter is the official newsletter of the Eugene O’Neill Society, an organization of scholars, theater professionals, and enthusiasts, which began meeting in 1978. This publication, created by Suffolk University Professor Fred Wilkins in 1977, started off as part newsletter and part academic journal. In 1989, the publication name was changed to the Eugene O'Neill Review to denote its focus on scholarship. In recent years, the O'Neill Society re-started publication of the newsletter. This site includes newsletter issues from 1977-1989. Newer issues are available on the Eugene O'Neill Society website: https://www.eugeneoneillsociety.org/newsletters.html

Joyce, Wittgenstein, And The Problem Of Representation; Or Why Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake, Robert Mcnutt

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Verbal Geographies: Synge's Playboy Of The Western World, Elizabeth Grubgeld

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

"Words Moving Secretly Toward Some Goal Of Their Own": The Rhetorical Use Of The "As If" In The Fiction Of Flannery O’Connor, Kellie Renee Rayburn

Theses Digitization Project

In an effort to reach readers who do not share her strict Roman Catholic beliefs, Flannery O'Connor employs a number of persuasive devices. Prominent among those devices is her rhetorical use of the "as if" construction. As a theoretical joining of the "reality" of this world with the "unknown" of the supernatural, the "as if" introduces "mystery," a vital part of the reader's experience with any of O'Connor's fictional works. By closely examining O'Connor's various uses of the construction in her short stories, the "as if's" differing effects on the reader become apparent. These effects are further demonstrated by a …

Augustine And America: Five Contemporary Autobiographical Works, Dennis Gillespie

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Prescribed Passivity: The Language Of Sexism, Julia Penelope

Department of English: Faculty Publications

The recent controversy concerning the use and reference of so-called "generics" in the English language reveals the extent, if not the nature, of the political investment at stake in preserving the myth of generalized reference. Before I offer my data and observations regarding this myth, I wou1d like to emphasize that the arguments supporting generics, especially man, men and mankind, are not substantive, but political, and those who would like to maintain the use of masculine nouns as general references are relying on popular misconceptions, not linguistic data. Of course, if linguistic history provides clues to the outcome of this …

A Contextualized Grammar Proficiency Test Using Informal Spoken English, Sally Wellenbrock Hinrich

Dissertations and Theses

Intensive college-level ESL programs typically focus on building students' academic skills in English. Yet many ESL students leave the intensive programs only to find that they cannot sufficiently comprehend conversations with native English-speaking classmates or understand freshman-level lectures. While the students frequently perceive the problem as relating to the rapid speech tempo used by native speakers, an integral part of the comprehension problem is the pervasive use of modified forms of English, commonly called reductions, contractions, and assimilations.

The present research investigates whether comprehension of certain modified forms of spoken informal English can be used to measure students' level of …

Husbands And Gods As Shadowbrutes: Beauty And The Beast From Apuleius To C. S. Lewis, Gwenyth Hood

English Faculty Research

In the center of his long narrative, The Metamorphoses, (translated by Robert Graves under the title The Golden Ass) and composing a large part of the story, Apuleius inserts the tale of "Cupid and Psyche." Like most of the tales interwoven into the narrative, it had been popular before his time, and many parallel tales exist in the folklore of widely separated cultures. The most famous modem version is the French tale, "Beauty and the Beast" which inspires popular artists to this day. The myth also underlies the genre of the gothic romance, for example, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre …

Urbanity In An Urban Dialect: The Poetry Of Tom Leonard, Ronald K. S. Macaulay

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Construction Of Meaning In Macdiarmid's "Drunk Man", Christopher Whyte

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Contributors

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Tutoring German Esl Students, Sabina Mussgnug

Masters Theses

Tutors of American university writing centers can be invaluable advisors for German ESL students who come to study in the United States. The tutors can directly assist German students in coping with their particular academic and cultural difficulties.

German students must adapt to the American academic conventions to become successful students at their U.S. universities. The tutors can point out to them the features of the American academic standard and show them effective methods for learning and studying in the American environment.

The American academic standard includes the students' almost perfect reading comprehension. Students must be prepared for heavy reading …

Quenti Lambardillion: A Phoenetic Analysis Of Tolkien’S Invented Languages: Consonants, Paul Nolan Hyde

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Detailed analysis of the consonant structure of Quenya, Sindarin, Black Speech, Adunaic, Hobbitish Westron, and Khuzdul.

An Annotated Bibliography Of Works Both By And About Cleanth Brooks 1977-1984, Marian Kidd Riggar

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

The bibliography will be presented in four sections. The first will be a chronological listing of all entries, divided into two sections: entries by Brooks and those about Brooks. The list is an inclusive one of works indexed by the MLA and Essays in General Literature. The second section will present these entries with the accompanying annotations and will be divided into four content groups: William Faulkner; Southern Literature (excluding entries pertinent to Faulkner); Criticism; and Miscellaneous. These entries will be arranged chronologically within each section, but will not be divided into groups according to author. This content grouping is …

Tolkien's World-Creation: Degenerative Recurrence, Robley Evans

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Argues The Lord of the Rings’s structure is an inversion of that of The Silmarillion, closely linking the two. Notes “some of the elements that are inverted and the pattern in which they appear.”

From Under Mountains To Beyond Stars: The Process Of Riddling In Leofric's The Exeter Book And The Hobbit, Christopher L. Couch

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Compares the nature and function of the riddles in The Hobbit with their source in such Anglo-Saxon riddles as those collected in The Exeter Book, which were meant to provide spiritual instruction as well as mental exercise and a dose of humor.

J.R.R. Tolkien: Creative Uses Of The Oxford English Dictionary, Paul Nolan Hyde

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Considers how important word choice was to Tolkien in his fiction, no doubt a result of his philological training and work on the OED. Tolkien frequently chose historical rather than modern versions of words, causing great confusion to editors and proofreaders.

Archaic Pronouns In The Lord Of The Rings, Betty J. Irwin

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Notes Tolkien’s careful use of the archaic forms of English pronouns to indicate significance, relationship, or affection. He uses them “sparingly but effectively.”

An Index To Mythlore, Issues 1 To 50, Patricia Reynolds

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

By author and subject.

Robert Giroux Speaks About Thomas Merton: An Interview From The Thomas Merton Oral History, Victor A. Kramer

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

Quenti Lambardillion: A Column On Middle-Earth Linguistics, Paul Nolan Hyde

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Discusses the structure of the Angerthas or Cirth, the runic alphabet used primarily for incision in stone or wood. Transcribes passages in runes from The Hobbit and a 1947 postcard sent to Katherine Farrer.