Conrad's "Nostromo" And The Imagery Of Despair, Terry Lane Kimble

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Conrad ' s significance as a major novelist having been well established by the present time , one may justly turn attention to a consideration of whether Nostromo, his masterpiece, deserves the paradoxical ranking critics generally accord it as a flawed and essentially inexplicable work of genius . Nostromo is the focus of the present study, which establishes by extensive analysis that Conrad employs a complex imagistic technique, manifesting thereby not only thematic content but also compositional method. Basic to this technique is the tend ency to view a subject in terms of polarities , around which to cluster images …

The Five Old Testament Plays Of The Chester Cycle: A Paradigm Of Salvation-History, Richard Floyd Norlin

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

During the nineteenth century critics looked upon the English medieval cycle drama, or "Corpus Christi plays" as colorful folk art, having value to antiquarians but not meriting systematic critical attention. Consequently, the plays were treated chiefly from the standpoint of literary history. In more recent decades scholars have been making a fresh effort to understand and judge the Corpus Christi cycles as coherent works of religious dramatic art.

Of the four English cycles extant in manuscript---from Chester, York, Wakefield, and Lincoln·-- the cycle at Chester, though considered by some to be crude and simple, is widely regarded as the most …

The World Of James Thurber: An Anatomy Of Confusion, Catherine Mcgehee Kenney

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Poem No. 19, November 1973, Huntsville Literary Association (Huntsville, Ala.)

POEM

The Huntsville Literary Association was founded in 1967 to provide a community for writers, readers, and artists through workshops, readings, and educational programs. One of their key contributions is the literary magazine titled POEM which showcases original writings from both established and emerging writers. This issue highlights the work of Alice Moser Claudel.

Consideration Of Davitz's Theories On The Literary Aspects Of The Psychopathology Of Language And The Linguistic Literary Structures In The Novelistic Art Of Bernard Malamud's "The Fixer" And "The Assistant", Luena Schultz Minner

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A monograph presented to the faculty of the Department of English at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Luena Schultz Minner in August of 1973.

Sounds Of Anger In The Novelistic Art Of Robert Ruark's "The Honey Badger" And "Poor No More", Joyce Hamrick Kenney

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Communicators, Expressors, And Incitors In The Novelistic Art Of Theodore Dreiser And Upton Sinclair, Julia Marie Head

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A monograph presented to the faculty of the Department of English at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Sister Julia Marie Head in July of 1973.

Relative Power And Frequency Of Use Of /-Ing And /-Ed Affixes In The Short Story Art Of Three American Authors: Flannery O'Conner, William Saroyan, And Bernard Malamud, Patricia Rae Mcnamara

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A monograph presented to the faculty of the Department of English at Morehead state University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Sister Patricia Rae McNamara in July of 1973.

William Cowper’S The Task: A Study In Transition, Roy Leo Crady Jr.

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Hidden deep in the shelves of most libraries in England and America is an obscure, dusty volume of poetry containing one of the minor classics in the English language, a poem entitled The Task. Written by the eighteenth-century poet William Cowper, this very long and loosely structured poem won widespread recognition and acclaim in its day, only to gradually fade into a premature oblivion. Today The Task is known primarily to a handful of literary scholars whose arcane and esoteric business it is to go beyond the turnpikes of literary history into the labyrinthine lanes and paths of our literary …

Parma Eldalamberon Vol. 1 No. 3, Paula Marmor

Parma Eldalamberon

The Journal of The Mythopoeic Linguistic Fellowship

Parma Eldalamberon/The Book of the Elven Tongues is the journal of the Mythopoeic Linguistic Fellowship, a Special Interest Group of the Mythopoeic Society, interested in imaginary fantasy languages and all matters linguistic and philosophical, especially the diverse tongues of Middle-earth and the Low Worlds.

The Relative Striking Power, Duration, And Intensity Between The Metaphor In Hawthorne And The Flat Imagery In Hemingway, Shirley Ruth Sigley

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A monograph presented to the faculty of the Department of English at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Shirley Ruth Sigley in June of 1973.

From The Tide Pool To The Stars : A Study Of The Evolution Of John Steinbeck's Attitude Towards Good And Evil, Karen Wallace Bondonno

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

It was the purpose of my thesis to trace the evolution of Steinbeck's view, in his non-fiction of what the conflict between good and evil consists, along with the development of this concern, and its related stylistic influence, on his fiction, in order to show that Steinbeck's major concern was for man's relationship to this conflict.

I was alerted to the existence of an evolution in view in Steinbeck by the chance reading of his last novel, The Winter of Our Discontent, in juxtaposition with several early novels. In order best to follow this change, then, I read all …

The Movement Towards Freedom In Paul Goodman's The Empire City., Eliot Glassheim

English Language and Literature ETDs

The dissertation presents The Empire City as an outline of what freedom meant in the 1930-1960 era. Within the context of an increasingly deadening Empire, the characters shed their false assumptions and wrong habits, carve out some free space for themselves, and begin to perform free acts.

Chapter one discusses four components of free acts. Chapter two presents three traditions of thought which define Goodman's idea of freedom--Anarchist politics, Gestalt psychology, and Taoist metaphysics. Chapter three is an overview of the novel as a journey towards freedom.

The fourth chapter follows the developing idea of what politics should mean to …

Relative Intellectual Power In The Poetry Of Percy Bysshe Shelley And John Keats As Determined By The Relative Positions And Classes Of Adjectives, Francis A. Turner

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A monograph presented to the faculty of the Graduate School at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Francis A. Turner in April of 1973.

The Supreme Organ Of The Mind's Self-Ordering Growth, T. Y. Booth

Faculty Honor Lectures

As is true of other organs, when language is functioning well, we pay little or no attention to it or its complexities. Part of the difficulty, in fact, of doing justice to the problems of expression and interpretation that Richards asks us to deal with is that routine language experience occurs so effortlessly, so unconcernedly, so second-natured naturally, that when we do run into difficulties we do not always recognize them as difficulties of our developing language. Or, what can be even worse, we think of the language difficulties as if they were separable, as if the thought would be …

An Orientation Of The Theoretical Aspects Of Verbs In English, Mostafa Hedayatnia

Master's Theses

Traditional grammar originated in Greece in the fifth century B.C. and has been closely connected with philosophy and literary criticism ever since. Through the course of centuries, numerous grammars have been presented, with new ideas and definitions each "varying greatly in purpose, quality, basic assumption, and method of analysis." Each system of grammar has been productive in its own way as well as erroneous and has been succeeded by other systems still faulty. Consequently, in spite of the tremendous amount of theoretical data processed by investigators and experts, neither an explicit nor a complete grammar of a language has ever …

The Presuppositions Of Name-Calling In English, Robert S. Haller

Department of English: Faculty Publications

I have offered evidence that name-calling is a linguistic act which correlates the assumption of a status-relation between speaker and addressee with the use of terms marked (+abusive). To call someone a bastard, for.this reason, is not understood as the attempt to categorize him according to some term whose meaning, in the ordinary sense, is a list of lexical features. Rather it is the attempt to categorize him as without status in relation to the speaker himself, in defiance of his expectations, and because he has himself deserved it by himself invoking such a right over the speaker. This understanding …

William Caxton: Pioneer English Printer, Dana Crawford

Graduate Research Papers

It is the purpose of this study (1) to discover any factors in William Caxton's early life which might have led him to become a printer; (2) to learn how Caxton established. his printing press in England; (3) to examine Caxton's printing business in relation to his competitors; (4) to determine the quality of literature translated by Caxton and printed by his press; (5) to determine if Caxton did contribute to the standardization of the English language.

Volume Vii, Morehead State University. English Department.

Bulletin of Applied Linguistics Archives

Volume VII of the Bulletin of Applied Linguistics published by the English Department of Morehead State University.

Between Two Worlds Become Much Like Each Other: Man In And Out Of Time In The Four Quartets, James Thomas Jones

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Annotated Bibliography On Research In Written Composition Since 1963 Limited To Grades 7-12 And The First Two Years Of College, Avis Ann Ross

All Master's Theses

This paper presents an annotated bibliography on research in written composition since 1963. The sections are divided into research related to objective tools to describe students' writing, such as the T-unit developed by Kellogg Hunt; specific writing problems, such as dialect interference and hearing disorders; methods based on grammatical analysis to improve writing; and other methods to improve writing. Three areas recommended for further research are work with low ability level students, rhetoric, and spelling.

A Morphological-Poetic Approach To Hemingway's "Up In Michigan", George Robert Cripe

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Hemingway’s first short story, “Up in Michigan,” portrays the growth and destruction of a young girls’ romantic illusions about love through her infatuation with and seduction by an apparently gentleman who is really an insensitive brute. Hemingway explores this typically anti-romantic theme in what appears at first glance to be straightforward journalistic style. But the prose, like almost everything else in this story, is deceptive, for lurking beneath the flat surface of its denotative diction and simple syntax lie linguistics strategies and dynamically charged meanings through whose interplay the real disillusioning world of the story emerges. In thus concealing the …

Responses Of Students To An Introduction To Literature Class Compared With Responses Of The Same Students To High School Literature Classes, Warren E. Ask

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to investigate responses of students to an Introduction to Literature class taught by Mr. Alden Hanson at the University of Northern Iowa during the spring term of 1972 compared with responses of the same students to their high school literature classes. Four sources of information were used to gather data for the investigation: 1) At the beginning of the semester Mr. Hanson assigned a paper in which the students discussed their previous experiences with literature in former English and literature classes, their feelings toward literature and the study of literature, the types of literature …

Missives To Mythlore, Sharyn Lawler, Samuel S. Long, Ruth Berman, Andrea Osburne, Joy Chant

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

No abstract provided.

The Shire Post, David Ring

Tolkien Journal

No abstract provided.

Levels Of Interpretation, Bob Foster

Tolkien Journal

A brief look at Tolkien’s sources, particularly the medieval period as a cultural and moral source.

Parma Eldalamberon Vol. 1 No. 2, Paula Marmor

Parma Eldalamberon

The Journal of The Mythopoeic Linguistic Fellowship

Parma Eldalamberon/The Book of the Elven Tongues is the journal of the Mythopoeic Linguistic Fellowship, a Special Interest Group of the Mythopoeic Society, interested in imaginary fantasy languages and all matters linguistic and philosophical, especially the diverse tongues of Middle-earth and the Low Worlds.

The Language Of Invective In Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", Rosemary Faith Center

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A monograph presented to the faculty of the Department of English at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Rosemary Faith Center in June of 1972.

Stylistic Analysis Of Browning's Monologues Emphasis On Selected Poems, Kathleen Cool

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

An abstract presented to the faculty of the School of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Kathleen Cool in May of 1972.

Education For 1984 And After: A Symposium Of Deans Of Education And Leaders In Institutions Educating Teachers, Paul A. Olson, Larry Freeman, James Bowman

Department of English: Faculty Publications

I. Real Educational Needs and Strategies for Response

A. The Roots of Reform and the Demography of Supply and Demand

B. The Need for Teachers With Specialized Skills

C. Summary on Information Needed

"The Crisis of Confidence in Schools and Society " -- Dean Corrigan.

"The Preparation of the Teacher: An Evaluation of the State of the Art" -- Paul A. Olson

II. Targeted Education for Teachers and Access to Teacher Training

III. Accountability

A. The Concept of Accountability

B. Power Relationships: Accountability, Accessibility and Constituencies

"How Should Schools Be Held Accountable?" -- Murray Wax

"Review of Human and Social …