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The Changing Village: Loss Of Community In John Galt's Annals Of The Parish, Ann Roberts Divine

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Barbour's Bruce And Haryls Wallace: Complements, Compensations And Conventions, Grace G. Wilson

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

The Turns Of Reader-Response Criticism, Steven J. Mailloux

English Faculty Works

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The Irish-American Experience In The Novels Of William Kennedy: Ethnicity And Narrative Method, James B. Denigan

Dissertations

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San José Studies, Winter 1990, San José State University Foundation

San José Studies, 1990s

Volume 16, Issue 1

Gender And The Search For Identity In Gwendolyn Macewan’S Julian And Noman Stories, Anne Marie Martin

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This thesis looks at the theme of gender and the search for identity in three fictional works of Canadian poet and novelist Gwendolyn MacEwen. The works considered are her first novel Julian the Magician (1963) and her two collections of short stories Noman (1972) and Noman’s Land (1985).

The thesis examines the way self-identity is characterized and considers the way gender is presented in relation to the self. The work shows the development of MacEwen’s idea of self from a creative eternal force equivalent to the Christ image in Julian the Magician to an eternal force that finds its expression …

John Dryden: Persuasive Principles In "Absalom And Achitophel" And "Religio Laici", Kathy Seymour Albertson

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

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Leadership Theories And Practices To Strengthen Student Activities: A Case Study Of The University Of Northern Iowa English Club, Deborah Lyn Hoepner

Presidential Scholars Theses (1990 – 2006)

As a senior at the University of Northern Iowa ( UNI), my project to fulfill a segment of my Presidential Scholarship is to plan and propose a structure change for leadership within the UNI English Club. Currently, I am acting as an intern for the English Department. For my internship, I act as the student contact for the four student organizations/activities within the department: English Club, Inner Weather, Sigma Tau Delta, and The Student As Critic Conference (an annual, state wide essay competition held on campus).

The written components of my project consist of a paper dealing with a proposal …

Language And Identity In Sophie’S Choice, Elizabeth Ruth Bingham

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Sophie Zawistowska, the title character in William Styron's novel Sophie's Choice, has a severe identity problem. She acts as dutiful daughter, unfulfilled spouse, desperate mother, impassioned lover, tragic victim, unquestioning accomplice, and guilt-consumed survivor. Many of these characterizations conflict directly with each other. Sophie also speaks six languages and identifies at various times with speakers of German, Polish, French, Russian, English, and Yiddish, language groups that often conflict, as well. Although Sophie has various identities, she doesn't have a unified sense of self. Her native land, Poland, with which she might identify, has an identity crisis of its own, as …

Authentic Sisters’: H.D. And Margaret Cravens, Robert Spoo

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

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Rilke And Le Guin, Barbara J. Bucknall

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

Seeks similarities in Rilke and Le Guin, especially in the power of naming and the view of death as a necessary part of life. Notes in particular parallels between Rilke’s Duino Elegies and The Farthest Shore.

An Inklings Bibliography (37), Joe R. Christopher, Wayne G. Hammond, Pat Allen Hargis

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

For entries 34–41 in this series, Hammond reviews Tolkien titles, Christopher reviews the Lewis material, and Hargis reviews Williams and the other Inklings.

Quenti Lambardillion: Among The Trees: Seeking The Spirit Of Narqelion, Paul Nolan Hyde

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

Further discussion of the poem “Narqelion” and several other poems composed around the same time.

Reviews, Glen H. Goodknight, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Joe R. Christopher

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

The Treason of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Two. J.R.R. Tolkien. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

Sold Into Egypt. Madeleine L'Engle. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Vampire in Literature: A Critical Bibliography. Margaret Carter. Reviewed by Joe R. Christopher.

Payer of Tribute. Margaret Carter. Reviewed by Joe R. Christopher.

Our Paper 12/1989, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

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The Middle-Earth Epic And The Seven Capital Vices, John L. Treloar S.J.

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

Examines Tolkien’s use of habitual evil choices of free beings leading to vices. Defines the seven capital sins more properly as vices, or habitual patterns, based on the work of Thomas Aquinas, and shows how Tolkien used them to give depth and motivation to characters in Middle-earth.

Edward Fitzgerald And Bernard Barton: An Unsparing Friendship, Jeffrey P. Martin

The Courier

This article details the correspodence between the "Quaker poet" Bernard Barton and famous literary figures of his era, especially his friend and fellow writer Edward FitzGerald. The source of the article is the Alfred McKinley Terhune Collection, found in Syracuse University's Special Collections. Barton's letters, which are often lively and full of fresh opinion, are (thankfully) still valued today, both for the subjects they deal with and for the people they address. As one critic has stated, "Barton never considered his own letters as literary productions. Rather he felt that his poetry was his sole claim to literary fame." It …

Gilman's Gothic Allegory: Rage And Redemption In The Yellow Wallpaper, Greg Johnson

Faculty Articles

Discusses the 19th-century short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Comparison with the insistence of the poet Emily Dickinson's mother to install new wallpaper in her bedroom before Emily was born; Suggestion of Gothic themes of confinement and rebellion, forbidden desire and irrational fear; View of the behavior of the story's female narrator.

La Belle Dame Sans Merci: Cultural Criticism And The Mythopoeic Imagination In George Macdonald's Lilith, Kath Filmer

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

Examines MacDonald’s critique of capitalism in Lilith as well as its spiritual and psychological elements—especially the theme of dying-to-self.

Letters, Mary V. Borhek, Paul Nolan Hyde, Darrell Schweitzer, Mary M. Stolzenbach, Kathryn Lindskoog

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

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Virginia Woolf's Keen Sensitivity To War: Its Roots And Its Impact On Her Fiction, Jane Hamovit Lauter

English Theses & Dissertations

Virginia Woolf saw the nightmare of war as a form of madness which posed a threat not only to individual human life, but to art and culture as well. Her many tragic personal experiences with death together with the fact that she lived through World War I and the beginning of World War II, caused in her a keen sensitivity to the transitory nature of life. Because Woolf saw militarism and the violence of war as blindly chauvinistic and utterly wasteful, war became for her a source of anger and contempt as well as fear.

Woolf's response to war had …

Letters Of Comment, Ron Blizzard, Nancy Martsch, Angelee Sailer Anderson, Frances Garland, Lawrence Schimel, Joe Christopher, Gwenyth E. Hood, Alex Mcgilvery, Charles Rampp, Pat Reynolds, Mary-Edith Bridges

The Mythic Circle

Letters from readers in The Mythic Circle #8

English As A Second Language: Evaluation Of A Language Program Designed For & Implemented In The Colombian Oil Company's Research Institute, Patience Nave

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

An incredible proliferation of knowledge has generated a critical need for professionals in all fields to have access to current information and research results. Costs for study and research are extremely high, particularly in science fields, and most professionals seek to minimize loss in time and funds by avoiding duplication of efforts. Language is often a handicap, preventing the voluntary sharing of valuable information between individuals and countries, and many recognize the establishment of a universal language as a means of eliminating this unnecessary barrier. English is rapidly becoming accepted as a universal means of communication, but those who seek …

1989 Literary Review (No. 4, Vol. 2), Sigma Tau Delta

The Greenleaf Review

No abstract provided.

1989 Literary Review (No. 4, Vol. 1), Sigma Tau Delta

The Greenleaf Review

No abstract provided.

Our Paper 04/1989, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

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The Politics Of Doubling In "Mortality And Mercy In Vienna", Douglas Keesey

English

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River People, Ruth Madden

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In the introduction to The World of the Short Story, Kay Boyle challenges the short story writer "to invest a brief sequence of events with reverberating human significance by means of style, selection and ordering of detail, and -- most important -- to present the whole action in such a way that it is at once a parable and a slice of life, at once symbolic and real, both a valid picture of some phase of experience, and a sudden illumination of one of the perennial moral and psychological paradoxes which lie at the heart of la condition humaine." …

Susan Glaspell: Feminist Playwright, Anna Katherine Wiley

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Susan Glaspell, a "new woman" of the second decade of the twentieth century in America, left a valuable legacy for the feminists who would follow her. Her life and writings are examples of what women are capable of doing when given the opportunity. In both she sought to prove that women could participate in life fully--and on their own terms. A woman should not only expect Virginia Woolfs "room of her own," but should be allowed to use a mind of her own.

Modernism And Science: The Case Of Pound's Abc Of Reading, Paul Douglass

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

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