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Letters, Melanie A. Rawls, Sarah Beach, Darrell Schweitzer, Susan Owens, Jessica Yates, Patrick Wynne

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

No abstract provided.

A Myth Retold: C.S. Lewis' Till We Have Faces, Ake Bergvall

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

Attempts to show that 1) Till We Have Faces is “first and foremost [...] a myth working on various levels, although with realistic elements”; and 2) “the second part is a true answer to the earlier questions and is a satisfying coda to the novel.”

Trees In Tolkien, And What Happened Under Them, Elizabeth Harrod

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

Analyzes Tolkien’s use of trees as symbols, using terms from Jungian psychology, Mircea Eliade’s studies of myth, and Buddhism. Sees the four hobbits as representing different aspects of the ego in the journey toward self-hood and individuation.

Mythopoesis, Sarah Beach

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

Discusses how fantasy authors create characters, drawing on Jungian psychology and essays by Ursula K. Le Guin.

An Inklings Bibliography (28), Joe R. Christopher

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

A series of bibliographies of primary and secondary works concerning the Inklings.

Reviews, Jessica Yates, Thomas M. Egan, Verlyn Flieger, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Lawrence Mack Hall

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

The Book of Lost Tales. J.R.R. Tolkien. Reviewed by Jessica Yates.

The Book of Lost Tales. J.R.R. Tolkien. Reviewed by Thomas M. Egan.

Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World. Verlyn Flieger. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Reason and Imagination in C.S. Lewis -- A Study of till We Have Faces. Peter J. Schakel. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

In Search of C.S. Lewis. Stephen Schofield. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Spirits in Bondage, a Cycle of Lyrics. C.S. Lewis. Reviewed by Lawrence Mack Hall.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. C.S. Lewis. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary …

The Development Of The Gyre In The Poetry Of William Butler Yeats, Rebecca D. Miller

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Our Paper 05/1984, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

No abstract provided.

Mystic Characters In James Dickey's "Deliverance", Abdulhafeth A. Khrisat

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis 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 in English by Abdulhafeth A. Khrisat in May of 1984.

The Function Of Self-Consciousness In John Barth's Chimera, Marilyn Edelstein

English

Much recent American fiction has become increasingly self-conscious, displaying an awareness of itself as fiction, as artifice that diminishes the role of a central human consciousness or self in the fiction. The fictional process is in the foreground of much contemporary fiction where the narrative human presence once was. Yet, both fictional process and human presence serve similar structural functions within the text, which suggests that the creation of a fiction resembles the creation of a human self, real or imaginary. The provisional reality of self-conscious fiction is like the provisional reality of the "post-modern" self, prone to self-questioning, constituted …

Our Paper 03/1984, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

No abstract provided.

Our Paper 02/1984, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

No abstract provided.

Puritanism: The Persistence Of A Myth, Leslie A. Fiedler

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

A study of the impact on subsequent literature and criticism of the myth of American Puritanism invented in Victorian times and given its classic formulation by Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter.

"Who Can Rule And Dare Not Lie": Tennyson's Bicameral King, Judith Weissman

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

Tennyson's poetry is pervaded by the kinds of auditory hallucinations that Julian Jaynes describes in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Tennyson begins in a late stage of Jaynes's history, with the voices of demons, and moves backward to Jaynes's point of origin, the admonitory voice of the tribal king .

Orts 5, 1984, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

We regret that there has been some delay in the production of this newsletter, and we hope to do better in [the] future. North Wind No. 3 is out and we hope that you have received your copy and found it interesting. We owe Kathy Triggs a debt of gratitude for not only editing it so ski[l]lfully, but also for undertaking the onerous task of typing it and seeing it through the press. She would welcome your comments, contributions, letters, etc.

Our Paper 01/1984, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

No abstract provided.

A Content Analysis Of The Portrayal Of Suicide In Adolescent Literature, Roxanne Fox

Graduate Research Papers

The major purposes of this research were to analyze the portrayal of adolescent suicidal characters in books which adolescents are currently reading and to attempt to determine if this portrayal was realistic in the entire group of books. A panel of experts was used to obtain a sample of ten books. The portrayal of ten characters from the ten books were analyzed using an inventory of nine elements which were derived from a review of the literature currently discussing characteristics of adolescent suicide. The results of this analysis suggested that, for the most part, a realistic and generally balanced portrayal …

A Dramatism Of Comedy: The Voice Of Eudora Welty, Dianne Briley

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Vol. 5 (1984-1987): Full Issue, Journal Editors

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

A History Of The English Department Of Fort Hays State University (1902-1978), Roberta C. Stout, Nancy Vogel

Fort Hays Studies Series

This volume is comprehensive history of the Fort Hays State University English Department from it's inception until 1978. It includes histories on faculty, faculty works, and general University history.

Reflections 1984, Krista Colle

Reflections

The 1984 issue of Reflections is edited by Krista Colle. Cover art is by Miriam Ash-Jones. Award winners of the student writing contest include: Thomas Perry Hildreth, Melissa Lail, and Ilene Allinger.

Storytelling: A Guide For The Novice Storyteller, Phyllis Gray

Graduate Research Papers

"Once upon a time, in a place long ago." Thus begins many of the stories that have delighted children and adults all over the world. These words are signals that let people know they are about to enter a world of enchantment. Having entered this strange and wonderful world, people are enthralled or horrified by the sights and sounds that they find there. No matter what the listeners' initial feelings, they are always willing to return to a place long ago with the help of a storyteller. In order to get a better understanding of storytelling events and to improve …

The Self In The Poetry Of Anne Sexton, Katherine Frances Mcspadden

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Re-Creation, Ritual Process And The N-Town Cycle, Elizabeth J. El Itreby

Dissertations

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Time In John Cheever's The Housebreaker Of Shady Hill, Charles M. Elliott

Masters Theses

The problem of time is a central concern in John Cheever's short story collection The Housebreaker of Shady Hill. The characters in these stories--upper-middle class suburbanites--live in a sometimes chaotic and disconnected world in which they find it difficult to attain some sense of continuity in their relationships with time. In trying to come to grips with their time and space, many of Cheever's characters express an immoderate devotion to their past, present, or future and neglect to see the bits and pieces of their experiences as interrelated. The characters who are happy and whole in these stories, however, …

Why Write Fantasy? A Mythopoeic Conference Xiv Panel, Robert Cowan, Marion Z. Bradley, Diana Paxson, Stephen Donaldson, Evangaline Walton, Paul Zimmer

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

The purpose of this panel is to examine some of the underlying reasons why Fantasy literature is written and why it is worth writing. Many of us, probably most of us, as readers of Fantasy, have been tempted to try our own hand at writing Fantasy at one time or another. The panelists here today will hopefully be able to give us some direction for those story ideas we feel we must try to get down on paper. Our honored guests are Marion Zimmer Bradley, author of the Darkover series and the Mists of Avalon; Diana Paxon, author of …

The Semantics Of Desire: Changing Models Of Identity From Dickens To Joyce, Philip M. Weinstein

English Literature Faculty Works

This work examines the dialectic of desire and value, as it affects the protagonist's identity, in fiction from Dickens and George Eliot through Hardy and Conrad to Lawrence and Joyce. Philip Weinstein describes the growing sexualization of the imagined body--the transformation of the protagonistic self from a figure defined by semantics, signification, and cultural value to one characterized by desire, force, and natural impulse.

Progress, Process And The Critique Of Development: The Interplay Of Gender And Genre In The Morgesons, Janet E. Graber

Honors Papers

Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard's work received little public attention or critical acclaim during her lifetime. Only now, more than a hundred years after her best work was completed, has Stoddard begun to find an enthusiastic audience. Stoddard wanted badly the success which eluded her, yet she was not willing to sacrifice her intellectual and artistic integrity in order to sell books. She had only contempt for the countless women writers of her day, "the tribe of intellectual gardeners and vegetable growers," who gained widespread popularity with their frothy, ornate, and romantic fiction. She wanted to be seen as a consequential and …

Madeline Neroni And The Moral Design Of Barchester Towers, Jennifer A. Low

Honors Papers

The first half of this paper will trace Neroni's development from the unlikely caricature of a siren to the rounded, believable narrator's accomplice whose position establishes her own credibility. Neroni serves to reinforce and augment the implications of the narrative whenever she holds court with her suitors. As "the Circe of Barchester" (Kn 37 1), she leads her lovers into revealing those traits that the narrator has already warned us to expect, thereby providing the narrator with further text to comment upon. Trollope needs to reveal certain aspects of his men, not in their inward deliberation, but in startled reactions …

Social Ethics In The Novels Of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alison A. Case

Honors Papers

Harriet Beecher Stowe has engendered a good deal of critical contradiction, both in her own time and since. Most of more extreme controversy centers on her popular and influential anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Although the New England novels are generally considered to have some merit as examples of "local color" fiction, Stowe earned her place in the canon of American literature primarily on the basis her authorship of UTC. But the place is an uneasy one. UTC's popularity and impact make it too big an event in American literary history for it, or its author, to be disregarded, but …