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Social Drama, Rites Of Passage, And The Winter's Tale, Aaron Zitner

Honors Papers

No matter how you explain it away, the jealousy of Leontes is a violent affair. When he blurts out "Too hot, too hot!/To mingle friendships far, is mingling bloods" we are surprised at both the suddenness of his onslaught of jealousy and at the vehemence with which he repudiates our expectations of seeing a happy family, set up in the first scene of the play. Before looking for explanations for this outburst -- for they range from psychological analyses of the king' s fear of women to assertions that Hermione indeed appears guilty -- I would first like to consider …

Carlyle's Reception And Influence In Sweden, Erik Frykman

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

The Tragedy Of Lucy Ashton, The Bride Of Lammermoor, Brian Hollingworth

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Dunbar's The Golden Targe: A Chaucerian Masque, Pamela M. King

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

The Doctrinal Premises Of Hogg's Confessions Of A Justified Sinner, John Bligh

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

A Critical Approach To Fantasy With Application To The Lord Of The Rings, William Stoddard

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

Analyzes The Lord of the Rings through Northrop Frye’s theories as set forth in The Anatomy of Criticism, placing it in the Romance category and finding examples of the five modes throughout the work. Applies findings to fantasy in general.

Literary Nationalism And Ambivalence In Washington Irving's The Life And Voyages Of Christopher Columbus, John D. Hazlett

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Comedy: The Uncertain Terrain Of John Hawkes, Peter Johnson

English Faculty Publications

This dissertation examines the nature and function of

John Hawkes' comic method. Although most critics acknowledge

that Hawkes writes comedy, very few of them

agree on the moral nature of this comedy. Chapter I

examines these differing responses to Hawkes' work and

offers an alternative way of evaluating his humor, based

on his own and other critics' comments on comedy. This

chapter also suggests that our responses to Hawkes' humor

occur on an uncertain terrain where two or more, sometimes

opposite, reactions to a text clash, forcing us into continuous

moments of indecision.

Chapter II deals with Hawkes' first novel, …

Our Paper 11/1983, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

No abstract provided.

Blake, Hegel And Dialectic [Review], Michael Fischer

English Faculty Research

According to David Punter, "Blake's dialectic and Hegel's share a number of crucial features" (p. 11), making Hegel's Phenomenology the "closest parallel to [Blake's] work" (p. 17). By emphasizing progression through contraries, both Blake and Hegel transform the dialectical tradition that they presumably inherit from Heraclitus, Giordano Bruno, and Jakob Böhme, all of whom Punter analyzes in his opening chapter. Subsequent chapters trace the similarities that Punter finds among such works as the Phenomenology, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and The Four Zoas. Although Punter calls his comparison of Blake and Hegel "important and fruitful" (p. …

Rediscovering James T. Farrell, Charles Fanning

Bridgewater Review

No major American writer has been worse served by criticism than James T. Farrell. After the publication in 1935 of his first fictional series, the Studs Lonigan trilogy, Farrell labored for four decades under an unjust and unfounded critical accusation. During these years, many influential critics dealt with his fiction as it appeared by mechanical citation of a party line which ran as follows: "James T. Farrell is that sad case, a one-book writer. Studs Lonigan is credible fiction, albeit in the limiting and dated naturalistic mode pioneered by Theodore Dreiser. But his subsequent novels have been obsessive reworkings of …

"These": Williams' Deepest Descent, Peter Schmidt

English Literature Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

The Ghost Of The Sage Of Highgate, Richard Haven

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

The Symbolic Structure Of Andrew Lytle's The Velvet Horn, Anne Foata

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

Fallen Angels: William Faulkner's Lost Generation, Ron Buchanan

Theses & Honors Papers

In his address upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature on December 10, 1950, William Faulkner stated that the only topic "worth writing about" is "the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself ."1 Throughout his career, Faulkner attempted to convey this idea; regardless of the actual subject or the characters, this theme weaves itself through the author's works. Even Faulkner's works of the 1920s and early 1930s demonstrate this concern with the psychological and emotional problems of his characters. Among the characters most troubled are the veterans returning home after fighting in Europe during World War I …

Some Measures Of Ulysses, June Sinclair

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Contemporary literary theorists, very much aware of themselves as constituting a break in, and a refutation of, an entire classical metaphysics, are trying to prove that James Joyce, the foremost prose writer of the twentieth century, writing when that classical view was falling from grace and the modern perspective was forcing itself upon the intellectual world, is, in fact, in his work--all works considered as one work-undermining the very tradition which critics consider his foundation. Consequently, the way in which Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are read and valued will be linked to an entire theory of literature. The body of …

Bright-Eyed Beauty: Celtic Elements In Charles Williams, J.R.R. Tolkien, And C.S. Lewis, Nancy-Lou Patterson

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

Traces the influence of Celtic style and themes, though sometimes denied by Tolkien, Lewis, and Williams, on their works.

New Myths For Old: The Legacy Of Iolo Morgannwg And Hersard De Le Villemarque, Alexi Kondratiev

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

THIS IS A TWO-PART ARTICLE. IN ORDER TO READ OR DOWNLOAD THE OTHER PART, FOLLOW THE LINK AT THE END OF THIS ABSTRACT.

Discusses two of the noted forgers of ancient Celtic documents who influenced the Celtic Revival of the nineteenth century and whose inventions influence our perceptions of Celtic literature and mythology (and fantasy writers) even today.

Part 2:https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol10/iss2/14

Reviews, Nils Ivar Agøy, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Benjamin Urrutia, Jessica Yates

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

The Shores of Middle-earth. Robert Giddings and Elizabeth Holland. Reviewed by Nils Ivar Agøy.

SEVEN (March, 1982), Volume 3. Dr. Barbara Reynolds, Dr. Clyde S. Kilby, and Dr. Beatrice Batson. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

THE DARK CRYSTAL. Directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz. Screenplay by David Odell. Story by Jim Henson. Conceptual Designer, Brian Froud. Reviewed by Benjamin Urrutia.

The World of the Dark Crystal. Illustrated by Brian Froud. Text by J.J. Llewellyn. Designed and Edited by Rupert Brown. Reviewed by Benjamin Urrutia.

The Tale of the Dark Crystal. Text by Donna Bass. Illustrated by Bruce McNally. Reviewed by …

Hogarth And His Unholy Age, Thomas M. Curley

Bridgewater Review

Samuel Johnson, that eighteenth-century English authority on human learning and life, had a surprisingly low regard for painting. But he knew the first great British artist, William Hogarth, and publicly applauded the first art exhibitions in England. Johnson would have found an equally good reason to applaud Bridgewater State College’s Hogarth Festival in October of 1982. This exhibition of twenty-five, beautifully preserved prints was a splendid sampling of Hogarth’s artistic legacy selected from the collection owned by the Judd Family of New Jersey and on loan from Monmouth College, New Jersey through Professor Vincent DiMattio. All in all, the Hogarth …

Abse, John Ruskin: The Passionate Moralist, Missy Kubitschek

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter Vol. 8, Nos. 3, 1983, 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

The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter Vol. 7, Nos. 2, 1983, 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

Mrs. Brook: Confidence Woman And Mother Usurper, Rebecca L. Berg

Honors Papers

The presentation of Mrs. Brook in The Awkward Age is problematic. James seems to have intended to portray her sympathetically. Yet he will not allow the reader to feel sympathy for her. I suggest that James undermines the very sympathy he wants to evoke, because Mrs. Brook would otherwise have too much power. Combined in her are two character types which appear frequently in James's novels, and which I call the confidence woman and the mother usurper. Occasionally, a mother usurper may show some of the confidence woman's traits, or vice versa. But the two types always (with the exception …

Cohen, Comic Relief: Humor In Contemporary American Literature, Charles Sanders

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Leontes’ “Affection” And Renaissance “Intention”: Winter's Tale I. Ii. 135-146, Maurice Hunt

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Administration Documents

The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

• Albin, Bettye. John Dryden's Criticism: The Neglected Link
• Allen, Christopher. Martial Reflections: Ancient Cultures and Their War-Gods
• Case, Laura. Climatic Preference
• Deller, Kathy. Regression Analysis: The Effects of Advertising, Price, Income and Import Sales on American-Made Auto Sales
• Downing, Elizabeth. Dorothy Leigh Sayers: Detective of Literary Theory in The Mind of the Maker
• Elder, Janice. A Retrospective Study on Discharge Planning and Primiparas at Breckinridge Memorial
• Flora, Joan. Narcissism and the Need for …

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.

The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter Vol. 8, Nos. 2, 1983, 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