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The Short Story: An Expression Of The Creative Imperative, An Introduction, Mary Muses Woodlee

English Language and Literature ETDs

Upon reflection, the creative process appears to find a comprehensible analysis in the consideration of linguistics. The psychology of deep structure as used in the analysis of grammar may be extended to the ultimate meaning of words, tense, mode, even case, giving to language a physical reality. The meaning of a word, or in the case of a verb, of its tense and mode, is thus found to carry within itself a deep sense of its aptitude and function, being in fact, the only word or verb that could be applied specifically when its deep structure is fully understood. As …

Clarissa And Richardson's Ethical Beliefs: An Application Of A Theory, Vincent A. Silvestri

Master's Essays (1922 - )

In his illuminating book, Fiction and the Shape of Belief, Sheldon Sacks postulates a thesis that is designed to lead a reader to catch a glimpse at the ethical beliefs of the novelist as embodied in the novel itself. Generations of intelligent and sensitive men and women who have read and still continue to read Richardson provide cogent testimony that he somehow did include his moral beliefs, opinions, and prejudices in his novels without seriously detracting from their artistic effect.

Byron And The New Promethean Man, Yukihito Hijiya

English Language and Literature ETDs

The present study concerns itself with the development of the vision of the new Prometheus in Byron’s poetry. The purpose of this essay is to examine Byron as an affirmative poet of humanity. Chapters I and II deal with the poet’s early lyrics and with two tales—The Giaour and The Bride of Abydos—written before 1816; in these chapters Byron’s positive attitude toward life is explored in relation to this interest in the theme of love. Chapters III, IV and V are concerned with selected works written during and after 1816—“Prometheus,” Manfred, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage III-IV, The Prisoner of Chillon, Mazeppa, …

"Current Issues In Teaching English As A Second Language", Russell N. Campbell

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

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Saint Joan As Tragedy In Terms Of Tragic Rhythm And Ritual, Terry A. French

English Theses & Dissertations

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The Making Of A Spanish Orchestra Of Language Based On Robson's "The Orchestra Of Language", Denise Munizaga Lagos

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 Denise Munizaga Lagos in August of 1971.

The Symbolist And Decadent Elements In The Lyrical Dramas Of Oscar Wilde, Nancy G. Nuckols

Master's Theses

The terms decadence, aestheticism, art for art's sake have been used interchangeably to describe the movement in literature that flowered during the 1890's in England. Despite the fact that the English aesthetics and decadents were a relatively small group, they were vocal and colorful. Many contributed to the numerous aesthetic and semi-aesthetic periodicals with such titles as The Chamelion, The Butter, The Rose Leaf, and The Hobby Horse. In this way the decadents presented the new trends in art and literature to the general public. In London during the 1890's the literacy taverns were full of these decadent artists who …

Paradise: The Failure Of An Ideal., Nancy C. Cotton

English Language and Literature ETDs

A lost paradise in man's mythic past has evoked tra­ditionally a feeling of intense nostalgia. Yet in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, in Marvell's garden lyrics, in Gulliver's "Voyage to the Houyhnhnms," and in Rasselas, this elegiac sentiment is countered by a sense of boredom and dissatisfaction with the state of paradise. Partly by relating paradise and stoicism and partly through the means of parody and comedy, these works describe an impossible relationship between a life of reason, fulfillment, and harmony, and a human nature of unappeasable desires. Thus, there is a shift of concentration from the object of per­ception …

Satiric Contrasts In The "Wandering Rocks' Of James Joyce's Ulysses, Warren Fulton Jr.

Theses & Honors Papers

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Hemingway's Key West Women: A Study Of The Female Characterizations Of To Have And Have Not, Nancy Glover Lobaugh

English Theses & Dissertations

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Mrs. Gaskell's Industrial Novels: Mary Barton And North And South, Yvette D. Marambaud

Master's Theses

Since 1910, when Mrs. Gaskell's centenary was celebrated, few articles have been written about her. Except for her Life of Charlotte Bronte, she is not really well known in America. Few people read her tales or her short stories, and her novels are quite neglected. Yet her industrial novels, Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1855), were very successful when they were first published. Mary Barton was an immediate success - perhaps in part because of the controversies it aroused.

Interaction Process Analysis Of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming: Toward A Phenomenological Criticism Of Drama, Joseph Anthony Hunt

English Language and Literature ETDs

Much contemporary criticism tends to judge and interpret theater on preconceived grounds peculiar to the critic, rather than in terms of dramatic action--the play itself. In part, the critic who is responsible for clarifying the meaning of often perplexing, "open" forms of contemporary drama has been handed an impossible task, for the playwrights are apparently dedicated to a view of reality that doggedly refuses to follow a set, external pattern capable of resolution into easy meaning. An excellent example is Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, a play which has led critics to elaborate, subjective interpretations in their attempts to resolve its …

Introduction, Richard C. West

Tolkien Journal

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The Critics, And Tolkien, And C.S. Lewis - Reviews, Richard C. West

Tolkien Journal

Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings. Carter, Lin. Reviewed by Richard C. West.

Good News from Tolkien’s Middle Earth: Two Essays on the “Applicability” of The Lord of the Rings. Ellwood, Gracia Fay. Reviewed by Richard C. West.

Shadows of Imagination: The Fantasies of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. Hillegas, Mark R., ed. Reviewed by Richard C. West.

Tolkien and the Critics: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Isaacs, Neil D., and Rose A. Zimbardo, eds. Reviewed by Richard C. West.

A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis. Kilby, Clyde S., …

A Great Debate In Poetic Theory: Brooks, Wheelwright, Crane & Olson, Janice Carrell

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Elder Olson has said that at the Biblical Tower of Babel the people did not begin to talk nonsense but only what seemed like nonsense. This paper concerns an intellectual tower where important debates are held, but unfortunately the language is not a universal one; therefor, because all too often terms have evolved without adequate definition, disagreement occurs where reconciliation appears impossible.

The very title of this thesis could be misleading to the reader if he considers debate in its formal sense. What is here intended is the controversy in the efforts of respected scholars to understand and establish the …

The Contributions And Effects Of The Drama On Paradise Lost, Robert Elliott Bayliss

Master's Theses

Upon reading John Milton's Paradise Lost, one cannot help but notice that its tone, its moving scenes and confrontations, and its moments of psychological and cathartic impact all help to shape what one might call the poem's total effect -- the impressions it leaves with the reader. Upon close examination it becomes obvious that Milton was consummately adept in his adaptation of the dramatic element in his great epic. What is generally unrecognized, yet surprisingly evident, is that the dramatic element plays a unique and singularly important role in building the poem's grandeur. This dramatic element, more than any of …

Reason, Time, And Redemption In Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Diane S. Bonds

Master's Theses

When Joseph Heller 's Catch-22 appeared in 1961, it met with extreme reactions from reviewers. Those who attacked the novel did so with fervor. An anonymous reviewer in Daedalus summed up many unfavorable criticisms of the book by charging that Catch-22 wa s not "written"; that it had no story or real characters; that it was repetitive and formless; finally, that it was an example of the most "destructive and immoral" kind of literature--a novel which spat "in-discrimimitely at business and the professions, at respectability, at ideals, at all visible tokens of superiority." Favorable reviews focused mainly on the brilliance …

"What Else Is There?" : Surrealism And The Love Of Life In Catch-22 /, Dobbs Eric

Honors Theses

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Distance And The Search For Identity In Six Novels Of Iris Murdoch, Anne B. Peterson

English Theses & Dissertations

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Affective Criticism: Theories Of Emotion And Synaesthesis In The Experience Of Literature, Edward Jayne

English Faculty Publications

The "Affective Fallacy" labeled by Wimsatt and Beardsley and denigrated by an entire generation of critics must be restored'to legitimacy-as probably the most fundamental principle of literature. The effect of a text takes precedence over the objectivity of its "intra-referential":content since this content is meaningful only to the extent that it produces this effect. The concerted effort of formalists to deny or somehow bypass this self-evident axiom has been unique in the history of criticism and may be traced to a variety of causes, not the least of which has been a conservative isolation of literature from its social context. …

On The Road With The Philosopher And The Profiteer: A Study Of Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Modern Chivalry, Wendy Martin

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

MODERN CHIVALRY, the first distinctively American novel, was written in installments in 1792-18151 by Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Princeton graduate and frontier lawyer. In addition to providing extensive commentary on the political differences of the Jeffersonians and Hamiltonians, the novel attempted to establish an apolitical value system for the new democracy which was based on philosophical reflection rather than existing social precedence. Brackenridge's concern with independent thinking in Modern Chivalry foreshadows the themes of artistic isolation, subjectivity, and alienation which preoccupy many nineteenth- and twentieth-century American novelists.

Three Illustrators: William Blake, George Cruikshank And Maurice Sendak, Patricia Twait

Graduate Research Papers

Children's books have been a source of delight to them; they have evoked both tears and laughter from young audiences. The illustrator has come to be a partner in the creation of hooks for children. The term children's literature now includes the efforts of both illustrators and authors. It was not always so. For many years children read adult books because there was no such thing as a storybook for children. When they came, the books for children were dull fare. They were moralizing with few, if any, illustrations.

Gradually illustrators began illustrating books specifically for children. The literary content …

Mark Twain's Study Of The Effects Of Slavery And Its Relationship To Training, Sharon Faye Nielson

All Master's Theses

This paper presents a study of Mark Twain's treatment of slavery, especially in relation to his theory of training. In his novels Huckleberry Finn, Puddn'head Wilson, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Twain portrays the effects of slavery and training on the personality of the slave and the slaveholder. Twain deals largely with the psychological effects of slavery, which tend to dehumanize both slave and slaveholder, deeply and permanently marking their personalities.

Relativity, Quantum Theory, And The Novels Of Samuel Beckett, I. Pius

Dissertations

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A Study Of Benjamin Disraeli's Coningsby: Or, The New Generation, Thomas J. Kemme

Dissertations

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Give Me Not Poverty, Lest I Steal!: Social Criticism In Selected Non-Fiction Of Daniel Defoe, Projecting To His Three Criminal Novels, Beverlee Fissinger Smith

Dissertations

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The Realistic Approach To Tradition And Change In The Novels Of Rabindranath Tagore, Robert C. Granner

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861 and died in 1941. Both his life and thought span the epoch of renascent India, and his novels realistically reflect the problems and struggles of the Indian people during the past century. In this thesis Tagore 's development, not so much as a great novelist but as a social commentator and reformer, is discussed. His role as a liberal mediator between the violent reactionary and the vehement traditionalist is a predominant factor in all of his prose writings, and it is from this point of view that each of his novels is examined.

The Great Beast: Imagination In Harness, Galen Peoples

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

Argues that the need for imaginative expression, if not directed toward the “intentional and moral” fantasy typified by the Inklings, can lead to an unhealthy interest in (and practice of) occultism.

Letters In Hell, Charles Williams

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

Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters

Excerpts From A Letter About Charles Williams, Mary Mcdermott Shideler

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

Brief introduction to who Williams was and some remarks about his work.