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On Seeing Amen House Demolished, Glenn Edward Sadler

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

(For Charles Williams)

The Form Of Charles Dickens's Dombey And Son: A Study In Mixed Modes, David Lee Smith

English Theses & Dissertations

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A Study Of Group Conflict Within A Two-Community Setting, Virgil Highsmith

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Case Relations Of The Two Part Verb In English, Lester Gould Woody

Master's Theses

This paper attempts to explore one relatively small phenomenon of language. Linguistics is what might be thought of as a discipline in its infancy. Men have studied language for thousands of years: Dionysius Thrax of Alexandria codified the grammar of Greek in the second century B.C. But it has been only in the last thirty to forty years that scholars have studied language as it is spoken, as the living tool for symbolization that more than anything else distinguishes man from the lower animals. Linguists try to describe and to explain language, not to prescribe how it should be used. …

The Effects Of Two Types Of Reinforcement On The Verbal Behavior Of Children As A Function Of Selected Personality Variables, Jane Eldred

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The Effects Of Ucs Duration And Ucs Intensity On The Magnitude Of Conditioned Fear, Robert A. Ensalaco

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A Study Of Attitudinal Tones In The Poetry Of Carl Sandburg Using Theories Proposed By Jamieson, Reiss And Plutchik, Sharon L. Mcclanahan

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 Sharon L. McClanahan in July of 1970.

William Faulkner As Sociologist: An Adventure In The Sociology Of Literature, Katherine Stuart

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

My basic problem will be not to prove that Faulkner is, was, a sociologist or to suggest that his works be required reading in courses in sociological theory, but rather, to show in what sense and what areas his and the role of sociologist overlap. A. thorough reading of the major Faulkner novels, a sorting-out and. probing of his passages relevant to the field of sociology seems the most productive way to begin tackling the problem. First the effort will be made to grasp his ideas in context, then to extricate and analyze them out of context. The relationship of …

The Barren Soul : A Study Of Ellen Glasgow's Religious Revolt, Reva May Jenkins

Master's Theses

He stared in amazement. "You're writing on Ellen Glasgow, on her religious beliefs! Did she have any?"

The time, the speaker, and the words changed but never the question. This paper is my answer. It is the study of five rather different aspects of a religious philosophy. All of Miss Glasgow' s writings were examined. However, since all the fictional writings could not be properly studied in a paper of this size, examples were taken mainly from seven novels selected as representative. These include the following: the first two published novels, The Descendant and Phases of an Inferior Planet; …

James Branch Cabell : Laughing Existentialist, George R. Hazelton

Master's Theses

In the history of American literature, there have been numerous authors whose popularity and critical acclaim were long in coming often delayed long past their deaths. Melville, for example, comes immediately to mind. Others have enjoyed a brief notoriety and have then slipped into oblivion for years until their "rediscovery."

One of the prime vehicles for renewed interest in ignored American authors has been the critical consideration of American humorous literature that has flowered during the 1940's, 50's and the 60's, This criticism, given impetus by Walter Blair's Native American Humor (1937)has made Seba Smith, Edgar Wilson Nye, and Finley …

The Thematic Relationship Of Laurence Sterne To David Herbert Lawrence, Frederick Thornett Hardy

Master's Theses

Among the pioneer novelists of the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne stands out as an unexplained curiosity. In many ways the most modern of the early novelists, he is regarded as the first stream-of-consciousness author, and thus the forerunner of the most significant school in today's fiction. Sterne constructed his original style from ideas derived from the seventeenth century philosopher, John Locke, in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding. A less obvious but equally defendable fact is that this philosophical work provided Sterne with a thematic as well as stylistic bridge into the twentieth century. The clearest illustration of this relationship is …

A Comparison Of The Sex Knowledge Of Indiana State University Undergraduate Students, Richard William Fitzpatrick

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The Language Structures If Epic As Seen In The Gone With The Wind And Water Of Life, Judith Yvonne Chandler

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 Judith Y. Chandler in June of 1970.

Imagery In Meredith's Modern Love, Beverly Belden

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

George Meredith's Modern Love deals with a formula for achieving happiness in life by a man whose marriage has failed. His marital breakup serves as a catalyst for the husband's internal journey which, through intense self questionings, leads him to a fuller understanding of himself and his purpose within the harmony of nature. Definite overt action and external events are secondary in the sonnet sequence. Indeed, the major portion of the work is conveyed by images which reveal the husband's developing psychological states. As Lionel Stevenson says of Modern Love in the standard biography of Meredith,

. . . the …

Man's Relationship To The Land In Four Novels By John Steinbeck: To A God Unknown, Of Mice And Men, The Grapes Of Wrath, And East Of Eden, Marie Parsons

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, English by Marie Parsons in May of 1970.

Some Paradoxical Elements In The Fiction Of Carson Mccullers, Rona Bozarth

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Since the death of Carson McCullers in 1967, there has been no revival of interest in her work, and there has been little critical study done in regard to it. All of McCullers' stories have Southern settings, and most are set in her native Georgia. She uses folk materials (as do Faulkner, Welty and Warren), but the limitations which these impose are transcended, and the fiction becomes an "examination of universal moral circumstances."¹ McCullers does not exploit local color, which, as Robert Penn Warren has noted, is often "incomplete and unphilosophical."² Rather than treating locale for its own …

Ring Lardner As Dadaist, Buford Donald Fisher

Master's Theses

This thesis is not a history of Dada, nor does it attempt to trace any direct influences that Ring Lardner may have on current literature. What it does strive to achieve is proper understanding of one facet of Lardner's work.

During the period that the Dad ists were actively trying to establish a new order by destroying the old (and theoretically, Dada itself), Lardner was creating nonsense playlets . His critics, for the most part, could not comprehend his intentions, so this aspect of his work was relegated to obscurity.

Half a century later, Dada has become more relevant historically; …

An Examination Of The Influence Of August Strindberg Upon Eugene O'Neill, Mary Emily Parsons Edwards

Master's Theses

Eugene O'Neill made no effort to hide the names of those writers and literary works which were important to him, and most of his biographers cite the fact that from the commencement of his playwrighting [sic] career O'Neill was influenced by the Swedish writer August Strindberg. O 'Neill himself was, in fact, one of the first to call attention to the kinship between his work and that of his "Master." In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, he indicated that he was delighted to have an opportunity to discuss the debt Ameri­can drama owed to the modern drama of Europe, and, …

The Conflict Of Purposes In Bernard Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession", Marlie Parker Wasserman

English Theses & Dissertations

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Hobbits: Common Lens For Heroic Experience, David M. Miller

Tolkien Journal

Theorizes that works of fantasy need some sort of bridge linking them to the primary world in order to have literary depth. After discussing bridging devices in several other fantasies, notably Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros, the author locates Tolkien’s bridging device in the initial utter ordinariness and realistic character growth of the hobbits, with whom the reader is led to identify from the start and therefore throughout their later encounters with the high and heroic of Middle -earth.

Contemporary Medieval Authors, Richard C. West

Tolkien Journal

Discusses works of the “contemporary medieval” genre, a sub-genre of twentieth-century romance, including T.H. White’s Arthurian cycle, and more briefly, Lewis’s Narnia books and Space Trilogy and Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.

The Embodying Image: A Design For A Computer-Aided Analysis Of Distorted Body Imagery In Gulliver's Travels, Mary S. Erbaugh

Honors Papers

Of all the imagery available to the writer the body's imagery is perhaps the most powerful and immediate. Using arms and legs and eyebrow in his work he insures himself of a bond with his reader, for each reader has his own arms and legs and eyebrows to identify with in his mind and experience. No one can read Swift's terse sentence, "Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse" without feeling a shudder of horror and sympathy in his own body. Travels into Several Remote Nations …

The Gentleman's Code In Selected Works Of William Faulkner, Nancy Jo Kivett Almond

Graduate Thesis Collection

This paper proposes to examine the concept of Faulkner's gentleman--his strengths and weaknesses, the reasons for his success or failure--in order to show Faulkner's belief that man is capable of reaching the highest in human existence if he understands and practices what the heart of the virtuous man knows.

Volume Iv, Morehead State University. English Department.

Bulletin of Applied Linguistics Archives

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

"The Grave And I ... Our Only Lullaby": An Interpretation Of Death As A Metaphor For Isolation In The Poetry Of Emily Dickinson, Thomas W. Rea

Masters Theses

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The Source, 1970, Jim Dilfer, Mike Nichols, Dave Greenlees, Mary Severine, Peter Mieras, Stan Manuia, Read Christensen, Martha Puckett, Chris Klokow, William Snydor, Robert Toda, Gene Ii Rosen, Anne Smithewing

Literary Reviews Through the Ages

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The Relation Of Love And Death In The Poetry Of Emily Dickinson, Mary Louise Hall

Dissertations

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Children Who Dance Under The Moon: Calvinistic Concepts Of Depravity In Selected Progeny Of Nathaniel Hawthorne And Henry James, Projecting To William Golding And Tennessee Williams, Norma G. Rooney

Dissertations

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Occult Symbolism In W. B. Yeats's The Herne's Egg, Sandra Ford Swift

English Theses & Dissertations

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An Analysis Of The Women In Selected Poems Of Robert Frost, Carol Gantenbein

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Since Robert Frost created dramatic narratives and lyrics in which men and women characterizations are explored, many studies of such poems have concentrated on the treatment of men-women relationships. In the first chapter of this thesis approaches of various critics are presented as are a statement of the thesis and an overview of the poems explicated. This study is primarily intended to analyze the women as such and to examine their development as personalities possessing certain characteristics. As the thesis develops, Frost's compassion for and psychological insight into the female psyche and his portrayal of unique personalities with diversified characteristic …