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The Language Of The Cultural Chasm In Somerset Maugham's "Of Human Bondage", Martha Lee Combs

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 Martha Lee Combs in August of 1968.

The Technique Of The Grotesque In The Writings Of Flannery O'Connor, Carol Stumbo

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 Carol Stumbo August of 1968.

Rhetorical Model: An Aid For Clarifying Literary Terms And For Teaching Literature, Paul R. Allen

All Master's Theses

When he first begins to study literature, a student confronts a mass of terms. Some will sound familiar to him, others will sound completely foreign. Of course, this experience is not limited to literature courses and studies. Throughout school the student will confront new terms in science, mathematics, and other disciplines. His success will depend on how well he assimilates and correctly uses these new terms.

The Function Of Some Comic Elements In The Wakefield Plays In The Towneley Cycle, Frances E. Whitehall

English Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

The Fable And The Fabulous: The Use Of Traditional Forms In Children's Literature, Ned Samuel Hedges

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Because children’s literature is considered to be a development of the past two centuries, it is generally believed that there are differences between children's literature and adult literature. The majority of people who have written extensively about children's literature have been primarily concerned with those differences. I too believe that there are differences between children's literature and adult literature; but those differences seem to me to be neither as extensive nor as significant as has been commonly assumed. What are the differences? Can they be described? Are there also significant similarities between children's literature and adult literature?

I believe that …

Samuel Johnson's Critical Principles:A Chronological Study., Shirley Ann Johnston

English Language and Literature ETDs

The Victorian dismissal of Samuel Johnson as a narrow, orthodox nee-classical critic is no longer considered valid by Johnsonians. But there is little agreement on what were Johnson's basic principles, and he often is considered inconsistent. Some of his controversial judgments are misunderstood, and his general critical position misrepresented, because distinctions are not made between his carefully weighed judgments written for publication and offhand conversational opinions handed down by Boswell and others. Moreover, Johnson's criticism commonly is represented by popular passages from select pieces of criticism, intermixed without regard for circumstances or time of composition, and sometimes taken from context. …

James Baldwin's "Another Country" As Language Of Alienation, Rosemary Gilligan Castle

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 Master of Arts by Rosemary Gilligan Castle in May of 1968.

A Linguistic Analysis Of Josephine Miles' Modal Theory, Jeanette Shannon Clarkson

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A monograph 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 by Jeanette Shannon Clarkson in May of 1968.

The Image Of The Jew In James Joyce's Ulysses, Phyllis Joyce Cohen Levy

Master's Theses

Since the beginning of English literature, the Jew has been portrayed as a villain. Edgar Rosenberg and Montague Frank Madder most affirmed the conviction in each of their studies of the Jew in English literature. However, the conclusion that the Jew is still portrayed as a villain is invalid because the image has changed. It is my intention to examine this change, focusing particularly on the character of Leopold Bloom in James Joyce 's Ulysses.

Language Structures Carrying Tones Of Power And Authority In The Short Stories Of D. H. Lawrence, Frances Louise Helphinstine

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 Master of Arts by Frances Louise Helphinstine in March of 1968.

Existential Process In The Novelistic Art Of Saul Bellow, Victor Venettozzi

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 Victor Venettozzi in January of 1968.

The Decline Of Social Inter-Relationships In The Family, The Church, And Traditions In American Life As Seen In James T. Farrell's Trilogy "Studs Lonigan", John M. Joannides

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A monograph presented to the faculty of the School of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree Master of Arts by John M. Joannides in January of 1968.

Three Unholy Churchmen Of Robert Browning's Poetry, Everett L. Millhorn

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Short Stories Of John Steinbeck, Howard Lawrence Lachtman

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis, if with respect only to the short fiction, will be to provide some measure of resurrection for a much-ignored and much-maligned talent. Scholarly interest in John Steinbeck has been distinctly minimal and even his admirers admit his artistic decline of recent years. Unlike the attention lavished upon his illustrious contemporaries, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, the number of major critical surveys of Steinbeck's works can be counted upon the fingers of one's hand. It has been customary to regard Hemingway and Faulkner, usually in company with F. Scott Fitzgerald, as titans, while John Steinbeck's, cast …

Falstaff, A Product Of Historical And Moral Traditions, Emily Stacy Apelt

English Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

Ratios Among Sensorial, Intellectual, And Attitudinal Elements In Eudora Welty's Short Stories, Jean Dillon Johnson

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis 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 Jean Dillon Johnson in August of 1967.

Plutchik's Emotive Theory As Applied To Eschatological Elements In Key Works Of Graham Greene, Joseph L. Mills

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

An abstract 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 by Joseph L. Mills Summer of 1967.

Chaucer's Pandarus : A Character Study, Phillip Valentine Daffron

Master's Theses

Chaucer 's Pandarus has been an intriguing character for me ever since my first exposure, as an undergraduate, to Troilus and ­Criseyde. Pandarus interests me because he is true to human nature in that he is not consistently one way all of the time. Like most human beings, Pandarus has many facets to his nature; therefore, I find it distressing that many critics and students of Chaucer will not acknowledge this complexity but rather tend to want to stereotype him. If Pandarus were a simple, transparent character, then his rank in English literature would be considerably less significant. It is …

The New British Drama 1956-1966 : A Critical Study Of Four Dramatists: John Osborne, Brendan Behan, Arnold Wesker, And John Arden, Jeanne Fenrick Bedell

Master's Theses

In the history of England, as well as in the history of the English stage, 1956 was a momentous year. It was the year of the Suez, the year that saw the destruction of the myth of the British empire. And it was the year of the Hungarian Revolution, which crushed liberal illusions about Soviet Russia. In 1956 the old idols were crumbling fast, and defense of tradition was fast becoming not only impossible but ludicrous. The bankruptcy of the older generation was apparent; it was time for the new to speak out.

The Alchemy Of Art: A Study In The Evolution Of The Creative Mind Of John Keats, G. Brian Sullivan

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

From the time John Keats began Endymion (March 1817) until his abandonment of the second version of Hyperion (September 1819), we have thirty vital months comprising a span of development unparalleled in English literature. This dissertation focuses upon the central feature of that development— the evolution of the creative mind of the poet. I do not purpose another factual biography of Keats, but rather an exploration of the internal autobiography of the poet in self-genesis as this evolvement is impressed upon the symbolic structures of his works. In artistic vitality, incisiveness of thought, and individual sublimity, Keats achieved a ripeness …

Venus Looking Glas: A Study Of Books Iii And Iv Of The Faerie Queene., Enid Howarth

English Language and Literature ETDs

This dissertation relies heavily upon two assumptions: first, that the allegorical habit of mind pervaded the Renaissance in England (as well, of course, as in Italy) as a viable and unquestioned inheritance of the Middle Ages; second, that a close reading of the text of a Renaissance writer (in this case, the two central books of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene) can illuminate various facets of this habit of mind and shed light on some of the intellectually accepted modes of thought which pervade the whole work as well as other works from the same period. The method is more that …

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 Bloomsbury Group: Agent Of Evolution, Rashelle Altschul

English Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

The Depression Years As Depicted By The American Theatre In The 1930'S, Lois Robinson

Honors Theses

The purpose of this paper is to show how various plays written in the 1930's reflected economic, political, religious, social, psychological, moral and ethical attitudes of the depression years. To achieve this and, the writer gathered material from the ten Pulitzer Prize winning plays of the 1930's, as well as other significant works of the decade as mentioned in secondary sources. No effort has been made to fit these plays into the time in which they were written. Instead, the writer has attempted to show the times as they were presented by the dramatists of the thirties.

A Bibliography Of Scholarship About Henry David Thoreau: 1940-1967, Christopher A. Hildenbrand

Fort Hays Studies Series

This bibliography, an attempt to accumulate most scholarly contributions about Thoreau in a single compilation, orginally covered twenty-five years from 1940-1965. For purposes of this publication it has been expanded and revised to include everything to mid-1967.

C.S. Lewis : Fantasy As An Illumination Of Reality, Eloise Cheney Gregory

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to study C. S. Lewis's use of fantasy to illuminate reality by contrasting the world as he saw it with his imaginary worlds. To do this, it is necessary to describe the various types of books he wrote, to illustrate the view of reality presented in his writing, and then to examine the different types of fantasy he used in his books.

Elmer Rice: A Critical Evaluation Of His Full-Length Published Essays, Edmund Anthony Napieralski

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Criticism Of Thomas Rymer With Special Reference To That Criticism's Influence And Place In The Literary History Of Criticism, William J. Shanahan

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Melville: Sceptic, Mary Dominic Stevens

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Interpretive Study Of Archibald Macleish's Plays, Edward Arthur Morin

Dissertations

No abstract provided.