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The Motif Of The Grotesque In The Alexandria Quartet Of Lawrence Durrell, Barbara J. Marta

Graduate Student Research Papers

Lawrence Durrell has written The Alexandria Quartet in a form he considers modern and which he has labeled a "continuum." In this continuum the first three novels of the quartet occur at the same place in time and treat the same characters and incidents with the point of view and interpretation changing in each of the novels; the fourth novel then constitutes a sequel. Throughout this general framework of abstract time established by the continuum, the motif of the grotesque is woven, constantly evident, attempting to force an awareness of the sordid aspects of humanity as well as those of …

The Ceremony Of Innocence., Janusz Kozikowski

English Language and Literature ETDs

The earliest conceptions I had of The Ceremony of Innocence were almost purely structural and centered around the desire to create a completely autonomous experience, dependent on its own specific laws, and not a derivation from, or a representation of, psychological reality. At the same time, I wanted to design a theatrical spectacle which would be as amusing and enjoyable as a puppet show. Both of these concerns led far from the usual concerns of similitude and psychological realism. I wanted to create not only an atmosphere of isolation and disassociation which would ease the audience’s usual strain for interpretation, …

The Theatre Of The Absurd, Edith Beirne Brooks

Master's Theses

An introduction to the Theatre of the Absurd confronts the viewer with a meaningless, chaotic situation. Ludicrous people mouth meaningless dialogue, and the "plot" seems to move in ever diminishing concentric circles. One is stunned by the nothingness and the void which accompanies the termination of stage action. Why was it written? What was the author trying to convey? These are questions which fill the minds of the audience. The purpose was not monetary, nor was it sensationalism, because both of these could be achieved in a more expedient manner. Thoughtful study and exploration are demanded to answer one's questions …

George Santayana: A Critical Anomaly, Carol Ann Erickson

Student Work

The events of George Santayana*s life provide a valuable introduction to any study of his works. Though it cannot fceally be said that his life was filled with the sort of excitement or intrigue which makes for suspenseful biography, his life was one of steady productivity and ever increasing fame, first as poet, then as philosopher, essayist, critic, and novelist.

The Hereditary Pattern Of Immortality In Elf-Human Crosses, John Boardman

Tolkien Journal

A pre-Silmarillion speculation on how immortality is inherited in elf-human crosses, based solely on information then available in the Appendices to Lord of the Rings.

George Macdonald: Founder Of The Feast, R. H. Reis

Tolkien Journal

Claims that modern fantasy is a continuous development dating from MacDonald’s Phantastes. Traces his influence on the Inklings, particularly on Lewis.

Merlin, Lancelot, And Tristram: E. A. Robinson's Arthurian Poems Of Man's Dilemma , Patricia O'Donnell Ewers

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Arts Of Language: Needed Curricula And Curriculum Development For Institutes In The English Language Arts: Language, Literature, Composition, Speech And Reading, Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Contents

Participants of the Conference

Representatives of the Professional Organizations as Observers at the Conference

Introduction: The Drift of the Conference, Paul A. Olson

Reading in the Elementary Language Arts Institutes, William Iverson

Report of the Reading Committee, Robert Ruddell, Chairman

Recommendation for Components of the Elementary English

Language Arts Institutes, Robert Allen

Report of the Language Committee, G. Thomas Fairclough, Chairman

Speech in the Language Arts Institute, Kenneth Brown

Report of the Speech Committee, William Buys, Chairman

Composition, Dorothy Saunders

Report on the Composition Committee, Albert Kitzhaber, Chairman

Teachers, Children, and Criticism, Bruce Mickleburgh

Report of the Literature Committee, …

The Ubermensch-Artist Of Friedrich Nietsche And Thomas Mann, Dale Whitney

Honors Projects

There is at once a thin line and an enormous gulf between the artist-philosopher and the philosopher-artist. Where one spreads out his ideas in a dazzling and often bewildering array, the other builds a framework with them and constructs the fictional experiences of a latent philosophy. Where Nietzsche exultantly screams an aphorism, Mann constructs a novel.

Volume I, Morehead State University. English Department.

Bulletin of Applied Linguistics Archives

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

The Theme Of Isolation In Four Novels Of Daniel Defoe, Mildred Merle Dillman

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Daniel Defoe, separated from the society of the majority of English people of his time by his religion and his low social status, was concerned with isolation in the lives of the characters in his novels. The solitude of Robinson Crusoe has been frequently discussed, but the characters in other novels have not been studied in much detail nor have the characters been studied as a group of isolated with similar characteristics.

The purpose of the following study is to determine what characteristics Defoe’s isolates have in common, what attitude Defoe had toward solitude and the isolates, and what effect …

Echoes Of Eliot's The Waste Land In Three Modern American Novels, Ruth Elliott

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This essay demonstrates how three popular writers of the twentieth century have created novels that contain echoes of Eliot's poem. They are F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925), Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (1926), and John Steinbeck's To a God Unknown (1933). I chose these particular novels because they exemplify widely different and distinctive echoes of the poem. Fitzgerald's use of waste land imagery is readily perceptible the most effective in defining and summing up the temper of the Jazz Age in America. Hemingway's borrowing lies principally in parallel characterization (Jake Barnes as he Fisher King is the …

A Study Of Representative Critical Evaluations Of D. H. Lawrence's Sons And Lovers, Georgine Hawley

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

An Exploratory Study Of The American Middle-Class Moral And Ethical Values Found In The John Newbery Medal Books., Heath Ward Lowry

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It was the purpose of this study to collect data concerning the presence of that content in the Newbery Medal Award winning books which may influence children’s learning of American middle-class moral and ethical values.

The investigator used the process of content analysis to gather data for answering the following questions: (1) Are American middle-class moral and ethical values present in this chosen list of books?; (2) If such value content is present, to what degree of frequency and intensity has it been found?; (3) What variations, if any, can be measured in the presence, frequency, and intensity of these …

The Hobbesian Villain In Dryden's Heroic Plays, Margaret Norman Simmons

English Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

Tolkien Journal Issue 2, Richard Plotz

Tolkien Journal

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Urizen Symbols In Some Of William Blake's Poems, Glen Ivan Wilsey

Graduate Student Research Papers

It was the purpose of this study (1) to present a simplified background of Blake's philosophy and values and a clear concept of what Urizen is and (2) to show Blake's use of Urizenic symbols in presenting his views of the world in which he lived.

Christopher Fry's Contribution To Modern Drama, Jane Mcelroy

Graduate Thesis Collection

In a modern theatre increasingly preoccupied with the mundane, the sordid, the perverse, and the hopeless, Christopher Fry's plays loom like beacons~ For Hr. Fry finds the world, however chaotic, magnificent; and he chooses to explore its more civilized areas in a language undauntedly poetic, through characters cultivated enough to speak that poetry...

The 1965 Faculty Lecture, Myron D. Goldsmith

George Fox College Journal, 1952-1966

No abstract provided.

1 Tamburlaine: A Comedy, Caroline Heath Tunstall

English Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

Shakespeare's Use Of Letters In Twelve Representative Plays, Clara Beery Mcilwraith

Master's Theses

The purpose of this study of Shakespeare's use of letters is twofold. First, representative plays will be examined to determine some of the ways in which letters contributed to such important elements as plot structure, character delineation, creation of atmosphere, heightening of suspense, or a combination of two or more of these and possibly other uses. In addition, the letters will be studied for the evidence they may furnish in themselves, of the development of Shakespeare's dramatic technique and artistry.

Parnassus 1965

Parnassus

The 1965 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

The Individual And Society In Selected Novels And Tales Of Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Study In Hawthorne's Use Of The Crowd, Richard R. Dolezal

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Henrik Ibsen And Thomas Hardy : A Sociological Comparison, Garland Karr Linkous Jr.

Master's Theses

Although much has been written about the plays of Henrik Ibsen and the novels of Thomas Hardy, there have been no notable comparisons of the works of the two men, perhaps because they wrote in the two different media. Another possible explanation is the fact that Ibsen is universally regarded as the father of modern drama, but Hardy's status-whether he is the last Victorian novelist or the first modern one-is disputed. It is the purpose of this paper to demonstrate, by comparison, that Hardy should very definitely be classed with the modern, realistic writers.

The final Chapter of this paper …

The Critical Method Of Yvor Winters, Richard William Bollman

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Love And Duty: The Character Of The Princesse De ClèVes As Reflected In Certain Later English And American Novels (Studies In Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe, Jane Austen's Sense And Sensibility And Persuasion, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, George Eliot's Middlemarch, And Henry Jame's The Wings Of The Dove And The Portrait Of A Lady), Mildred Sarah Greene

English Language and Literature ETDs

Nearly all critics of the novel from Saintsbury to Fiedler take note of the influence of Madame de Lafayette’s La Princesse de Cléves on later fiction, even though they do not always consider this influence significant. In his Essays on French Novelists, Saintsbury comments that with this novel madam de Lafayette cut the romance “from the dimensions of an encyclopedia to a pamphlet” and “infused into its atmosphere a very considerable proportion of the breath of actual life and universal human nature.” Ian Watt in The Rise of the Novel (1957), feels that for all its psychological penetration La Princesse …

Joseph Conrad: A Study In Moral Conflict, Ann M. Belch

Graduate Student Research Papers

The purpose of this research paper is to attempt to define Joseph Conrad's moral philosophy of life and to show how that philosophy is embodied in the novel, Lord Jim.

The Orc Symbol In William Blake's Works, Michael James Finnigan

Graduate Student Research Papers

A study of Orc, Blake's symbol for energy, suggests several different hypotheses. This paper intends to test the hypothesis that Orc is a force. With the use of illustrations and explications, Orc becomes more clearly a symbol of Blake's imaginative form. This energy will be seen at each level of Blake's visions, each different psychological stage, and at the highest level, poetic imagination. Thus, as the creator creates, the creation becomes the molded form of the creator's imagination.

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

No abstract provided.

Form And Structure Of Some Of Edwin Arlington Robinson's Tilbury Town Poems, Christina Peckler

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It is the purpose of this study to explore several of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poems in order to show the poet’s force of language and prosody and to reveal as much as possible his total poetic artistry. The poems are representative of his familiar, shorter Tilbury Town portraits and are taken from his early, middle, and late periods. An honest appraisal will be made to determine the true worth of the poetry, and an attempt will be made to show that Edwin Arlington Robinson deserves a respected position in modern American letters.