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San José Studies, Winter 1990, San José State University Foundation

San José Studies, 1990s

Volume 16, Issue 1

Frowning Babe Or Brightening Glance? Blake And Yeats's Particular Uses Of Metaphor, Daniel Muir

Honors Papers

The first significant evidence of Blake's influence on Yeats was the three volume edition of Blake's works published by Bernard Quarich and edited by Richard Ellis and W. B. Yeats in 1893. Within the history of Blakean criticism, the volume is unique. It is the product of Ellis and Yeats's occult viewpoints combined with enthusiastic but imperfect scholarship. The first two interpretative volumes of the edition, entitled "The System" and "The Meaning," include extreme restatements of other nineteenth-century interpretations, as well as several disposable ideas that reveal more about the editors' viewpoints than Blake's own. Among the most outlandish is …

John Dryden: Persuasive Principles In "Absalom And Achitophel" And "Religio Laici", Kathy Seymour Albertson

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

No abstract provided.

Leadership Theories And Practices To Strengthen Student Activities: A Case Study Of The University Of Northern Iowa English Club, Deborah Lyn Hoepner

Presidential Scholars Theses (1990 – 2006)

As a senior at the University of Northern Iowa ( UNI), my project to fulfill a segment of my Presidential Scholarship is to plan and propose a structure change for leadership within the UNI English Club. Currently, I am acting as an intern for the English Department. For my internship, I act as the student contact for the four student organizations/activities within the department: English Club, Inner Weather, Sigma Tau Delta, and The Student As Critic Conference (an annual, state wide essay competition held on campus).

The written components of my project consist of a paper dealing with a proposal …

For A Sociolinguistics Of Literature: The Question Of Style, Hector A. Torres

English Language and Literature Faculty Publications

It is neither my intent in this essay to deconstruct the internal-external distinction so central to generative grammar nor to favor one side of the debate over the other, since in fact I want to favor both sides. My objective is to explore Jacques Derrida' s insistence that the concept of the event be placed in the gap of the competence/performance distinction (Linguistics 53). The event, as Derrida calls it in philosophical language, is the moment of utterance in an exchange between interactants, the content of the illocutions, the illocutionary forces that affect and modify these illocutions, the interactions …

Mestiza Consciousness And Dialect(Ic)S: Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Hector A. Torres

English Language and Literature Faculty Publications

As represented in Borderlands, the dialectics of Mestiza consciousness contest the promise of security offered by the Western prescription that a term, proposition, or state of affairs must be either true or false, that it cannot be both simultaneously, or that once it holds one value it cannot carry the other. Here, it is worth noting that the premise of the challenge is not that identity and non-contradiction are not useful but that they are too narrow to account for the diversity and heterogeneity of human life experience. From such a point of view, the Western logos is not …

Language And Identity In Sophie’S Choice, Elizabeth Ruth Bingham

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Sophie Zawistowska, the title character in William Styron's novel Sophie's Choice, has a severe identity problem. She acts as dutiful daughter, unfulfilled spouse, desperate mother, impassioned lover, tragic victim, unquestioning accomplice, and guilt-consumed survivor. Many of these characterizations conflict directly with each other. Sophie also speaks six languages and identifies at various times with speakers of German, Polish, French, Russian, English, and Yiddish, language groups that often conflict, as well. Although Sophie has various identities, she doesn't have a unified sense of self. Her native land, Poland, with which she might identify, has an identity crisis of its own, as …

David Copperfield And Great Expectations: A Comparison Of Dickens' Bildungsromane, Donald R. Price

Masters Theses

Charles Dickens wrote two autobiographical novels which are developed in the Bildungsroman genre. Although the self-formation of the two young heroes, David in David Copperfield and Pip in Great Expectations, are very similar, reflecting the struggles in Dickens' own development, there is an important and interesting difference in the forces that influence each young hero. This difference evolves from Dickens' responses to forces affecting his life at the time he wrote David Copperfield in 1849-50 and Great Expectations in 1860.

This thesis addresses the internal forces influencing David's development, contrasting them with the external forces to which Pip must …

The Changing Face Of Fortune In Six English Versions Of The Tragedy Of Antony And Cleopatra, Mary Aileen Mallery

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This study traces the development and changes in the depiction of the goddess Fortune in a selected group of dramas written between 1592 and 1678: the six English versions of the tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra. The concepts surrounding the goddess Fortune and her place in any culture change with the idea of the individual's ability to shape his own destiny. In the seventeenth century in particular Fortune becomes increasingly connected to questions of personal identity and what Stephen Greenblatt has called "self-fashioning," so that by 1678 the subject of John Dryden's All for Love is not the quest for …

Reviews, Glen H. Goodknight, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Joe R. Christopher

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

The Treason of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Two. J.R.R. Tolkien. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

Sold Into Egypt. Madeleine L'Engle. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Vampire in Literature: A Critical Bibliography. Margaret Carter. Reviewed by Joe R. Christopher.

Payer of Tribute. Margaret Carter. Reviewed by Joe R. Christopher.

An Inklings Bibliography (37), Joe R. Christopher, Wayne G. Hammond, Pat Allen Hargis

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

For entries 34–41 in this series, Hammond reviews Tolkien titles, Christopher reviews the Lewis material, and Hargis reviews Williams and the other Inklings.

Rilke And Le Guin, Barbara J. Bucknall

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

Seeks similarities in Rilke and Le Guin, especially in the power of naming and the view of death as a necessary part of life. Notes in particular parallels between Rilke’s Duino Elegies and The Farthest Shore.

Quenti Lambardillion: Among The Trees: Seeking The Spirit Of Narqelion, Paul Nolan Hyde

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

Further discussion of the poem “Narqelion” and several other poems composed around the same time.

Our Paper 12/1989, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

No abstract provided.

The Middle-Earth Epic And The Seven Capital Vices, John L. Treloar S.J.

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

Examines Tolkien’s use of habitual evil choices of free beings leading to vices. Defines the seven capital sins more properly as vices, or habitual patterns, based on the work of Thomas Aquinas, and shows how Tolkien used them to give depth and motivation to characters in Middle-earth.

Edward Fitzgerald And Bernard Barton: An Unsparing Friendship, Jeffrey P. Martin

The Courier

This article details the correspodence between the "Quaker poet" Bernard Barton and famous literary figures of his era, especially his friend and fellow writer Edward FitzGerald. The source of the article is the Alfred McKinley Terhune Collection, found in Syracuse University's Special Collections. Barton's letters, which are often lively and full of fresh opinion, are (thankfully) still valued today, both for the subjects they deal with and for the people they address. As one critic has stated, "Barton never considered his own letters as literary productions. Rather he felt that his poetry was his sole claim to literary fame." It …

Gilman's Gothic Allegory: Rage And Redemption In The Yellow Wallpaper, Greg Johnson

Faculty Articles

Discusses the 19th-century short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Comparison with the insistence of the poet Emily Dickinson's mother to install new wallpaper in her bedroom before Emily was born; Suggestion of Gothic themes of confinement and rebellion, forbidden desire and irrational fear; View of the behavior of the story's female narrator.

La Belle Dame Sans Merci: Cultural Criticism And The Mythopoeic Imagination In George Macdonald's Lilith, Kath Filmer

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

Examines MacDonald’s critique of capitalism in Lilith as well as its spiritual and psychological elements—especially the theme of dying-to-self.

Letters, Mary V. Borhek, Paul Nolan Hyde, Darrell Schweitzer, Mary M. Stolzenbach, Kathryn Lindskoog

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

No abstract provided.

Virginia Woolf's Keen Sensitivity To War: Its Roots And Its Impact On Her Fiction, Jane Hamovit Lauter

English Theses & Dissertations

Virginia Woolf saw the nightmare of war as a form of madness which posed a threat not only to individual human life, but to art and culture as well. Her many tragic personal experiences with death together with the fact that she lived through World War I and the beginning of World War II, caused in her a keen sensitivity to the transitory nature of life. Because Woolf saw militarism and the violence of war as blindly chauvinistic and utterly wasteful, war became for her a source of anger and contempt as well as fear.

Woolf's response to war had …

Letters Of Comment, Ron Blizzard, Nancy Martsch, Angelee Sailer Anderson, Frances Garland, Lawrence Schimel, Joe Christopher, Gwenyth E. Hood, Alex Mcgilvery, Charles Rampp, Pat Reynolds, Mary-Edith Bridges

The Mythic Circle

Letters from readers in The Mythic Circle #8

English As A Second Language: Evaluation Of A Language Program Designed For & Implemented In The Colombian Oil Company's Research Institute, Patience Nave

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

An incredible proliferation of knowledge has generated a critical need for professionals in all fields to have access to current information and research results. Costs for study and research are extremely high, particularly in science fields, and most professionals seek to minimize loss in time and funds by avoiding duplication of efforts. Language is often a handicap, preventing the voluntary sharing of valuable information between individuals and countries, and many recognize the establishment of a universal language as a means of eliminating this unnecessary barrier. English is rapidly becoming accepted as a universal means of communication, but those who seek …

1989 Literary Review (No. 4, Vol. 2), Sigma Tau Delta

The Greenleaf Review

No abstract provided.

1989 Literary Review (No. 4, Vol. 1), Sigma Tau Delta

The Greenleaf Review

No abstract provided.

Our Paper 04/1989, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

No abstract provided.

The Politics Of Doubling In "Mortality And Mercy In Vienna", Douglas Keesey

English

No abstract provided.

River People, Ruth Madden

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In the introduction to The World of the Short Story, Kay Boyle challenges the short story writer "to invest a brief sequence of events with reverberating human significance by means of style, selection and ordering of detail, and -- most important -- to present the whole action in such a way that it is at once a parable and a slice of life, at once symbolic and real, both a valid picture of some phase of experience, and a sudden illumination of one of the perennial moral and psychological paradoxes which lie at the heart of la condition humaine." …

Susan Glaspell: Feminist Playwright, Anna Katherine Wiley

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Susan Glaspell, a "new woman" of the second decade of the twentieth century in America, left a valuable legacy for the feminists who would follow her. Her life and writings are examples of what women are capable of doing when given the opportunity. In both she sought to prove that women could participate in life fully--and on their own terms. A woman should not only expect Virginia Woolfs "room of her own," but should be allowed to use a mind of her own.

Modernism And Science: The Case Of Pound's Abc Of Reading, Paul Douglass

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

No abstract provided.

A Comedy Of Masks: Lord Peter As Harlequin In Murder Must Adverstise, Nancy-Lou Patterson

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

Examines the symbolism of the Harlequin character in Murder Must Advertise, from its roots in the commedia del’ arte to contemporary parallels. Discusses the symbolic functions of the Harlequin in the novel.