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Gendered Reading Communities: The Feminization Of Reader Response Criticism And A Dialogics Of Reading, Patricia Lorimer Lundberg

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Victorian Arabian Nights Adventure: A Study In Intertextuality, Nancy Victoria Workman

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Preservation Of The Family Unit In Adolescent Novels, Mary M. Hutchings

Masters Theses

This thesis discusses the development of the family story from the late nineteenth century to the present, beginning with What Katy Did as an example of the earlier moral story from which this genre grows. It then focuses on Little Women as the beginning of the modern family story and uses Jo from Little Women as the starting point to discuss the development of the female adolescent protagonist in these stories. And lastly, comparing Little Women to modern family life stories which began to appear about 1940, the thesis discusses changes in didacticism which have occurred since the late nineteenth …

Sauron And Dracula, Gwenyth Hood

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

Compares Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Tolkien’s Sauron, noting both profound similarities and important differences, especially in the relationship of these villains and those they tempt to evil.

From Belbury To Bernt-Arse: The Rhetoric Of The Wasteland In Lewis, Orwell And Hoban, Kath Filmer

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

Analyzes the rhetorical modes used in mythopoeic literature, using as examples 1984, Riddley Walker, and That Hideous Strength. Focuses on the rhetorical use of the image of the wasteland in these novels.

Memory Emancipated: The Fantastic Realism Of Mervyn Peake, Tanya Gardiner-Scott

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

Examines Peake’s experience of World War II (and in particular a post-war visit to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp) as significant sources for Titus Alone.

Tales Newly Told, Alexei Kondratiev

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

Bull, Emma. War for the Oaks Paxson, Diana L. The Paradise Tree. Zimmer, Paul Edwin. A Gathering of Heroes.

Our Paper 12/1987, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

No abstract provided.

An Annotated Bibliography Of Works Both By And About Cleanth Brooks 1977-1984, Marian Kidd Riggar

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

The bibliography will be presented in four sections. The first will be a chronological listing of all entries, divided into two sections: entries by Brooks and those about Brooks. The list is an inclusive one of works indexed by the MLA and Essays in General Literature. The second section will present these entries with the accompanying annotations and will be divided into four content groups: William Faulkner; Southern Literature (excluding entries pertinent to Faulkner); Criticism; and Miscellaneous. These entries will be arranged chronologically within each section, but will not be divided into groups according to author. This content grouping is …

George Eliot And Friendship The Toast To The Immortal Memory, Ina Taylor

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Before going on to my chosen subject I thought you might like to hear a little about this new biography of George Eliot. You could indeed be forgiven for saying, 'Not another biography of George Eliot'. A new study must come out most years, either in this country or in America and I would be the first to admit that the definitive biography by Gordon Haight will not be superseded for some time. So what more is there to say about the great lady?

Well, after reading Haight and others, I was struck by the fact that of George Eliot's …

All The Comforts: The Image Of Home In The Hobbit & The Lord Of The Rings, Wayne G. Hammond

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

Examines the importance of home, especially the Shire, as metaphor in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Relates it to the importance of change vs. permanence as a recurring theme in both works.

An Index To Mythlore, Issues 1 To 50, Patricia Reynolds

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

By author and subject.

Tales Newly Told, Alexei Kondratiev

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

Crowley, John. Aegypt.

Literature And The Question Of Philosophy [Review], Michael Fischer

English Faculty Research

However defined theoretically, literature and philosophy also designate two departments in most North American universities. The paths of these departments occasionally cross, say in a philosophy and literature course, then go their separate ways: toward logic, in the case of philosophy, and toward some variant of the still powerful New Criticism in literature departments, where poetry is considered as poetry and not as another thing. Combining literature and philosophy, or seeing them as always already intertwined, thus involves transgressing departmental boundaries and runs the risk of seeming dilettantish to those colleagues who remain within each discipline. Literature and the Question …

The Role Of Narrator In Selected Works Of Edgar Allan Poe, Frances M. Smith

Theses & Honors Papers

This thesis focuses on the role of narrator in selected works of Edgar Allan Poe. The thesis finds that Poe exerts a lot of effort fashioning the narrator. He discredits his reliability to discourage a face-value credibility. He puts him in a dream state to give him access to his subconscious mind. He makes himself and other characters representative of the functioning of the inner mind. He creates deceptiveness in his nature and then makes him alert the reader to the deceptiveness in his nature and then makes him alert the reader to the deception so that the reader will …

Letters Of Comment, Pat Reynolds, Gwenyth E. Hood, Anne Osborn, Stanley E. Anderson, Susan Dorman, Jane Yolen, Joe R. Christopher, Mary-Lane Kamberg, Deborah L. Hunt, Ronald C. Morgan Ii, Janet P. Reedman, Lee Beasley

The Mythic Circle

No abstract provided.

Maggie Tullier's Thorny Wilderness: George Eliot's Use Of Natural And Social Environment To Develop The Character Of The Heroine In "The Mill On The Floss", Nelle Mcfather

Theses & Honors Papers

During this writer's year of pursuit of the Master of Arts degree in English, the critical catechism has been applied to the work being studied in every class: "Does this work stand up to the test of time and, if so, why?" The first part of the question can be glibly answered by the fact that the work in question is being read and taught in modern classrooms, or is included on a current suggested reading list. The second part of the question, the "why?" is more complex. What makes one "out-dated" novel gather dust on an obscure shelf while …

Mark Twain's Uses Of Suffering In The Writer-Character-Reader Triad, Virginia Armiger Grant

Theses & Honors Papers

This thesis studies Mark Twain’s uses of suffering in the writer character reader triad. In the book Huckleberry Finn, Twain himself seems to identify more closely with Huck than he does with Tom, as evidenced by the first person narrative in Finn and the more serious, more carefully developed autobiographical incidents in that book. Perhaps because Twain’s later life was so bleak and unhappy, he poured all of his self-defeat and pessimism into his thoughts for Huck’s old age.

D.H. Lawrence's Philosophy Of Human Relationships As Seen In Four Novels, Jacqueline Eachus

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The growth of an individual into mature selfhood is the primary basis of the Lawrentian relationship. Lawrence describes a mystical kind of rebirth of the self into a deeper level of the unconscious. He says that one should explore the impulses and desires of the unconscious in order to find a deeper, more fulfilled self. Ursula of The Rainbow and Paul of Sons and Lovers are the characters who most successfully begin this growth into separate selfhood.

According to Lawrence the journey into the unconscious is to be accomplished through sensual experiences. He mistrusts the intellect because he feels that …

Our Paper 05/1987, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

No abstract provided.

Comparative Instructor Attitudes Toward College Level English And Mathematics Experiences For Gifted High School Students, Bruce Vickers

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Samples derived from a mailed questionnaire were compared. The sample represented high school, community college and university instructors of mathematics and English. The Kentucky public schools sampled were equally represented among high school, community colleges and universities. The research indicated that of those instructors sampled a very high percentage (97.7%) feel that those high school students shown to be academically gifted would benefit from a college experience before high school graduation. The attitudes of those instructors sampled indicated that multiple criteria – grades, recommendations, standardized test scores and personal interview – were considered the preferred method of selection (82.5%). The …

A New Poem By Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James C. Mckusick

English Faculty Publications

The poem published here is transcribed from an original holograph manuscript in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. The poem is a fragmentary verse translation of the Song of Deborah (from Judges 5). Its existence has been known to Coleridge scholars for several years, and its authenticity seems unquestionable. Kathleen Coburn mentions it in her edition of Coleridge's Notebooks: "The ms was with Coleridge's 'German Journal' of 1798-9 on acquisition by the library, but whether only accidentally there is not known. It appears to be fairly early." To this remark I can add my own observation that …

Towards An Understanding Of The Creative Event: A Hermeneutic Perspective, Sahar Moheb Mashhour

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Surfacing And The Diviners: A Comparative Study, Helen Beach Cannon

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This paper explores religio-folkloric connections in two works of Canadian fiction--Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood, and The Diviners, by Margaret Laurence. On several levels these books have striking parallels. They are here treated as novels of quest and in terms of elemental symbology.

The Geometry Of James Joyce's Ulysses: From Pythagoras To Poincaré: Joyce's Use Of Geometry For Structure, Metaphor, And Theme, Susan Sutliff Brown

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The extensive, previously unrecognized, use James Joyce made of contemporaneous geometric concepts for structure, metaphor, and theme in Ulysses provides new keys to how Joyce, following the model of his predecessors and contemporaries in Cubism, responded to the revolutions in aesthetics and physics which marked his intellectual milieu. As an examination of pre-publication materials reveals, during the six months before February 2, 1922, Joyce manipulated the pagination of the Ulysses placards and page proofs to impose geometric aesthetic proportions on the overall text and within individual episodes. Most significantly, Joyce aesthetically proportioned the pagination of the disparate eleven "initial style" …

Honoring The Farm: Identity And Meaning In Personal Narratives, Jeannie Banks Thomas

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This thesis employs the literary folklorist methodology to explore personal narratives. Personal narratives told by Elizabeth (Beth) Wyatt Winn were analyzed. It was discovered that these narratives provide an eyewitness account of history, reveal world views, and encapsulate experiences into values and personal meanings. The depth of meaning found in Elizabeth (Beth) Wyatt Winn's personal narratives illustrates the importance of personal narratives in historical research and historical re-creation and simulation.

Appendices include several oral interviews containing personal narratives.

Masters Of The Universe: Deconstruction And The Yuppies, Judith Weissman

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

A critical view of the postculturalist school of literary criticism known as deconstruction, including discussion of both its internal flaws and its possible connections with wider aspects of contemporary capitalist culture.

Zora Neale Hurston And The Emergence Of Self, Cheryl Y. Williams

Honors Theses

Abraham Maslow in his work From The Farther Reaches of Human Nature made the statement:

Every human being has (two) sets of forces within him. One set clings to safety and defensiveness out of fear, tending to regress backward, hanging to the past, afraid to grow... afraid of independence, freedom and separateness. The other set of forces impels him forward toward wholeness of Self and uniqueness of Self, toward full functioning of all his capacities, toward confidence in the face of the external world at the same time that he can accept his deepest, real, unconscious Self (45-6).

What makes …

The Black Woman As Artist And Critic: Four Versions, Margaret B. Mcdowell

The Kentucky Review

No abstract provided.

Our Time, Spring 1987, Vol. 3, Our Time Staff

Our Time

Feature:
3 Another Vietnam in Nicaragua?, Michelle Picardo
3 Responsibility for Nuclear Power, Tony Brinn
4 AIDS Awareness on Campus, Tracey McCann
4 The Mass Media: A Great Communicator, or Just an Investment?, Kwadjo Boaltey
5 $2.8 Million Loss?, Michelle Plcardo

Movie Reviews: by Sandy DeMott
6 Black Widow
Tin Men
Mannequin

Poetry:
9 Worm Days, Jacquie Beidl
9 To Dream is Such a Novel Thing..., Michael Pray
9 Dragonquest, Terry Maggert
10 Untitled, Levi Stone
10 elusive shops, Jacqule Beidl
10 Untitled, Ed Schuldner
10 Glimpse of Death, Shelli Stiverson
11 Utopia, Mary O'Brien
11 Reaching for the Cookies, …