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Certain Aspects Of Pioneer Life As Presented In The Modern Novel, Elta Louise Livoni

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The term pioneer simply means one who pushes ahead to remove obstacles and to prepare the way for others who are to follow. Nevertheless, when we speak of the pioneers in American history, we are really speaking of three different types of men who have only a little in common.

All pioneers leave behind them settled communities and highly civilized life and push out into an unknown and. unsettled country;y. Also, all pioneers are seekers, but they do not all seek the same things, Some are seeking adventure. These are the explorers, the pioneers seized with the wanderlust, those who …

A Comparison Of The Professional Success Of Members And Non-Members Of The Men's Societies In The Indiana State Teachers College, W. Edward Fisher

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Ibsen's Influence On British Dramatists, Elva Acklam

Bachelors’ Theses

In preparing this thesis I found that one must have an understanding of philosophy, sociology, biology and economics to appreciate the modern drama, and in the reading of the plays I found my knowledge in these subjects broadened. The dramatists and their characters' views on these branches of learning are most interesting, especially those in Bernard Shaw's prefaces.

The labor of the essay was simplified when I found that the reading of a play of Ibsen's or the others gave almost as much pleasure as witnessing it on the stage. Copious stage directions giving character analysis, situations, and literary descriptions …

Cicero And Immortality: A Study Based On The First Tusculan Disputation, Marion Sullivan

Bachelors’ Theses

In order to discover the real source and principle of his actions, we shall have to view somewhat superficially, however, that philosophy which Cicero professed to follow as the general view of his life. This, as he often declares, was drawn from the Academic Sect, winch derived its origin from Socrates, and its name from the famous gymnasium, or place of exercise, in the suburbs of Athens, called The Academy.

A Correlation Between The Scholastic Record Of Graduates Of Indiana State Teachers College And Their Yearly Financial Success After Graduation, Ransom Bramblet

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Romance And Walpole, Mary Mercedes Tintel

Bachelors’ Theses

In studying romantic literature we realize that ro¬ mance is not merely a nassing whim, but a lasting, fundamental trait in human nature. In some cases ro¬ mantic authors have nermitted their hearts to run away with their heads to such an extent, that sane readers have turned away in disgust at the wild extravagance of this false romanticism. But true romance is always with us. It is not a matter of any particular century, but a product of all times and of all nations. Our age is no exception to the rule. Among modern English writers who are inspired …

The Dramatic Technique Of Ben Jonson, Theodore James Hodan

Bachelors’ Theses

"Barring Shakespeare, Jonson is by far the moat significant literary figure of his time,--- leaving be­ hind him a name in the popular drama, second alone to that of Shakespeare." In this vein does Felix E, Schelling speak of the master about whom this thesis is woven, Ben Jonson. In the course of this thesis we will endeavor to set forth the technique, in its various phases of the dramas of Jonson.

Dramatic Criticism: Its Place In The American Theater And A Discussion Of Its Exponents, Rowena M. Devine

Bachelors’ Theses

Criticism is as essential to the theater as it is to literature, art or music. It is a connecting link between the theater and the theater-goer. Most authorities today concede that without criticism the theater would wane in popularity.

Silent Reading, Daniel W. Corcoran

Bachelors’ Theses

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Jealousy In Shakespeare's Tragedies, Harold M. Kimball

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In undertaking a study of the theme of jealousy, one must make some limitation of material. The field of literature as a whole, or the more limited ones of drama or even tragedy - each of these is too large for so short a study as this must be. Only certain aspects of such a restricted subject as the tragedies of Shakespeare can be given any thorough treatment, while others, both interesting and profitable, must be put aside; for instance, space will prohibit a careful comparison of Shakespeare's use of jealousy with that of other dramatists; nor can a study …

Standards Of Criticism For The American Novel, Marie Dwyer

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis has been worked out so that I shall have some criteria for judging novels. I have ventured to write about modern novelists about whom critics are not agreed; my interest is not so much in that they said of certain authors as it is in determining why they accept some and reject others, and what they use as their basis of judging.

The technique of the novel, and its approach to great art was developed in order to gain a feeling for the novel apart from any country or section.

If undue emphasis has been placed upon the …

Romanticism In Wordsworth According To The Preface In The Second Edition Of The Lyrical Ballads, Raymond Felix Michalak

Bachelors’ Theses

To offer a thorough exposition of Romanticism in Wordsworth, as the nature of this topic justly demands, would be aspiring to loftier heights then anyone it apt to realize, for the genius of Wordsworth, sheltered in a garb of the pious tranquility of his life, as we shall later see, presents a multitude of equally varied and extensive aspects under which it could be duly considered. An endeavor shall be made, however, to Submit an essay, though not exhaustive in its contents, which still shall give a sufficient idea to fully appreciate the magnitude of his literary abilities as a …

Character Building Through Literature, Mary Ignatia Wiesner

Bachelors’ Theses

To make straight the paths for the poets, and the critics, the terms literature and character shall be defined, the extent, as well as the limitation, of the influence of literature on character outlined, and a method of approach to the study of literature discussed. First, then, there will be a discussion of terms, then the opinions of writers on the moral values of literature, and finally, in the light of this discussion, this paper will attempt to show whether these writers claim more for literature than it actually can and does accomplish, and just how literature can be made …

Shakespeare's Delineation Of Criminal Characters, Herbert Lloyd Hinstorff

Bachelors’ Theses

We like what we are not, or we are not what we think we are. In no subject is this truism more evident than in the literature of a people. Literature reflects the taste of the time rather than the time itself, and of­ ten the two are widely different. Literature is, of course, not life, neither history nor material for history, but a scroll whereon are traced and charactered the unfettered thoughts of writer and reader, - a life within a life, fancy somewhat at odds with fact. fut by critics and historians this is often forgotten - "To …

Imagination: A Study Of Types With Special Reference To The Imagery Of Francis Thompson And Edmund Spenser, Hugh John Deeny

Bachelors’ Theses

Curiosity is doubtless the most valuable asset of the mental make-up of man. In recent years the natural int­erest of human beings in "hoe it works" has turned within to the investigation of themselves, and how and why they behave like humans. "Psychology" has become a word to conjure with. Witness the space it and allied subjects occupy on Chautauqua programs, in newspapers, and in magazines. Books attempting to explain our everyday actions and our exceptional ones have become "best sellers" "Complexes," "inhibitions," "react­ions," "stimuli," and a host of other technical terms are familiarly heard in drawing-rooms and even on …

The Negro In Literature, A. W. Arnaud

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis traces the development of the Negro in American literature from its origins in the spirituals through the flowering of the "New Negro" Renaissance of the early twentieth century. Arnaud opens by defining literature as the artistic record of a people's inner life and argues that Negro literary expression developed first through song, tracing the movement from oral spirituals through the early poetry of the enslaved and freed population toward increasingly sophisticated literary forms.

The thesis presents Paul Laurence Dunbar as the foremost early exponent of Negro poetry, examining his biography and his work in both classic English verse …

The Song In Elizabethan Drama With Particular Reference To Its Function In Shakespeare, John Joseph Plamondon

Master's Essays (1922 - )

We have approached our study of the song in Elizabethan Drama with the intention of accounting for the abundance of vocal music in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and of explaining the use of song as a dramatic device. It has been considered necessary to a proper understanding of the place of song in the Romantic Drama to give a rather broad treatment of the subject, including a brief history of the song in the English theatre, the psychology of its origin, and the cause of its decline. Methods of presenting songs have been discussed to strengthen our …

The Poetry Of William Butler Yeats And The Celtic Spirit, Francis Joseph Mccarthy

Bachelors’ Theses

The Irish Literary movement of our time is the most interesting artistic event since the formation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. It exhibits the same combination of diverse personalities and gifts dominated by one common aim and directed toward one single end.

Literary Origins Of John Henry Cardinal Newman, Anne M. De Laney

Bachelors’ Theses

A man's name is inscribed in a Biographical Dictionary by the date of his birth; but in reality it is his death that ranges him in the heart and mind of humanity.

Contributary factors to his imminent greatness are often minimized in importance; and yet those factors are essentially so many milestones in the way of his achievements.

Even so it is with Newman. Biographers have given us certain facts concerning his life; critics have told us the relative value of his. writings; while time has told us of his unique greatness. It is admittedly difficult in a biographical sketch. …

The Technique Of The Drama Of John Galsworthy, Irene Louise Edwards

Bachelors’ Theses

Since 1906 when John Galsworthy published "The Silver Box", he has produced nineteen dramas and a number of one act plays; and Phelps says "he has produced nothing negligible". (Phelps: "Essays on Modern Dramatists" p. 100 ). In his very first play, he used a technique which he has continued to follow with more or less precision and perfection in the later dramas ( except "The Little Dream"). He did not flounder about as did the pacemakers of modern drams. He found his medium ready-made for him in naturalism, and he adopted it. It was the most suitable for the …

The History Of The Deductive Detective Story From Poe To Freeman And Bailey With A Critical Comparison, Raymond F. Erz

Bachelors’ Theses

Ever since the beginning of man universal interest has been centered about these three magnetic words: MYSTERY, INTRIGUE, ADVENTURE. A famous author once said, "All the world's a stage and we are the actors in it. This in every respect is true for ourselves as well as for every­ body else. Plots are being formulated to shorten the ex­istence of one character for the other, the act is done, the stage is minus a personage, the actors hesitate, and the show goes on.

John Millington Synge And The Irish Dramatic Revival, Ethel L. Kuehn

Bachelors’ Theses

If poetry be “emotion remembered in tranquillity," as Wordsworth said, then drama is, or must seem to be, emotion visualized in action. Drama, by its nature,- can come into being only when men are moved powerfully and suddenly to record the circumstances of life; for the dramatic form is the most exacting of literary forms, demanding a high and sustained emotion in the author. The great ages of drama have thus been those when life has been raised to an unusual intensity, or viewed with an excited surprise. The artist may take what he desires from life, and, letting all …

Contemporary American Drama: William Vaughn Moody And Eugene O'Neil, Helen F. Corrigan

Bachelors’ Theses

In any study of contemporary American drama, two names inevitably stand out from among the myriads of native playwrights - those names - William Vaughn Moody and Eugene O'Neil. Yet neither of these can be literary pigeon-holed. Moody's death prevented him reaching his full development. Consequently his work is mostly indicative - indicative of what it might have been had he lived.

Adolescence In Recent Fiction, Sarah T. Sisson

Graduate Thesis Collection

No teacher or parent, who comes in contact with the period of life extending from the advent of puberty to the attainment of maturity and known technically as Adolescence, can fail to appreciate, aside from any biological or psychological training which he may have had, that these years are full of storm and uncertainty in an attempt to gain control through harmonious functioning of body, mind, and soul.

English Religious Poetry Of The Nineteenth Century As Influenced By The Catholic Spirit, Mary Mida

Master's Theses

Since we are now entering upon the second quarter of the twentieth century, it follows that the perspective thus offered gives ample scope for an authoritative report on the literary output of the preceding century, in the special field chosen - English Religious Poetry. The older English poets wrote from an established point of view, that is, their human creed and their idea of man coincided, while the modern English poets voice the protest or the defense of those who have little in common save the genius of the Bard. This has led to a certain recklessness in the matter …

Gerhart Hauptmann, The Novelist, Homer G. Deerhake

Bachelors’ Theses

A new period in German Literature arose about l880. This new form of literature replaced the old conser­vative form of Goethe and Schiller. This new period in German Literature has been called Modernism and has been represented by some as a knowing yet pure woman, in the attitude of advance, inspiring mankind by her perfection of all earthly beauty. Gerhart Hauptmann soon became a member of this group. The Modernists were generally looked upon as faithful adherents of the dogma of Naturalism, namely that man's destiny is unalterably shaped by his environment; human fete proceeds from a parallelogram of forces …

The Dramatic Technique Of John Galsworthy, Othmar A. Bittman

Bachelors’ Theses

Almost a score of years before Ibsen ushered in the New Drama with his monumental series of social dramas, he said: "The experience of all countries has sufficiently established the fact that dramatic art, in every age in which it has been cultivated, has in a higher degree than any other, shown itself an important factor in the education of the people--a very obvious explanation of which fact is to be found in the drama1 s more intimate and direct relation to reality; in other words, in its greater intelligibility and in its easier and more general accessibility to the …

Xx. The Term "Communal", Louise Pound

Department of English: Faculty Publications

I. The Doctrine of Communal Origins

The period following the French Revolution was deeply interested in "the people" as a mass conception, in all that belonged to them and all that they created. It was in this period that theorists on the origin of law, customs, religion, language, literature--particularly the folk-song and the folk-tale--liked to advocate the doctrine of spontaneous, unconscious growth "from the heart of the people," as the phrase went. Such conceptions of origin had their critics from the first; but they remained more or less orthodox throughout the nineteenth century, and they still have foothold in both …

The Influence Of Virgil's "Aeneid" On Subsequent Literature, Mary Gertrude Quirk

Bachelors’ Theses

In a study of the lives of great men it is interesting to trace the circumstances that have affected them most deeply. And we generally find that the most powerful influences in moulding their characters were the friends that they had made. This flows from the very nature of friendship, which entails a mutual sharing of another's thoughts and feelings, interests and aspirations. Moreover, when men are united in any undertaking, howsoever insignificant, a bond of sympathy is established among them. Common ends and common purposes create a feeling of comradeship, an esprit de corps that lends grace to the …

Eugene O'Neill And The Advance Of The English Drama, Margaret Flower

Bachelors’ Theses

Being a narration of the life of Eugene O'Neill, American. dramatist,and of the varied circumstances therein, education travel and occupation, which may have some bearing on his dramatic work.