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From Epic To Romance: Barbour's Bruce And Scott's The Lord Of The Isles, Thomas R. Dale

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Pound's Cavalcanti And Craven's Carducci, Robert Spoo

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

H.D.’S Dating Of Asphodel: A Reassessment, Robert Spoo

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

A Basochien Proto-Drama And Its Mariological Context: L' Adovocacie Nostre-Dame, Daniel Terkla

Scholarship

This essay, which is excerpted from a longer initial study of L’Advocacie Nostre Dame, is primarily expository and exploratory in nature. Little has been written about this fascinating text, and the bulk of what has been done dates from the second half of the nineteenth century. This slim body of critical writing is, to say the least, out-dated and deserving of a fresh look. L’Advocacie is critically interesting, highly entertaining, and rather puzzling in a number of aspects, particularly in those related to its genre. Work on it has the potential to provide us with new insights into a …

Mediating Between The Mediums: The Changing Shakespearean World, Rebecca Ewert '91

Honors Projects

Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream has been described as "poetry, ritual, ballet, and circus rolled into one" (Bryden 17). Encompassing so many different mediums of performance and human experience, these various levels incorporated the realms of words, music, movement, and spectacle as integral parts of Shakespeare's production. Music was, of course, by the sixteenth century an accepted addition to the spoken language of the plays. Louis Elson, for example, writes that "[a]11 performances of [Shakespeare's] epoch were preceded by three flourishes of the trumpets," and it was only after the third flourish that the curtain was drawn and the prologue …

Community, History, And Individual Wholeness In The Novels Of Toni Morrison: Recasting The Myth Of Self, Richard L. Campbell

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The wholeness of the fictional characters of Toni Morrison is linked with their relationship to historical and communal values. Those characters who move toward a feeling of authenticity or psychological completeness are those who realize the value of the past to their present existence and the importance of significant relationships with those around them. Characters who are distanced from these values, however, are unable to realize a sense of wholeness. Though no character in The Bluest Eye achieves authenticity, the novel does suggest the values which its characters lack, and which might have allowed them to experience growth. Sula, on …

Resolving The Paradox: Thomas Merton, Antipoetry, And The Language Of Silence In The Geography Of Lograire, Barbara J. Hemann

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The paradox in Thomas Merton's life, that of being both poet and priest, has often been studied. Merton himself was torn by this paradox, the need to keep his vow of silence and the need to express himself through language. It is this paradox, the paradox of language and silence and how Merton resolves it in antipoetry, that is examined in this study. Antipoetry provides an answer to many paradoxes Merton finds in his life. Merton, in his autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, first believed that one must reject the world to embrace God, but later in his life recants …

The Crowning Fool, Robert Henry Fuerste

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The beginning of the social season in the summer of 1968 at the Hollisbrook mansion in Ridgeport, New York, was marked by a graduation party for Doyle Hollisbrook, youngest of the small, eastern American family. The action of the play centers on the preparation for the party. Doyle, feeling his graduation lacks personal significance, plans extra honors and exaltations. Eavesdropping on his mother and sister, he learns his achievements are minimized. His response is to carry out his plan to hire actors to support his view that he is prince of Wales. Through the innocent encouragement of his Aunt Abby, …

"Ego, Scriptor Cantilenae": The Cantos And Ezra Pound, Steven R. Gulick

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Can poetry "make new" the world? Ezra Pound thought so. In "Cantico del Sole" he said: "The thought of what America would be like/ If the Classics had a wide circulation/ Troubles me in my sleep" (Personae 183). He came to write an 815 page poem called The Cantos in which he presents "fragments" drawn from the literature and documents of the past in an attempt to build a new world, "a paradiso terreste" (The Cantos 802). This may be seen as either a noble gesture or sheer egotism.

Pound once called The Cantos the "tale of the …

Deconstructing Alice's 'Wonderlands': The Non-Sense Of Nonsense?, Beverley Farr

Theses : Honours

The profusion of literary criticism surrounding the Alice books affirms the heterogeneous nature of the texts 'Which resist the imposition of an exclusive, closed interpretation. A deconstructive reading of the texts demonstrates the tendency of the books toward multiple meanings, revealing how they are transgressive of notions of coherence and structure. Utilising some of the concepts of Jacques Lacan to examine the texts beyond the traditional analytic readings, language is shown to be a signifying chain of desire, structured like the unconscious. Alice becomes Lacan's split subject, banished to the world of language where she finds herself enmeshed in an …

Reviews, Glen H. Goodknight, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Bruce Leonard

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

The War of the Ring. J.R.R Tolkien. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

Bilbo's Last Song. J.R.R Tolkien, Illust. by Pauline Baynes. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Owen Barfield and C.S. Lewis. Owen Barfield. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

A Christian for All Christians: Essays in Honour of C.S. Lewis. Andrew Walker and James Patrick, Ed.. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Hobbit. J.R.R. Tolkien, Illus. by David Wenzel, Adapted by Charles Dixon and Sean Deming. Reviewed by Glen GoodKnight.

The Mind of the Maker. Dorothy L. Sayers. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Pattern in the Web: The Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams. Roma A. …

Tales Newly Told, Alexei Kondratiev

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

Kay, Guy Gavriel. Tigana.

Letters, Jan Long, Canon Norman Power, Dainis Biseneks

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

No abstract provided.

"Feanor Fronts Fingolfin": Artistic Visions Of Four Artists, Patrick Wynne, Tom Loback, Paula Disante, Sarah Beach

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

No abstract provided.

In This Issue, Glen H. Goodknight

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

This issue begins with the cover, two interior full page illustrations, and back cover featuring art by Patrick Wynne, Tom Loback, Paula DiSante, and Sarah Beach — listed in the order their art is presented — in a special art project they planned together at the last Mythopoeic Conference, when all of them were together. This is one of the multifaceted benefits of the opportunity of Society members have in gathering together for the annual Conference. It was at this year's Conference that Mr. Wynne gave the Guest of Honor address with slides that is printed with illustrations in this …

An Inklings Bibliography (41), 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.

Essë And Narn: Name, Identity, And Narrative In The Tale Of Túrin Turambar, Elizabeth Broadwell

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

Examines the importance and significance of character names in Tolkien’s First Age narratives, especially those of Túrin Turambar. Names are “capsule narratives” of character and background. Names also demonstrate social connections, and have a magical component.

The Imposition Of Structure: Archetypes In The Fafhrd And Mouser Series, Bruce Byfield

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

Analyzes the development of stories in Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series, under the influence of Jung’s and Campbell’s theories of archetypes, anima, and monomyth. Notes a maturation of he characters and more significant women characters.

Sauron Gets Drafted (And Other Thoughts On The Battle Of Creativity): 21st Mythopoeic Conference Guest Of Honor Address, Patrick Wynne

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

Guest of Honor address, Mythcon 21. Gives insight into both the necessary research and creative process necessary to illustrate mythopoeic themes. Analyzes four drafts of “The Forging of the One Ring.” Illustrations.

Lewis And Barfield On Imagination, Stephen Thorson

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

THIS IS A TWO-PART ARTICLE. IN ORDER TO READ OR DOWNLOAD THE OTHER PART, FOLLOW THE LINK AT THE END OF THIS ABSTRACT.

Contrasts Lewis’s and Barfield’s views on imagination, and its relationship to truth and knowledge.

Part 2: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol17/iss3/3

Commedia As Fairy-Story: Eucatastrophe In The Loss Of Virgil, John William Houghton

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

Analyzes Dante in terms of Tolkien’s theory of the Fairy-story. Sees the loss of Virgil and recovery of Beatrice as a significant eucatastrophe.

Professor J.R.R. Tolkien: A Personal Memoir, R. E. Havard

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

Personal reminiscences, including how Tolkien asked Havard to become his personal physician and how Lewis usurped a party at Tolkien’s house.

Quenti Lambardillion, Paul Nolan Hyde

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

Reviews the history of Tolkien language studies in The Tolkien Journal and Mythlore.

Rough On A Tangent, Cynthia Wynne Wooley

English Language and Literature ETDs

Rough on a Tangent is a novel which charts the progress of Rita, a novice detective in Los Angeles, as she follows her first real investigation to Madrid and back. The case concerns her housemate, Kurt, who gets involved with a spiritual cult which is using a new form of biochemical warfare to gain power. I have used the detective story genre to explore Rita's journey of self discovery. These first four chapters comprise part one of my novel.

Our Paper 12/1990, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

No abstract provided.

The Southern Misfit And The Dream Of Escape In The Fiction Of Carson Mccullers And Flannery O’Connor, Tammy Oberhausen

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The misfit and the dream of escape are popular motifs in American literature, particularly in the literature of the South. Critical studies of works employing these themes have largely ignored the connection between the two. The Southern misfit – the Southerner who fails to or refuses to conform to his society’s strict standards – often dreams of escaping the restrictions of the South for some Northern “promised land.” In the works of two Georgia writers, Carson McCullers and Flannery O’Connor, the related themes receive different treatments. Carson McCullers’s misfits in the novels The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The …

1990 Forces, Peggy Brown

Forces

No abstract provided.

The Fable In Medieval Literature, Ashraf Abdel Fattah Eissa

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

George Eliot Birthday Lucheon: The Toast To The Immortal Memory, Ted Veasey

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

As a local historian I have been thinking to what extent did George Eliot portray Nuneaton - more especially in her most local book Scenes o/Clerical Life - and how good a historian was she in this work.

Essential dates, first of all. George Eliot was born in 1819 and wrote Scenes in 1857- 58. She sets the events of Amos Barton and J and s Repentance some 25 years before the date of writing; that is roughly 1830 when she was a young girl of some eleven years of age. Mr. Gilfil' s Love Story starts in 1820 but …

Our Paper 11/1990, Our Paper

Our Paper (1983-1992)

No abstract provided.