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"A Higher Degree Of Manhood" William Hoffman's Novels Of Initiation, Mary Hinton Davis

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

"Painting In Half-Light" And Other Poems, Jane Eklund

Senior Scholar Papers

Through the course of the year, I have been writing and revising poetry with a concern for the growth of my work. To that end, I took advantage of the time afforded me by the Senior Scholars Program not only to devote myself to writing, but to reading the poems of American, European and South American poets from the point of view of craft. Poets whose work has been important and influential in my writing this year include Pablo Neruda, Yannis Ritsos, Francis Jamroes, Charles Simic, Larry Levis and Pamela Stewart. The poems in my collection, "Painting in Half-Light" and …

A Parabolic Explanation Of Flannery O'Connor's Short Fiction, Sarah E. Toombs

Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to integrate seemingly disparate and divergent criticisms of Flannery O'Connor's short stories. The method chosen to achieve this end involves comparison of selected short stories with the parables of Jesus. Criticism of both parables and short stories will be compared in order to find simularity of characteristics, function, theme, and artistic intent. The characteristics will be compared to determine what simularities can be found in the internal mechanisms of the stories; in plot, in structure, in characters, in setting, and in those elements which seem to defy what otherwise looks like realism. The function …

Sister Carrie And An American Tragedy: The Publishers' Judgements, Barbara A. Martin

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the Graduate Faculty School of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in English by Barbara A. Martin in May of 1981.

The Post-Postmodern Aesthetics Of John Fowles, Claiborne Johnson Cordle

Master's Theses

Because a thesis is by definition a proposi­ tion to be argued, I feel some obigation to make strong assertion--either John Fowles is a post­ modernist writer, or John Fowles is not a postmodernist writer. What is immediately "problematic" about such an either/or proposition is that each side can be argued convincingly by a careful process of selection of examples to support the prospective cases (and omission of those which refute them). I cannot easily dismiss the wisdom of Northrop Frye's statement that, "They think of ideas as weapons; they seek the irrefutable argument, which keeps eluding them because all …

Myth And History In Max Frisch's Don Juan Or, The Love Of Geometry, Shahira Fikry Kelesh

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Allegory And Nietzschean Values In Kafka, Camus, And Kazantzakis, Paul Kenneth Naylor

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of this these is to explore Nietzschean values as they appear in three modern allegories: Franz Kafka's The Castle, Albert Camus' The Plague, and Nikos Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek. The intent is to illustrate Friedrich Nietzsche's three stages of the overman as they apply to Kafka, Camus, and Kazantzakis.

A Mythlore Issue Index, Harry J.N. Andruschak, Glen H. Goodknight

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

List of article titles to issues 1–26. Includes articles, fiction, and poetry, but not art, book reviews, or columns.

Cavalier Treatment: More About Arthur Machen, Lee Speth

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

This is Part 2 of a 2 part column.

Discusses the life and works of Arthur Machen, known for horror and fantasy. Part II concentrates on his story “The Bowmen” and the Angel of Mons legend.

For part 1, go to https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol7/iss4/8

C.S. Lewis And George Macdonald: The Silver Chair And The Princess Books, Michael C. Kotzin

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

Examines The Silver Chair in the light of two George MacDonald works which it resembles in many ways and which Lewis included in his list of MacDonald’s six “great works,” The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie.

Praise And Christian Unity In War In Heaven, J. Mcclatchey

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

Discusses the importance of two themes in War in Heaven—Praise (of God), particularly as demonstrated in the Archdeacon, and Christian unity, symbolized by the joint actions of the Archdeacon, the Duke, and Mornington.

Editor's Corner, Glen Goodknight

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

No abstract provided.

Crime And Punishment -Or Development- In Fairy Tales And Fantasy, Anita Moss

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

Discusses “the practices of writers of didactic fairy tales and ... [contrasts] them to fantasies which also incorporate the archetypal fantastic journey in the interest of expressing complex spiritual, ethical, or emotional truths.”

The World, Gracia Fay Ellwood

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

No abstract provided.

Reviews, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Thomas M. Egan

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

Companion to Narnia. Paul F. Ford, foreword by Madeleine L'Engle, illustrated by Lordinda Bryan Cauley. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

VII - An Anglo-American Literary Review. Volume I. Dr. Barbara Reynolds, Dr. Clyde S. Kilby, and Dr. Beatrice Batson. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Dorothy L. Sayers. A Pilgrim Soul. Nancy M. Tischler. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

A DARK HORN BLOWING. Dahlov Ipcar. Reviewed by Thomas M. Egan.

Matters Of Grave Import: Intend To Have Joy, Gracia Fay Ellwood

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

No abstract provided.

An Inklings Bibliography (16), Joe R. Christopher

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

A series of bibliographies of primary and secondary works concerning the Inklings.

Túrin Turambar, Paul H. Kocher

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

Reviews the story of Túrin Turambar from The Silmarillion, and briefly touches on how some of Tolkien’s themes are revealed.

Letters, Thomas M. Egan, Mary Ann Hodge, Benjamin Urrutia

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

No abstract provided.

Predictability And Wonder: Familiarity And Recovery In Tolkien's Works, Christine Barkley

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

Explores Tolkien’s technique of balancing the predictable and every-day with the wonderful by viewing things from unfamiliar perspectives. Links this to his ideas about “recovery” in “On Fairy-stories.”

The Ingalls And Wilder Families In Florida, Mary Evelyn Thurman

Publications

No abstract provided.

Vol. 1, No. 2 (1981), Phil Mullen, Howard L. Bahr, M. Thomas Inge

Faulkner Newsletter and Yoknapatawpha Review

No abstract provided.

The Walnut Tree, Kevin Clark

English

No abstract provided.

Clarence King Names Mt. Tyndall, Kevin Clark

English

No abstract provided.

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.

J. L. Fischer Review Of American Schools For The Natives Of Ponape By Nat J. Colletta, J.L. Fischer

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Mac Marshall Review Of A Dream Of Islands: Voyages Of Self-Discovery In The South Seas By Gavan Daws, Mac Marshall

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Narrative Technique In The Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway, Wafaa Koussi

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Function Of Language In The Plays Of Arnold Wesker, Hanaa Moustafa Shehata

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Dramatic Adaptation Of William Hoffman's Novel "A Death Of Dreams.", La Vinia Delois Jennings

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.