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The Kingis Quair And The Consolation Of Philosophy, Vincent Carretta

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Originality, Realism And Morality: Three Issues In Sir Walter Scott's Criticism Of Fiction, Margaret Movshin Criscuola

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Minor Characters In Hay's Gillespie, Patricia Ower

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Francis Jeffrey, Lord Byron, And English Bards, And Scotch Reviewers, Muriel J. Mellown

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Demon Lover Motif In The Heart Of Midlothian, Rick A. Davies

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Augustan Influences On Allan Ramsay, Carol Mcguirk

Studies in Scottish Literature

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George Mackay Brown's Magnus, Elizabeth Huberman

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Boswell's Account Of Bonnie Prince Charlie And The Journal Of A Tour To The Hebrides, Mary E. Housum

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Language And Point Of View In Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair, Ramon Lopez Ortega

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Intellectual Background Of The Vernacular Revival Before Burns, F. W. Freeman

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Scottish Fiction 1979, Douglas Gifford

Studies in Scottish Literature

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"That Bards Are Second-Sighted Is Nae Joke": The Orality Of Burns's World And Work, Mary Ellen Brown

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Elegies Of Rilke And Henderson: Influence And Variation, Richard E. Ziegfeld

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Notes And Documents: Dunbar; Robert Bloomfield On Burns; Alexander Smith On Burns; Scott's Halidon Hill

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Contributors

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Book Reviews

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Introduction: 'Reading Texts", Steven J. Mailloux

English Faculty Works

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Character Motivation And Definition Through Dialog In The Memory Plays Of Harold Pinter, Douglas E. Grohne

Masters Theses

Several critics have suggested that the plays of Harold Pinter are incomprehensible because the characters do not explicitly explain their actions and motivations. These comments come because the critics and audiences are conditioned to expect a playwright to in some way explain the motivations and personalities of his characters with a standard explanation given through explicit dialog, copious stage directions, or other means. But Pinter believes that it is dangerous for a playwright to design a play with one overall purpose in mind because the chances are that the purpose will be mistaken.

Pinter prefers to write in a realistic …

Marlowe's Doctor Faustus Finds Reality: In The Comic Mask, Eva Marie Enis

Masters Theses

Scholars have considered the protagonist of Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus from nearly every perspective, but, at the same time, they have been hesitant to recognize the humorous incidents, particularly the so-called clownish scenes, as having a legitimate place even though much comic incident appears in Marlowe's source. Though scholars have acknowledged Marlowe's play to be a morality, they have not viewed Faustus as a morality character whose comic mask is his reality.

An examination of the morality tradition, with Marlowe's debt to the morality in mind, justifies the inclusion of much …

The Biblical View Of The Fall Of Man In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun, Lois Darlene Hanson

Masters Theses

"The story of the fall of man!" One can easily tell that The Fall is the main topic in The Marble Faun. Hawthorne, in this romance, is asking whether man's fall in the Garden of Eden was for man's betterment or not. He is also asking if sin is our power of regeneration, for without the sin of Adam and Eve there would have been no need for a savior. This theory is known as the Fortunate Fall of Man.

Hawthorne is suggesting within The Marble Faun that our sin is both original and renewable--it is something that we …

From Ritual To Resurrection: The Exploratory Poetic Of Seamus Heaney, Susan L. Morris

Masters Theses

Heaney's poetry has grown and changed since the publication of his first collection of poetry, Death of a Naturalist. This paper is an attempt to present the development of Heaney's exploratory poetic which was created through his use of language and image, allowing him metaphorical vehicles for the examination of oppositions.

Heaney began his poetic exploration, or "dig," with the collections Death of a Naturalist and Door Into the Dark. The poetry presents nature images which represent Heaney's search into the unknown, the dark places. These images symbolize a searching for the imagination and for the purpose of …

The Influence Of Women In Vardis Fisher’S Western Literature, Sylvia L. Alderton

Masters Theses

Vardis Fisher, a writer who wrote about the early west, uses his life experiences and extensive historical research as a basis for his western novels. With his background in the Antelope region and his historical research, Fisher presents both women in the Antelope hills and women in the hazardous far west surroundings. He instills in the reader a panoramic view of the pioneer women as they experience life in the old west.

The Antelope women are isolated in their environment with little social contact. They are effected physically, psychologically, and economically in this remote area. Most of the women overcome …

"How Come Everybody Down Here Has Three Names?": Martin Ritt's Southern Films, Michael Adams

Publications and Research

The treatment of the American South in six films by director Martin Ritt (1914-1990) from 1958 to 1979 reveals an emphasis on outsiders, family dynamics, and race relations.

The Great Name Of God: A Study Of The Element Of Kabbalah In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Theogony And Its Influence On The Theodicy And Cosmogony Of His Major Poetry, William Richard Ploplis

Dissertations

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Richard Wright's Depiction Of The Black Experience: A Study In Stereotypes, Charles Evans

Dissertations

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The Glencairn Connection: Robert Burns And Scottish Politics, 1786-1796, William Donaldson

Studies in Scottish Literature

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James Boswell And Robert Colvill, Richard C. Cole

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Clinton Larson's "The Witness": The Quest For A Mormon Mythic Consciousness, Dennis R. Perry

Theses and Dissertations

"The Witness" can be viewed as Clinton F. Larson's poetic manifesto that points the direction for much of his subsequent work. Although his poetic "mormonism" has been questioned by several of his critics, this thesis shows that Larson definitely expresses his Mormon faith in "The Witness" as a metaphorical quest for mythic consciousness. While searching in the poem for sacred space and time, Larson seeks to become closer to the divine and powerful center of being, creating at once a metaphor for his quest to understand and assimilate Christ's atonement and a poetic voice from which he can speak for …

A Voice From The Shadows: The Novels Of Toni Morrison, Ardith A. Muse

Honors Theses

The three novels of Toni Morrison to date deal with elements of both the feminine and the African consciousness. The dominant characters developed in her novels act within a socially isolated black community, and often in a largely or wholly female household. The values embodied in her novels, as well as the imagery and language, are derived in large part from African culture and archetypes of the feminine unconscious.

Early And Late Patterns Of The Search Motif Contrasted In John Updike's Fiction Rabbit, Run And The Coup, Carolyn Anne Mckinney Afshar

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

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