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The Influence Of Alcohol On Ernest Hemingway's Fictional Characters, Gary Nelson Thomas

Masters Theses

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Oedipa In Quest Of Herself In The Crying Of Lot 49, James Edward Osborn

Masters Theses

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Depiction Of Blacks In The Works Of Ernest Hemingway, Sheila Marie Foor

Masters Theses

Ernest Hemingway, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, is one of America's outstanding literary figures. Criticism of his work has been voluminous--ranging from bitterly derogative to superlative--with most of it focusing upon the famous 'Hemingway code hero,' upon his crisp, concise writing style, and upon his much-publicized personal life.

One example of negative assessment by critics is the one concerning black portraiture in Hemingway's fiction. However, no work deals exclusively with this aspect of his writing. The purpose of this thesis is, first, to present a general discussion on the nature of prejudice and examination of black …

Melville And Beckett: A Legacy Of Pessimism, Jeanette Elaine Bahnke

Masters Theses

Though separated by nearly a century and by two different cultures, Herman Melville and Samuel Beckett complement each other's concept of man and his world. This concept is the concept of pessimism, which each man adopted and expanded throughout his works.

Both authors lament the concept that man must struggle to attempt unachievable goals, yet both also insist that the only way to maintain a type of balance is to "go on."

The Beckettian-Melvillian hero, consequently, is a "thought-diver." As he strips layers from the Self, he simultaneously strips layers from the cosmos. Thus, the stripping of the Self and …

The Habits And Ben Jonson's Humours, Robert Shenk

English Faculty Publications

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The Females Within The Design/Debris Motif In Three Novels By John Hawkes, Evelyn Carol Sweet

Master's Theses

John Hawkes, according to Tony Tanner, is perhaps the most "disturbing" contemporary American writer. Many people would agree with this commentary on Hawkes, a man whose work has moved from the surreal in The Cannibal (1949) toward the more realistic, a movement predicted by Albert Guerard in his introduction to The Cannibal. As this movement away from the surreal has occurred, then why does Tanner find Hawkes' "disturbing" in a review of his most recent novel, Travesty? Perhaps because this movement was not from the surreal to the realistic as we generally use the term, but rather a movement from …

Benjamin Compson : Consciousness, Rhetoric, And The 'Fictive Art', Ann Brooke Lewis

Master's Theses

A study of consciousness in the first section of The Sound and the Fury clarifies both the novel's technique and its rendering of human truth. My reading of this monologue is based on the premise that the way Benjamin Compson views the world and the way in which his mind arranges those views enhances our understanding of the novel's other brother-narrators, Quentin and Jason. As limited and distorted as Benjy's perceptions may be, they provide a model by which the perceptions of Quentin and Jason gain clarity and meaning. Benjy's monologue begins the novel and provides the reader's entrance into …

Selected Poems, H. L. Davis

Ahsahta Press

H.L. Davis brings humans and nature together in his poems, believing that from one we can understand something of the other. Davis writes the natural world with the knowledge of an ecologist, and the sensibility of an artist who knows his trees, winds and birds, but also has an ear for rhythm, and for making his words move and sing. Thomas Hornsby Ferril said, “He enjoyed pipe-organ analogy in poetry: vowels, the open sounds, bumping up against the consonants or steps. These events within the line are common in his poems and poetic passages in his novels.” Davis won the …

Stephen Crane's Ironic Vision, Michael J. O'Bryant

Dissertations and Theses

Stephen crane's major irony in his art is produced by contrasting his characters' illusions with reality. In Maggie that reality is an environmental indifference that is very much like the deterministic environment of the Naturalistic Novelists. Maggie's perceptions and expectations contrast with this reality, seeming very ironic. In The Red Badge of Courage, "The Open Boat," and "The Blue Hotel,” each character's illusion is contrasted with a reality that is absolutely indifferent. It is in these works (as well as in his letters and poetry) that Crane affirms man's need to embrace those illusions which enable him to face reality. …

"Myself I Found" : A Jungian Reading Of Coleridge's The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, James Ralph Brooks

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner¹ is essentially a poem of survival through transformation, one which, according to William Walsh, 'has to do equally with man's capacity for failure and with that which makes available to him resources for recovery."² It is also. as Richard Haven recognizes, "the record of the evolution of self." ³ Even more specifically, however, The Ancient Mariner is s tale which reveals key elements of Carl Jung's thought: the process of individuation, the nature of shadow and anima forces, the power of dreams and symbolism.

Given the myriad and divergent interpretations of the …

[Introduction To] Shuckin' And Jivin': Folklore From Contemporary Black Americans, Daryl Cumber Dance

Bookshelf

An exciting new collection of Black American folklore, running the gamut from anecdotes concerning life among the slaves to obviously contemporary jokes. In their frank expression of racial attitudes and unexpurgated wit, these tales represent a radical departure from earlier collections.

Lights And Shadows - 1978, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

James Baldwin, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

James Baldwin is one of America's best known and most controversial writers. If there is some figurative truth in his declarations "Nobody Knows My Name" and "No Name in the Street," on a realistic level practically everyone knows his name, from people on the street to scholars in the most prestigious universities-and they all respond to him. Those responses are as diverse and as antithetical as the respondents. Indeed, there is little unanimity in the criticism of James Baldwin: some view him as a prophet preaching love and salvation, others as a soothsayer forecasting death and destruction; some see him …

4. Listening Woman, Typed Manuscript 1, P.1-223 (Undated)., Tony Hillerman

Listening Woman Manuscripts

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Wilkie Collins And His Victorian Readers: A Study In The Rhetoric Of Authorship, Sue Lonoff

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

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C.S. Lewis's Interplanetary Trilogy: "An Imaginative Realization Of Doctrine", Marcia K. Houtman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength are, in a sense, escape fiction; but they are also much more than that. Lewis's Christianity is something that cannot be separated from his fiction; although he perhaps did not begin writing the trilogy with the idea of making it a Christian apologetic and, in fact, claimed that he never started writing anything with a moral in mind, his faith was so completely a part of him that it could not help expressing itself even when he did not have that intention in mind. According to Austin Farrer in his …

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Studies in Scottish Literature

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France And The Scottish Press, 1700-1800, Keith Marshall

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Three Burials In Hogg's Justified Sinner, Michael York Mason

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Jean Brodie And Edinburgh: Personality And Place In Muriel Spark's The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, Philip E. Ray

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Robert Burns, "Tam O'Shanter, " And The Authorship Of "Duncan Macleerie", Douglas D. Short

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Themes Of Time And Art In The Lay Of The Last Minstrel, Ruth Eller

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Grave In America: 1753-1860, James A. Means

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Flyting Of Daniel Defoe And Lord Belhaven, David Macaree

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Intuition And Narration In James Hogg's Confessions, Michael S. Kearns

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Chaucer And "Stewart's" Pandarus And The Critics, Susan Schibanoff

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Tobias Smollett's Satiric Spokesman In Humphry Clinker, Sophia Andres

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Setting As An Expression Of Theme In Scott's Count Robert Of Paris, Judith Miller Janssen

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Radicalism And Conservatism In Burns's The Jolly Beggars, Allan H. Mac Laine

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Dunbar's "Lament For The Makaris" And The Dance Of Death Tradition, R. D. Drexler

Studies in Scottish Literature

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