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Tuning In The Boiler Room And The Cotton Patch: New Directions In The Study Of Afro-American Folklore, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

One of the first problems in the study of folklore is, of course, the collection of materials. In almost every area of Black folklore, the collecting was initiated by whites. As I have noted elsewhere, "Black folk forms seem to thrive quietly and abashedly in the Black community as items of private enjoyment and public shame until they are ' discovered ' by whites who legitimize them for the American public-Black and white. Such has been the case with the general folk tales (the animal tales, the etiological myths, the Slave John tales, etc.), the spirituals, and the blues. The …

Encounter With Otherness : Nature And Identity In Rolvaag's Giants In The Earth, Beatrice Jensen Smith

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Ole Edvart Rolvaag, the Norwegian-American novelist of the immigrant experience, is recognized primarily for one work, Giants in the Earth, frequently accredited the novel that deals most effectively with the human cost underlying the glorious national achievement of westward expansion. Though the estimate is a positive one, by being categorized so succinctly, Giants is in some danger of being. perfunctorily dismissed as an excellent frontier novel and little else.

Though Rolvaag, by his own statement, intended to memorialize the human tragedies so easily forgotten in the onrush of settlement, the implications of his narrative go far beyond the historical …

The Influence Of Ben Jonson On The Poetry Of Yeats, Wayne Kenneth Chapman

Dissertations and Theses

What this thesis attempts to do is to render as full a picture as possible of Yeats's interest in Ben Jonson, using to the fullest advantage the many hints that come from Yeats and secondary criticism. Specifically, the focus of this paper is on the process by which Yeats was able, like Eliot, Pound and others, to found a tough, new poetic style with reference to this seventeenth-century period of Jonson. Yeats's reading of "Jonson and the others," which took place at the turn of this century, triggered a whole series of discoveries by Yeats which anticipated the aesthetic beliefs …

Autobiography And Art: Aesthetic Uses Of The Creative Process In The Autobiographies Of Henry Adams, Mark Twain, And Henry James, Lawrence Oscar Holmberg

English Language and Literature ETDs

This study posits a single frame of reference, the artist's own creative practice, for Adams', Twain's, and James' autobiographies. These works show the consciousness of the artists' struggle with form for their mercurial ideas. The form these artists sought was not a simple selection of literary genres; it was the search for a vehicle to support their inquiry, a way of composition which was comfortable and so could free their speculation from purely formal concerns. These works are not intended as formal tours de force, yet in seeking their natural mode of expression each author produced unusual and experimental works.

The Utopia Within: Some Psychological Aspects Of Edward Bellamy's Early Writing, Betty Cobey Senescu

English Language and Literature ETDs

This study examines the early writing of Edward Bellamy, that done before the publication of Looking Backward, to determine whether he himself was justified in calling it "psychologic." Because of the highly autobiographical nature of his work and his own tendency toward introspection, I have reviewed and thoroughly examined the few known facts of his early life. His preoccupation with guilt feelings and anxiety may be partially attributed to his own early rejection of the orthodox religion of his parents and to his seeming inability to meet their high expectations.

For the most part I have chosen to study those …

The Confidence Man: Melville's Problem Of Faith, Thomas Vaughan Quirk

English Language and Literature ETDs

Melville's approach to The Confidence-Man appears to resemble the same creative method he had intimated to Hawthorne in the "Agatha" let­ters. There, he had suggested that the true story of the long abandoned woman was a tale "instinct with significance" and might be told by merely building about this "skeleton" of reality. Similarly, Melville's acquaintance with the original confidence man through newspaper and magazine articles may have inspired him to draw out the "significances" latent in the story of this actual contemporary swindler.

However, Melville did not restrict his considerations to this character alone. He placed his fictional rogue on …

Lancelot: A Study Of The Development Of His Character From Celtic Origin To Chretien And Malory, Ike R. Stoneberger

Theses & Honors Papers

In this thesis I have researched the origin and development of the character of Lancelot . I have attempted to make intelligible analyses of contributions of his character to the development of Arthurian romance. In so doing , I have stressed the origin of his character according to the belief that Lancelot's antecedents lie in Celtic myth; I have outlined the role of Lancelot in certain medieval romances-- "Le Chevalier de la Charrette" by Chretien de Troyes and Le Morte D 'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory ; and , I have shown how the character of Lancelot illustrates and glorifies …

Samuel Beckett Or The Alienation Of Man, Paulette Raymond Caram

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Puritan Tradition In The Novels Of Robert Herrick, Allen D. Towery

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Third Coast Poetry Newsletter, Grand Valley State College. Thomas Jefferson College

Third Coast Poetry Newsletter

Newsletter of the Poetry Resource Center of the Thomas Jefferson College serving the Third Coast area.

Hierarchy And The Self In The Trilogy Of C. S. Lewis, Connie R. Phillips

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

C.S. Lewis' view of the individual in a hierarchical universe is not simply the restatement of a static medieval ideal. In his trilogy he presents the unfolding of the hierarchical view of the universe, with emphasis on time and the growth of the self into a model of universal reality.

If Lewis be found guilty of "historicism," it must be in his belief that man and nature are losing their neutrality, that good and evil are becoming more separated, more distinct. The growing bifurcation and consequences of two opposing views of the individual form a tension in Lewis' work. Much …

The Influence Of Shaw's Career As A Music Critic On Man And Superman, Ahmed Shafic Abu Oaf

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Theme Of Personal Liberation, Ghada Jamil Hamati

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Emotion Recollected In Tranquillity, Harvey F. Beutner

Honorees for Teaching Excellence

No abstract provided.

The Yellow Magazine, Grand Valley State College. Thomas Jefferson College

The Yellow Magazine

Literary publication showcasing writings, photography, and artwork from Thomas Jefferson College students.

The Influence And Effect Of The Religious Consciousness On The Anti-Hero In The Modern Southern Novel, Karen L. Foster

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Wit And Humor In The Slave Narratives, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

This passage suggests something of the nature of Black humor and the function it has served, not only in the slave narratives, but in the folk tales and throughout the history of recorded literature from William Wells Brown to Amiri Baraka. The life revealed in all of these sources is shown to often be alternately degrading and courageous, tragic and absurdly comic, hopeless and yet enduring; indeed that life could hardly ever be termed merely amusing. And the Black character, though he may be seen to laugh, can hardly be deemed carefree, unbothered, satisfied, even truly happy. Indeed the paradox …

Third Coast Poetry Newsletter, Vol. 2, Issue 6, Grand Valley State College. Thomas Jefferson College

Third Coast Poetry Newsletter

Newsletter of the Poetry Resource Center of the Thomas Jefferson College serving the Third Coast area.

Strindberg's Misogyny, Amal Moussa

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Wordsworth's Inscriptions And "Poems On The Naming Of Places", Michael Love

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Thematic Affinities Of The Bildungsromane, Nedal Mousa Mahmoud Al Mousa

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Eureka: A Warning Against The Dangers Of Solipsism, Kathleen A. Bassford

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

An Inklings Bibliography (4), 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

The Tale Of The Noldor, Paul Kocher

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

Reviews the history of the Noldor, elves of the First Age, and their continuing influence in the affairs of the Third Age. A retelling rather than a scholarly analysis, based on sources published before the availability of The Silmarillion.

Lament For Denethor, Glen H. Goodknight

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

No abstract provided.

Letters, Margaret Purdy, James Spreckels, Alexei Kondratiev, Robert E. Boenig, Roderick Mcgillis, Jessica Kemball-Cook, Michael Chapman, Gerald M. Price, Kathryn Lindskoog, John L. Leland, Clay Booker, Michael Mckenny, Eugene Mcgovern, Margaret Hannay, William G. Kelly

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

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Editorial Note, Glen H. Goodknight

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

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Guinevere's Role In The Arthurian Poetry Of Charles Williams, Veronica L. Skinner

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

A study of Guinevere’s meaning and function in Williams’ Arthurian poems

The Pilgrimage From Deep Space, Judith Brown

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

Traces the development and spiritual maturation of Ransom throughout the Space Trilogy

Reviews, Bruce Mcmenomy, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Joe R. Christopher

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

J.R.R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle Earth. Daniel Grotta-Kurska. Reviewed by Bruce McMenomy.

The Fantastic in Literature. Eric S. Rabkin. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Father Christmas Letters. J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Baillie Tolkien. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Feng: A Poem. John Wain. Reviewed by Joe R. Christopher.

Wild Angels. Ursula Le Guin. Reviewed by Joe R. Christopher.

Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space. Harry Martinson. Translated by Hugh MacDiarmid and Elspeth Harley Schubert. Introduction by Tord Hall. Reviewed by Joe R. Christopher.