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"Honor In Oblivion": The Motif Of Heroic Isolation In The Works Of John Ford, Rudolph Stoeckel

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Alienation In The Life And Works Of Richard Wright, Theresa Drew Haymon

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

This Dappled World: The Poetic Vision Of Gerald Manley Hopkins, George Leonard Cochran O.P.

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Early Evaluation Of The Novel: Periodical Reviews Of Mid-Eighteenth-Century London, Karen Jo Ann Koenigs

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Joseph Smith As A Jacksonian Man Of Letters: His Literary Development As Evidenced In His Newspaper Writings, Walter A. Norton

Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the newspaper writings of Joseph Smith Jr., the Mormon Prophet, traces his development as an American writer as evidenced in his newspaper publications, and notes the major concepts contained therein which demonstrate that Smith may deservedly be called a "Jacksonian Man of Letters."

Emerging from his youth lacking even rudimentary writing ability, Smith began his development with the translation of ancient scriptural records. Literary experiences with other scriptures, historical records, and even grammar classes augmented his development. Smith later turned his attention to frontier newspapers and served briefly as an editor. Jail confinement provided further stimulus to …

Finder Of The Welsh Gods, Dainis Bisenieks

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

Discusses the fantasies of Kenneth Morris based on Welsh mythology.

Grammatical Ambiguity In Japanese And English, Joseph Clarc Chryst

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

As indicated in the title, the principal topic of this thesis is the concept of grammatical ambiguity. In this thesis, that concept and the concept of function switching rules are identified and defined. Examples of noun phrases from Japanese and English which exhibit grammatical ambiguity are analyzed. Examples of noun phrases in English which necessitate the formulation of function switching rules are provided and discussed. The study is conducted within a generative-transformational analytical framework. Non-generative studies germane to the topic are discussed. The bulk of the example sentences for Japanese come from non-generative sources.

Ua12/2/1 L'Esprit, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

A special edition of the College Heights Herald featuring student and faculty poets:

• Halicks, Richard. The Thunder Stick
• Surface, David. Witness
• Pierson, Don. Nostalgic Impressions Dig Nasty Holes
• Shanklin, Tip. Flood Stage
• Stephens, A.T. (For Bill Stafford)
• Miller, Jim. Skydivers
• Norris, Randy. Birdbrains
• Puter, A. Com. Thrilled Me Quoth the Raven . . . Nevermore
• Halicks, Richard. I, Robot
• Miller, Jim. Diver
• Norris, Randy. Reflections on a Kite
• Vessels, Shriley. Marigolds
• Newbolt, Denise. Dolphins
• Halicks, Richard. Mr. Infinity, the Tomorrow Master
• Moffeit, Tony. Queen of Spades
• Halicks, Richard. Dismantling the Trojan Horse

The Social Consciousness Of Mark Twain, Rose W. Caudill

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the School of Social Sciences at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in History by Rose W. Caudill on December 4, 1975.

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 Experimentalist, December 1975, The Experimentalist Staff

The Experimentalist

No abstract provided.

Poem No. 25, November 1975, Huntsville Literary Association (Huntsville, Ala.)

POEM

The Huntsville Literary Association was founded in 1967 to provide a community for writers, readers, and artists through workshops, readings, and educational programs. One of their key contributions is the literary magazine titled POEM which showcases original writings from both established and emerging writers. This issue highlights the work of Hannah Kahn, Larry Rubin, T. Alan Broughton.

San José Studies, November 1975, San José State University Foundation

San José Studies, 1970s

Volume 1, Issue 3

Juniper Hill: Continued, Tatiana Szeftel

Mythril

Nicholas Silverseed, the son of a magician, has from his long-absent father a coming-of-age gift: a birthday sneeze.

Richard Iii & Elizabethan Kingship, Frances Perdue

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In this study Richard III's character, motivations, and his path to the throne were examined as they affect the well-being of the country. Analyzed were the political, social, and moral philosophies of Elizabethan England and how they conflicted with Richard's Machiavellian tactics in achieving and holding the position of king. The necessity of purging Richard III from the throne was shown to be consistent with the Elizabethan concept of God's will for the good of the country. "Macbeth" and "Hamlet" revealed the idea that the health of the nation depends on the moral health of the king. In "Coriolanus," another …

Through Love To Death : The Structure Of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The House Of Life, Michael Dennis Hughs

Master's Theses

This study offers an explanation of the structure of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The House of Life. It does not attempt to elevate Rossetti to a new position of pre-eminence among the Victorians or to make extravagant claims for h1s genius. What it tries to provide is a descriptive analysis or the poems taken together as a unit of meaning. No effort has been made to deal adequately with Rossetti's biography nor his output in the realm of painting. While these matters certainly have an important place in Rossetti studies, there is also a place for an intensive study of the …

Aldous Huxley’S Conception Of The Artist, Susan Bailey

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

Zora Neale Hurston: A Non-Revolutionary Black Artist, Lillie P. Howard

English Language and Literature ETDs

Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960) was a black woman who rose from relative obscurity to become a noted novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. Because more and more critics passed over her works for the more militant ones of "race conscious" black writers, however, Hurston was relatively ignored and neglected. While most other black writers were writing protest literature, Hurston was writing about individuals and the positive side of black folk life. Although she does not totally ignore racial issues, they are never major themes in her writings. Rather, most of her works speak for the affirmative side of life, for the fulfillment …

Away From Concord: The Travel Writings Of Henry Thoreau, Robert Sattelmeyer

English Language and Literature ETDs

The familiar, and to an extent self-created, image of Henry Thoreau is that of a quintessentially inner-directed man. However, most of what he wrote for publication during his career was travel narrative--a popular and outer-directed genre. Travel narrative provided Thoreau a key structural principle for his prose; a vehicle for the expression of his most characteristic subjects, the engagement of consciousness with nature and society; and a controlling metaphor for his life's work in letters. This study is a generic and genetic examination of Thoreau's works in this mode.

Thoreau's apprenticeship in the traditional forms of poetry, criticism, and essay, …

Polonius, The Man Behind The Arras: A Study Of His Archetypal Significance, Elizabeth Oakes

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

On the archetypal level of Hamlet, Polonius embodies three roles--the wise old man, the fool, and the scapegoat-- in a schema composed also of embodiments of the archetypal hero-prince, the anima, the racial father, the shadow, the terrible mother, and the night sea journey. Polonius as an incarnation of the wise old man archetype has both a positive side, which is denoted in his relationship to Ophelia, and a negative side, which is shown in his relationship to Hamlet. From the wise old man, Polonius degenerates into the archetypal fool who, being on the periphery of the social order, constantly …

Molly Bloom: From Literal To Anagogical, Georgia Disman

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study attempts to present Molly Bloom, the major fem.ale character in Joyce's prose-satire, Ulysses, as an intentional fourfold corrective for the traditional interpretation of the female principle. Her speeches and actions are examined to reveal her positive significance as part of the Stephen-Molly-Bloom triad, and through her various manifestations of the female principle she comes to represent a major force in the world of Ulysses. Specifically, Molly's role as the new poetic muse and her ability to reinterpret both Christian and Eastern female religious figures are probed. Although Molly may be seen as a corrective on all …

Human Love And Divine Love: The Platonic Matrix In C.S. Lewis, Laura Case

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A comparison of the writings of Plato and C.S. Lewis reveals a common idea that human love is not sufficient for man. An examination of Plato’s Symposium and Lewis’s Till We Have Faces and The Four Loves, in particular, shows that both writers illustrate that man must ascend the ladder of love in order to meet the source of all love: Divine Love. Concerned with man’s innate needs and ethics, both Plato and Lewis argue that there is a universal principle of goodness known to all men of all cultures. Lewis argues, especially in The Abolition of Man, that man …

Performance Attitudes Toward Read Or Imagined Events In “Scenes Of Passion And Despair” By Joyce Carol Oates, Bruce Creed

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The object of this study is to examine the diction of “Scenes of Passion and Despair” by Joyce Carol Oates in an attempt to discover performative attitudes for the interpreter. The discussion centers on the theme of illusion and reality as it manifests itself in the story. Because this theme superimposes itself on diction, it becomes necessary to examine words in detail, searching for the manner in which words are used to create a certain degree of reality for each character of the story. The discovery of these realities reassures the interpreter that his is a faithful rendering of one …

Daddy May Bring Home Some Bread, But He Don't Cut No Ice: The Economic Plight Of The Father Figure In Black American Literature, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

This tale is a forceful and eloquent commentary on the American economic system which conspires to make it impossible for the Black man to acquire anything more than a mere biscuit, no matter how he plays the economic game. If he plays according to the rules, the rules are changed rather than reward him with his just due. If he fails to play according to the rules, others are rewarded for their efforts and he is punished for his failure. He's damned if he does, and he's damned if he doesn't. Everyone knows enough about the history of this country …

Eudora Welty : From "The Wanderers" To The Optimist's Daughter, Juli Ling Miller

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The writings of Eudora A. Welty have been published since 1936. They include four collections of short stories and five novels. Although she is a highly anthologized southern writer and winner of several literary awards, serious criticism of her works has been limited to her early short stories or the regionalism of her novels.

The scope of this thesis includes a traditional analysis of "The Wanderers," a story in The Golden Apples (1949) collection which has received cursory study, as well as an analysis of her latest published novel, The Optimist's Daughter, (1972) which has yet to be studied by …

The Source, 1975, Carol Russell, Susannah Mccoy, William Geiger

Literary Reviews Through the Ages

No abstract provided.

A Shared Way Of Thinking: Johnson, Burke, Reynolds And Gibbon On Ethics, Politics And Aesthetics, Richard A. Friedberg

English Language and Literature ETDs

Many people recall the Literary Club primarily as an assemblage of vigorous, if eccentric, talkers. Actually, the leading figures of the Club--Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, and Edward Gibbon--had much in common as reasoners. This does not mean that they agreed with each other on specific issues. It does mean that in three important areas of intellectual concern--politics, criticism, and morality--their way of approaching problems is similar.

The first section of the study treats the political reasoning of Burke, Johnson, and Gibbon. Its most important conclusions are that all three writers reacted against the application of speculative, a priori …

Love And Alienation: The Sad, Dark Vision Of Carson Mccullers, Howard Dean Everett

English Language and Literature ETDs

Even though she died at the age of fifty, Carson McCullers' career as a writer spanned more than a quarter of a century. During that period, beginning in the middle 1930s, she gave up an early ambition to become a concert pianist and devoted her talents exclusively to writing. Her musical training, however, had a tremendous impact on her fiction. Not only did she draw from her experiences in and knowledge of the field of music; she also employed her musical background in the treatment of themes, in the handling of structure, and even in the development of her prose …

The Dragon By The Road: An Archetypal Approach To The Fiction Of Flannery O'Connor, Charles J. Olson

English Language and Literature ETDs

The aim of this study is to use an archetypal approach to enlarge the reader's insights into the body of work under consideration by examining the social manners, or "part" (in this case the twentieth century American South as filtered through the consciousness of Flannery O'Connor) that contain the mystery of man's existence as it relates to the "whole" (in O'Connor's case, man's relation to a Christian God, but in a larger context, the relation of man to the universe). Archetypal criticism, as I define it, attempts to identify the recurring patterns of human consciousness as they find expression in …

Seemly And Due Order: The Significance Ceremony In The Poetry Of Robert Herrick, Patricia D. Campbell

English Language and Literature ETDs

Robert Herrick's use of ceremony in his poetry generally has been understood to be closely related to his artistry. Critics have attempted to show that cere­mony gives ornament and even form to Herrick's lyric mode. However, ceremony has a more organic relationship to Herrick's ceremonial poetry than such an emphasis implies. Herrick's view of ceremony informs certain poems to the extent that it becomes e controlling metaphor of the kind that indicates a way of perceiving the world.