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George Elliot: A Conflict Of Heart And Mind, Janet Polsgrove '75

Honors Projects

It is the purpose of this paper to explore this continuing conflict within George Elliot and the various resolutions of the conflict which she achieved.

Robert Herrick: A Chicago Trio, Robert Bray

Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Crux Of Merging Deltas: A Note On Alan Sillitoe, Robert S. Haller

Department of English: Faculty Publications

First paragraph:

The English Writer Alan Sillitoe is, to most Americans, a man of two books (or movies): Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (with Albert Finney); and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (with Tom Courtenay). Indeed, most Americans do not know that he has produced a book a year since 1959 (when The Long Distance-Runner came out), including eight other novels, three books of poems, two collections of short stories, one book of travel, one play, and one children's book. They know little about his life or the progress of his career, about his international connections or his present …

Selected Poems, Norman Macleod

Ahsahta Press

When Ahsahta Press began to publish poetry in 1975, the first poet selected by press founder and editor Tom Trusky was native westerner Norman MacLeod. MacLeod, born in 1906, had been published in some of the leading periodicals of his day and also produced several novels. After fifty years of writing, teaching, and publishing, his poetry had become largely unknown to contemporary readers. The editors of Ahsahta Press sought out a representative body of MacLeod’s work and presented Selected Poems as the inaugural publication of the then-burgeoning press. More than a quarter-century later, contemporary readers still have the opportunity to …

Called Back, Patricia Y. Ikeda

Honors Papers

Settling: They left Japan and came to Colorado, got land. Typhoid came down the mountain stream, they drove a truck to Indiana, the black cast-iron pans swinging from the sides. A stillborn child, a hard winter. And the house so cold the water froze in the pitchers at night. Sunlight in the catalpa leaves, breeze through the asparagus fronds. My grandmother puts on her bonnet, in the garden the heat rises around her. I stand by the window, waiting for the hummingbird, looking through a stack of brittle yellow magazines that open from the back. A heavy maroon bathrobe, stiff …

Fresh Dreams To Deliver, Melissa Fay Greene

Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

The Dialectic Of Tragedy In "Hamlet," "Macbeth," And "Othello", Andrew Kaufman

Honors Papers

The purpose of this essay will be to suggest a reading of Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello which I don't believe has received sufficient attention. The interpretation I will present is not meant to be suggested as the only valid reading of the plays, but as a reading which should be considered along with many other valid readings, in attempts to gain insight into these three major tragedies, and to understand their points of similarity.

Playing For Real: The Experience Of Drama At Medieval York, Christopher Baswell

Honors Papers

Almost all English drama suffers from the awful curse of having been written either before or after the works of William Shakespeare. It is generally admitted that no English dramatist rivals Shakespeare ; as a result, ever since the invention of "literacy criticism" sometime in the nineteenth century, Shakespeare has received the lion's share of critical attention paid to the theater. Later playwrights have, indeed, been given a certain amount of critical treatment. The real losers have been the plays written before Shakespeare's time-- the theater of the Middle Ages.

The Process Of Vision: Lambert Strether And Henry James, Judy Karasik

Honors Papers

The moral development of Strether in The Ambassadors is, as James says in the Preface, "a process of vision." From beginning to end, it is not what happens in the novel but how Strether sees it that provides James with a vehicle for the "development of extremes" which show the pitfalls of the moral and the aesthetic senses. Strether's "process of vision" restricts the point of view in the novel to his consciousness, and his return to America at the close of the book resolves the series of perceptions. James, while denying the possibility of moral action between people, creates …

Front Matter

Studies in Scottish Literature

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William Smellie: Philosopher Of Natural History, Ronald B. Hatch

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Celtic Affinities In The Earlier Poems Of Kenneth White, Lynn Novak

Studies in Scottish Literature

This early introduction to White's poetry, including work published in France as well as in the U.K., discusses his displacement from the Scottish canon and his alienation from the English poetry of the 1950s and 60s.

Sources Of Stanza Forms Used By Burns, Helen Damico

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.

Contributors To This Issue

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Limitations Of The Comic In Edgar Allan Poe, Melek Marise Dimyan

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Neurosis As A Form Of Social Protest In The Plays Of Tennessee Williams, Zainab Abdel Halim El Berry

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Readability Level Of The Newberry Award Books And The National Book Awards For Children, 1969-1975, Marilyn R. Wood

Graduate Research Papers

So many conflicting opinions have been advanced about the popularity of the Newbery books with children, the grade level they are best suited for, and the value of encouraging children to read these books. The National Book Awards for Children have caused less controversy, perhaps because they have not been around as long. Yet, the same criticisms and comments could be made about these books also.

Volume Ix, Morehead State University. English Department.

Bulletin of Applied Linguistics Archives

Volume IX of the Bulletin of Applied Linguistics published by the English Department of Morehead State University.

Katherine Anne Porter : A Change In Her Mexican Perspective, Mario Paris-Fernandez

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Katherine Anne Porter regards Mexico as her "familiar country." lndeed, Mexico in the art of this gifted American writer is more important than generally believed for, as William Nance says, "Mexico entered into her earliest work as both motivating force and subject matter."

Miss Porter has traveled extensively in Mexico and lived there on several occasions. Her highly developed artistic sensibility has allowed her to gain more than a mere familiarity with the country, its inhabitants, and its history. Naturally, her deep knowledge of the culture is reflected in her artistic production, part of which is devoted exclusively to Mexico. …

A Neoplatonic Reading Five Donne Poems, Yuko Miyazoe

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Creative Imperative: A Metaphysic In Lawrence Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet", Stephen Franklin

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

George Willard's Progress Toward Maturity In Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Patrice Grassinger Spencer

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Thoreau's Civil Disobedience: A Reassessment, Thomas Aquinas Murawski

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Thoreau’s case is easy in one sense and difficult in another. One of the chief attractions of Civil Disobedience, and one of its necessary limitations, lies in its prophetic quality. Recent American history has confirmed Thoreau’s good judgment in abhorring state-supported racism and a questionable war. But in sympathizing with his outrage over these conditions, we are spared the difficult test to our forbearance that arises when others dissent against issues that lack the persuasive moral justification of Thoreau’s case. So in this respect at least, Thoreau presents a comparatively easy case. His case is difficult in that he minimizes …

The Female Image In The Caldecott Medal Award Books, Patricia Lee Brighton Roberts

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

PROBLEM: Millions of children read and view the Caldecott Winners each year There are no published studies regarding the possible stereo-typing of the role of the human, animal and inanimate female image in the texts and illustrations of these 37 books.

Purpose: The. investigation ·was conducted to determine the extent the total population of the Caldecott books did stereo-type the role of the human, animal and inanimate female image.

Procedures: The investigation was completed in four steps: (1) First, a panel of sociologists determined the content validity of the definitions used in the hypothesis; (2) Second, a Content Analysis Form …

Social Protest In Three Novels Of Carlos Fuentes, Jane Hamilton Rule

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Carlos Fuentes is one of Mexico' s current fiction writers and to many he is controversial in that he delves into several of Mexico's great preoccupations: the Revolution, the search for lo mexicano and the future for this growing country.

This thesis is an endeavor to expose and explain Fuentes' views on these and other social topics as seen in three of his novels: La region mas transparents, La guerte de Artemio Crux, and Cambio de piel.

Structural Cohesion In Arnold Bennett's Clayhanger Trilogy, Laura Maurine Green

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This paper will demonstrate how Bennett’s “circumstantial” history of his age, as it streams by the reader, is controlled, analyzed, and interpreted. The framework of characters and events stand firm, their foundations solid in the systematic working-out, through symbolism and irony, of Bennett’s conviction that there is a “cause and effect” relationship between the physical environment and the character and sociological evolution and the character. Bennett writes that “the spirit of literature… enforces a moral wisdom by tracing everywhere of cause and effect.” The structures of characters and events are raised, reinforced, illuminated, inspected, and photographed through the use of …

The Christian Character Of Tolkien's Invented World, Willis B. Glover

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

Examines Christian aspects of Tolkien’s fiction, showing how Middle-earth is a Christian world in spite of the absence of overt Christian references.

In Tribute: What J.R.R. Tolkien Means To Some Of His Admirers, Benjamin Urrutia, William Rust Norris, Poul Anderson, Joe R. Christopher, James Allen, Janest B. Fisher, Diana Paxson Decles, Jeanne Wardwell, Nancy-Lou Patterson

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

No abstract provided.

"Death And The Desire For Deathlessness", Glen Goodknight

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

Reproduces a letter from Tolkien to Dr. Herbert Schiro (later included in Letters, but at this time previously unpublished). Discusses Tolkien’s assertion that The Lord of the Rings is at heart about death and the desire for deathlessness, and speculates on its survival as a literary classic.

Reviews, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Jim Allen, Winton Covey

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

Master of Middle Earth: The Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien. Paul H. Kocher. Reviewed by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

The Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit Notes. William Ready. Reviewed by Jim Allen.

Per Herr der Ringe. Written by Peter Steinbach, Directed by Bernd Lau, Narrated by Ernst Schröder. Reviewed by Winton Covey.