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Mark Twain Biography: Entering A New Phase, Robert Bray

Scholarship

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Two Riddles, Craig Williamson

English Literature Faculty Works

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A Riddle-Song For Duke Ellington, Craig Williamson

English Literature Faculty Works

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Studies in Scottish Literature

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The De'il's Awa Wi' Th' Exciseman, Robert D. Thornton

Studies in Scottish Literature

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David Masson's Theory Of Imagination And Matthew Arnold's 1853 Preface, Michael W. Adams

Studies in Scottish Literature

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R. B. Cunninghame Graham: The Kailyard And After, Laurence Davies

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Contributors To This Issue

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Individual And Society In Four Mailer Novels, Nabila Fathi

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Jews In The Mirror: From Hatred To Reconciliation In American-Jewish Fiction., Joseph D. Gallo

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Isaac Rosenfeld's short novel The Colony¹ is an orwellian allegory which on a significant level explores the range of attitudes expressed by contemporary Jews toward themselves and other Jews. Set in an exotic fictional country on the Indian subcontinent, the narrative pits the intellectual Satya, successor to a prophet-like leader, against the machinations of a controlling technology given to efficiency and the waging of modern war. During a rally at which he urges his audience to passively "despise and disobey," Satya is seized and imprisoned, whereupon his true ordeal begins. He is accosted by foes even more formidable than …

Transformational Technique In Gabriel Fielding's "In The Time Of Greenbloom", May Grant Robbie

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Gabriel Fielding's In the Time of Greenbloom is a major twentieth century novel that has received literary critical attention. With its dramatic plot and colorful characters, it has an immediate surface appeal for most readers. The novel requires deeper, symbolical reading in order to reach its central theme, man's potential for transformation.

John Blaydon, the protagonist, is a very different young man at the end of the novel from the child he is at the beginning. His activities, the narrative base of the novel, reveal more than the external events of his life. Fielding uses them as objectification of confrontations …

Freudian Dream Symbols In Q.E.D., Melanctha And Ida, Victoria M. Davis

Masters Theses

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Whitman's And Melville's Civil War: A Comparison Of Drum-Taps And Battle-Pieces, Martha M. Gower

Masters Theses

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The Innocent Character In Twain's Public Scenes, Connie J. Link

Masters Theses

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Conrad's "Nostromo" And The Imagery Of Despair, Terry Lane Kimble

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Conrad ' s significance as a major novelist having been well established by the present time , one may justly turn attention to a consideration of whether Nostromo, his masterpiece, deserves the paradoxical ranking critics generally accord it as a flawed and essentially inexplicable work of genius . Nostromo is the focus of the present study, which establishes by extensive analysis that Conrad employs a complex imagistic technique, manifesting thereby not only thematic content but also compositional method. Basic to this technique is the tend ency to view a subject in terms of polarities , around which to cluster images …

The Five Old Testament Plays Of The Chester Cycle: A Paradigm Of Salvation-History, Richard Floyd Norlin

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

During the nineteenth century critics looked upon the English medieval cycle drama, or "Corpus Christi plays" as colorful folk art, having value to antiquarians but not meriting systematic critical attention. Consequently, the plays were treated chiefly from the standpoint of literary history. In more recent decades scholars have been making a fresh effort to understand and judge the Corpus Christi cycles as coherent works of religious dramatic art.

Of the four English cycles extant in manuscript---from Chester, York, Wakefield, and Lincoln·-- the cycle at Chester, though considered by some to be crude and simple, is widely regarded as the most …

The Wide World Of Jack London, Howard Lawrence Lachtman

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The high apostle of the adventure tale in the Strenuous Age, Jack London has never really relinquished the popularity which made him before his death one of the best known and, most widely read writers in the world. It is true that more than one pontiff of literary taste has consigned him to the same, "obsolete" file that contains the remains of Richard Harding Davis, David Graham Phillips, William Sidney Porter, but such reports of London's demise have undoubtedly been premature. Indeed, the contemporary momentum of Jack London studies affords excellent evidence of the critical rediscovery of an American legend. …

The Hero With Three Faces, Rebecca Susanne Larson

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

A study of the relationship between myth and literature in relation to: 1) the origin and form of myth as literature developed through the Legend of King Arthur; and 2) the function of myth as literature tracing Dr. Philip Potter’s motif of salvation through the novels Zorba the Greek, Don Quixote and The Once and Future King.

James Pinckney Kinard Papers - Accession 8, James Pinckney Kinard

Manuscript Collection

The James Pinckney Kinard Papers consist of family history charts of the Kinard family and related Kuhn and Summer families, and a Kinard family history, personal correspondence including letters to and from his wife Lee Wicker Kinard (1873-1963), their daughter Nelle Kinard, and other family members, business correspondence, financial papers, literary manuscripts, scrapbooks, and photographs pertaining to Kinard’s student days at the Citadel, his personal and family affairs, his teaching career, his presidency of Winthrop, and his efforts to get his literary manuscripts published. This collection consists primarily of correspondence and offers an informative insight into the personal lives and …

O'Neill And Nietzsche: The Making Of A Playwright And Thinker, Regina Fehrens Poulard

Dissertations

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The World Of James Thurber: An Anatomy Of Confusion, Catherine Mcgehee Kenney

Dissertations

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The Poetic Theory And Practice Of Langston Hughes, Philip M. Royster

Dissertations

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Artist Failures In The Fiction Of Henry James, Robert E. Terrill

Dissertations

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The Function Of Stock Humor And Grotesque Humor In Faulkner's Major Novels, Justine M. Manley

Dissertations

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The Primitive Vision Of John Millington Synge, Jean Comiskey Hunter

Dissertations

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The Prose Writings Of Robert Louis Stevenson: An Index And Finding-List, 1850-1881, Part I, Roger G. Swearingen

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Jerzy Kosinski’S The Devil Tree: A Work Of Art?, Tom G. Colonnese

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Jerzy Kosinski Is fourth novel, The Devil Tree, is widely regarded as both a technical and imaginative failure. Rather than being an artistic failure, The Devil Tree is in fact a fully mature and variant expression of Kosinski's art. Some of Kosinski's earlier fame was due to a humanistic misreading of his work. But The Devil Tree made it painfully clear that Kosinski 's own ethic-- particularly when concerned with self-realization - was of another order. Interpreted in the full light of his career it can be seen that Kosinski 's The Devil Tree is the logical outcome of both …

A Study Of Some Textual Variations In The Book Of Mormon Comparing The Original And The Printer's Manuscripts And The 1830, The 1837, And The 1840 Editions, Stanley R. Larson

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a study of textual variations in the two manuscripts and the first three editions of the Book of Mormon. Successive collations of each of these were made against the text of the first edition. From these collations some 427 specific textual variations were selected for inclusion in the thesis.

The research disclosed that some genuine corrections as well as editorial revisions were made by Joseph Smith in 1837 and 1840. However, it was also concluded that some alterations of the text arose from accidental causes.

The most significant contribution of this study was that both the Original …

The Education Of The Public Man: A Medieval View, Judson Boyce Allen

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Flyting In Pre-Elizabethan Drama, In Shakespeare, And In Jonson, Carol M. Cochran

English Language and Literature ETDs

In its broadest sense the term "flyting" means any wrangling or contention. Generally the term is used some­what more narrowly to refer to battles of wits in which contestants try to excel ea.ch other in imaginative abuse. The contest aspect of the flyting excludes from its definition asides or one-sided taunts. The emphasis on imaginative abuse delivered for its own sake distinguishes flyting from the debate, which is concerned with issues, and also from satire, which usually has as its aim the reformation of an opponent. Games of abuse have been pervasive, there are battle flytings, court fly1cings, festival flytings, …