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The Indestructible Woman In The Works Of Faulkner, Hemingway, And Steinbeck., Mimi Reisel Gladstein

English Language and Literature ETDs

American male novelists, according to the critical commonplace, have difficulty creating fully human females. Critics indict Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck as prime examples of this deficiency. Though their works represent distinct styles, focuses, and subject matters, these three writers do have some striking similarities beyond their alleged inability to allow full humanity to their female characters. They all express a pervasive disillusionment with contemporary society and project generally pessimistic world images. However, each author has certain optimistic undertones: mankind’s ability to endure is one of them. A recurrent manifestation of this theme ls the indestructible woman.

The indestructible woman, a …

A Total Language Of Poetry Theory To "Ballad Of The Long-Legged Bait", Madonna Adams

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A monograph presented to the faculty of the Department of English Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Madonna Adams in December of 1973.

Metodes Meahta In Six Old English Poems, Mary Relihan

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis, then, will attempt to show that the achievement of unity was the primary concern of the Old English poets, who aimed to use the power of poetry to teach their people how their hope for immortality might be realized under Christianity. Their concern is evident from their poetic diction and themes that have an origin in common values of mankind, from their demonstration of unity within the poems by deliberately chosen connotative language and by forms which represent a progression of thought, and from their objective presentations in dramatic and imaginative settings. Therefore, the poetry is a fusion …

Poem No. 19, November 1973, 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 Alice Moser Claudel.

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Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Thre Prestis Of Peblis, Robin Fulton

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Moral Allegory In Dunbar's "Golden Targe", R. J. Lyall

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Text Of "Apparition": A Purview Of The Henley-Stevenson Friendship, Edward H. Cohen

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Gavin Douglas's Eneados: Dilemmas In The Nature Prologues, Penelope Schott Starkey

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Divine Justice In Henryson's Testament Of Cresseid, John Mcnamara

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Significance Of Barbour's Naming Of Commoners, Bernice Kliman

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Notes On Two Sources For Burns Biography, Robert T. Fitzhugh

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Gavin Douglas And The Seldne B 24 Manuscript, Denna Delmar Evans

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Ellen Alwall. The Religious Trend In Secular Scottish Schoolbooks 1850-1861 And 1873-1882 With A Survey Of The Debate On Education In Scotland In The Middle And Late 19th Century. Lund. C. W. K. Gleerup. 1970. 177p. (Lund Studies In English)., Alexander Law

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Janet Dunbar. J. M. Barrie: The Man Behind The Image. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1970. 413 Pp. $8.95., Robert L. Oakman

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Contributors To This Issue

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Scottish Poetry In 1972, Alexander Scott

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Intruding Stanger In Flannery O'Connor's Fiction, Mary Jo Hutchinson

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the School of Humanities at Morehead State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Mary Jo Hutchinson in September of 1973.

Consideration Of Davitz's Theories On The Literary Aspects Of The Psychopathology Of Language And The Linguistic Literary Structures In The Novelistic Art Of Bernard Malamud's "The Fixer" And "The Assistant", Luena Schultz Minner

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A monograph presented to the faculty of the Department of English at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Luena Schultz Minner in August of 1973.

Anti-Calvinism In Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie And An American Tragedy, Sandra Compton Thornburry

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A monograph presented to the faculty of the Graduate School at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Sandra Compton Thornbury in August of 1973.

Work And The Family: Themes In The Plays Of Arthur Miller, Sue Parsons

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The study is divided into four parts, the first three having to do with the family and the last with work. The first section outlines the relationships of family members, including their attitudes toward themselves, toward each other, and toward society. The next two have to do with “Responsibility” as viewed by the family, and the need for “Stability” within the home and outside it. The final section examines the jobs held by Miller’s characters, their attitudes toward those jobs, and the extent to which an occupation helps to influence the characters and their familial relationships. A close discussion of …

Sherwood Anderson, Christopher Sergel, And Winesburg, Ohio, Frank Stoddert Johns

Master's Theses

In 1936, Sherwood Anderson read a stage version of Winesburg, Ohio to his friends Roger and Christopher Sergel. For Anderson the play marked the culmination of his efforts at playwriting. He had adapted his finest collection of stories for the stage, and it would now be the responsibility of the theatre and particularly of his producer, Jasper Deeter, to see that the play succeeded. Deeter produced the play at the Hedgerow Theatre in 1937. Anderson had no doubts concerning the merits of his play.

For Christopher Sergel, however, Sherwood Anderson's reading was only a beginning. Anderson's masterpiece, he felt, had …

Patterns Of The Negative Epic Quest And Three Modern Novels By Andre Gide, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, And Malcolm Lowry, John Robert Greer

Master's Theses

Many critics have approached the subject of modern epic, but like E. M. W. Tillyard, they dismiss "eccentric" literature from consideration on the claim that the execution of epic requires "balance" and "objectivity." It seems unfortunate to dismiss works that--while remaining essentially negativistic and subjective in their impact-uniquely capture the spirit of their milieu and refract in a singular way a "choric" effect (to borrow Tillyard's term); that is, "the unconscious metaphysic of a group." To accommodate the inverted comparison between epic and certain individuated works by modern authors, I here attempt to define a form I call the "negative …

The Questionable Moral Value Of Major Characters In The Later Works Of Henry James, Joseph R. Fiore

Masters Theses

Chapter I: Introduction

As human beings, when we cannot see clearly into the workings of life, we call it ambiguous--and rightly so. Judgment of our own behavior and that of others is always suspect. We have a tendency to label this person as "good" or that act as "evil," but there should always be a certain amount of uncertainty as to whether or not our perceptions and our ensuing judgments are correct. Those of us who are literature have also, by habit, come to look at literature as reflecting the same standards of right and wrong, of good and evil. …

A Comparison Of Jane Austen's Early And Late Characterization, Janet R. Moore

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The purpose of this thesis is to compare an early well-developed heroine, Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, with a late well-developed heroine, Anne Elliot in Persuasion, in Jane Austen's novels to see if there are any changes in characterization and techniques of characterization and to evaluate these techniques.

In Chapter One, I have shown that throughout the nineteenth century from the time of publication, critics commented on Jane Austen's ability to create realistic characters. Not until the twentieth century, however, was Jane Austen's work evaluated critically. Twentieth century critics agree that she was a master at character …

Three Studies In Characterization, Diana A. Kohler

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

THE WOMEN OF BEN JONSON IN EPICOENE AND BARTHOLOMEW FAIR. This paper compares and contrasts the method variations that cause the women of Epicoene to be less interesting and more stereotyped than those of Bartholomew Fair.

Basically, in the women of Epicoene, Jonson used character types exclusively. The women were all "masculine," and remained that type throughout the play. In Bartholomew Fair, Jonson created versatility in the characters by including more information on the women through rhetorical "places," particularly the consilium or reason behind their actions. The multiplied places in the women in Bartholomew Fair, the changes in the …

Much Deceiv'd, Much Failing, Hapless Eve:Iconography And Eve In Milton's Paradise Lost., Joanne Lewis Cockelreas

English Language and Literature ETDs

Students inquiring into the literary tradition underlying Mil­ton's Eve in Paradise Lost find ready at hand a great body of interpretive works in the writings of the Church fathers and in the imaginative literature that develops into the hexameral tradition. Present also, however, is a second great artistic tradition, namely that of the visual arts. With the development of iconographical programs from the begin­ning of Christian history, Eve appears frequently and variously to re­flect the intE1rests and prejudices of each age. It becomes instructive, therefore, to compare the portrayal of Eve in the visual arts with Milton's depiction of Eve …

Blake's "The Mental Traveller" And The Critics, Ann B. Dunlap

English Language and Literature ETDs

The problem posed by this study is that of achieving a reasonable understanding of Blake's enigmatic poem, “The Mental Traveller,” through a systematic study of the poem's critics. "The Mental Traveller” was selected for such intensive and isolated analysis because it is in many ways a microcosm of Blake's later, larger works. The method used is simply to take the twenty-seven major commentaries on the poem in chronological order, summarize and analyze them. The results of this survey produced insights into the methodology of Blakean critics as well as ideas concerning the meaning of the poem. The methods of the …

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Apostle To The Disillusioned, Paul Nicholas Pavich

English Language and Literature ETDs

This dissertation deals with the role of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. as a popular literary hero. over the last ten years he has become increasingly significant, especially to the younger, college-age reader. From an unknown writer of short stories for "slick" magazines, he has developed into one of America's most prominent, controversial writers. He has branched out into other fields t notably television, the movies and the theater. This study will consider Vonnegut's total image as revealed in his novels and also in his non­ fiction works.

The introduction discusses the increasing attention which Vonnegut has received from both the popular …

Sounds Of Anger In The Novelistic Art Of Robert Ruark's "The Honey Badger" And "Poor No More", Joyce Hamrick Kenney

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

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