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The Consistency Of John Dryden's Literary Criticism In Theory And Practice., Elmer Joseph Cole Jr.

English Language and Literature ETDs

While many studies have investigated relationships between aspects of John Dry den's literary theory and his practice as a poet, and others have examined specific problems in his literary theory, there have been no significant attempts to analyze his practical criticism as a means of determining the theoretical foundations of his criticism. This study attempts to determine the relationships between Dryden's practical criticism and his general statements of literary theory.

Dryden's criticism emphasizes the dual ends of instruction and delight as the principal function of liter­ature. He uses this principle in close conjunction with the concept of the imitation of …

The Organic Unity Of Henry David Thoreau's A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers., Gail Baker

English Language and Literature ETDs

Most scholars have failed to consider Henry David Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers as a unified work of art. Rather they have dismissed it as a weak first book, lacking the depth of thought and artistry of Walden. This study attempts to analyze the kind of book A Week is and to show that its organic unity develops from Thoreau’s belief in the independence of man and nature.

From Drama To Novel: A Study Of Fielding's Development., Connie Capers

English Language and Literature ETDs

Many critics have noted the influence that Henry Fielding's years as a dramatist had on his career as a writer of prose fiction. However, none of these critics has attempted any detailed analysis of that influence. This dissertation will discuss the influence by examining in detail the narrator; the burlesque of form, fable, and language; the comical and farcical elements of the dramatized scenes; and marriage as a satiric object in the plays and prose fiction. Each had its beginnings in the plays, and each finds its way into the prose fiction. My hypothesis is that Fielding's prose fiction shows …

Man's Relationship To The Land In Four Novels By John Steinbeck: To A God Unknown, Of Mice And Men, The Grapes Of Wrath, And East Of Eden, Marie Parsons

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, English by Marie Parsons in May of 1970.

The Archetypal Significance Of Tamar Caulwell In Robinson Jeffers' "Tamar", June Wilson

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Division of Languages and Literature at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by June Wilson in May of 1970.

A Graphemic Analysis Of An Old English Text: The Parker Manuscript, The Laws Of Alfred & Ine, Mary Reiss

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study may be considered an exercise in graphemic analysis. It proceeds from the point of view that writing is an independent manifestation of language. As such, the writing system of a language may be subject to a descriptive analysis based upon methods similar to those used in the analysis of spoken language systems. The purpose of such a description is to determine the distinctive and non -distinctive elements of the system.

Chapter V of this study is a graphemic analysis of one section of the Parker Manuscript. This analysis is based upon the principles discussed in Chapter II …

Some Paradoxical Elements In The Fiction Of Carson Mccullers, Rona Bozarth

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Since the death of Carson McCullers in 1967, there has been no revival of interest in her work, and there has been little critical study done in regard to it. All of McCullers' stories have Southern settings, and most are set in her native Georgia. She uses folk materials (as do Faulkner, Welty and Warren), but the limitations which these impose are transcended, and the fiction becomes an "examination of universal moral circumstances."¹ McCullers does not exploit local color, which, as Robert Penn Warren has noted, is often "incomplete and unphilosophical."² Rather than treating locale for its own …

Political Influence Of The Ku Klux Klan In The 1925 Indiana General Assembly, Harvelyn S. Norton

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Diterpene And Gibberellin Synthesis By Certain Fusarium Species And Bacteria, Chao-Ying Kuo

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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The Greater Trumps, By Charles Williams. Reviewed By Glen Goodknight., Glen Goodknight

Mythprint Book Reviews

Mythprint is the quarterly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local discussion groups.

A Critical Study Of William Nevill's The Castell Of Pleasure; The Delusions Of Amor., Thomas Hardy Miles

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Few English poems have been neglected more than William Nevilll's The Castell of. Pleasure. Following Henry Pepwell' s reprint ( 1518) of Wynkyn de Worde' s original edition, the poem has been reprinted only twice. Scholarly criticism of the poem is even rarer than are its editions.

An Interpretation Of The Essence Of Oedipus In Myth And Drama, Mary Katherine Palmore

Theses & Honors Papers

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Henry David Thoreau's Interest In Myth, Fable And Legend, Richard Francis Fleck

English Language and Literature ETDs

This study, I believe, has shown a number of things about Thoreau as a folklorist which have not been seen before. He was America's first comprehensive folklorist not only in terms of collecting vast amounts of folktales, folkpoems, legends and myths but also in terms of theorizing on the formation of folklore. Thoreau made literary use of his folklore knowledge by creating pieces imitative of anonymous folklore as well as by couching his style with indigenous and European mythological and legendary allusions. While some critics have discussed Thoreau's collecting of folklore in his published writings and his attempts at imitation …

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.

Ivy Leaves 13, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The Spring 1970 edition of the Anderson College journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were Mary Beth Matthews, Jim Taylor, Gail Rada, Stanley Horton, Rose Thompson, Sonny Smith, Sally Arant, Buzz Pedicord, Joanne Gresham, Faye P. Cowan, Margaret Everhart, R.S. Moore, Marietta McCown, Dr. Paul Talmadge, W.F. West, Jr., and M.B. Wilson.

Shakespeare's Treatment Of Kingship In The Lancastrian Tetralogy, June Stemen Allman

Master's Theses

The English history play reached its highest peak of development between 1595 and 1599, for it was during these years that Shakespeare wrote the set of four plays covering the historical period from Richard II to Henry V. Each of the plays is a single entity, but in their entirety, they constitute a unified tetralogy concerning the rise of the house of Lancaster. Through the illegal seizure of the crown by Bolingbroke from Richard II to the glorious reign of Henry V, Shakespeare, as an intensely political writer, examines the facets of kingship and its inherent power and authority.

Ring Lardner As Dadaist, Buford Donald Fisher

Master's Theses

This thesis is not a history of Dada, nor does it attempt to trace any direct influences that Ring Lardner may have on current literature. What it does strive to achieve is proper understanding of one facet of Lardner's work.

During the period that the Dad ists were actively trying to establish a new order by destroying the old (and theoretically, Dada itself), Lardner was creating nonsense playlets . His critics, for the most part, could not comprehend his intentions, so this aspect of his work was relegated to obscurity.

Half a century later, Dada has become more relevant historically; …

An Examination Of The Influence Of August Strindberg Upon Eugene O'Neill, Mary Emily Parsons Edwards

Master's Theses

Eugene O'Neill made no effort to hide the names of those writers and literary works which were important to him, and most of his biographers cite the fact that from the commencement of his playwrighting [sic] career O'Neill was influenced by the Swedish writer August Strindberg. O 'Neill himself was, in fact, one of the first to call attention to the kinship between his work and that of his "Master." In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, he indicated that he was delighted to have an opportunity to discuss the debt Ameri­can drama owed to the modern drama of Europe, and, …

The Role Of The Peripheral Narrator In Moby-Dick, Heart Of Darkness And The Great Gatsby, Erana Leiken

Master's Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the unique role of the peripheral narrator in Moby-Dick, Heart of Darkness and The Great Gatsby. Each narrator's point of view is unique in that, though he is a character within the story, his participation in the action is restricted by his peripheral status which allows him to witness and evaluate the other characters, particularly the pro­tagonlst. The distinguishing characteristic of this narrative frame necessitated by the use of such a narrator is that the author surrenders his omniscience regarding his other characters by letting his narrator tell the reader only what …

The Conflict Of Purposes In Bernard Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession", Marlie Parker Wasserman

English Theses & Dissertations

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The Unity Of A Shropshire Lad, Robert B. Brown

Honors Theses

To understate the case, one might point out that there are those readers whose initial reaction to A Shropshire Lad is that it is a disunified bundle of poems. I assert, however, that this judgement should not endure, for when this volume of poetry is viewed in a more critical perspective there arises a deeper understanding and, consequently, a more rewarding appreciation. Moreover, I assert that it is in this final analysis alone that A Shropshire Lad emerges in its proper perspective.

In addition, it is the contention of this thesis that this unity may be viewed through at least …

Connecticut English Journal, Spring 1970, Ralph L. Corrigan Ed.

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Robert Penn Warren's Brother To Dragons : A Poem To Fit Its Theme, Marjorie Scott

Honors Theses

Robert Penn Warren is a writer obsessed with ideas, to the extent of spending most of his literary life searching for a form that would enable him to express them. Most of his searching has taken place within the framework of the novel form: in fact, within that form he has tried eight different combinations of characters, plot, and point of view in an effort to find an arrangement that would say what he so urgently wanted to say. Judging from the results, however, it was always what he wanted to say that interested him more than the actual mechanics …

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Studies in Scottish Literature

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Scottish Poetry In 1969, Alexander Scott

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Sir Walter Scott And Sir Ralph Sadler: A Chapter In Literary History, Part Iii, G. A. M. Wood

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Scott's The Two Drovers: The Judge's Charge, Kenneth A. Robb

Studies in Scottish Literature

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A Scottish Imitation Of Bürger, David W. Lindsay

Studies in Scottish Literature

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An Unpublished Commonplace Book Of Scottish Interest In The Folger Shakespeare Library, Marcia Allentuck

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Hogg's Religion And The Confessions Of A Justified Sinner, Douglas S. Mack

Studies in Scottish Literature

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