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A Critical Analysis Of The Characters Of Isabel And Madame Merle And Their Conflict In Henry James's The Portrait Of A Lady, Thomas Raymond Alderson

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The opening scene of The Portrait of a Lady takes place upon the broad, sunlit lawns of Gardencourt. Yet, even in this expansive setting, the most essential character in the novel, the protagonist, is, curiously, no more than a narrow, shadowy speculation symbolized by a few odd words found in a telegram of dubious value. The only worth of these words comes in the amount of curiosity they can arouse in the other characters and in the reader. For it appears that, with this slow but significantly unusual means of introducing Isabel, the author intends her for more than a …

A Study Of Christopher Smart's Poetic Theory With Special Reference To "A Verse Translation Of Horace", John Beifuss

Dissertations

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Fielding On Walpole: A Study Of Henry Fielding's Major Political Satires, Mary Elizabeth Devine

Dissertations

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A Study Of The Historical Register, For The Year 1736 With Notes To The Text, Katherine Marron

Master's Theses

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The Web Of Glory: A Study Of The Concept Of Man As Expressed In The Christian Fantasy Novels Of Charles Williams, Beverlee Fissinger Smith

Master's Theses

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Studies in Scottish Literature

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A Commentary On The 'Terrible' Sonnets Of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sr. Paul Augusta Trudeau

English Language and Literature ETDs

My method of research was determined by the poet's method of writing. Hopkins does not use language as he finds it but wrings from words and word groupings as much function and meaning as possible. Thus, there are words in his poetry which fit poetically in context, but it is necessary to delve into their obsolete or other remote meanings to obtain an understanding of the precise idea expressed or to obtain its enriching implications. Because of this, my research began in the New English Dictionary, where even the seemingly obvious words were looked up to bring out the …

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Studies in Scottish Literature

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A New Dimension For "Tam O' Shanter", M. L. Mackenzie

Studies in Scottish Literature

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William Macmath And The Scott Ballad Manuscripts, William Montgomerie

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Robert Fergusson's Auld Reikie And The Poetry Of City Life, Allan H. Maclaine

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Scott -- Byron, Fred Cogswell

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Barrie And The Critics, William R. Mcgraw

Studies in Scottish Literature

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"What Is A Conger?": John Dunton And Scottish Booksellers, Gilbert D. Mcewen

Studies in Scottish Literature

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A Note On Spenser And The Scottish Sonneteers, Murray F. Markland

Studies in Scottish Literature

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James Johnson (Ed.). The Scots Musical Museum. Hatboro, Pa. Folklore Associates. 1962. 2 Vol. $25.00 (Facsimile Reprint)., G. Ross Roy

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Louis Simpson. James Hogg: A Critical Study. Edinburgh And London. Oliver & Boyd. 1962. 35 Shillings., A. L. Strout

Studies in Scottish Literature

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P. H. Butter. Edwin Muir. Edinburgh And London. Oliver & Boyd. 1962. 5 Shillings., Joseph H. Summers

Studies in Scottish Literature

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States Of Suspended Decay In The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe, Alan W. Stringer

English Language and Literature ETDs

It is the purpose of this study to examine a particular set of closely related physical and mental states of characters and special states of nature found in the imaginative works of Edgar Allan Poe. I have found it most convenient to refer to these conditions as states of suspended decay, through other critics have used various terms such as suspended animation, life-in-death, or the suspended death-in-life or life-in-death of reverie to distinguish what seems to be essentially the same phenomenon in Poe’s works Although it is difficult to settle upon a term, suspended decay is perhaps the most inclusive …

An Analysis Of The Influence Of The Spiritual Exercises Of St. Ignatius On The Poetry Of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mary Suzanne Wills

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Studies in Scottish Literature

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Observations On Scottish Studies, Tom Scott

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Walter Scott's Advent As Novelist Of Manners, Nelson S. Bushnell

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Literary Aesthetics And The Sympathetic Emotions -- A Main Trend In Eighteenth Century Scottish Criticism, A. M. Kinghorn

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Scottish Popular Ballads And Lyrics Of The Eighteenth And Early Nineteenth Centuries: Some Preliminary Conclusions, Thomas Crawford

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Hunter And The Circle: Neil Gunn's Fiction Of Violence, Francis R. Hart

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Gabriela Mistral And The Standards Of American Criticism, Mary Frances Baker Hernández

English Language and Literature ETDs

The purpose of this investigation of the work of Gabriela Mistral as seen by her American critics, and of the critics as they are revealed by their standards, has been to offer some insight into the problem of critical biases--an area which has become a burgeoning field of interest in the United States of the mid-twentieth century. In order to dramatize the similarities and disparities of critical viewpoint, the area of South American literature, as little known to North American readers and writers as is any literature in the Western tradition, was chosen, and from it, the production of a …

Student Evaluation Of Housing Facilities At Indiana State College, Virgil J. Miller

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Hopkins The Critic: The Literary Judgement And Taste Of Gerard Manley Hopkins, With An Appendix On His Verse Theory, Myron Ochshorn

English Language and Literature ETDs

The purpose of this book is to bring together Gerard Manley Hopkins' literary criticism. At present his critical remarks are scattered at random throughout four volumes, the large volume containing his journals and papers, and the three volumes of his letters to Bridges, to Dixon, and to Patmore, Baillie, and others. These books of course contain much that has nothing to do with criticism, so that the reader interested particularly in his literary judgement and taste must undergo constant interruption and distraction. It has long been felt that a single volume would be desirable which separated out and arranged his …

Structure And Meaning In Endymion, G. Brian Sullivan

Open Access Master's Theses (through 2010)

My interpretation is allegorical; it traces a consecutive quest through stages of human development to the attainment of an ideal. My approach is not, however, in the social or moral sphere but on the level of psychology.

When Endymion is read as a myth of individuation, a structural unity, a symbolic cohesion, and a thematic sameness are apparent which give the poem the organic quality that contributes to what I have called the unitary experience of the work of art. This can be defined as the aesthetic perception of an artistic phenomenon, produced consciously or unconsciously by the author with …