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A Very Human Fear, Joseph Ferguson

English Language and Literature ETDs

Perhaps there are some who will agree with me when I say that the first half of the century has witnessed the greatest flourishing of English poetry in the history of our language. Yet I am forced to add, paradoxically, that never has an age been more indifferent to poetry than our own. Naturally enough, the effect has been disheartening to many of our great geniuses.

Henry Miller: A Semi-Critical Approach, Gilbert Neiman

English Language and Literature ETDs

I have often been asked, when a person learns that I have had more than a reading acquaintance with Henry Miller, why Mr. Miller uses such language and describes such scenes. I have always wanted to quote in reply a passage which I seem never to be able to quote verbatim but which I now take this opportunity of copying out word for word from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell:

I then asked Ezekial why he eat dung, & lay so long on his right & left side? he answer'd, "the desire of raising other men into …

The Social Individual: Social Criticism In The Writings Of James Thurber, Arthur M. Kompass

English Language and Literature ETDs

It may seem unfitting to base a polemical thesis on the writings of a humorist. Most of us read humor solely for entertainment, when we are tired of quidities and want escape from problems. We look to other forms of writing for social and philosophical critiques. Moreover, we are often reluctant to account the teller of funny stories a reliable source for information about reality. Serious writers carry with them a background of straight forward facts. They furnish their own documentation. But, a humorist, though he often finds the concrete detail the best building stone for his humor, frequently seems …

Ways In Which Polymer Tempera Medium And Its Associate Materials Can Enrich Art Expression At The Public School And Adult Levels, Mabel Mikel Williams

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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A Study Of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Patrick Davis Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Reactions To Edgar Allan Poe At Home And Abroad, Sr Brigid Donoghue D.C

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

One of the most enigmatic names in American literature is that of Edgar Allan Poe. Born in America of Americans, the major portion of his works were written in his native country and, with the exception of an occasional phrase or two used to create effect or atmosphere, all is works were written in his native tongue.

Oliver La Farge: The Scientist As Literary Artist, Phillip Friedman

English Language and Literature ETDs

The purpose of this paper is to show the development of a scientist into a writer and to indicate elements in his writings which display signs of having been influenced by his earlier training as an anthropologist. In the biographical section, an effort will be made to determine the major factors that helped to shape the life and art of La Farge. The anthropologist is particularly cognizant of the peculiarities of locale, and in the third chapter, "The Influence of Places," three cities that have been important to La Farge will be discussed. Theme and symbol are much of the …

Twentieth-Century Criticism Of Form In Tristram Shandy, Charles Parish

English Language and Literature ETDs

One of the critical tenets of the twentieth century emphasizes the discreetness of the artist and the work of art. Whatever the artist has to say about his creation, whatever image of the artist may be found in his work, we look upon with interest; but that interest is an irrelevant interest and we recognize it to be so. The autonomy of the work of art is essentially inviolate. Whatever the extent of the artist's involvement in his work, we cannot, in justice to him and in justice to the continuum of artistic creation, credit him with it or discredit …

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.

The Influence Of Painting On The Fiction Theory Of Henry James As Exemplified In The Ambassadors, William Horace Dodd

Master's Theses

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Toward An Understanding Of Christopher Fry, Edward Joseph Mattimoe

Master's Theses

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Serious Domestic Drama As Tragedy : A Study Of The Protagonist, Charles Turney

Master's Theses

Domestic drama is the most popular genre employed by the modern dramatist. The question may arise as to whether or not tragedy is any longer desired by the playgoer. In these representative plays, taken from many countries and written on a variety of themes all centered around domestic life, as judged by the criteria established in the first chapter, few of these dramas succeed as tragedies. This is not to be interpreted to mean that the so-called "tragic impulse" is dead. Those plays which are classed as tragedy are pure tragedy-- dramas at the peak of intensity demanded by the …

Roger Ascham's Unrecognized Contributions To Education In The Schoolmaster, Harold L. Askew

Theses

In the late sixteenth century, Roger Ascham, English scholar and author, wrote The Schoolmaster, in which he outlined some principles of education and of learning. The purpose of this paper is to note some of these principles and to illustrate their use in education.

The Experimentalist, 1959, Vol. 5, No. 5, Suny Geneseo English Club

The Experimentalist

SANS MERCI ...................................Bruce A. Sweet 7
SELF RESIGNATION ......................... Richard Hilts 7
RENDEVOUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Prouty 8
I FEEL AS A MAN WITH A TORTURED SOUL ... John J. Carney Jr. 10
FREEDOM ................................... Jean Delfs 11
HATCHING A HORSE .......... retold by Mary Pavlik 12
TWO NOVELS BY FAULKNER ....... Eugene Healy 13
MATURATION ............................. Karen Kahkonen 15
LONELY SENTINEL ....................... Judy VerPlank 15
VINCENT IN THE MINES .............. Bruce A. Sweet 16
DIALOGUE ............................ John J. Carney, Jr. 18
THEDA …

The Counting House, A Play In Three Acts, Robert Joseph Helland

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This play concerns a revolution that occurs in a small, independent nation. The nation is called Hebrus, and it is a jungle country. One great industry has made the land prosperous, an industry founded by a brave, hard, and ambitious American. His name was Gemaedan. The wealth that the industry gave him, and the power that was hie as its owner made him a proud man. The people of Hebrus loved him. As he grew older, and wealthier, he returned to America. He died there, leaving to hi son , Max, a symbol of his power: the machete he had …

A Streetcar Named Desire: A Study Of Determinism In Modern Drama, John Skelly Kundtz

Master's Theses

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Realism Of Garbriel Marcel, John R. Crocker

Master's Theses

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William Faulkner As Moralist : A Fable, Jean Marie Anderson

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In August, 1954, William Faulkner’s twentieth book of fiction, A Fable, was published. As might be expected by anyone knowing of Faulkner’s previous career and critical reception, the reviewers received it with widely divergent opinions. None seems to have found the book an unqualified success, the word “failure” occurs in many of the reviews, and a number confess inability to find motivation for various actions or the pertinence of certain episodes, More than one reviewer reveals quite obviously that he has not been able to follow the plot.

As a matter of fact, the runner is one the few main …

A Historical Survey And Evaluation Of The Most Prominent Theories That Shakespeare Did Not Write The Works Attributed To Him, Lola Vida Johnson

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The question of the authorship of the plays, poems, and sonnets traditionally attributed to the pen if William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon has now been before the public for over one hundred years. Many of the most noted poets, playwrights, and nobles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have been assigned the authorship of these works. The controversy can be compared to the controversy over Homer’s authorship. In 1975, Friederick Augustus Wolf proposed that Homer did not write The Iliad and The Odyssey. By 1900, Wolf had been disproven, but the question was one of great importance when it was first …

Symbolism In The Short Stories Of Katherine Anne Porter, Mary St. Peter Smith

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Nature Of The Absolute In The Writings Of Solovyev With An Appendix Containing An Unpublished Translation Of Chapters Forty-Three And Forty-Four In Solvyev's Criticism Of Abstract Principles, Edward Casimir Wojciechowski

Master's Theses

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Richard Ii On Tv: A Critical Analysis Comparing The Nbc Television Production With Shakespeare's Original Play, James A. Brown

Master's Theses

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Coventry Patmore's "Psyche's Discontent" And The Child's Purchase": An Explication, Kevin Edward Gallagher

Master's Theses

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The End Of The Affair And The Religious Sentiments Of Graham Greene, Michael Gallagher

Master's Theses

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Hamlet: A Study In Dramatic Art, John Francis Keating

Master's Theses

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The Wreck Of The Deutschland": Seed Poem In The Flowering Of Gerald Manley Hopkins' Poetry, Marie Jeanne Petrone

Master's Theses

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Look Homeward, Angel: Great American Novel, Richard G. Polakowski

Master's Theses

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The Intellectual Identity Of James Branch Cabell, Tom Towers

English Language and Literature ETDs

The literary career of James Branch Cabell is as strange as any in the entire history of American letters; certainly it is unparalleled in the twentieth century. The nation's most famous critics, within a single decade, lionized and anathematized Cabell to extents seldom matched in the criticism of this century. For a time, every American with any intellectual ambitions read eagerly each new Cabell novel; and then, almost at the moment of Cabell's greatest popularity, the very critics who had made him an international literary figure suddenly saw in him a villain responsible for the appalling emptiness of American literature, …

Terre Haute During The Civil War, Ronald H. Ridgley

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Shoulder The Sky, Frederick P. Hayes

English Language and Literature ETDs

An original manuscript by the author.