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The Development Of English Grammar From 1750 To 1929, Helen Kathryn Walsh

Bachelors’ Theses

For some time I have been interested in the subject of Grammar. A generation ago, it was considered one of the most important subjects in the elementary schools. But now, grammar is a thing one teaches only incidentally. What has brought this change? What is the situation to-day? What may we hope for in the future? These are some of the questions which need to be answered. The pendulum has indeed swung far out into empty space. It surely must return. Will we be able to stop it midway in its course?

A Comparison Of Certain English And French Poets Of The Romantic Era, Robert Howard O'Keef

Bachelors’ Theses

It is the purpose of this paper to compare the poetry of the romantic movement in England and in France. First it will present the characteristics of the leading poets in each of these countries. Then these traits will be compared to determine in what respects they were similar and what respects they differed. Lastly, there will be a discussion of the concepts of romanticism held by the leading poet is each nation, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats and Shelley in England, and Lamartine, Vigny, and Hugo in France are the romanticists to be considered.

Silent Reading, Daniel W. Corcoran

Bachelors’ Theses

No abstract provided.

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1929 --, Phi Sigma

The Voice of the Phi Sigma

This item is part of the Phi Sigma collection at the College Archives & Special Collections department of Columbia College Chicago. Contact [email protected] for more information and to view the collection.

The Literature Of The Age Of Queen Anne And How It Reflects The Problems And Politics Of The Time, Francis J. Costigan

Bachelors’ Theses

The object of this thesis is to go back into Early Eighteenth Century England and see the literature, the politics and the life of the time, and then to compare the history of the time with the literature and see how the latter reflects the former.

In selecting the writers, I have chosen the two greatest of the first half of the Eighteenth Century, Swift and Defoe.

I have divided the thesis into two parts. Part One gives a resume of the politics of England during this period. Part Two is devoted to the writers themselves and I have used …

The Place Of Syndication In The Development Of The Short Story, James T. Friar

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to weigh, examine and compare the two periods in American Literature from 1870 to 1890 and from then to 1910; with reference to the short story. For it was in 1869 that Bret Harte wrote "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and this story is generally accepted as the first distinct American short story. I propose to do this by examination of the prominent men, their wor1 s. In behalf of the earlier school there is: Bret Harte, Page, Freeman, Cradock, Murfree, Harris, Stockton and Aldrich. On the side of the later writers there is: …

Crusades, Vernon Lee (Violet Paget)

Vernon Lee: Manuscripts, Published Works, and Typescripts

No abstract provided.

Standards Of Criticism For The American Novel, Marie Dwyer

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis has been worked out so that I shall have some criteria for judging novels. I have ventured to write about modern novelists about whom critics are not agreed; my interest is not so much in that they said of certain authors as it is in determining why they accept some and reject others, and what they use as their basis of judging.

The technique of the novel, and its approach to great art was developed in order to gain a feeling for the novel apart from any country or section.

If undue emphasis has been placed upon the …

The Concept Of Social Determinism As A Motivating Influence In Some Modern Tragedy, Arthur Lenox Bradford

Masters Theses

"The term, "social determinism", is a rather unfortunate designation for the absolute conditioning of human character by the aggregate of biologic and social influences...The central idea of this positivistic interpretation is that man, along with all other organic things, is the product of hereditary accidence and environmental contacts, that his psychic and physical constitutions (if there be such differentiation) are fashioned to the minutest detail by circumstance, and that his thoughts and the chemic impulses of his nature appear precisely according to his character which he has no hand in making"--Introduction, page 2-3.

Bride Of The Sun, Carl N. Taylor

English Language and Literature ETDs

It was in the time long ago. The People of the Sun, never having known famine or plague, lived happily and peacefully in their thick-walled towns. All about them stretched away the desert. Far to the west was the great river that surged between mighty walls of rock bright with many colors. Somewhere beyond the river was a big water, but no one had ever travelled so far. To the north, at the distance of many days' walking, there were sky-piercing mountains whose summits glittered with snow that never melted. In the other directions, sun-cursed sands that shifted eternally among …

The Rise Of The Short Story In American Letters, Mary M. Barra

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Formal Retraction Or Literary Repentance In The Elizabethan Age., Irene B. Rhoads

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Before entering upon a discussion of those writers of the Elizabethan Age whose works present specific instances of Personal Retractation, let us turn our attention to the problem in general and try to find out why writers of this age and of earlier times felt it necessary to repent of their literary efforts. Some critics may say that retractation was merely a literary convention; and why bother about its beginnings, sources, et cetera? Others may have the opinion that it was a personal trait, only a means of satisfying some peculiar whim or fancy of the author. Some may go …

Jealousy In Shakespeare's Tragedies, Harold M. Kimball

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In undertaking a study of the theme of jealousy, one must make some limitation of material. The field of literature as a whole, or the more limited ones of drama or even tragedy - each of these is too large for so short a study as this must be. Only certain aspects of such a restricted subject as the tragedies of Shakespeare can be given any thorough treatment, while others, both interesting and profitable, must be put aside; for instance, space will prohibit a careful comparison of Shakespeare's use of jealousy with that of other dramatists; nor can a study …

The Orthodoxy Of Milton's Theology Concerning The Trinity And Sin And Its Consequences, Rose Mary Dufault

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Livy's Delineation Of Hannibal, Joseph Edwin Quin

Bachelors’ Theses

Hannibal -- what a spur to the imagination the name is, what a multitude of scenes, thoughts, and conjectures it calls up. No other figure in ancient history unless perhaps that of Alexander of Macedon, so challenges the interest. Students from the time they first learn of the Second Punic or Hannibalic War and his struggle with Rome are intrigued into a more close application of their books by the thrill and the glamour of his achievements and the glory of his greatness, and ponder over the full significance of his actions and the manner of man he was. Those …

A Critical Study And Comparison Of Sir Philip Sidney's "Defence Of Poesy," Of Peacock's "Four Ages Of Poetry" And Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Defence Of Poetry.", Mary Cecilia Gardner

Bachelors’ Theses

Our purpose in this essay has been to concentrate upon an analytic and appreciative study of Sir Philip Sidney’s "Defence of Poesy" as the earliest critical document of any importance in England and to study both the circumstances attendant upon its production and the matter and form of its context; to inquire into the "Four Ages of Poetry" as the immediate occasion of Shelley’s "Defence of Poetry;" to analyze the "Defence of Poetry" and to attempt to discover how it was influenced by Sidney’s treatise, and what the points of similarity and dissimilarity are between the two; and lastly, to …

Romanticism In Wordsworth According To The Preface In The Second Edition Of The Lyrical Ballads, Raymond Felix Michalak

Bachelors’ Theses

To offer a thorough exposition of Romanticism in Wordsworth, as the nature of this topic justly demands, would be aspiring to loftier heights then anyone it apt to realize, for the genius of Wordsworth, sheltered in a garb of the pious tranquility of his life, as we shall later see, presents a multitude of equally varied and extensive aspects under which it could be duly considered. An endeavor shall be made, however, to Submit an essay, though not exhaustive in its contents, which still shall give a sufficient idea to fully appreciate the magnitude of his literary abilities as a …

The Histrionic In Dickens, Mary Josephine Markey

Bachelors’ Theses

We shall examine the life and works of Charles Dickens to find if he really was histrionically inclined. Of course it will be impossible in a work of this kind to consider all the author’s works but we shall look for passages, scenes and characters which could lend themselves to the stage.

Bret Harte: Dicken's Influence On Him; His Contribution To The American Short Story, Anne Marie Lucie

Bachelors’ Theses

Bret Harte is not a lonely figure in our literature, but he is a unique one. His fame is identical with the nation's memory of early California, and it came about as the most natural thing in the world. Everybody's imagination had been fired by the California gold era and the field had been untouched by romancers; his material was timely to the moment. Dickens had just visited America and the fame of him and his work had penetrated very household; then had come the news of his death, and enormous space had been given to him in all the …

The Function Of The Comedians In Shakespeare's Plays, Louise Elizabeth Tennessen

Bachelors’ Theses

There is an old adage, "It takes a wise man to make a fool", which is familiar to most of us, but the full significance of the proverb will be comprehended only after reviewing several plays in which the fools carry prominent parts. Tracing the history of the court fool back to the early and middle ages, it has been found that it was customary tor a monarch, prince or a powerful noble to have in his retinue a fool or jester, whose office it was to entertain his master and courtiers. He enjoyed privileges and liberties denied the higher …

Character Building Through Literature, Mary Ignatia Wiesner

Bachelors’ Theses

To make straight the paths for the poets, and the critics, the terms literature and character shall be defined, the extent, as well as the limitation, of the influence of literature on character outlined, and a method of approach to the study of literature discussed. First, then, there will be a discussion of terms, then the opinions of writers on the moral values of literature, and finally, in the light of this discussion, this paper will attempt to show whether these writers claim more for literature than it actually can and does accomplish, and just how literature can be made …

Elizabethan Stage Presentation, Michael Kanderka

Bachelors’ Theses

Elizabethan plays print very few stage directions beyond the necessary entrances and exits. There is never anything like the elaborate description of setting and furniture that modern dramatists use. Rarely are there references to properties, furniture, doors, windows etc. In many cases it is doubtful whether we have directions designed to govern the actual presentation of the plays; some are manifestly mere suggestions by the author, and others are not intended for the actors, but for the readers of the play. Stage directions are scanty and uncertain.

Cardinal Newman And Christina Rossetti: Contrasted From A Religious And Literary Point Of View, M. Rosenda Sullivan

Bachelors’ Theses

Literature is a magic wand possessed of the power to transport the dwellers of earth away from this sphere of sordid reality into a fairy palace of ecstatic joy. It is the sesame to a world of pleasure indiscoverable in the actual world. Truly it is, to use the words of a poet, "The touch of a vanished hand And the bound of a voice that is still," for through it as a medium the spirits of men and of races long since turned to dust reinhabit their discarded bodies to appear in life-appareled form and re-act time's changeful drama …

Henrik Ibsen, And His Influence On English Drama, Helen Rose Dempsey

Bachelors’ Theses

There are a great number of dramatic critics who claim that all the most important dramatic work that is being done in the world or has been done in the last quarter of a century, bears the unmistakable impress of Ibsen's influence. The poetic change that Wordsworth and Coleridge inaugurated in 1798, was nothing they say, compared with the revolution in dramatic art that began when Ibsen produced his "Pillars of Society," the first of his purely sociological plays.

The Influence Of Seneca On The Elizabethan Tragedy, James Aloysius Bielefeld

Bachelors’ Theses

In the world of letters it was the fortune of Seneca like that of Banquo to beget a posterity greater than himself. Seneca is really more philosopher than dramatist, and his "Tenne Tragedies" are mainly unac­table closet-dramas. It seems unlikely that they were ever produced at Rome beyond being declamed before some select reading circle gathered by personal invitation. How the Elizabethans turned to Seneca rather than to Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, the giants of the Periclean age, is a problem we may take up later, but that Elizabethan tragedy is deeply indebted to Seneca will be made clear by …

The Treatment Of Nature Including The Indians In Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, Orvilla Adlgunde Beilfuss

Bachelors’ Theses

The first half of the Nineteenth Century is one of the most important, and of universal interest. It is notable for two very important events namely: the establishment of democracy in government, and the triumph of romanticism in literature.

The Religion Of William Shakespeare As Shown In His Plays, William G. Friar

Bachelors’ Theses

For over three hundred years, the plays, the life, and the character of William Shakespeare have been the subject of discussion wherever men of literary taste congregate. There have been thousands of volumes written about him; there has been argument pro and con concerning nearly every phase of his existence. Much is conjecture; much is theory; some is fact; nearly all is a matter of personal opinion. There is question even of the author­ ship of the works attributed to Shakespeare. Some say that a man with as little education as Shakespeare received could not have written the plays as …

Shakespeare's Delineation Of Criminal Characters, Herbert Lloyd Hinstorff

Bachelors’ Theses

We like what we are not, or we are not what we think we are. In no subject is this truism more evident than in the literature of a people. Literature reflects the taste of the time rather than the time itself, and of­ ten the two are widely different. Literature is, of course, not life, neither history nor material for history, but a scroll whereon are traced and charactered the unfettered thoughts of writer and reader, - a life within a life, fancy somewhat at odds with fact. fut by critics and historians this is often forgotten - "To …

Imagination: A Study Of Types With Special Reference To The Imagery Of Francis Thompson And Edmund Spenser, Hugh John Deeny

Bachelors’ Theses

Curiosity is doubtless the most valuable asset of the mental make-up of man. In recent years the natural int­erest of human beings in "hoe it works" has turned within to the investigation of themselves, and how and why they behave like humans. "Psychology" has become a word to conjure with. Witness the space it and allied subjects occupy on Chautauqua programs, in newspapers, and in magazines. Books attempting to explain our everyday actions and our exceptional ones have become "best sellers" "Complexes," "inhibitions," "react­ions," "stimuli," and a host of other technical terms are familiarly heard in drawing-rooms and even on …

The Relation Of Journalism To Literature In America, Kenneth F. Crane

Bachelors’ Theses

Literature in America has led an eventful career for almost three hundred years . There were first, the almost barren years of the early settlers, when the task of sustaining life left little leisure time for either reading or writing, and the lack of printing facilities discouraged the rearing of a literature. Among the literary pioneers who surmounted these difficulties were the Pur­itan historians, sermonists and poets.

More fruitful years followed. The essayists, the New York school. the New England school, the poets and prose writers of the South, and finally the breezy Westerners all had their hand in producing …