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Intertextual And Interlinguistic Approaches To Agnon's Writing, Ken Frieden Jan 1988

Intertextual And Interlinguistic Approaches To Agnon's Writing, Ken Frieden

Religion - All Scholarship

While previous critics have raised the question of outside
influences upon Agnon, his fiction has seldom been read in
connection with contemporary views of intertextuality. Agnon
specialists might learn from the theories of Harold Bloom, for
example, as they are set forth in The Anxiety of Influence
and A Map of Misreading. This article will provide
specific examples of intertextual and interlinguistic reading,
applied to Agnon's "Panim Aherot" and ul'Veit Abba", and suggest
the broader significance of these approaches.

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The Difference Between The Writing Achievement Of Below-Average Ninth-Grade Students And Above-Average Ninth-Grade Students As Revealed On Literature Tests Stressing Analysis Of Character, Alton Pitts Jan 1988

The Difference Between The Writing Achievement Of Below-Average Ninth-Grade Students And Above-Average Ninth-Grade Students As Revealed On Literature Tests Stressing Analysis Of Character, Alton Pitts

Theses and Dissertations

This study attempted to discover if there was any difference between the writing achievement of below-average ninth-grade students and above-average ninth-grade students as revealed on literature tests stressing analysis of character. Fifty individuals were randomly selected from a population of over three hundred students. Using the Analyzing Characters in Literature (ACL) exam, differences were drawn between the groups in the following areas: substantiation, form, content, and subjective reasoning. The independent samples were evaluated descriptively to determine whether a difference existed between ability groups. While the majority of the Individuals In both high and low ability groups were able to properly …

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Fireflies, Beth Bradley Jan 1988

Fireflies, Beth Bradley

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 6

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Why I Don't Sell Bibles, Greg Keeler Jan 1988

Why I Don't Sell Bibles, Greg Keeler

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 28

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Towards Fall, Richard Hague Jan 1988

Towards Fall, Richard Hague

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 17

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Root Cellar, Karen South Jan 1988

Root Cellar, Karen South

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 41

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The Bats, Scott Ward Jan 1988

The Bats, Scott Ward

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 43

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Birmingham Poetry Review 1 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Jan 1988

Birmingham Poetry Review 1 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 49-50

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Lights And Shadows - 1988, University Of North Alabama Jan 1988

Lights And Shadows - 1988, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

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Goethe And Wordsworth: A Comparative Analysis, Pierre Karin Lynn St. Jan 1988

Goethe And Wordsworth: A Comparative Analysis, Pierre Karin Lynn St.

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1980 - 1989

Although Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe and William Wordsworth had no personal contact, and, in fact, were adversaries, several parallel passages show correspondences between the two artists. An examination of Faust and The Excursion reveals a strikingly similar attitude toward nature. A comparison of Faust and "Resolution and Independence" shows several significant resemblances: unusual verse measures, the use of personification, the bestowal of natural landscapes with consciousness, and the presence of images which suggest fluctuation and development. Finally, a close reading of Faust and the The Prelude reveals similar motifs such as veils, waterfalls, and mirrors; also common in both works …

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Morality Theme In "A Room With A View": A Study Of E. M. Forster's Novel And The Film Adaptation By James Ivory, Monique Benghiat Jan 1988

Morality Theme In "A Room With A View": A Study Of E. M. Forster's Novel And The Film Adaptation By James Ivory, Monique Benghiat

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1980 - 1989

In A Room With A View Forster's allusions to the "mediaeval," the pattern of chapter headings which describes the action, the particular use of names and the way the narrative follows the evolving nature of Lucy Honeychurch's soul reveal a structural similarity to a morality play. In addition, the vivid contrasting elements of Light and Darkness and of Art and Nature establish the morality's opposing framework of Good versus Evil. The overtly visual style of Forster's narrative as well as the essentially dramatic structure of the novel provides director James Ivory a means to successfully adapt Forster's thematic structure to …

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Women's Studies Colloquium Flyer 1988, Women's Studies Jan 1988

Women's Studies Colloquium Flyer 1988, Women's Studies

Looking Back, Looking Forward

Flyer for 1988 Women's Studies Colloquium: ANNE SHAVER, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR "THE GENTLEMEN WHO HAVE SHAPED US IN SPITE OF OURSELVES: FEMINIST APPROACHES TO GREAT BOOKS"

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Who Cares Who Wrote "Shakespeare"?, Peter Jaszi Jan 1988

Who Cares Who Wrote "Shakespeare"?, Peter Jaszi

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Obviously, a great many people, on both (or all) sides of the "authorship question," and they care a lot. The real question is why. Proponents of various authorship claimants compete in their protestations of admiration for the plays and poems in controversy. But if these works are in fact so universally and inexhaustibly fertile of significance, why should any admirer of them waste precious time, which might better be devoted to the study of the texts themselves, arguing about an ultimately irresoluble historical puzzle? And why is so much of the discussion conducted at such a relatively high pitch of …

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Literature And The Question Of Philosophy [Review], Michael Fischer Oct 1987

Literature And The Question Of Philosophy [Review], Michael Fischer

English Faculty Research

However defined theoretically, literature and philosophy also designate two departments in most North American universities. The paths of these departments occasionally cross, say in a philosophy and literature course, then go their separate ways: toward logic, in the case of philosophy, and toward some variant of the still powerful New Criticism in literature departments, where poetry is considered as poetry and not as another thing. Combining literature and philosophy, or seeing them as always already intertwined, thus involves transgressing departmental boundaries and runs the risk of seeming dilettantish to those colleagues who remain within each discipline. Literature and the Question …

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Time Theory In The Short Fiction Of Jorge Luis Borges: The Language Of "Reality", Lyn Lamkin Aug 1987

Time Theory In The Short Fiction Of Jorge Luis Borges: The Language Of "Reality", Lyn Lamkin

Graduate Theses

Time boundaries delimit mankind's concerns while subtly affecting the perspective men have on all ontological questions. However, Jorge Luis Borges' short fiction develops an a-temporal perspective that denies the distinctions of a past, present, and future, obscuring traditional human conceptions of time and reality. He repetitively uses cycles and labyrinths as spatial metaphors for time to emphasize man's Inability to escape the maze of existence and to define a final reality that he can order. Borges' fiction suggests that only by trying to understand what exists beyond our universe in an unknowable. Infinite time continuum can human reality be ordered …

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The Very Idea Of "Law And Literature", John D. Ayer May 1987

The Very Idea Of "Law And Literature", John D. Ayer

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Failure of the Word: The Protagonist as Lawyer in Modern Fiction by Richard Weisberg

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Women's Studies Newsletter March 1987, Women's Studies Apr 1987

Women's Studies Newsletter March 1987, Women's Studies

Looking Back, Looking Forward

Women's Studies newsletter March 1987. Contents: THE "DOUBLE DAY": A PERSONAL AND PUBLIC ISSUE, Laura Joslyn; MY POETRY BORES HIM, Karen J. Hall; ADDRESSING HOMOPHOBIA AND HETEROSEXISM, Nancy Ann Clayton; CREATING, Karen J. Hall; WESTERN BIASES AND STEREOTYPES IN ANALYSIS OF IRANIAN WOMEN, Kendall R. Cameron; THE ECONOMIC ROLE OF WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE SOCIETY, Laura Kriska; MEL'S PLACE, Karen J. Hall; THE PATRIARCHAL THEORY OF LITERATURE: A SUMMARY OF IDEAS FROM THE MADWOMAN IN THE ATTIC, Jennie Benf Ord; Co-editors: Elizabeth McCarthy, Christine Cherney, and Mary Schilling.

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Henri Temianka Correspondence; (Macbeth), Norman Macbeth Jan 1987

Henri Temianka Correspondence; (Macbeth), Norman Macbeth

Henri Temianka Correspondence

No abstract provided.

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Parnassus 1987 Jan 1987

Parnassus 1987

Parnassus

The 1987 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

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Auguries Of Difference: Indeterminacy And Displacement In Blake's Prophetic Texts, David Leonard Clark Jan 1987

Auguries Of Difference: Indeterminacy And Displacement In Blake's Prophetic Texts, David Leonard Clark

Digitized Theses

Critical studies of William Blake have emphasized the integrity of his major prophecies and their commitment to a "grammar of the imagination" which reconciles differences in favour of the identity of the "human form divine." This thesis throws these emphases into question in two ways. First, a close examination of Blake's accounts of life in "Eden" suggests that he could view perfection as a conflictual condition which ceaselessly undoes itself, creatively deferring rather than seeking the stability of final form. This unconventional modelling of the shape of reality emerges as a logical consequence of Blake's revisionary conception of cosmic history, …

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The Bardic Style In The Poetry Of Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, And Dylan Thomas, Sheila Mccolm Deane Jan 1987

The Bardic Style In The Poetry Of Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, And Dylan Thomas, Sheila Mccolm Deane

Digitized Theses

There have always been elements in the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, and Dylan Thomas that have been difficult to account for. Although each of these writers is generally engaged with modern poetics and sensitive to the issues of his time, certain characteristics of the work--such as Hopkins' unusual diction, Yeats's concern for traditional metres, or Thomas's elaborate rhyme schemes--seem out of keeping with a position in the mainstream of modernism. This dissertation attempts to shed some light on these puzzling characteristics by revealing them to be features of a bardic style, the consequence of these writers' …

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The Pioneer Woman: A Canadian Character Type, Elizabeth Helen Thompson Jan 1987

The Pioneer Woman: A Canadian Character Type, Elizabeth Helen Thompson

Digitized Theses

A female character type, one which is arguably unique to Canada, can be found in English-Canadian fiction from the time of the earliest creative writing, up to and including the present time. By virtue of her historical origins, this character type should be labelled the "pioneer woman" since her creation was, in fact, grounded in the actuality of the pioneer experience, and on details of that experience that were reconstructed and reinterpreted in fiction, often through a moralistic or idealistic filter.;In The Backwoods of Canada (1836) and The Canadian Settler's Guide (1855), Catharine Parr Traill described a pioneer woman's role …

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Review Essay: Lynette R. Muir, Literature And Society In Medieval France: The Mirror And The Image, 1100-1500, Frede Jensen Jan 1987

Review Essay: Lynette R. Muir, Literature And Society In Medieval France: The Mirror And The Image, 1100-1500, Frede Jensen

Quidditas

Lynette R. Muir, Literature and Society in Medieval France: The Mirror and the Image, 1100-1500, St. Martin's Press, 1985.

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The Mockingbird - 1987, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University Jan 1987

The Mockingbird - 1987, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University

The Mockingbird [magazine]

Nicki Allison [Anguish]; Donna Barnes [Momma's Robe; It covers the head]; Mike Bradley [The Map of El Salvador; Mannequins]; Angel Y. Bryant [Identity]; Sonia Kathryn Burger [Saxy Incline; In My Eyes]; Lee Dean [Leave a Message; Do Not Remove.]; Angela N. Eades [bliss]; Abby Eblen [Past Times]; Melinda Elliot [Food for Thought]; Vikki Ganger [The Tale in Search of a Teller]; Shannon Harrison [Old Portrait.Now on Yellowed Paper]; Kristie D. Huffman [Shop]; Beth Kopp [In The Maelstrom of Academia]; Alan LaBudde ["O"]; Gina Lijoi [Monogram; Ski Haus]; Nell McGrady [Painting in First Person; Matrices]; John Thomas Oaks [The Only House …

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City Folks In Hoot Owl Holler: Narrative Strategy In Lee Smith's Oral History, Suzanne W. Jones Jan 1987

City Folks In Hoot Owl Holler: Narrative Strategy In Lee Smith's Oral History, Suzanne W. Jones

English Faculty Publications

Over the years American writers have perceived Appalachia differently depending on how America has perceived itself. While those who have approved of the American way of life have looked down on mountain life, those who have disapproved have seen Appalachia as an alternative culture from which America might take a lesson (Appalachia, 65). In 1873 the journalist William Harney and the editors of Lippincott Magazine "discovered" Appalachia, and historian Henry Shapiro argues that since then America has thought of this mountainous portion of eight southern states as a discreet region, "in but not of America" (Appalachia, 4). In …

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The 'Entente' Of The Narrator: A Poet Speaks To His Audience In Chaucer's Versions Of The Dido And Aeneas Legend, Margaret Lindsey Markot Jan 1987

The 'Entente' Of The Narrator: A Poet Speaks To His Audience In Chaucer's Versions Of The Dido And Aeneas Legend, Margaret Lindsey Markot

Doctoral Dissertations

In Book I of The House of Fame and in "The Legend of Dido" in The Legend of Good Women, Geoffrey Chaucer offers his versions of the classical love story of Dido and Aeneas. Each story is told through the voice of a well-developed narrator who regularly interrupts his narration to speak to an audience addressed in the poem. This study investigates the relationships between the narrator and his addressed audience and the narrator and his text. It further suggests ways in which Chaucer sought to explore the potential of the English poet through the creation of a poet/narrator who …

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Short-Story Fiction, Cj (Cynthia) Dyer Hine-Grove Jan 1987

Short-Story Fiction, Cj (Cynthia) Dyer Hine-Grove

Whittier Scholars Program

This project is a collection of four short-stories. The first section is an articulation of the problems faced, the solutions found, and the lessons learned while writing each story. The titles of the stories, in order, are: Caper, Witch Doctor, Vitamins, and Contest. Also attached are the rewrites of each story, with comments from editors included.

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Rebirth Through Narrative: John Bunyan's Autobiographies ("Grace Abounding To The Chief Of Sinners")., Constance A. Douglas Jan 1987

Rebirth Through Narrative: John Bunyan's Autobiographies ("Grace Abounding To The Chief Of Sinners")., Constance A. Douglas

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

John Bunyan, while in Bedford gaol, composed two autobiographical narratives, one published in 1666, titled Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and a second, published posthumously in 1765, titled A Relation of the Imprisonment of Mr. John Bunyan. Since its recovery, the Relation has been published as the concluding section of Grace Abounding, seemingly suggesting that the doubting sinner of Grace Abounding demonstrates his assurance of salvation by becoming the confident spokesman for dissent in the Relation. In this study, however, I argue that the Relation is Bunyan's first self-construction from prison and Grace Abounding the second; thus the …

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Mary Augusta Ward: An Annotated Bibliography Of Secondary Writings, 1888-1985., Jeffrey Smith Jan 1987

Mary Augusta Ward: An Annotated Bibliography Of Secondary Writings, 1888-1985., Jeffrey Smith

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation is an annotated bibliography of the secondary writings on the major fiction and nonfiction of Mary Augusta Ward, spanning the years 1888-1985. The bibliography is comprised of book reviews, articles from scholarly journals, book length biographies and critical studies, parodies, reminiscences, biographical sketches, letters, chapters on Mrs. Ward taken from books not primarily about her, reviews of works about Mrs. Ward which contain comments about her, dissertations, and critical introductions to editions of her novels.

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Lights And Shadows - 1987, University Of North Alabama Jan 1987

Lights And Shadows - 1987, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

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