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Parnassus 1984

Parnassus

The 1984 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

The Whole Of The Same Universe: Science And Transcendence In "Fifth Business" And "Surfacing", Nancy Evelyn Bjerring

Digitized Theses

This study examines two Canadian novels, Robertson Davies' Fifth Business and Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, in order to show how each deals with an important theme in Canadian literature. This theme is the clash between two world-views, which I am calling the scientific world-view and the transcendent world-view. The treatment of this theme has been undertaken by both writers in the form of displaced romance, a fictional genre employing conventions of character, plot and theme in a manner less impeded than realism by the demands of ordinary experience.;Chapters One and Two analyse romance and define the two world-views. With the help …

A Study Of Robert Browning's "Sordello", Stefanie Anne Ketley

Digitized Theses

Readers of Sordello have insufficiently appraised Browning's use of a late-medieval, early-Renaissance setting to express his nineteenth-century themes. They tend either to dismiss the poem's historical details in favour of its nineteenth-century implications, or to exaggerate Browning's interest in the Italian Renaissance at the expense of his nineteenth-century concerns. The thesis argues that although Browning is reasonably accurate about historical details, a greater concern is to illustrate the continuities between historical periods determined by universal human inclinations and experiences, and by the continuities of God's providential ways.;Other Victorians' historical writings tended either to idealize or repudiate the Middle Ages or …

Stephen Leacock: Humour And Humanity, Gerald Patrick Lynch

Digitized Theses

Stephen Leacock is often regarded as a writer without an imaginative centre, as an author who lacked a vision of sufficient power and clarity to sustain a lifetime of serious writing. Leacock's writings emerge, however, from a centre that is the confluence of the two traditions of humanism and Toryism. Without an understanding of Leacock's Tory-humanism, which he provides most fully in The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice (1920) and Our Heritage of Liberty (1942), even his theory of humour will seem curiously limp in its insistence on the need for "kindliness" in humorous literature. Moreover, Leacock's Tory-humanism and theory …

A Critical Edition Of Benjamin Hoadley's "The Suspicious Husband" (1747), Harriet Winnifred Boyes-Maconaghie

Digitized Theses

Benjamin Hoadly, M.D. (1706-1757), was the son of Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Winchester. His interest in theatre was chiefly manifested in his play The Suspicious Husband, first acted at Covent Garden on 12 Feb., 1747, for which David Garrick wrote a Prologue and acted the part of Ranger. The Suspicious Husband was an extremely popular play throughout the eighteenth and ninetheenth centuries. There is, however, no separate modern edition of this play, the last edition having been published in English Plays, 1660-1820, New York, 1935. The play has some importance in the light of the nature of its satiric comedy …

A Generic Approach To Confederation Romanticism, Tracy Lynn Ware

Digitized Theses

Much of the work of Canada's first school of poets, the Confederation group of Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman, Charles G. D. Roberts, and Duncan Campbell Scott, has yet to receive the close critical attention that it deserves. A study of the often-noted but never thoroughly-examined influence of the English Romantics on these poets, this dissertation is organized in terms of the genres that best reflect both the Romantic influence and the achievements of the four poets: the commemorative poem, the return poem, and the greater Romantic lyric. Attention is paid to the integrity of individual volumes of Confederation poetry, to …

The Making Of An American Author: Melville And The Idea Of A National Literature, Daniel Ware Reagan

Doctoral Dissertations

In this study I examine the ways in which the idea of a national literature affected the development of both Herman Melville's career and of his reputation through 1930. Melville, as a member of the New York literary group Young America, participated in an effort to define and create a national literature. His apprenticeship was served under the influence of Young America, and the group's ideas about the act of writing, the defining qualities of a national work, and the relationship of writer and reader influenced the shape of his career. Although Melville's exploration into the implications of Young America's …

A Craving For History: Immigrant Themes In Jewish-American Literature, Jeffrey Saperstein

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation is a cross-generational study of three immigrant themes in Jewish-American literature: transformation, freedom, and connection. It covers a number of twentieth century writers whose central concerns revolve around issues of assimilation. Chapter I gives a brief overview of the topic.

Chapter II examines the various means by which the immigrant sought to achieve American status. Writers discussed include Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, Elias Tobenkin, Michael Gold, Norman Podhoretz, and Saul Bellow. Chapter III is an in-depth study of Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky (1917), a rags-to-riches story of a poor immigrant's rise up the ladder of …

The Dynamics Of Terror In Orwell's 1984, Malcolm R. Thorp

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

What Georgia's Middle Graders Are Reading: An Analysis Of Selected Georgia Book Award Recipients, Mary M. Bass

Theses and Dissertations

This project is a thematic analysis of thirty books nominated for the Georgia Children's Book Award Program. Books selected for analysis include the annual winners and one other book, randomly selected, from each year since the program began in 1969. A brief history of the program and the rules for the inclusion of a title are included in the report. A one-page review-analysis of each title includes a readability level, publication date, year nominated, brief sketch of the protagonist, and a synopsis of the book. The review of the literature focuses on similar studies along thematic lines and notes the …

A Pale Reflection: American Indian Images In Mormon Arts, P. Jane Hafen

Theses and Dissertations

American Indians in Mormon arts suffer from the imposition of the white man's traditional ideas, images and stereotypes. An examination of Mormon literature since 1941, Mormon hymns and music, and Mormon visual arts reveals little consideration of Native American values: tribal affiliation, significance of place and community, myth and ritual. While the mainstream of American art has incorporated Native American values into Indian representations, and even found a place for Native American artists, Mormon arts adhere to historical misinterpretations, despite a number of fine Mormon Native American artists.

Lights And Shadows - 1984, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

The Judicial Opinion And The Poem: Ways Of Reading, Ways Of Life, James Boyd White

Michigan Law Review

This paper is an essay in what I want to call the poetics of the law. I begin with a largely autobiographical account of what seems to me a striking similarity in the ways in which poetry and law once were taught - and to some degree still are taught, though perhaps less comfortably so. My first object is to suggest some connections: between these two kinds of thought and expression; between the ways in which we are habituated to read texts of each sort; and between the dilemmas that confront readers and critics in each field. In doing these …

Bittersweet Blend: A Study Of Family Strife And Comic Relief In Selectedstories Of Frank O'Connor, John Sheridan Jr Biays

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1980 - 1989

Frank O'Connor's stories of family strife effectively incorporate comic relief to underscore the essential tragedy and frustration in his protagonists' lives. Through a myriad of Irish idiosyncracies and traditions, O'Connor examines the conflicts that emerge when attempts are made to reconcile impulsive instincts with the bittersweet bonds of family heritage. The first chapter, "The Marriage Trap," explores the dilemma facing couples who seek to escape stagnation; the second chapter, "Role Confusian," deals with the tragicomic aspects of assuming different identities; the final chapter, "The Substitute Family," depicts lonely characters' desperate search for warmth in a family of their own invention. …

In The Tradition Of Poe: John Barth's Sabbatical: A Romance, Sondra N. Arkin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1980 - 1989

John Barth's Sabbatical: A Romance parodies both Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and the genre of sea fiction. Through careful attention to the sea fiction tradition, its metaphors of sea, ship, and voyage as microcosm, Barth examines the function of myth in life. Parallels in form, structure, content, and theme establish the use of contemporary anxieties as symbols for the universal forces opposing humanity. Sabbatical illustrates the correlated dualities of the mundane and fantastic, reality and the imagination, and society and the individual. Allusions to Poe, and to Pym, substantiate this re generation of myth. Both …

Love And Rebellion: Louisiana Women Novelists, 1865-1919 (Wetmore)., Susan Millar Williams

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation is a study of minor Louisiana women novelists from the end of the Civil War to the passage of women's suffrage. A large number of Louisiana women were spurred to write novels by the war and Reconstruction, motivated by both financial considerations and the need to explain their lives. They use conventional forms, like the plantation romance, but the stories they tell suggest that women were ambivalent about Southern traditions and the old order. In breaking down the social codes which both protected and repressed Louisiana women, the Civil War and the Reconstruction led Louisiana women novelists to …

Comedy: The Uncertain Terrain Of John Hawkes, Peter Johnson

English Faculty Publications

This dissertation examines the nature and function of

John Hawkes' comic method. Although most critics acknowledge

that Hawkes writes comedy, very few of them

agree on the moral nature of this comedy. Chapter I

examines these differing responses to Hawkes' work and

offers an alternative way of evaluating his humor, based

on his own and other critics' comments on comedy. This

chapter also suggests that our responses to Hawkes' humor

occur on an uncertain terrain where two or more, sometimes

opposite, reactions to a text clash, forcing us into continuous

moments of indecision.

Chapter II deals with Hawkes' first novel, …

Parnassus 1983

Parnassus

The 1983 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Keats And The "Service Of The Time Being", Joanne Lorna Buckley

Digitized Theses

This dissertation is an exploration of Keats's poems and letters with an eye to discovering his attitude toward the viability of poetry in a post-Lockean universe. Keats's concern with the subjective limitations of imagination in the face of scientific advancement in his time and its effects on his poetry are thus its subject.;The Echo and Narcissus myth, as it relates to the reflexive imagery in Keats's work, is used as a paradigm of the Lockean split between reflection and sensation and its relation to the poetic process. Certain motifs related to Keats's reflexive imagery are then examined, including the motifs …

The Influence Of Eighteenth-Century British Landscape Aesthetics On Narrative And Pictorial Responses To The British North American North And West 1769-1872, I S. Maclaren

Digitized Theses

This study undertakes a consideration of a century of travel writing by Britons who explored, surveyed, traded, hunted, prospected, botanized, and established missions in the British North American North and West between 1769 and 1872. Its particular concern is how Britons employed the principles and conventions of eighteenth-century British landscape aesthetics to describe and depict northern and western terrain.;An aesthetic mode of perceiving nature, as has been argued by perceptual geographers, art historians, and literary critics, constitutes one way that a society forms it understanding of reality. For the eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Briton, the Sublime and the Picturesque were the …

Canadian Eskimo Literature: The Development Of A Tradition, Robin Mcgrath

Digitized Theses

Prior to contact with European culture, Eskimos in the circumpolar world had a highly developed oral tradition. The subsequent widespread adoption of Christianity in the Arctic region resulted in nearly universal literacy among Eskimo adults, and the oral tradition almost immediately began to develop into a written one. In Canada there is now a considerable body of Inuit literature available in both Inuktitut and English, and this thesis examines how this literature developed. A brief history of European contact as it affected literacy, a consideration of the movement from the oral to written tradition, and a description of early Inuktitut …

The Disimprisoned Epic: A Generic Study Of "The French Revolution", Mark Douglas Cumming

Digitized Theses

"The Disimprisoned Epic" attempts to offer the most comprehensive generic study to date of The French Revolution. It begins by considering the artistic experimentation and generic speculation prevalent in early nineteenth-century European literature and criticism, and their reflection in Carlyle's early critical essays. It then proceeds to examine how the genres discussed by Carlyle in his criticism reappear in paradoxical contexts in his own literary experiments, treating particularly the generic designations that Carlyle offers--though never simply or unproblematically--for his "novel" Sartor Resartus, his satire (or "pasquil") "Count Cagliostro," his "romance" "The Diamond Necklace," and his "epic" The French Revolution. After …

Us And Them: Technological Hierarchies In Fowles And Pynchon, Frederick John Daw

Digitized Theses

John Fowles and Thomas Pynchon, like many contemporary writers, have noted that modern Western societies are dominated by arbitrarily created hierarchies. The major purpose of their fiction is to expose arbitrariness by increasing our desire to be self-conscious about our creation of social reality. The novels reveal the dualism and solipsism which are the results of the creation of hierarchies, and the authors argue for a type of ambivalence which can mediate the poles of unsuitable dualisms and move us to an "interface," or privileged position, which is not dominated by either pole of a duality.;Fowles' and Pynchon's works reveal …

David Willson (1778-1866): Canadian Visionary Writer And Hymnodist, Thomas Martin Gerry

Digitized Theses

David Willson was a visionary famous in his own life-time for his controversial theological writings for the many poems and hymns he composed; and for the utopian community--the Children of Peace--he helped build at Sharon, Ontario. This thesis initiates a thorough understanding of Willson's literary achievements by providing a critical overview of the entire canon, and by exploring Willson's thought and dominant metaphors--the design of his visionary system. The thesis presents the most comprehensive Willson bibliography yet assembled, including two books by Willson previously unknown to scholars, and the first listing of the Sharon Temple Museum manuscript collection. To establish …

Mimetic Process In The Sermons Of John Donne, Paul Wesley Harland

Digitized Theses

This dissertation argues that Donne's homiletic method manifests a fictive and processive structure which imitates God's historically revelatory working with his people. Integral to this mimetic structure are several dramatic techniques which forward the action.;Donne's "theory" of mimesis may be constructed by analyzing his comments concerning the imitation of historical precedents. Such comments reveal Donne's trust in the ability of experience to purify the soul and his belief that growth may be incuded by doubt, affliction, and virtuous choice, actions which imitate the actions of the faithful witnesses who make up Christ's body. Donne asserts that the beauty which best …

The Mockingbird - 1983, Department Of Art And Design, East Tennessee State University, Department Of Literature And Language, East Tennessee State University

The Mockingbird [magazine]

John Adams [Drawing]; Alice Anthony [Two Photographs]; T. Leslie Billings [Three Photographs]; Norma Calway-Fagen [Split; Comes a Time]; Donnie Collette [I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing; The Arctic Zone; The Night of the Living Rutabagas]; Sarah K. Davis [Treasures]; Thomas S. Davis [Epitaph]; John W. Edwards [Two Photographs]; Tim Foster [A Day of Hawks]; Toney Frazier [Appalachian Spring]; Michelle Fulmer [Drawing; Second Sun]; Elizabeth Gordon [A Quiet Sunday At Home]; Randy Hall [Death]; Carol Harvey [Two Photographs]; Eleanor M. Hjemmet [Homage to the Road Dancer; That Morning after Albuquerque]; Debora Jenkins [Pressure Cooker]; Brian Knave [A Stable Owner Gave Me …

Comedy: The Uncertain Terrain Of John Hawkes, Peter M. Johnson

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines the nature and function of John Hawkes' comic method. Although most critics acknowledge that Hawkes writes comedy, very few of them agree on the moral nature of this comedy. Chapter I examines these differing responses to Hawkes' work and offers an alternative way of evaluating his humor, based on his own and other critics' comments on comedy. This chapter also suggests that our responses to Hawkes' humor occur on an uncertain terrain where two or more, sometimes opposite, reactions to a text clash, forcing us into continuous moments of indecision.

Chapter II deals with Hawkes' first novel, …

An Edition, With An Introduction, Notes, And A Parallel Latin Text, Of Sir Robert Howard's Translation Of Statius's "Achilleis", Roger Wesley Hatch

Doctoral Dissertations

This edition offers a critical old-spelling text of Sir Robert Howard's translation of Statius's Achilleis (1660). Sir Robert's annotations on his translation are given in the form of photographic copies, and the Latin text which Sir Robert seems to have principally used, that of 1658, is given in the form of an unedited typed transcript, and is presented next to the text of the translation in a closely parallel manner. The first section of the introduction offers reasons why Sir Robert's Achilleis is significant and includes a brief discussion of extant Roman epics and of Renaissance and eighteenth-century translations of …

On Literature, History, And Teaching, Renda Dailey-Murphy

Whittier Scholars Program

This project focuses on the history and definition of literature as well as the emerging trends and shaping influences. These styles are determined by examination of Greek, Latin, Japanese and Chinese literature and include trends from a variety of time periods such as Realism to Naturalism. Also discussed is literary theory, the importance of literature courses and different styles of teaching. Attached is also a teacher’s plan book meant to be used as a 1 semester syllabus for a literature course in High Schools or Graded Schools.

Lights And Shadows - 1983, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine