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Dark Side Of The Dream: The Social Gothic In Vietnam Era America, Greg Smith
Dark Side Of The Dream: The Social Gothic In Vietnam Era America, Greg Smith
Dissertations
Gothic horror narratives have been a mainstay of American literature since Charles Brockden Brown's 1798 novel Wieland, and also of our cinema since the celebrated Universal films Dracula and Frankenstein in 1931. Often considered tripe by professional literary and film critics, such tales—both in written and cinematic form—began to gamer intellectual attention during the 1970s as their general popularity soared and as academic interest in American popular culture increased significantly. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Gothic genre became one of the most discussed and debated aspects of American pop culture, with numerous critics weighing in on its potential implications, …
Teisho Of A Tree In Light: A Collection Of Poems, Samuel Arizpe
Teisho Of A Tree In Light: A Collection Of Poems, Samuel Arizpe
Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
No abstract provided.
Whatever Shines: Poems, Kathleen Mcgookey
Whatever Shines: Poems, Kathleen Mcgookey
Dissertations
The poems in my manuscript can be divided into two groups: poems in verse and prose poems. The majority are prose poems. Though I did not set out to write in the prose poem form, I’ve become more and more attracted to it, eventually seeking what Baudelaire sought when he wrote the poems in Le Spleen de Paris, a poetic prose "musical without rhythm or rhyme, supple enough and shocking enough to adapt itself to lyrical movements of the soul, undulations of the reverie, sudden leaps of conscience." Charles Simic believes prose poems contain a tension between the lyric impulse …
The Gothic Wanderer: From Transgression To Redemption, Tyler R. Tichelaar
The Gothic Wanderer: From Transgression To Redemption, Tyler R. Tichelaar
Dissertations
The Gothic wanderer of British fiction originated during the French Revolution. During the nineteenth century, the figure evolved from one of transgression into a symbol of redemption. While Romantic poets created wanderer figures to celebrate rebellion, Gothic novelists utilized the wanderer figure to explore the psychology of transgression. The Gothic interpreted the French Revolution as a transgression against God and His ordained institutions. The wanderer figure expressed the anxieties of the revolutionary period and the attempt to imagine a political world not based upon monarchy. Gothic novelists also questioned what effects the French Revolution might have upon England. The overthrow …
Saint Venus (With Critical Introduction), Allegra Shevahn Blake
Saint Venus (With Critical Introduction), Allegra Shevahn Blake
Dissertations
A manuscript of poems by the author/ candidate is prefaced by a critical introduction that discusses both the positive and the difficult aspects of translating poetry from another language (in this instance, Swedish). The critical introduction explores how, in translating the work of others, a poet's own work is affected . The author/candidate then examines the transformation her own poetry has undergone, noting the differences between her "pre -translation" and "post-translation" poems.
Utah Jazz, A Novel, Dairen Defrain
Utah Jazz, A Novel, Dairen Defrain
Dissertations
This novel concerns a young Mormon who has fallen away from his religion and his family and juxtaposes his struggles with his faith, belief and heritage with those of a drifter deliberately distancing himself from a much darker past. The novel is also acutely interested in place and landscape as powerful originations of any contemporary sense of paradise and perdition we may hang onto.
The episodic setting of the novel, in conjunction with the narrator’s story, concurrently traces the National Basketball Association’s Utah Jazz’s 1996 play-off appearance. The novel uses this setting to examine the ways in which the basketball …
Cryman, Matthew Branham
Cryman, Matthew Branham
Morehead State Theses and Dissertations
A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of English by Matthew Branham on April 18, 2000.
Take A Picture. It'll Last Longer., James Gardner
Take A Picture. It'll Last Longer., James Gardner
Morehead State Theses and Dissertations
A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of English by James Gardner on April 17, 2000.
From These Pages, Tonya Gross
From These Pages, Tonya Gross
Morehead State Theses and Dissertations
A thesis presented to the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Tonya Gross on April 12, 2000.
Spoke: A Short Collection Of Poetry, Margaret A. Von Steinen
Spoke: A Short Collection Of Poetry, Margaret A. Von Steinen
Honors Theses
No abstract available.
The Creative Writer: An Examination Of Early Childhood Environment, Psychopathology, And Personality Traits, Cynthia I. Hagan
The Creative Writer: An Examination Of Early Childhood Environment, Psychopathology, And Personality Traits, Cynthia I. Hagan
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
The early childhood environment, the pathology, and the personality traits of non-eminent creative writers were compared to those of non-creative artists. The stated issues were examined using a thirty-item, forced choice questionaire. The results indicated that the non-creative writer group experienced more early childhood trauma than did the non-creative artist group. The findings are congruent with previous research and supports the position that early childhood environment plays a significant role in the development of creativity.
Wading In The Lethe, Honor J. Mccain
Wading In The Lethe, Honor J. Mccain
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
To Honor (by Wendy Jones Johnson, circa 1976)
The rosebud mouth, the round, little thighs,
Our plump, bright elf with the dark, blue eyes
Our lives before were so incomplete
Soon the flutter inside of two, tiny feet
We thought we knew freedom
The years before you came
Now we know the wonder of creating life's flame
Aflame to grow, to flicker, and at last be an ember
To enrich our lives for years to remember
How we cherish and love you, your innocent glee,
You, the miracle of warmth and sensitivity.
My mother wrote this poem when I was …
The Bone Yard, Katherine Bartolomucci
The Bone Yard, Katherine Bartolomucci
Dissertations and Theses
This novel explores the everyday lives of two blue-collar workers Levi and Cressida -over the course of one summer in a rural fruit processing plant. The main protagonists exhibit contrasting forms of faith and courage, which drives their divergent fates.
Levi is a soul-searching twenty-five-year-old high school dropout who feels extraordinary obligation to family and is engaged to his pregnant girlfriend. Although Levi's father wants him to stay home and take over the family's strawberry farm, he intends to amass the courage to return to school and get a degree in agronomy.
In contrast, Cressida is a twenty-year-old senior in …
Gary Snyder's Path, Jason Dockter
Gary Snyder's Path, Jason Dockter
Masters Theses
Early in Gary Snyder's life, he lived a rootless existence in pursuance of gaining spiritual satisfaction through a more harmonious relationship with nature. This rootlessness that dominated this period of Snyder's life originated in Snyder's European ancestors lifestyle, which valued exploiting the natural world for a profit. Through exposure to Chinese landscape paintings, Snyder found Buddhism and began to practice it as a means to reconcile his own humanity with the natural world, which his cultural heritage has alienated himself from. Through Buddhism, Snyder realizes the importance of reuniting humanity with the natural world.
Upon gaining this knowledge, Snyder assumes …
Water From The Moon, Christopher A. Duggan
Water From The Moon, Christopher A. Duggan
Theses
During the scalding, dry summer of 1988, it would appear 23-year-old Dennis Dearbome is at a crossroads. More accurately, he is not on a road of any kind. The only child of affluent parents in suburban Minneapolis, Dennis finds his carefree existence at home unceremoniously ended when, after a string of lost jobs on his part, his parents decide to evict him from their house. At the same time, his father, an influential bank president, lands him a position as an illustrator for a small greeting card company. Dennjs can handle the technical demands of the job because of a …