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English Didactic Verse Of The Eighteenth Century, Mary Bernard Byrnes

Bachelors’ Theses

Didactic poetry is defined by Edmund Gosse as "that form of verse the aim of which is less to excite the hearer by passion or move him by pathos than to instruct the mind and improve his morals."

William Dean Howells, His Realism And Relation To Our Contemporaries, Joseph Dzwinel

Bachelors’ Theses

In Howells novels v,e find liberalism, a deep sympathy with the "little man", hatred of plutocracy, and abundance of esthetic virtue, and a critique of industrial capitalism by which we are coming to test Howells mental calibre. The novels with all their virtues, ease of style, urbanity, irony, humanity, sharp dissent from the ideas and practices of our commercial world, lend themselves very gracefully to study of their influence on contemporary literature and contemporary reading tastes. The purpose of this study is to show these influences.

Typical Women Characters In Three Of Gerhart Hauptmann's Naturalistic Dramas, Florence Cohen

Bachelors’ Theses

Innumerable papers dealing with various phases of Hauptmann's works have been written. Many, if not, all of them emphasize the story of his Dramas, the construction from the standpoint of naturalism, etc. Few, if any, however, have stressed Hauptmann as a character delineator, nor have they emphasized his treatment of the women. It is for this reason that the writer wishes to discuss three of Hauptmann 's Naturalistic Social Dramas emphasizing the treatment of the women with special regard to heredity and environment.

Humanitarianism And Social Reform In The Novels Of George Gissing, Jeanne Antoine

Bachelors’ Theses

Today when the improvement of slum districts is a government aim both in Europe and America the study of the slums of London in the late nineteenth century through the eyes of George Giesing is most apt.

Points Of Technique In Shakespearian Plays And Their Relation To The Elizabethan Theatres, Marguerite Anne Butler

Bachelors’ Theses

We shall not be able to understand Shakespeare if we try to judge him by modern standards. His technique is closely bound up with the Renaissance society for which he wrote. In my treatise, I have endeavored to interpret the relation between Shakespeare and the-Elizabethan theatre, and to show the influence of the audience, the actors, and the stage upon his technique.

The American Short Story From 1865 To 1900, Wendel W. Crosby

Bachelors’ Theses

Toe purpose of this thesis is to trace the development of the .American short story from about 1865 to about 1900. I propose to do this by dividing the material studied into four periods and then to weigh, examine, and compare the chief exponents of the American short story during each period. The divisions are: The Period Following the Civil War, of which I shall consider the stories of Bret Hart, Aldrich, Twain and James; The Era of Localized Romance, of which the stories of Cable and Jewett will be considered; The Reign of Dialect, dominated by Murfree. Harris and …

A Comparison Of The Dramatic Technique Of "Antony And Cleopatra" With That Of "Macbeth," "Hamlet," And "King Lear.", Catherine Cunningham

Bachelors’ Theses

It is the purpose of this paper to discover the formula for a typical Shakespearean tragedy by an analysis of four of the later tragedies, "Hamlet," "Macbeth," "King Lear," and "Antony and Cleopatra." Knowing that Shakespeare employed various dramatic devices to secure his effects, I propose to find out in what way his dramatic technique in the play "Antony and Cleopatra" differs from that of the three preceding plays.

By examining the technical divisions of each Shakespearean tragedy and the use of the various dramatic elements which Shakespeare employed, I believe the outstanding differences in the dramatic technique will be …

Comparison Between Shakespeare's Richard Iii And The Historical Richard Iii, M. Annella

Bachelors’ Theses

The aim of the writer in working out this thesis is to discover in what respects Shakespeare has been untrue to historical facts and characters. In a work of this kind, it will be possible to point out only the chief discrepancies on the part of the dramatist, by a specific comparison of the play and its characters with the period of history with which the play deals and the life of the main characters concerned. A great portion of the work will be devoted to the careful analysis of the character of Richard III, the vortex about which the …

A Comparison Of The Fables Of La Fontaine With The Fables Of Aesop, Mary Louise Dougherty

Bachelors’ Theses

In this Thesis, La Fontaine and Aesop will be studied and compared by means of those works of theirs which are, perhaps, the best remembered: The Fables.

La Fontaine's and Aesop's Fables are well known for the moral inculcated in each. They have always in mind one purpose ... to teach the reader. La Fontaine used many of the Fables of Aesop as a background for his own Fables. Those of Aesop possessed no graces of style, and so La Fontaine added graces of style to those he wrote.

A Study Of "Konigliche Hoheit" -- Thomas Mann, Anne Marie Druml

Bachelors’ Theses

The object of my thesis is to study Konig­liche Hoheit and through it come to a knowledge of the personality and character of the writer. In the first chapter I have discussed his life and his works and the second, third and fourth chapters are devoted to a study of the "Konig­liche Hoheit". My intention is first to give the content of the novel and then follow it up by a criticism of character - and in this the reader can obtain a clear notion of the attri­butes of Mann's writings as well as his understanding of human emotions. The …

War And The Drama, Harriet Lydia Arnold

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this Thesis is to show the effect of the false and true light on War in Europe and America from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries through the medium of the Drama.

The Backward Gazing Mediaevalism Of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Mary Eustella Bush

Bachelors’ Theses

The theme of this thesis is to present an analysis of some of Rossetti's poems, ballads, and translations in the light of the mediaevalism and mysticism as portrayed in them. The material is an outgrowth of a comparative study of these works and the sources whence he obtained his inspirations, - namely, the Early Italian Poets and Dante.

The Struggling Playwright And Our Dramatic Literature, Helen L. Carroll

Bachelors’ Theses

At the heart of the theatre is the play and the playwright. Everything else in connection with the theatre passes from existence in the course of time. The producers, the designers, and the actors pass but the play lives on forever.

Henry Medwall And John Heywood And Their Contributions To Secular Drama, Mary Margaret Collins

Bachelors’ Theses

It is the purpose of this thesis to find out what part Heywood and Medwall played in secularising the early English drama. Through a study of their works and a comparison with the works of other dramatists before and after I have endeavered to discover the say in which they influenced the story of English drama and how far-reaching their influence was.

Romantic Currents In Eighteenth Century Poetry, Ellen Margaret Crockett

Bachelors’ Theses

This paper aims to make a brief survey of Romantic currents in Eighteenth Century English poetry. The writer has confined her study to the minor poets of the age, whose works are so frequently neglected by the student of literature. This fact accounts for the omission of any reference to the poems of Robert Burns, which properly constitute a group for separate study. The plan of the work is to show how the Romantic movement received its earliest impulses in the century which preceded the so-called "Romantic Age," a century dominated by the spirit of reason and common sense, an …

The Technique Of The Humor: Production In The Plays Of Plautus, Jerome W. Archer

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is an exposition of the methods used in the production of humor in the plays of that great Roman comic-dramatist, Titus Maccius Plautus. Humor is here understood to be that quality of the writer's imagination which tends to excite mirth. We intend to indicate just what constitutes the technique of Plautus' humor-production.

The Plays Of John Masefield, Catharine Genevieve Coffey

Bachelors’ Theses

In this thesis I propose by a study of the plays of John Masefield to discover his dramatic technique and his claim to fame and regard in the capacity of a playwright. The method that I used was to examine the plays of John Masefield, to read his theory of tragedy and to apply it particularly to "The Tragedy of Nan".

In preparation for the compiling of this thesis I read a collection of the pre-war plays of John Masefield and was chiefly indebted. to "John Masefield, "A Study" by Cicil Biggane and "John Masefield, A Critical Study" by W.H. …

Ibsen's Influence On British Dramatists, Elva Acklam

Bachelors’ Theses

In preparing this thesis I found that one must have an understanding of philosophy, sociology, biology and economics to appreciate the modern drama, and in the reading of the plays I found my knowledge in these subjects broadened. The dramatists and their characters' views on these branches of learning are most interesting, especially those in Bernard Shaw's prefaces.

The labor of the essay was simplified when I found that the reading of a play of Ibsen's or the others gave almost as much pleasure as witnessing it on the stage. Copious stage directions giving character analysis, situations, and literary descriptions …

Silent Reading, Daniel W. Corcoran

Bachelors’ Theses

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Dramatic Criticism: Its Place In The American Theater And A Discussion Of Its Exponents, Rowena M. Devine

Bachelors’ Theses

Criticism is as essential to the theater as it is to literature, art or music. It is a connecting link between the theater and the theater-goer. Most authorities today concede that without criticism the theater would wane in popularity.

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 …

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.

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 …

A History And Study Of The Critical Essay, Matthew Coogan

Bachelors’ Theses

The Essay as a form in literary practice found its origin in the sixteenth century in the writings of Michel Montaigne. As Montaigne used it, the essay was a personal, chatty, intimate discourse between the author and the reader. John Richard Green described it very nicely when he wrote that "the essayist (Montaigne) is a gentleman who chats to a world of gentle men and whose chat is shaped and coloured by a sense of what he owes to his company and what he owes to his subject." This while it characterizes the essay of Montaigne, hardly covers the scope …

The Classicism Of John Milton, Louise Catherine Dederich

Bachelors’ Theses

Every writer, whether immortal or unknown, whether philosopher or humorist, ones his style or at least its foundation to some earlier writer. Though conscious or unconscious, there is always a trace of another's influence. In the works of some writers we behold a conscious modeling. They have studied sane chosen paragon- analyzed him and made him a part of themselves. They imitate and try to perfect him. They copy and improve upon his genius. In others we find an influence which may have been wholly indeliberate. Satis­faction and keen appreciation have led the author to bestow his attention upon some …

Literary Origins Of John Henry Cardinal Newman, Anne M. De Laney

Bachelors’ Theses

A man's name is inscribed in a Biographical Dictionary by the date of his birth; but in reality it is his death that ranges him in the heart and mind of humanity.

Contributary factors to his imminent greatness are often minimized in importance; and yet those factors are essentially so many milestones in the way of his achievements.

Even so it is with Newman. Biographers have given us certain facts concerning his life; critics have told us the relative value of his. writings; while time has told us of his unique greatness. It is admittedly difficult in a biographical sketch. …

The Picaresque Novel Of Spain, Marjorie T. Dorn

Bachelors’ Theses

Review of books on the picaresque novel, and their treatment of the subject. The importance of this field of literature. The picaresque type as mainly and typically Spanish.

Fantasy In Shakespeare, Barrie And Yeats, Dorothy Anne Dawe

Bachelors’ Theses

Shakespeare, Barrie and Yeats. What a diversity of thoughts and ideas their manes present. Each ts a genius, and each is different from the other, for geniuses are never like any other people. Each has become a literary success through a different media. And yet they are alike in one respect. They all possess that quality of "Fantasy". They have each inculcated that spirit into their works, and hence are kindred in one respect at least.

Contemporary American Drama: William Vaughn Moody And Eugene O'Neil, Helen F. Corrigan

Bachelors’ Theses

In any study of contemporary American drama, two names inevitably stand out from among the myriads of native playwrights - those names - William Vaughn Moody and Eugene O'Neil. Yet neither of these can be literary pigeon-holed. Moody's death prevented him reaching his full development. Consequently his work is mostly indicative - indicative of what it might have been had he lived.

Investigations Of English Euphuism, James Richard Barnett

Bachelors’ Theses

The Revival of Learning during the century between 1450 and 1550 as a reopening of the ancient masterpieces of poetical, dramatic and philosophical literature. Men suddenly came into a vast, unprecedented fortune, and for a long while did not know how to use it. Realization of the pricelessness of their new possession seemed to demand that their very lan­guage should be in a concatenation accordingly. As a result of this ambition, certain affectations of style in both writing and speech sprang up in cultured circles throuhout the whole of Europe. These affectations spread like an epidemic. One form arose in …