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The Reality That Lies Behind Appearances In Virginia Woolf's Novel The Waves, Bahira Sami

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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To Grips, Mike Shearer

English Language and Literature ETDs

To Grips, presented here in part, is a novel based somewhat on the character of Dorothy Parker but projected beyond Parker's lifespan. Josie Palmer, the central character, is turning eighty years old and is forcing herself through a transformation involved with what are the themes of the novel: aging, privacy, and individualism.

Black Folk Culture In The Fiction Of The Harlem Renaissance, Judy Schreiner

Culminating Projects in English

The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s was a period which fostered the development of a black literature that drew heavily upon the black folk culture. Novels representative of this literature are Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes, One Way to Heaven by Countee Cullen, Home to Harlem by Claude McKay, The Walls of Jericho by Rudolph Fisher, God Sends Sunday by Arna Bontemps, and Jonah’s Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston.

Various aspects of black folk music are presented in the fiction. The traditions of minstrelsy are utilized in characterizations of a city dandy and two endmen. Dance traditions are …

William Faulkner And The Meaning Of History, Allen C. Lovelace

Theses & Honors Papers

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Robert Penn Warren And The Romance, Ann C. Conner

Theses & Honors Papers

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Sing No Sad Songs For Me : A Study Of The Influence Of The Oxford Movement Upon Christina Rossetti As Evidenced In Her Poetry, Debbie J. Brown

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Christina Rossetti was largely influenced by the religious reformation known as the Oxford Movement; this study attempts to record that influence by discussing the etiology and the doctrines of the Movement in relationship to Christina's life and her poetry. A cursory review of the topics of Miss Rossetti's poetry, based on her work published in The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, is included, in addition to a more in-depth evaluation of selected poems. A partial biographical study is offered, which relies primarily upon William Rossetti's Memoir to the Poetical Works and The Family Letters of Christina Georgina Rossetti. The …

Pope's Adaptation Of Jonson's Theory Of Humors In The Rape Of The Lock, Laurence Moftah

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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A Study Of Tennyson's Use Of Light Imagery In Idylls Of The King, Colette G. Tennant

Theses & Honors Papers

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Meaning And Method : A Comparative Study Of Edmund Husserl And Ezra Pound, Jesse N. Mayo Jr

Master's Theses

In his essay entitled "Phenomenology of Heading" Georges Poulet explains how a "reading" is possible"

The universe of fiction is infinitely more elastic than the world of objective reality. It lends itself to any use; it yields with little resistance to the importunities of the mind. Moreover - and of all the benefits I find this the most appealing - this interior universe constituted by language does not seem radically opposed to the me who thinks it.... In short, since everything has become part of my mind, thanks to the intervention of language, the opposition between the subject and its …

Browning On Art And Artists, Mary Adib Yackoub

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Imagery Of Eliot's Dramatic Monologues And Its Expression Of The Process Of The Human Quest, Hoda Akkad

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Role Of Illusion In Three Of Henrik Ibsen's Later Plays In View Of Friedrich Nietzsche's Concept Of Tragedy, Samia El Neanai

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Shelley's Embodiments Of "Inconstant Wind", Mashalla Mohammad Abdul Maguid

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Symbol Of The Mirror In Le Roman De La Rose, Trijntje Zwolsman Ouwinga

Masters Theses

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Piers The Plowman And The Building Of Truth, Rose Cothren Anstine

English Language and Literature ETDs

Although some of the problems that Piers the Plowman presents for the twentieth-century reader--authorship, thought, and theology--have been elucidated, the structure of William Langland's fourteenth-century poem still puzzles modern readers and critics. The continuing concern with the structure of Piers the Plowman is evidenced by the works of T. P. Dunning, D. W. Robertson and B. F. Huppe, and Mary Carruthers which have appeared over a period of about forty years. Each of these works is concerned with structure; each uses the works of Augustine as a theoretical basis, but none of the works treats structure as separate from thought. …

Journeys And Places: A Study Of The Poetry Of Edwin Muir, J. Brooks Bouson

Master's Theses

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The Fatal Arc: The Evolution Of Tragic Image And Idea In Three Novels By William Faulkner, John L. Dodds

Dissertations

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Hawthorne's Ontological Models: Daguerreotype And Diorama, John Dolis

Dissertations

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The Short Story Collection Genre: James Joyce’S Dubliners As The Definitive Example Of The Form, Phyllis Gregoire

Honors Theses

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The Females Within The Design/Debris Motif In Three Novels By John Hawkes, Evelyn Carol Sweet

Master's Theses

John Hawkes, according to Tony Tanner, is perhaps the most "disturbing" contemporary American writer. Many people would agree with this commentary on Hawkes, a man whose work has moved from the surreal in The Cannibal (1949) toward the more realistic, a movement predicted by Albert Guerard in his introduction to The Cannibal. As this movement away from the surreal has occurred, then why does Tanner find Hawkes' "disturbing" in a review of his most recent novel, Travesty? Perhaps because this movement was not from the surreal to the realistic as we generally use the term, but rather a movement from …

Benjamin Compson : Consciousness, Rhetoric, And The 'Fictive Art', Ann Brooke Lewis

Master's Theses

A study of consciousness in the first section of The Sound and the Fury clarifies both the novel's technique and its rendering of human truth. My reading of this monologue is based on the premise that the way Benjamin Compson views the world and the way in which his mind arranges those views enhances our understanding of the novel's other brother-narrators, Quentin and Jason. As limited and distorted as Benjy's perceptions may be, they provide a model by which the perceptions of Quentin and Jason gain clarity and meaning. Benjy's monologue begins the novel and provides the reader's entrance into …

The Chameleon Poet's Delight: Keats' Treatment Of The Serpent Tradition In "Lamia", Terrie Diane Dopp

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Composing And Using Poetry As An Esl Teaching Tool, Roland Caissie

MA TESOL Collection

It is the purpose of this paper to demonstrate how poetry can be a valuable tool in the ESL classroom, the problems connected with relying on extant verse for work with ESL students, and the consequential preferability of producing one's own poetry. In addition, guidelines and suggestions are offered for creating original and goal-specific works, together with ways in which those works, once made, may be used most effectively in the ESL classroom. Also, sample works, by the author and others, as well as various exercises and a brief bibliography, are provided in an appendix, giving the reader a source …

The Capacity To Wonder: An Approach To C S Lewis' "Chronicles Of Narnia", Deborah Cynthia Taylor

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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A Consideration Of Idealism In Joseph Conrad's "Heart Of Darkness" And "Lord Jim", Wilbur Lee Thompson

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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A Survey Of Mormon Literary Criticism, Colin B. Douglas

Theses and Dissertations

Three general questions concerning literature have been addressed by the writers considered in this thesis: What constitutes a work of literary art? What ought to be valued by Latter-day Saints in a literary work? How should criticism be conducted by Latter-day Saints? To the first question, five basic answers have been proposed: significant form, uplifting thought content clothed in decorative form, typological symbol, ikon (as the word is used by C S lewis in An Experiment in Criticism), and capacity for helping the reader achieve a kind of "negative capability." These definitions also tend to be statements of value, …

Fantasy: The Evolution Of A Modern Literary Mode, Byron Breedlove

Legacy ETDs

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George Meredith's Modern Myth Of Love, Mark David Rosenthal

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

While George Meredith's sixteen-line sonnet sequence Modern Love fits neatly into his philosophical, triadic system of Blood, Brain, and Spirit,¹ the neatness of this correspondence should not cause us to ignore other complementary systems that inform and expand the poem. A careful reading of Modern: Love will expose a consistent allusion to the biblical myth of Adam and Eve, an allusion which adds a grand, universalized dimension to the poem's focused drama. Meredith has re-interpreted the myth to fit his own evaluation of love; moreover, the imagery of Modern Love, as it transforms the original myth, allows us to …

Wilkie Collins And His Victorian Readers: A Study In The Rhetoric Of Authorship, Sue Lonoff

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

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A Jungian Interpretation Of The Tempest, Tana Smith

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The following psychological interpretation of Shakespeare's The Tempest is unique to articles on the same subject which have appeared in literary journals because it applies a purely Jungian reading to the characters in the play. Here each character is shown to represent one of the archetypes which Jung described in his book Archetypes ~ the Collective Unconscious. In giving the play a psychological interpretation, the action must be seen to occur inside Prospera's own unconscious mind. He is experiencing a psychic transformation or what Jung called the individuation process, where a person becomes "a separate, indivisible unity or whole" and …