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Character Revelation In Hawthorne: A Study Of Inappropriate Laughter And The Deceptive Quality Of Appearance And Reality, V. Garvey Helen

Master's Theses

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Figuring Hierarchy: The Dedicatory Sonnets To The Faerie Queene, David Lee Miller

Faculty Publications

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A Few Still Later Words On Translating Homer, Or C. S. Calverley And The Victorian Parodic, Patrick G. Scott

Faculty Publications

Argues (largely in the style of Matthew Arnold) that the Victorian verse parodist C.S. Calverley can best be understood through 19th century ideas of verse translation, and especially through the writing on parody of the Scottish lawyer Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, in his Essay on the Principles of Translation (1792).

The Cartwright-Lincoln Acquaintance, Robert Bray

Scholarship

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Shoppers In Sarpsborg, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Naming Of Rolla, Missouri, Gerald Leonard Cohen

Arts, Languages and Philosophy Faculty Research & Creative Works

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The Spherical Vision, Nancy Topping Bazin

English Faculty Publications

Virginia Woolf's experiences as a manic-depressive influenced her vision of reality and, in tum, her aesthetics. Manic-depression is a "cyclic" illness-cyclic in the sense that the manic-depressive moves alternately between two extreme psychological states. Hence, he experiences reality in terms of two opposite perspectives. Psychotic depression involves what Jung describes as the experience of the "shadow." That is, looking into the unconscious, the individual sees his own reflection. He takes a risk in looking, for as Jung says, "The mirror does not flatter, it faithfully shows whatever looks into it; namely, the face we never show to the world because …

Mark Twain's Roughing It: A Humorist's Darker Side, Joseph Yokelson

Bridgewater Review

Roughing It was based rather roughly on a period of Twain’s life that began in 1861, when Twain went west with his brother Orion. Orion had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada territory with the help of friend who had a friend in Lincoln’s new cabinet. Twain had just faded quietly out of the Confederate army after suffering from boils and a sprained ankle and never firing a shot. For a while out west, Twain prospected for silver around Virginia City; then for about two years he was a reporter for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. In 1864 he drifted …

To The Fierce Guard In The Assyrian Saloon, Howard W. Robertson

Ahsahta Press

The delight of this book is the constant surprise. Lee Douglas’s physical and contemplative world is where the quotidian meets the sublime and does a hula dance. Howard W. Robertson creates a persona who whispers in our ear to come along on his bumpy and glorious ride. The reader is then placed in lush rooms of wordplay and acute observation, while also being allowed a sense of intimacy. The poetry accesses Lee Douglas’s perspective with a curious and compelling simultaneity, akin to reading a journal and hearing internal monologue. This is a landscape where a sensei wears a cowboy hat …

The Last Word: The Politics Of Literature: What Makes A Masterwork?, Charles Fanning

Bridgewater Review

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Selfhood And Redemption In Blake's Songs, Harold E. Pagliaro

English Literature Faculty Works

This reading of Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience provides a more immediate sense of Blake's psychology of redemption and a more penetrating treatment of the role of death and sexuality in the Songs than is available in any other scholarly work. Pagliaro shows that the Songs not only anticipate the redemption generally associated with the later poems, but also make it available in such psychological detail as to give new meaning to Selfhood, Self-examination, and Self-annihilation, and to encourage the reader to participate in the redemptive process. This is the first book to stress the role death plays …

The Fool As A Provisional Role In Shakespeare: Three Examples, Santha Cassell

Honors Papers

In his essay "Jacobean Shakespeare," Maynard Mack explains the system of "mirroring" that produces Shakespeare's depth and unity. A "mirror" is an element that creates a dialogue with other elements, and weaves the thematic fabric of the play. This process takes place between motifs, parallel scenes, and characters who echo each other or "speak each other's minds." Very often, the mirroring character or catalyst is the licensed fool. with dramatic permission to say anything, and a reputation and tradition of madness, the fool both reveals the truth and obscures it with his inverted, debased, or metaphoric language. Just as an …

The Commercialization Of The Colloquial Voice: Raymond Carver And The Minimalist Aesthetic, Cara Diaconoff

Honors Papers

In American critical writing of the last decade, the term "minimalism", which first came into use to describe a particular aesthetic, a distinctive style of art, has begun to be used in a very different context. In literary reviews and essays it is now most frequently employed as a convenient critical label, a catchall phrase which purportedly refers to a new "reigning style" in contemporary fiction. This style in turn is generally thought to be the exclusive domain of a certain generation of writers. Roughly, the birth years of this generation could be said to span the period 1935-50; thus, …

The Function Of Forest In The Faerie Queene: Seeing The Woods For The Trees, Nicholas Randell

Honors Papers

Generally, the mention of place in regard to The Faerie Queene summons up the image of Alma's House of Temperance, the Bower of Bliss, or Isis' Temple. These settings are highly stagey: the narrative comes to a halt) and the reader is expected to interpret the composite images of the scene. The crocodile at Isis' feet enjoys the same relationship to her as justice does to equity. Equity, its allegorical representative embodied in Isis, exercises a restraining influence over the "cruel doome" of Justice, i.e., the crocodile that Isis stands on. These places smack of the unreal; they and their …

Lights And Shadows - 1987, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

The Fountain And The Black Fish, Gwenyth Hood

English Faculty Research

It was late afternoon when Oscar Verplank and his mother arrived at his Aunt Penny's apartment. The boards of the porch creaked as they crossed to the heavy oak door. "The house is more than a hundred years old,"murmured his mother as she rang the bell. A buzz sounded and Oscar quickly opened the door. "They had to update the place to make it livable, Mother," he noted. As they climbed the creaky stairs, the door to the upstairs apartment was thrown open.

"Louise! It's been too long!" cried the woman who rushed out. As the sisters embraced each other, …

Sauron And Dracula, Gwenyth Hood

English Faculty Research

Superficial similarities between the Sauron of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and the Dracula of Bram Stoker's Dracula will strike anyone who reads both works. But the relationship between the two chief antagonists goes far beyond the superficial. Sauron and Dracula are tyrant-monsters of similar motives and powers. Both are counter-creators of a mode of existence associated with the powers of darkness which is parasitical on the natural life of creation and at active war with it, called not "living" but "Un-Dead" (spelled "undead" in Tolkien, III 116) in both. Both seek to draw others into this "undeath" and …

'Uproar In The Echo': Browning's Vitalist Beginnings, Leslie T. White

English Faculty Publications

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Front Matter

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Poetry Of Displacement: Sorley Maclean And His Writing, Colin Nicholson

Studies in Scottish Literature

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On Marshak's Russian Translation Of Robert Burns, Yang De-You

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Chaucer And The Middle Scots Poets, Walter Scheps

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Barrie As Journeyman-Dramatist: A Study Of "Walker London", R.D.S. Jack

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Spontaneity And The Strategy Of Transcendence In Burns's Kilmarnock Verse-Epistles, Steven R. Mckenna

Studies in Scottish Literature

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"Let Us Burn Our Ships": Carlyle, Sarah Austin, And House-Hunting In London, Rodger L. Tarr

Studies in Scottish Literature

Provides the first full text of Carlyle's letter on 24 March 1834 from Craigenputtoch in Scotland to a friend in London who was house-hunting for him, asking questions about the "housekin" she had found for the Carlyles in Kensington, describing what he needed in a house, and expressing his forebodings about the move. They missed getting that house, but the same friend helped them find their house in Chelsea after they had moved.

Ambivalent Artifice In Dunbar's The Thrissill And The Rois, Deanna Delmar Evans

Studies in Scottish Literature

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The Growth Of A Poem: Edwin Muir's "Day And Night", Elizabeth Huberman

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Royalty And Self-Absorption In Drummond's Poetry, David Reid

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Charitable Actions Reevaluated In The Novels Of Henry Mackenzie, Elaine Ware

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Rebelling From The Right Side: Thomas Carlyle's Struggle Against The Dominant Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric, Charles A. Beirnard

Studies in Scottish Literature

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