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Male Maturation In Selected Fiction Of Dylan Thomas, Gretchen Jacobson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Dylan Thomas wrote numerous short stories which reveal a completely different aspect of his writing and thinking from that of the highly symbolic, often existential nature of his poetry. He was able, in his short stories, to recall and tell the many-faceted feelings of a boy as he grows from early childhood into young adulthood. Along with the pleasures and hurts experienced, the mischief involved in, and the mistakes made in the process of maturing, Dylan Thomas reveals an underlying humorous, irreverent quality and attitude which seems to imply that the one who does not take himself too seriously can …

Nature As A Reintegrating Force In Shakespeare's Cymbeline, Sydney M. Harrison

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Shakespeare's Cymbeline reveals throughout, in its characters, plot and imagery, the reintegrating and regenerating influences of Nature. The entire play is dominated by Nature--birds, trees, flowers, mountains, streams and other natural elements. The characters are either naturally good or naturally bad; and while the good characters survive and repent of their erring, the bad characters die, as a result of their own evil, absolutely unregenerate. Nature in the play is thus seen as an active force which works both on and through the characters, who at times seem quite passive. In order to illustrate the manifestations of Nature, the poet …

3. The Great Taos Bank Robbery, Manuscript With Publisher's Edits., Tony Hillerman

The Great Taos Bank Robbery Manuscripts

This appears to be a copy of the manuscript draft of The Great Taos Bank Robbery with publisher's edits.

The Life And Works Of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Catherine Ilene Hunter

Graduate Research Papers

A brief biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Thomas Hardy : A Study; Suffering, Human Will, And Grace In The Major Novels, Russell E. Borland

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis concentrates on human relations and the potential for man’s beatitude in Hardy’s major novels through an exploration of suffering, human will, evolutionary meliorism, and Grace, discussed in separate chapters. Chapter I is devoted to an introduction of the major elements of what is here called Hardy’s vision. Relying largely on Florence Emily Hardy’s The Life of Thomas Hardy and on references to some of the novels, a compilation of impressions is arranged into what seems to represent accurately the basic nature of the world and human relations in Hardy’s novels. The emphasis and the thrust of the vision …

1. The Great Taos Bank Robbery, Manuscript Drafts., Tony Hillerman

The Great Taos Bank Robbery Manuscripts

This is a set of raw drafts of some chapters with author's edits.

2. The Great Taos Bank Robbery, Edited Manuscript., Tony Hillerman

The Great Taos Bank Robbery Manuscripts

Manuscript draft of The Great Taos Bank Robbery with author's edits.

Nature, Reason, And Eternity: Images Of The Divine Vision In The Four Zoas, Cathy Shaw

Honors Papers

In The Four Zoas, Blake wages mental war against nature and mystery, reason and tyranny. As a dream in nine nights, the world of The Four Zoas illustrates an unreal world which nevertheless represents the real world to Albion, the dreamer. The dreamer is Blake's archetypal and eternal man; he has fallen asleep among the flowers of Beulah. The world he dreams of is a product of his own physical laziness and mental lassitude. In this world, his faculties vie with each other for power until the ascendance of Los, the imaginative shaper. Los heralds the apocalypse, Albion reawakes, and …

Mailer's American Dream, Charles D. Ettelson

Honors Papers

The American dream has been in existence almost as long as America (as a political entity) has. From the Puritan's desire for the "City on the Hill" to Hunter S. Thompson's recent book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, Americans have been convinced that the individual can transcend earthly evil and decadence, and attain a state of perfection. The American dream is the visionary ideal that is represented in social form by utopian thinking. A personalized ideal would appear easier to attain than a social one because of its apparent …

Daniel Deronda: A Consideration Of George Eliot's Concept Of Culture, Candyce Golis

Honors Papers

Daniel Deronda (published 1876) is George Eliot's last and in many ways most controversial novel. Contemporary readers resent her writing anything which would compete with Middlemarch, an immensely popular novel and Deronda's immediate predecessor. Even today Deronda suffers due to its location in the George Eliot canon. Whereas Middlemarch is universally acclaimed, Daniel Deronda is often dismissed as a failure (limited or otherwise) when it is compared with the book Virginia Woolf calls "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people."

A Close Reading Of Tennyson's Maud, Lucy Marks

Honors Papers

"We now turn with diminished pleasure from In Memoriam to Mr. Tennyson's recently published volume of Maud and Other Poems: for the qualities we appreciate most highly in the former are precisely those which are most wanting in the latter." Thus the writer for the Edinburgh Review summed up the reaction of dismay and distaste reflected in the many notoriously adverse reviews that Maud received when it was published in the fall of 1855. Following five years after the almost universally-praised elegy for Arthur Henry Hallam, it put forth as protagonist a madman positing unacceptable solutions to social evils, and …

1. Dance Hall Of The Dead, Screenplay (Undated)., Tony Hillerman

Dance Hall Of The Dead Screenplays

This document is the first draft of a motion picture screenplay based on Dance Hall of the Dead, written by Tony Hillerman.

3. Dance Hall Of The Dead, Assorted Draft Pages (Undated)., Tony Hillerman

Dance Hall Of The Dead Manuscripts

This is a file of assorted notes and partial drafts for Dance Hall of the Dead. It does not comprise a complete manuscript.

1. Dance Hall Of The Dead, Notebook And Chapter List (Undated)., Tony Hillerman

Dance Hall Of The Dead Manuscripts

This is one of Hillerman's "idea notebooks" which contains story outline notes and character sketches. The notebook is handwritten, so full text searching is not available.

Annotated Bibliography On Research In Written Composition Since 1963 Limited To Grades 7-12 And The First Two Years Of College, Avis Ann Ross

All Master's Theses

This paper presents an annotated bibliography on research in written composition since 1963. The sections are divided into research related to objective tools to describe students' writing, such as the T-unit developed by Kellogg Hunt; specific writing problems, such as dialect interference and hearing disorders; methods based on grammatical analysis to improve writing; and other methods to improve writing. Three areas recommended for further research are work with low ability level students, rhetoric, and spelling.

The Box Image In Edward Taylor's "Preparatory Meditations", Curtis Colburn Torp

All Master's Theses

From 1682 to 1725, Edward Taylor, the parson of the frontier community of Westfield, Massachusetts, wrote some 217 poems which he entitled: "Preparatory Meditations before my Approach to the Lords Supper. Chiefly upon the Doctrin [sic] preached upon the day of Administration." Twenty six of these "Meditations" contain a "Box" image.

It is the purpose of this thesis to show how and why Taylor used this seemingly unpoetic metaphor to focus his thoughts on the subject of his meditations -- Christ's Incarnation.

Lights And Shadows - 1973, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

4. Dance Hall Of The Dead, Manuscript, P.1-117 (Undated)., Tony Hillerman

Dance Hall Of The Dead Manuscripts

This draft was typed on 3-ring binder paper. The copy appears to be a later draft and does not bear any editing marks.

Front Matter

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Neoclassical Maccaig, Mary Jane W. Scott

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Operatic Versions Of The Bride Of Lammermoor, Jerome Mitchell

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Theme And Structure In Henryson's "The Annunciation", Charles A. Hallett

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Jeffrey's Keats Criticism, John H. Peters

Studies in Scottish Literature

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R.D.S. Jack. The Italian Influence On Scottish Literature. Edinburgh University Press. Aldine-Atherton Inc., Chicago. ₤3.50., Islay M. Donaldson

Studies in Scottish Literature

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Contributors To This Issue

Studies in Scottish Literature

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2. Dance Hall Of The Dead, Draft, P.1-214 (Undated)., Tony Hillerman

Dance Hall Of The Dead Manuscripts

This is an early draft of Dance Hall of the Dead, with numerous handwritten edits.

Awareness: The Threat To Naturalism In Stephen Crane's Fiction, Sana Said El Ezaby

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The French Influence On Eighteenth - Century English Literature, Linda Jane Grow

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

The development of English literature in the eighteenth century was strongly influenced by France and French writers. Lately there has been an attempt to belittle the French influences. It is true that in the past the Gallic influence has been exaggerated, but it really cannot be overlooked.

Historically it is true to treat England and France as one country in respect to their literary activity between the middle of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Roughly, there were about 100 years, between the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the execution of Louis XIV in 1793, during which there was …

A Morphological-Poetic Approach To Hemingway's "Up In Michigan", George Robert Cripe

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Hemingway’s first short story, “Up in Michigan,” portrays the growth and destruction of a young girls’ romantic illusions about love through her infatuation with and seduction by an apparently gentleman who is really an insensitive brute. Hemingway explores this typically anti-romantic theme in what appears at first glance to be straightforward journalistic style. But the prose, like almost everything else in this story, is deceptive, for lurking beneath the flat surface of its denotative diction and simple syntax lie linguistics strategies and dynamically charged meanings through whose interplay the real disillusioning world of the story emerges. In thus concealing the …

The Indian Captivity Narrative: An American Genre, Richard Van Der Beets

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The vast body of Indian captivity narratives is known mostly to historians, anthropologists, and collectors of Americana. In the rare instances where informed scholarship has turned its attention to the narratives, emphasis has been upon the historical and cultural rather than the literary value of the tales. The Indian captivity narrative has been most commonly viewed as but a thread in the loose fabric of American cultural history, consisting of several "popular," sub-literary genres shaped and differentiated largely by the society for which the narratives were intended. The intention in this study is not so much to overturn that view …