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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight : Entertainment--The Author's Intention, Gregory Kabanuk
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight : Entertainment--The Author's Intention, Gregory Kabanuk
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
The subject of this paper is the Gawain poet and his monumental poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The concern will not be with the poet's identity or social rank, but will instead be with his motives. In some places this paper will appear to work backwards, assuming that since a certain effect was achieved, it must have been intended, but that is not an uncommon assumption in literary criticism.
Entertainment value will be stressed not because Sir Gawain is exclusively entertainment, but because the primary purpose of the author was to entertain, as a sermon may be …
A Momentary Stay Against Confusion : Robert Frost's Use Of The Creative Process, Carole Rick
A Momentary Stay Against Confusion : Robert Frost's Use Of The Creative Process, Carole Rick
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
Robert Frost's fight against depression and insanity has not been widely known or understood. None of the many accounts of Frost's life written before 1966 accurately portray the poet as the complex man he really was. Lawrence Thompson's three-volume biography, however, revealed Frost's life-long struggle against mental imbalance and made this study possible. Thompson's biography was used to develop Frost's psycho-biography, verify his precarious mental balance and establish a history of insanity in his family.
Scholars disagree about the relationship between art and neurosis, but there is adequate evidence to indicate that the exercise of creativity has a therapeutic effect …