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Recapitulation And Alteration In Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy, Elizabeth Anne Shapland Jan 1975

Recapitulation And Alteration In Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy, Elizabeth Anne Shapland

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


George Willard's Progress Toward Maturity In Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Patrice Grassinger Spencer Jan 1975

George Willard's Progress Toward Maturity In Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Patrice Grassinger Spencer

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Wide World Of Jack London, Howard Lawrence Lachtman Jan 1974

The Wide World Of Jack London, Howard Lawrence Lachtman

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The high apostle of the adventure tale in the Strenuous Age, Jack London has never really relinquished the popularity which made him before his death one of the best known and, most widely read writers in the world. It is true that more than one pontiff of literary taste has consigned him to the same, "obsolete" file that contains the remains of Richard Harding Davis, David Graham Phillips, William Sidney Porter, but such reports of London's demise have undoubtedly been premature. Indeed, the contemporary momentum of Jack London studies affords excellent evidence of the critical rediscovery of an American legend. …


Whitman's And Melville's Civil War: A Comparison Of Drum-Taps And Battle-Pieces, Martha M. Gower Jan 1974

Whitman's And Melville's Civil War: A Comparison Of Drum-Taps And Battle-Pieces, Martha M. Gower

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Innocent Character In Twain's Public Scenes, Connie J. Link Jan 1974

The Innocent Character In Twain's Public Scenes, Connie J. Link

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Anti-Calvinism In Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie And An American Tragedy, Sandra Compton Thornburry Aug 1973

Anti-Calvinism In Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie And An American Tragedy, Sandra Compton Thornburry

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A monograph presented to the faculty of the Graduate School at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Sandra Compton Thornbury in August of 1973.


The Relative Striking Power, Duration, And Intensity Between The Metaphor In Hawthorne And The Flat Imagery In Hemingway, Shirley Ruth Sigley Jun 1973

The Relative Striking Power, Duration, And Intensity Between The Metaphor In Hawthorne And The Flat Imagery In Hemingway, Shirley Ruth Sigley

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A monograph presented to the faculty of the Department of English at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Shirley Ruth Sigley in June of 1973.


Metaphorical Metaphysics: The Doctrine Of Reincarnation In The Works Of Herman Melville, Ruth A. Riegel Jan 1973

Metaphorical Metaphysics: The Doctrine Of Reincarnation In The Works Of Herman Melville, Ruth A. Riegel

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Donald Barthelme: A Twentieth-Century Fabulator, Karen A. Tolin May 1972

Donald Barthelme: A Twentieth-Century Fabulator, Karen A. Tolin

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Donald Ba.rthelme (1933- ) has been writing significant, experimental fiction for over a decade now. Other than numerous magazine publications, he has four longer published works, ~ Ba.ck, Dr. Caligari (1964)1 ~ White (1967), Unspeakable Practices, Unna. tural ~ ( 1968) J am City Life ( 1970) J and a children's book, The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine .2£ the Hithering Thithering Djinn (1971). City Life was selected by The New York Times as one of the twelve outstaming books of 1970, am The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine was the 1971 National Book Awards winner for the children's book prize. Yet, …


The Role Of Love In The Fiction Of James Baldwin, Douglas Wayne Wright Apr 1972

The Role Of Love In The Fiction Of James Baldwin, Douglas Wayne Wright

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of English at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Douglas Wayne Wright in April of 1972.


Richard Brautigan: Youth Fishing In America, Cheryl Walker Jan 1972

Richard Brautigan: Youth Fishing In America, Cheryl Walker

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

Richard Brautigan is an epiphenomenon in American literature. He seems to represent some sort of insubstantial alternative. While the academy of letters reads Beckett, Borges, and Nabokov, the kids read Brautigan...His appeal consists primarily in an irrepressible optimism (probably the brand of a woodsy Pacific Northwest background), a style flashing with artifice, and a total disregard for effete university culture. Mr. Brautigan is not himself the product of American higher education or of much formal training of any kind. Furthermore, his fund of simplicity and optimism is a relief for some from the profound despair of writers like Beckett. To …


The Whole Of Harmonium Music In Relation To The Poetry Of Wallace Stevens, Mary Alice Hollowell Jan 1972

The Whole Of Harmonium Music In Relation To The Poetry Of Wallace Stevens, Mary Alice Hollowell

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Hemingway's Key West Women: A Study Of The Female Characterizations Of To Have And Have Not, Nancy Glover Lobaugh Jul 1971

Hemingway's Key West Women: A Study Of The Female Characterizations Of To Have And Have Not, Nancy Glover Lobaugh

English Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.


Mark Twain's Study Of The Effects Of Slavery And Its Relationship To Training, Sharon Faye Nielson Jan 1971

Mark Twain's Study Of The Effects Of Slavery And Its Relationship To Training, Sharon Faye Nielson

All Master's Theses

This paper presents a study of Mark Twain's treatment of slavery, especially in relation to his theory of training. In his novels Huckleberry Finn, Puddn'head Wilson, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Twain portrays the effects of slavery and training on the personality of the slave and the slaveholder. Twain deals largely with the psychological effects of slavery, which tend to dehumanize both slave and slaveholder, deeply and permanently marking their personalities.


Jean Toomer's Cane: The Death Of An Era, Christine Ann Lamberti Jan 1971

Jean Toomer's Cane: The Death Of An Era, Christine Ann Lamberti

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Thornton Wilder's Recurring Theme Of Love, Bette L. Bails Johnson Jan 1971

Thornton Wilder's Recurring Theme Of Love, Bette L. Bails Johnson

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Two Who Laugh New Englandly: A Study Of The Yankee Wit Of Dickinson And Frost, Mary K. Coleman Jan 1971

Two Who Laugh New Englandly: A Study Of The Yankee Wit Of Dickinson And Frost, Mary K. Coleman

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Sentimentalism In Dreiser's Heroines, Carrie And Jennie, Daryl Cumber Dance Dec 1970

Sentimentalism In Dreiser's Heroines, Carrie And Jennie, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

Theodore Dreiser is usually hailed as a pioneer of American realism who freed American literature from Victorian restraints, from nineteenth century idealism and optimism, and from the ever-present moralizing of domestic sentimentalism. It is interesting to note, however, that this shockingly modern trailblazer not only stands at the dawn of a new era in literature, but also at the twilight of the old, for in Dreiser is a mixture of both the new realism and naturalism and the old sentimentalism that had dominated American literature from its inception.


The Archetypal Significance Of Tamar Caulwell In Robinson Jeffers' "Tamar", June Wilson May 1970

The Archetypal Significance Of Tamar Caulwell In Robinson Jeffers' "Tamar", June Wilson

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Division of Languages and Literature at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by June Wilson in May of 1970.


The Heaven Below The Heaven Above, Ellen Childs Kylander Jan 1970

The Heaven Below The Heaven Above, Ellen Childs Kylander

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Displacement Of The Child-Figure In American Fiction, 1850-1910, Karen Hahn Jan 1970

The Displacement Of The Child-Figure In American Fiction, 1850-1910, Karen Hahn

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


"The Grave And I ... Our Only Lullaby": An Interpretation Of Death As A Metaphor For Isolation In The Poetry Of Emily Dickinson, Thomas W. Rea Jan 1970

"The Grave And I ... Our Only Lullaby": An Interpretation Of Death As A Metaphor For Isolation In The Poetry Of Emily Dickinson, Thomas W. Rea

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Search For Self-Identity In William Faulkner's Light In August, Joyce Lock Jan 1970

The Search For Self-Identity In William Faulkner's Light In August, Joyce Lock

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


A Study Of Representative Critical Evaluations Of John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath (1939-1949), Lyle C. Jensen Jan 1970

A Study Of Representative Critical Evaluations Of John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath (1939-1949), Lyle C. Jensen

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Church In The Dramas Of T. S. Eliot, Rebecca Ellen Dunn Jan 1970

The Church In The Dramas Of T. S. Eliot, Rebecca Ellen Dunn

All Master's Theses

From the desolation of a sterile Waste Land populated by straw men, Eliot's dramas increasingly portray a world of great meaning and hope. His early dramas portray a hostile and insensible world which must be fought and completely rejected by religious persons who are called to martyrdom and sainthood. Eliot's acceptance of the material world and comfort with its society brings a steady transformation of his spiritual vision when at the end of his dramas the world is one of common people who strive to find meaning and "make the best of a bad job," illumined by a vision of …


The Applied Axioms Of Social Psychology As Carried By The Language Of Alfred Eaton's Attitudes In John O'Hara's "From The Terrace", Henry P. Rogers Jan 1969

The Applied Axioms Of Social Psychology As Carried By The Language Of Alfred Eaton's Attitudes In John O'Hara's "From The Terrace", Henry P. Rogers

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A monograph presented to the faculty of the Department of English at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Henry P. Rogers in January of 1969.


John Steinbeck's Method Of Characterization, Claudette Oliver Jan 1969

John Steinbeck's Method Of Characterization, Claudette Oliver

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Faulkner's View Of The Moral And Social Dissolution Of The South, Patricia Lindsay Kerr Jan 1969

Faulkner's View Of The Moral And Social Dissolution Of The South, Patricia Lindsay Kerr

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


The Technique Of The Grotesque In The Writings Of Flannery O'Connor, Carol Stumbo Aug 1968

The Technique Of The Grotesque In The Writings Of Flannery O'Connor, Carol Stumbo

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A monograph presented to the faculty of the Department of English at Morehead state University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Carol Stumbo August of 1968.


The Abandoned Woman In The Dramas Of Tennessee Williams, Judy H. Stewart Jul 1968

The Abandoned Woman In The Dramas Of Tennessee Williams, Judy H. Stewart

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A monograph presented to the faculty of the Department of English at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, English by Judy H. Stewart in July of 1968.