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Chekhov, Work, Idleness, And The New Life, Mahmoud El Lozy

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The Book Of The Pawnee: Pawnee Stories For Study And Enjoyment, Marge Critcher, Carolyn Boyum, Patti Huff, Paul A. Olson, Rosemary Bergstrom

Department of English: Faculty Publications

I. Meeting the Pawnee ............................... 1

II. Pawnee Beliefs .................................. . 3

The Pawnee Creation Story ...................... 3

The Boy Who Was Sacrificed ..................... 8

III. Pawnee Hero Stories ............................. 14

Lone Chief ................................. 14

Little Warrior's Counsel. ................ . . . .... 27

IV. Pawnee Folk Tales ............................... 30

The Snake Brother ........................... 30

Mosquitoes ................................. 37

V. Boy Stories .................................... 39

The Boy Who Talked with Lightning .............. 39

The Boy and the Wonderful Robe ............... .42

The Boys, the Thunderbird, and the Water Monster .. 50

VI. Coyote Stories .................................. 54

Coyote and the Blind Buffalo ................... …

A Few Great Stories Of The Santee People, Edna Peniska, Paul Robertson, Robert Frerichs, Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Told by Many Nineteenth Century Santee and by Edna Peniska and Paul Robertson of the Modern Santee.

Gathered and Edited by Robert Frerichs and Paul A. Olson.

The fact that every known culture and civilization has acquired some sort of set of sacred stories is important. The eleven sacred stories in this work have multiple purposes. They possess a value as sheer entertainment; they also tell truths and lessons which explain the meaning of existence. Thus the Santee listener could fmd his place in the world and achieve an inner harmony through hearing stories. The characters in these stories are …

The Book Of The Omaha: Literature Of The Omaha People, Paul A. Olson, Wallace Wade Miller (Thio-Um-Baska)

Department of English: Faculty Publications

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface ..................................... ix

I. The Creation .................................. 1

II. When Man Came to the Earth .................... .4

III. The Bringing to the Creation of a New Life ........... 5

IV. The Osage Creation Story ........................ 7

V. The Child is Placed in the Cosmos, in the Tribe, and in the Tribe's Fight .............. 9

VI. The Sacred Pole ............................... 15

VII. The Divisions of the Tribe and Colors .............. 19

VIII. Corn ....................................... 22

IX. The Buffalo Hunt ............................. 27

X. Ponca Buffalo Ritual (related) ................... .46

XI. The Corn Song

XII. Another Osage Creation Story .................... …

Chaucer's Epic Statement And The Political Milieu Of The Late Fourteenth Century, Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Sets Knight's Tale in the tradition of political verse, and argues that the tale encourages peace in the domestic and foreign affairs of Chaucer's England. The hortatory, heroic style of the tale presents Theseus as a peace-making ideal, pertinent to the French wars of the time. The juxtaposition of the Miller's Tale with the Knight's Tale encourages placid relations with the peasant class.

Several critics, both neoclassic and modern, have observed that) as to kind, the Knight's Tale is an epic fiction. Characteristically, the poems we call medieval epics are what Ezra Pound also says an epic must be in …

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

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Polishing The Sherds [Review]: Martin Booth, The Knotting Sequence, The Elizabeth Press, Robert S. Haller

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Review of Martin Booth's The Knotting Sequence, published by the Elizabeth Press.

Chicano Literature In Spanish: Roots And Content, Erlinda Viola Gonzales-Berry

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

One of the most patently visible facets of Chicanos' efforts to assert themselves through a form of cultural nationalism has been a burgeoning corpus of creative literature which, above all, has served as a vehicle of self-knowledge. In their task of accumulating evidence for a collective self-portrait, Chicano writers have explored their past, revitalized and mythesized their cultural values, indicted Anglo culture and confronted the question of what it means to be human. In this study I have examined the works of a small group of writers whose most distinguishing and isolatable feature is their use of Spanish as a …

Representative Women In The Narrative Works Of Emilia Pardo Bazán, Jacqueline M. Guttmann

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

Emilia Pardo Bazán, a Spanish novelist of the nineteenth century, used her talents to portray women realistically. This dissertation describes her grasp of their psychology and the ways in which she discerns those differences between men and women which are sex-linked and those which are socially determined. Her novels and short stories are analyzed to define her views. The introduction sketches doña Emilia‘s own complex personality; then two antithetical currents of thought concerning women are traced through Spanish literature. The first part of this study depicts her best integrated female characters in all their variety and conveys the many differences …

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

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A Comparison Of Slotfilling In English, French, German, And Slovak Kernel Sentences, Anna Magura

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis 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 Anna Magura in May of 1978.

Juan Goytisolo: Survival In Two Early Novels And Two Late Novels, Lois J. Shimmin Dogliani

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

This dissertation examines survival in Goytisolo's two early novels, Juegos de manos (1954) and Duelo en el Paraíso (1955), and two late novels, Señas de identidad (1966) and Reivindicación del Conde don Julián (1970). The approach views survival as the novelist's central theme and also as a signficant factor in the technique of his artistic medium. The novel's struggle for survival as a contemporary art form--through change and growth in technique--is integrated with contemporary man's fight for personal survival. While other studies have concentrated on either specific themes or technical devices, this investigation offers a coordinated perspective of both thematic …

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

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

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

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Browning On Art And Artists, Mary Adib Yackoub

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A Survey Of Mormon Literary Criticism, Colin B. Douglas

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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, …

The Hollow Of Echoes, Kathleen Danker, Felix White Sr.

Department of English: Faculty Publications

The Hollow of Echoes is the result of collaboration between Mr. Felix White, Sr. and myself. Mr. White, who resides in Winnebago, Nebraska, is knowledgeable in many areas of traditional Winnebago culture including language, history, legends and law. During the spring of 1973, he recounted to me a number of Winnebago legends of which I made recordings. I have incorporated these legends into a fictional account of a present-day Winnebago grandfather using the stories to instruct his grandchildren in traditional ways of viewing situations they encounter in their daily lives. Almost all of the views of the grandfather in the …

The Problem Of Evil: The Interaction Of Philosophy And Fiction (1661-1715), Audrey Vivien Bull

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

This dissertation analyzes trends in philosophy and the novel on the question of evil during the period 1661-1715. The problem was treated on three levels: cosmic, personal and social evil. Three questions dominate: Why does evil exist? From whence does it come? How can it be alleviated or eliminated? By the study of similarities and differences between the works of a philosopher and a novel, the dissertation shows how abstract ideas were rendered into concrete situations and how serious concepts were made palatable to a wide-spread audience through the sugar-coating of fiction. Chapter I gives a broad view of philosophies …

Photonuclear Activation At The Pantex Plant, Gilbert L. Rendon

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

This is a structuralist reading of the theatrical works of Henry de Monther­lant. The genera I approach incorporates the theories of Claude Levi-Strauss, Ro land Barth es, Jean Piaget, Jean Rousset, and Leo Spitzer. Two major types of structure are examined: the interrelationship of characters and the interrelationship of ideas. Two theoretical mode Is are constructed. The first is a triadic mode I of the relationships among characters in tightly-knit communities, based upon the sociological theories of Georg Simmel and Theodore Cap low. The second is a semiotic model of the relationships between opposing ideas, based upon the carré sémiotique …

A Translation Of The Novel Al-HarāM By YūSuf Idrs̄ With A Critical Introduction, Kristin Peterson

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Al-FallāH ̣(The Peasant) By ʻAbd Al-RahṃĀN Al-SharqāWī, Sara J M Marsden

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Santob's Debate Between The Pen And The Scissors, Clark A. Colahan

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

Critics of the rabbi Santob de Carrion's Proverbios morales have often remarked on the work's frequent juxtaposition of contradictory maxims. It has been further said that reversibility of ideas characterizes both its structure and the thinking of its author. Interpretations of the literary traditions from which such structure and thought may have sprung have differed sharply. This study examines Santob's major work in Hebrew, his Debate between the Pen and the Scissors, and demonstrates the close relation that exists between the Semitic literary tradition from which it comes and the Proverbios morales.

Through the assistance of Professor Jefim Schirmann of …

The Influence Of Shaw's Career As A Music Critic On Man And Superman, Ahmed Shafic Abu Oaf

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Samuel Beckett Or The Alienation Of Man, Paulette Raymond Caram

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Theme Of Personal Liberation, Ghada Jamil Hamati

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Wordsworth's Inscriptions And "Poems On The Naming Of Places", Michael Love

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Strindberg's Misogyny, Amal Moussa

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Thematic Affinities Of The Bildungsromane, Nedal Mousa Mahmoud Al Mousa

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Dos Expresiónes Literarias De Protesta Social En El Proceso Histórico-Político Chileno, Steven Alan Solot

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

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