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Rasselas & Candide: Common Links, Robert Rowe

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Many critics have discovered striking similarities between Samuel Johnson's Rasselas and Voltaire's Candide. Yet, most have failed to describe the links that exist between the works which indicate that similar forces may have spurred the authors to write so similar tales, one quickly following the other into publication.

Source studies of the two tales indicate that very little, if any, evidence is available to prove that the works were inspired by the same written sources that Johnson and Voltaire may have relied upon. While source studies of the tales do not reveal any shocking information, they do inform the …

Credentialism As Monopoly, Class War, And Socialization Scheme: Some Historical Reflections On Modern Ways Of Determining Who Can Do A Job, Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Social theorists in earlier periods have looked at credentialing from the perspective of its service to the economic or social system as opposed to its “protection of the public interest.” Adam Smith regarded the long education and the performance tests that the guilds required as monopolistic constraints on production; Karl Marx saw the same guild system as controlled by the propertied classes and uselessly exclusionary; and Emile Durkheim, unlike both Smith and Marx, regarded the occupational group with its entrance requirements as central to the stability of modern society. The application of the principles of Smith, Marx, and Durkheim, in …

Eliot's Cats: Serious Play Behind The Playful Seriousness, Paul Douglass

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

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The Greek Theme In Rilke's Poetry, Magda Fathi Amin

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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O'Neill's Dramatic Adaptation Of The Theme Of Electra: A Comparative Study Of Aeschylus' Oresteia And O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, Isis Restawros Gindi

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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A Study Of The Concept Of The Tragic Heroine, Omaya Ibrahim Khalifa

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Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead And Shakespeare's Hamlet, Wagdi Ahmed Zeid

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Concept Of Evil In Children's Literature, Nadia Kholy

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Pastoral Ideal In The Poetry Of MahṃŪD HạSan IsmāʻĪL And Walt Whitman, Hoda Sadda

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Rhetoric Of The Proverb In The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell And The Tao Te Ching, Julie Tilton-Ling

Theses Digitization Project

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Black Elk Speaks As Epic And Ritual Attempt To Reverse History, Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Modern Siouan storytellers make a distinction in speaking of the difference between bedtime and sacred stories. Moreover, Lakota masters of the sacred arts are inveterate constructors of figural or allegorical systems. They interpret, apply, and reapply the iconological resources of their culture through ritual, myth, storytelling, symbolic action, and clothing. This Sioux symbolic tradition is one context in which John G. Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks (1932) must be understood. Conceptualizing it as an epic may assist both Western and non-Western readers to clarify the uses to which a culture's symbol system may be put in mediating conflicting values, especially those …

The Nearness And The Delay Of The Parousia In The Writings Of Ellen G. White, Ralph E. Neall

Dissertations

The writings of Ellen G. White, pioneer leader of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, exhibit two apparently contradictory streams or thought on the time of the parousia. On one hand she wrote that the time of Christ's coming is fixed by God and will occur soon; on the other, that He has been delayed by the church's failures to preach the gospel and live holy lives. Her point of entry into eschatological thought was the prediction of William Miller that Christ would return in 1844, rooted in the time prophecies of Daniel and summarized in the three angels' messages of Rev …

Features Of Place, Time And Characterization In Four Of Nabokov's Novels: Pale Fire, Invitation To A Beheading, The Eye, Ada, Tatiana Rodina

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Myth And History In Max Frisch's Don Juan Or, The Love Of Geometry, Shahira Fikry Kelesh

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Narrative Technique In The Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway, Wafaa Koussi

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Function Of Language In The Plays Of Arnold Wesker, Hanaa Moustafa Shehata

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Theme Of Rebirth In Modern Poetry, Cherien S Lennie

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Themes Of Death And Immortality In The Poetry Of Emily Dickinson, Azza Mohamed Aly

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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A Reading Of Virginia Woolf's Orlando In The Light Of Roland Barthes' S/Z, Nagui Abdel Moneim

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Doubtful And Visionary: Review Of Leonard Nathan, Dear Blood, University Of Pittsburgh Press, Robert S. Haller

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Review of Leonard Nathan, Dear Blood, University of Pittsburgh Press.

The Unifying Power Of Love In Robert Browning's Divided World, Afnan Hussein Fatany

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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D. H. Lawrence's Investigation Of Human Relationships Using The Artist As Privileged Character With Specific Reference To Sons And Lovers, The Rainbow, And Women In Love, Samia Youssef Kholoussi

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The Absurd And Revolt In Two Of Albert Camus [Sic] Novels, Nermine Abd

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The Chronicles Of Narnia As Myth, Jehan Shafie El Margoushy

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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The Use Of Horror And Fear As A Unifying Device In Four Tales By Poe, Mona N Bedwani

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Review Of Mona E. Mcalpine, The Genre Of 'Troilus And Criseyde,' Ithaca And London: Cornell University Press, 1978, Robert S. Haller

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Review of Mona E. McAlpine, The Genre of 'Troilus and Criseyde.' Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1978.

Contemplation Of Death And Life, Sarah FadīL

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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A Survey Of Adolescent Reading Habits And Influences : A Study In Selected Parochial Secondary Schools, Sylvia J. Davis

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Adolescent literature, written by authors with a concern for the illiteracy in the United States, and read by students growing in their ability to comprehend life, is a vital link in the personal exploration and adjustment needed by young persons as they proceed into adulthood. Many polls have been conducted by teachers and librarians to learn which authors and topics are meaningful to the young student at the secondary level. It is hoped that this study might assist the teacher in understanding the reading habits of students in a parochial atmosphere by providing a background to evaluate assignments given and …

Yeats And The Noh Drama, Elizabeth Rogers Hayes

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Two Anti-Heroes: Leopold Bloom And Sai'd Aboul NaḥS, Samia Mehrez

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