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Robin Hood And Jesse James And The Basis Of Outlaw Hero Traditions In English And American Folk Balladry, Jacquline Burton

Theses & Honors Papers

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Orts 1, 1981, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

This is the first of a hopefully regular series to keep you informed of the Committee’s intentions and also to act as a method of communication between all our other members world-wide. Our membership is now rapidly approaching sixty, from afar afield as Japan and Sweden, which I am sure would have surprised George MacDonald himself as well as pleasing him.

Orts 2, 1981, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

Our second General Meeting held on the 6th May, had the pleasure of welcoming two of our members from abroad. From America, Professor Joyce Hines and from France, Mlle. Georgette Lormant.

The Rejection And Redefinition Of Romance In Byron’S Early Poetry, Ronald A. Schroeder

Studies in English, New Series

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The Other Fiction Of Wilkie Collins: The Dover Editions, Kirk H. Beetz

Studies in English, New Series

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Steig, Dickens And Phiz; Stone, Dickens And The Invisible World: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, And Novel Making, Alton P. Latimer

Studies in English, New Series

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Hughes, The Maniac In The Cellar: Sensation Novels Of The 1860’S, Natalie Schroeder

Studies in English, New Series

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Shelley’S The Cenci: Corruption And The Calculating Faculty, John F. Schell

Studies in English, New Series

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The Role Of Kingship In William Dunbar’S Thrissil And The Rois, J. C. Nitzsche

Studies in English, New Series

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Dr. Johnson’S Treatment Of English Particles In The Dictionary, Jeffrey T. Gross

Studies in English, New Series

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“Something Of A Dramatic Form”: “The Ruined Cottage” And The Excursion, Charlotte H. Beck

Studies in English, New Series

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Byron, The Complete Poetical Works, Ronald A. Schroeder

Studies in English, New Series

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Mccormack, Sheridan Lefanu And Victorian Ireland, Gary William Crawford

Studies in English, New Series

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Fussell, Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between The Wars, Charles Sanders

Studies in English, New Series

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The Ethics Of Benedict De Spinoza, Translated By George Eliot, Benedict De [Baruch] Spinoza, George Eliot , Translator, Thomas Deegan , Editor

Electronic Reference Materials

The Ethics of Benedict (or Baruch) Spinoza (1632-1677) was written in Latin 1664-65 and published posthumously the year of his death. Spinoza's statement of moral philosophy, inspired by the rationalism of Descartes and the Enlightenment, was considered heretical at the time. He was excommunicated by Jewish religious authorities and his writings proscribed by the Catholic Church. His works, however, proved a hiden influence on the thought Locke, Hume, Liebnitz, and Kant, and became one of the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition, with profound influence on the works of Hegel, Goethe, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche.

George Eliot [Marian Evans] (1819-1880) prepared …

Marlowe's Doctor Faustus Finds Reality: In The Comic Mask, Eva Marie Enis

Masters Theses

Scholars have considered the protagonist of Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus from nearly every perspective, but, at the same time, they have been hesitant to recognize the humorous incidents, particularly the so-called clownish scenes, as having a legitimate place even though much comic incident appears in Marlowe's source. Though scholars have acknowledged Marlowe's play to be a morality, they have not viewed Faustus as a morality character whose comic mask is his reality.

An examination of the morality tradition, with Marlowe's debt to the morality in mind, justifies the inclusion of much …

Character Motivation And Definition Through Dialog In The Memory Plays Of Harold Pinter, Douglas E. Grohne

Masters Theses

Several critics have suggested that the plays of Harold Pinter are incomprehensible because the characters do not explicitly explain their actions and motivations. These comments come because the critics and audiences are conditioned to expect a playwright to in some way explain the motivations and personalities of his characters with a standard explanation given through explicit dialog, copious stage directions, or other means. But Pinter believes that it is dangerous for a playwright to design a play with one overall purpose in mind because the chances are that the purpose will be mistaken.

Pinter prefers to write in a realistic …

From Ritual To Resurrection: The Exploratory Poetic Of Seamus Heaney, Susan L. Morris

Masters Theses

Heaney's poetry has grown and changed since the publication of his first collection of poetry, Death of a Naturalist. This paper is an attempt to present the development of Heaney's exploratory poetic which was created through his use of language and image, allowing him metaphorical vehicles for the examination of oppositions.

Heaney began his poetic exploration, or "dig," with the collections Death of a Naturalist and Door Into the Dark. The poetry presents nature images which represent Heaney's search into the unknown, the dark places. These images symbolize a searching for the imagination and for the purpose of …

The Function Of Rhetoric, Marlowe’S Tamburlaine, And ‘Reciprocal Illumination’, Audrey Davidson, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Antony And Cleopatra: Circe, Venus, And The Whore Of Babylon, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson