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Full-Text Articles in English Language and Literature
Medea, Nihal Samir El Ganzoury
Medea, Nihal Samir El Ganzoury
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Spirit Of Place, Amal Sherif Abu El Fadl
The Spirit Of Place, Amal Sherif Abu El Fadl
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Theology Of Father Brown, Catherine Miles Flynn
The Theology Of Father Brown, Catherine Miles Flynn
Institute for the Humanities Theses
This thesis explores the theological thought of G. K. Chesterton, particularly as it is found in his detective short stories about Father Brown. In his other works (e.g., Orthodoxy, Heretics, and his many books of essays), the theology of Chesterton is obvious. However, in the light, whimsical Father Brown stories the theology expressed is often profound, but underrated if not ignored by his critics. Specific examples from his stories will be used to highlight the theological points within the mysteries.
The life and times of Chesterton are discussed as having highly influenced his thought. His unconventional religious upbringing, in particular, …
Fiction As Autobiography, Autobiography As Fiction: Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" And "Dust Tracks On A Road.", Cathy L. Morgan
Fiction As Autobiography, Autobiography As Fiction: Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" And "Dust Tracks On A Road.", Cathy L. Morgan
Theses & Honors Papers
No abstract provided.
Self-Expression In Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", Joy Mapp
Self-Expression In Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", Joy Mapp
Theses & Honors Papers
No abstract provided.
The Garden Of Eden And The Garden Of Eden: Edenic Imagery In Ernest Hemingway's The Garden Of Eden, Kelly Fisher Lowe
The Garden Of Eden And The Garden Of Eden: Edenic Imagery In Ernest Hemingway's The Garden Of Eden, Kelly Fisher Lowe
Masters Theses
This thesis attempts to prove that there is a definite link between Ernest Hemingway's last novel The Garden of Eden and the biblical Eden narrative of Genesis 2-3. Through the use of both the novel and the Bible, and many secondary pieces of scholarship, both critical and biographical, the thesis demonstrates a substantial connection between Hemingway's work and the larger issue of religion.
The thesis is arranged in three parts. The study starts with the very general and grows more specific as it progresses.
Chapter 1 is a study of Hemingway's religious history. Through the use of available biographical information, …
Inside Or Outside The Whale: George Orwell's Art And Polemic, Richard H. Walker
Inside Or Outside The Whale: George Orwell's Art And Polemic, Richard H. Walker
Masters Theses
This chronological study of the evolution of the works of George Orwell is helpful for the futurist, the citizen awash in groupthink, scholars of standpoint epistemology, of mind and nature, of radical humanism, and others. A former British officer and Spanish revolutionary, he became a Democratic Socialist who believed in intellectual freedom above all and was a champion of the common man. Described as the leading exemplar of the public intellectual, he focused on activism vs passivism (and pacifism), and transforming art and politics into cultural power with mind and nature as the foundation. Like few others, he understood cultural …
The Divided Self: Five Female Heroes In Nineteenth Century Fiction, Jayne Thomas Pinelli
The Divided Self: Five Female Heroes In Nineteenth Century Fiction, Jayne Thomas Pinelli
Theses & Honors Papers
No abstract provided.
The Spoken And Written Word In The Canterbury Tales, Laura Elizabeth Mestayer
The Spoken And Written Word In The Canterbury Tales, Laura Elizabeth Mestayer
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
The Strength Of Hoffman's Women, Martha Mcguire Hundley
The Strength Of Hoffman's Women, Martha Mcguire Hundley
Theses & Honors Papers
No abstract provided.
James Branch Cabell's Jurgen : Fulfillment And Paradox, Elizabeth Witham Loving
James Branch Cabell's Jurgen : Fulfillment And Paradox, Elizabeth Witham Loving
Master's Theses
James Branch Cabell's controversial, Jurgen, is the novel that propelled him into fame. Suppressed as pornography only months after its publication, Jurgen drew attention from many areas. While Cabell's peers protested the suppression and praised the novel as a masterpiece, other readers were only interested in the forbidden "racy" language. Unfortunately, it was for the second reason that Jurgen became the most widely read of Cabell's works. The general public was not interested in his talent as a writer, but it was interested in a scandalous book. The novel's suppression received so much publicity, that everyone wanted to read …
Skirting The Light: Some Poems, Joe Pitkin
Skirting The Light: Some Poems, Joe Pitkin
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
A collection of poems by Joe Pitkin.
Jack Kerouac's Pursuit Of The American West, Dan Fliegel
Jack Kerouac's Pursuit Of The American West, Dan Fliegel
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
Called alternately "the father of hip," "King of the Beats," "the daddy of the swinging psychedelic generation," Jack Kerouac was less a thrill-seeking hipster than a serious author whose life and novels speak of our shared need to explore alternatives and renew ourselves, and of our frustration and regret for our movement away from tradition. Kerouac's life and literature can be viewed as an extended quest, an episodic series of explorations for meaning and for a way of life. He continually addressed the modernist question "How shall we live?," seeking answers in what one biographer calls an ongoing "pattern of …
The Rebellion Against Family, Religion, And State In Modern Literature, Laila Tewfik Doss
The Rebellion Against Family, Religion, And State In Modern Literature, Laila Tewfik Doss
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Idea Of Homecoming In Post-Colonial African Literature, Maria Mildred Langley
The Idea Of Homecoming In Post-Colonial African Literature, Maria Mildred Langley
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Shored Ruins Of V. S. Naipaul: One Big Book, Ginan Raouf Mostafa
The Shored Ruins Of V. S. Naipaul: One Big Book, Ginan Raouf Mostafa
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
"This Enterprise Non Shall Partake With Me." : Milton's Conquering Of His Precursors Through Orphean Allusions, Kathryn Nyreen Cooke
"This Enterprise Non Shall Partake With Me." : Milton's Conquering Of His Precursors Through Orphean Allusions, Kathryn Nyreen Cooke
Master's Theses
Within his poetry and prose, John Milton shows a respect for the authors of antquity while simultaneously seeking his own voice, a style that makes him different from and better than his predecessors. Milton's works contain expressions of these Renaissance characteristics: the appreciation of the Classics, the search for a more personal relationship with God, and the attempt to achieve some individuality; however, even in the smallest of literary figures such as the Orphean allusions, the need to combine a respect for the past with the ambition for a uniquely personal voice as a poet exists. The isolation of the …
Priestly Poetics: George Herbert And The State-Ecclesiastical, Douglas J. Swartz
Priestly Poetics: George Herbert And The State-Ecclesiastical, Douglas J. Swartz
Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Rewriting The East In Old And Middle English Texts: A Study In The Problem Of Alterity And The Representation Of The Third World Feminine, Glory E. Dharmaraj
Rewriting The East In Old And Middle English Texts: A Study In The Problem Of Alterity And The Representation Of The Third World Feminine, Glory E. Dharmaraj
Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Voice Unbound : Mary Shelley's Vision Of Romanticism, Courtenay Noelle Smith
The Voice Unbound : Mary Shelley's Vision Of Romanticism, Courtenay Noelle Smith
Master's Theses
Mary Shelley was propelled into fame while still a teenager because of her powerful and "gothic" novel Frankenstein. This novel and several facts about the author's personal life have kept her in the public eye since her death. Though Frankenstein has long been a subject of scholarship, Mary Shelley has been little studied directly in relation to the great literary movement, Romanticism, in which she participated Romantic literature is pervaded by numerous political and aesthetic tensions, in particular the paradox of the ideals of genius and fellowship. In many of the Romantic works readers and scholars will find that the …
Buffoons And Bullies: James Joyce's Priests In "Stephen Hero" And "A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man", A Study Of Revision, Cynthia Ann Cotter
Buffoons And Bullies: James Joyce's Priests In "Stephen Hero" And "A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man", A Study Of Revision, Cynthia Ann Cotter
Theses Digitization Project
Irony and satire in two of James Joyce's works.
"Tess Of The D'Urbervilles": A Pure Woman Faithfully Defended, Margaret Mary Young
"Tess Of The D'Urbervilles": A Pure Woman Faithfully Defended, Margaret Mary Young
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Constructing A Reputation In Retrospect In "Sir Gawain And The Green Knight", Elizabeth Anne Crummy
Constructing A Reputation In Retrospect In "Sir Gawain And The Green Knight", Elizabeth Anne Crummy
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Downtrodden Characters" And The Journey Of The Mythic Hero: A Reading Of Dave Smith's Onliness, Catherine A. Gaughran
"Downtrodden Characters" And The Journey Of The Mythic Hero: A Reading Of Dave Smith's Onliness, Catherine A. Gaughran
Theses & Honors Papers
No abstract provided.
Robert Louis Stevenson And Scotland: A Most Complicated Relationship, Patricia Berard Dunsmore
Robert Louis Stevenson And Scotland: A Most Complicated Relationship, Patricia Berard Dunsmore
Theses Digitization Project
No abstract provided.
Female Fantasists: Re-Visioning The Archetypal Warrior, Tammy M. Bear-Tibbs
Female Fantasists: Re-Visioning The Archetypal Warrior, Tammy M. Bear-Tibbs
Masters Theses
This thesis discusses female archetypal warriors in several fantasy novels written for children and adolescents. The novels examined include A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle; The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Dragonflight, Dragonguest, The White Dragon, Dragonsong, and Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey; and The Tombs of Atuan and Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin. The thesis argues that, by expanding gender roles and portraying their female characters as strong archetypal warriors, these authors force a rethinking of existing archetypal criticism. Using …
Victorian Ideology And The Discourse Of Gender In Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders And The Return Of The Native, Juliana Payne
Victorian Ideology And The Discourse Of Gender In Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders And The Return Of The Native, Juliana Payne
Theses : Honours
This analysis will focus on the perceived harmony or disjunction between Hardy's representation of women in his fiction, and the middle class ideologies of gender difference and sexuality during what is referred to as the Victorian period, roughly the 1840s to the 1880s. The parameters of the dominant middle class ideology are established, as certain ideas will be held to be predominant or widely accepted at a given time. The aim of this thesis is to ascertain to what extent Hardy subverts the dominant ideology, and how he is involved in contesting the conventional contemporary representations of women. Part of …
Deconstructing Alice's 'Wonderlands': The Non-Sense Of Nonsense?, Beverley Farr
Deconstructing Alice's 'Wonderlands': The Non-Sense Of Nonsense?, Beverley Farr
Theses : Honours
The profusion of literary criticism surrounding the Alice books affirms the heterogeneous nature of the texts 'Which resist the imposition of an exclusive, closed interpretation. A deconstructive reading of the texts demonstrates the tendency of the books toward multiple meanings, revealing how they are transgressive of notions of coherence and structure. Utilising some of the concepts of Jacques Lacan to examine the texts beyond the traditional analytic readings, language is shown to be a signifying chain of desire, structured like the unconscious. Alice becomes Lacan's split subject, banished to the world of language where she finds herself enmeshed in an …
Joyce's Nets As Semiotic Systems, Marguerite Carey Laws
Joyce's Nets As Semiotic Systems, Marguerite Carey Laws
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein, And The Powers Of Creation, Danielle Kolker
Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein, And The Powers Of Creation, Danielle Kolker
Honors Papers
When Mary Shelley referred to her first novel, Frankenstein, as "my hideous progeny," she could not have comprehended the full significance of her words. For while her phrase eloquently compares her creation of the text with Victor Frankenstein's creation of the monster, we, reading the novel today, are witness to the "hideous progeny" to which her own text has given rise. Version after version has sprung forth, focusing on different aspects of her story, leading to such productions as the famous 1931 Boris Karloff film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1973) and the recent Edward Scissorhands. In the past fifteen …