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Class Consciousness And The Culture Of Dissent In World War Ii British Literature, Kristin Schall

Honors College Theses

Discusses class consciousness and dissent in World War II British literature using the works of George Orwell and J.B. Priestly.

To Glory Or To Ruin : Guinevere And Vivien In Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, Alfred Tennyson's Idylls Of The King, And Edwin Arlington Robinson's Merlin And Lancelot, Eunice W. Carwile

English & Modern Languages: Theses, Dissertations & Student Publications

From Malory's Morte Darthur, through Tennyson's Idylls of the King, and through Robinson's Merlin and Lancelot, Guinevere and Vivien evolve from mere servants of a masculine plot and theme to well-rounded characters who struggle with the same problems that confront their male counterparts. Malory's world is about knights, warfare, and a holy quest, with women acting or reacting in certain ways only to move the plot along. While Tennyson develops female characters more fully than Malory, the great Victorian pays no homage to Arthurian womankind, bringing to his work a philosophy of sin-weakness-destruction that makes Vivien an evil seductress and …

Shut Up Or Drown: Silence And Containment Of The Garrulous Woman In Medieval And Shakespearean Drama, Melissa Margaret Filosa

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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A Buddhist's Shakespeare: Affirming Self-Deconstructions (Book Review), Sidney Gottlieb

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

Book review by Sidney Gottlieb.

Howe, James. A Buddhist's Shakespeare: Affirming Self-Deconstructions. London and Toronto: Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 1994.

ISBN 9780838635223

The Composite Art Of Blake's "Laughing Song", William Robert Warner

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

During the past five years, the literary critics have discovered William Blake, helping readers to understand clearly the various stages of development and the final form of the poet's entire mythology. And recent criticism has also clarified and expressed more systematically than earlier criticism certain features of Blake's total thought. Nevertheless, much recent criticism has hindered rather than helped the serious student of Blake's poetry.] Most critics treat Blake's poems as if they were only literary, completely avoiding discussion of their visual components. Yet, Blake clearly envisioned and intended that his reader view the poetry as a new form consisting …

Mary Shelley’S Frankenstein: Its Art And Thought, Marthalee Atkinson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A review of the genesis of Frankenstein, it’s narrative form, Gothicism, ideas and contributions to literature.

The Orc Symbol In William Blake's Works, Michael James Finnigan

Graduate Student Research Papers

A study of Orc, Blake's symbol for energy, suggests several different hypotheses. This paper intends to test the hypothesis that Orc is a force. With the use of illustrations and explications, Orc becomes more clearly a symbol of Blake's imaginative form. This energy will be seen at each level of Blake's visions, each different psychological stage, and at the highest level, poetic imagination. Thus, as the creator creates, the creation becomes the molded form of the creator's imagination.

A Critical Analysis Of The Characters Of Isabel And Madame Merle And Their Conflict In Henry James's The Portrait Of A Lady, Thomas Raymond Alderson

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The opening scene of The Portrait of a Lady takes place upon the broad, sunlit lawns of Gardencourt. Yet, even in this expansive setting, the most essential character in the novel, the protagonist, is, curiously, no more than a narrow, shadowy speculation symbolized by a few odd words found in a telegram of dubious value. The only worth of these words comes in the amount of curiosity they can arouse in the other characters and in the reader. For it appears that, with this slow but significantly unusual means of introducing Isabel, the author intends her for more than a …

Ideas And Symbolic Scenes In The Works Of E.M. Forster, Betty W. Werthman

Graduate Thesis Collection

A study of the interrelationship of E.M. Fosters ideas as presented in his five novels, his two volumes of collected essays, and his treatise on the novel.

Tennyson's Debt To The "Morte D'Arthur", Sally Rodman Thompson

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

Summary and critique of Alfred Lord Tennyson's blank verse poem, “The Idylls of the King” with discussion of the credit due to Sir Thomas Mallory’s “Morte D’Arthur” which inspired Tennyson's work.

Charles Lamb., May Brown

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

Biographical sketch of British essayist Charles Lamb (1775-1834).