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Concepts Of Suffering In King Lear, Emma Jean Westcot

English Theses & Dissertations

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Brighton Rock: Growth In Psychological Insight, Sister Catherine Madigan Dc

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis, presented at Xavier University in 1969, examines Graham Greene's novel "Brighton Rock" as a significant early step in Greene's development of psychologically complex characterization. Madigan argues that the novel represents the first sustained combination of three elements in Greene's fiction: the "thriller" plot structure, the "Catholic element" as a framework of belief opposing his characters' actions, and genuine psychological depth, distinguishing it from both his earlier thrillers and his lighter "entertainments."

The thesis compares "Brighton Rock" to Greene's short story "A Drive in the Country," which shares a similar plot but, due to its brevity and narrative point …

The Theory Of Elective Affinities In The Dramatic Love Poems Of Robert Browning, Harry C. Tartt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis, submitted to Xavier University in partial fulfillment of requirements for a Master of Arts degree in 1969, examines Robert Browning's treatment of romantic love in his dramatic poems through the theoretical lens of elective affinities, which is a concept borrowed from chemistry and first applied to human relationships by Johann Wolfgang Goethe in his 1809 novel Wahlverwandtschaften (Elective Affinities). The study traces the origins of the chemical theory of elective affinities from seventeenth-century analytical chemists including Hermann Boerhaave and Torbern Bergmann through Goethe's literary application of the concept to four lovers whose passions operate as blind, irresistible forces …

William Blake And Isaac Watts, Lois Ballard

English Theses & Dissertations

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The "Deor" Legends: Their Dissemination In Germanic Literature, Doris Larraine Mabry

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Dialectic Of The Theology Of Browning's Bishop Blougram, Sylvia Eunice Lowe

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of The Fourth Voyage Of Gulliver's Travels And Its Relevance To The Twentieth Century, Angelo Rodriguez

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Any work of art, by definition, is so designated because it speaks to all generations, irrespective of time or place, and regardless of artistic, political, economic, or ideological fads. To accept a work as art with anything less than these universalities is blind acceptance and pure idolatry. Each generation must determine the validity of the label art by determining the relevance of the work to its own generations. Unless a work of art can successfully meet such a test, the label is no more than a gentleman's agreement among self-designated arbiters of taste. Two recent critics, writing on the philosophy …

A Re-Evaluation Of Marlowe's Use Of The Classics In Hero And Leander, Naomi M. Patz

English Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

The Language Of The Cultural Chasm In Somerset Maugham's "Of Human Bondage", Martha Lee Combs

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A monograph presented to the faculty of the Department of' English at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Martha Lee Combs in August of 1968.

Samuel Daniel: His Importance As A Literary Figure, Ronald Gaffney

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

An investigation of the literary conventions and an evaluation of the way they are employed by Daniel will help to provide some indication of his literary importance. To examine the traditional conventions he uses will, to some degree, indicate where Daniel fits into the literary society of the Elizabethan Age. A study of some of his innovations and a few of his distinctive ways of using traditional motifs will help to demonstrate his overall importance to literature.

Goticism In Matthew G. Lewis's The Monk & Related Works, Larry Harrel

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Lewis repeatedly revealed himself to be concerned with effect: in his statement that he desired to increase effect by heightening the color of The Monk and in his statements concerning his goal in The Castle Spectre there is the recurrent theme of desire to horrify. This desire has been shown to grow out of the aesthetic ideal of sublimity which was developed in years preceding The Monk. The implicit defect in this concept is that it may be used to justify sensational works which lack lasting merit, as was largely the case with The Castle Spectre, not …

The Fall Motif In The Novels Of William Golding, Timothy Miller Jr.

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

It is the intent of this thesis to describe and analyze the various aspects of the fall motif in five novels of William Golding: Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, Free Fall, and The Spire The fall motif shall be defined, in part, to mean an allusion to a lapse of mankind from innocence or goodness into a state of innate sinfulness through willingly succumbing to temptation-- symbolic of the Biblical fall from the Garden of Eden.

Chaucer's Ecclesiastics In The Canterbury Tales, Helen Lee Coleman

Master's Theses

It is thought that Chaucer began composing The Canterbury Tales as a dramatic whole around 1387. This is his last and by f ar his best known work. In this final. masterpiece Chaucer undertakes the tremendous task or presenting in poetic form a whole society. However, he does not merely explore society in general; he also develops the theme or the individual's relation to the community and the integral part that each person plays in making up the whole. The Canterbury Tales is, as George Lyman Kittredge so aptly puts it, "a micro cosmography" or a little image of a …

Chaucer's Ecclesiastics In The Canterbury Tales, Helen Lee Coleman

Master's Theses

It is thought that Chaucer began composing The Canterbury Tales as a dramatic whole around 1387. This is his last and by far his best known work. In this final masterpiece Chaucer undertakes the tremendous task of presenting in poetic form a whole society. However, he does not merely explore society in general; he also develops the theme or the individual's relation to the community and the integral part that each person plays in making up the whole. The Canterbury Tales is, as George Lyman Kittredge so aptly puts it, "a micro cosmography" or a little image of a great …

The Function Of Some Comic Elements In The Wakefield Plays In The Towneley Cycle, Frances E. Whitehall

English Theses & Dissertations

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Portraits Of The Artist, Frances Santoro

Student Scholarship

This study examines the artistic evolution of the character Stephen Dedalus across three of James Joyce's major works, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Exiles. The progression is analyzed through the framework of Stephen’s own aesthetic theory, which categorizes art into three successive forms: the lyrical, the epical, and the dramatic. Each stage of development corresponds to the artist's shifting relationship with his subject matter and his audience. 

In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the narrative represents the lyrical form, characterized by an instant of emotion and a subjective, egocentric focus. …

Language Structures Carrying Tones Of Power And Authority In The Short Stories Of D. H. Lawrence, Frances Louise Helphinstine

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A monograph presented to the faculty of the Department of English at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree Master of Arts by Frances Louise Helphinstine in March of 1968.

A Study Of “The Disappearance Of God” As It Appears In Arnold's Thyrsis And Tennyson's In Memoriam, Leland Dale Rhyne

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Moral Universe Of Hamlet, John Schneider

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

An Examination Of Sir Edwin Arnold's The Light Of Asia And The Light Of The World, J. Karl Nicholas

English Theses & Dissertations

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Three Unholy Churchmen Of Robert Browning's Poetry, Everett L. Millhorn

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Falstaff, A Product Of Historical And Moral Traditions, Emily Stacy Apelt

English Theses & Dissertations

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Religious Meaning In T.S. Eliot's Plays, Paula Helm

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Critics of Eliot often deal with his religious themes, but not with sympathy. In general, it seems that they are not at ease with Eliot's religious views; so the tendency has been not to give them a careful, objective treatment. The purpose of my study of the plays is to attempt such an unbiased examination, to keep in view precisely what Eliot dues say and the religious meanings that are clearly implied. Whether Eliot's ideas as they stand may be compatible or incompatible with the current thought climate is not, after all, the most important thing. He is a serious …

Plutchik's Emotive Theory As Applied To Eschatological Elements In Key Works Of Graham Greene, Joseph L. Mills

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

An abstract presented to the faculty of the School of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Joseph L. Mills Summer of 1967.

Jane Austen's Use Of The Epistolary Method, Barbara Tavss Bender

Master's Theses

There is . . . a prominent use of letters within the novels of Jane Austen. It has been shown that she wao influenced by Samuel Richardson and Fanny Burney and that she had a long experimental period of almost exclusive use of the epistolary method. It is from their influence and from her experimentation that the six major novels evolved; this supreme achievement was to give their creator a prominent place in the history of the English novel. No one factor can be cited as Miss Austen 's outstanding contribution, for each novel is a synthesis of many superior …

Chaucer's Pandarus : A Character Study, Phillip Valentine Daffron

Master's Theses

Chaucer 's Pandarus has been an intriguing character for me ever since my first exposure, as an undergraduate, to Troilus and ­Criseyde. Pandarus interests me because he is true to human nature in that he is not consistently one way all of the time. Like most human beings, Pandarus has many facets to his nature; therefore, I find it distressing that many critics and students of Chaucer will not acknowledge this complexity but rather tend to want to stereotype him. If Pandarus were a simple, transparent character, then his rank in English literature would be considerably less significant. It is …

The New British Drama 1956-1966 : A Critical Study Of Four Dramatists: John Osborne, Brendan Behan, Arnold Wesker, And John Arden, Jeanne Fenrick Bedell

Master's Theses

In the history of England, as well as in the history of the English stage, 1956 was a momentous year. It was the year of the Suez, the year that saw the destruction of the myth of the British empire. And it was the year of the Hungarian Revolution, which crushed liberal illusions about Soviet Russia. In 1956 the old idols were crumbling fast, and defense of tradition was fast becoming not only impossible but ludicrous. The bankruptcy of the older generation was apparent; it was time for the new to speak out.

The Alchemy Of Art: A Study In The Evolution Of The Creative Mind Of John Keats, G. Brian Sullivan

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

From the time John Keats began Endymion (March 1817) until his abandonment of the second version of Hyperion (September 1819), we have thirty vital months comprising a span of development unparalleled in English literature. This dissertation focuses upon the central feature of that development— the evolution of the creative mind of the poet. I do not purpose another factual biography of Keats, but rather an exploration of the internal autobiography of the poet in self-genesis as this evolvement is impressed upon the symbolic structures of his works. In artistic vitality, incisiveness of thought, and individual sublimity, Keats achieved a ripeness …

Pope As A Maker Of Ballads, Mary M. Dossin

English Theses & Dissertations

The intriguing sub-title of Albert B. Friedman's book, The Balled Revival: Studies in the influence of Popular on Sophisticated Poetry, points to the crux of my thesis: was the most sophisticated poet of a very sophisticated literary age seriously influenced in his work by the popular ballads enjoyed by the common people? h brief but comprehensive examination of the status of the ballad in the early eighteenth century will show that ballads were at that time more widely enjoyed and admired than has often been thought. The second chapter will demonstrate, through a study of statements by Pope and …

Robert Browning's Treatment Of Nature In His Poetry, 1841-1855, Mary B. Gard

English Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.