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Fictional Manifestations Of Multiple Personality In Selected Works Of Miguel De Unamuno, Jerry L. Benbow

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

This study, which grew out of an interest in the recurrent theme of multiple personality in the prose of Miguel de Unamuno, first attempts to define multiple personality in the scientific fields of psychology and psychiatry, subsequently examines depictions of multiple personality in world literature, and finally studies in depth the manifestations of the phenomenon in selected works of Unamuno. Multiple personality in psychology and psychiatry is defined beginning with an examination of the behavioristic, mechanistic-adjustive, and holistic-dynamic approaches to personality theory. Attention is then given to the contributions of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Alfred Adler to personality theory. …

Le Monde De Madame De Girardin Vu A Travers Les Lettres Parisiennes., Janina M. Cikotas

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

Between 1836 and 1848 there appeared in La Presse, one of the most important French newspapers, a series of weekly articles entitled Le Courrier de Paris. They were signed by the Vicomte de Launay, a pseudonym for Madame de Girardin, the wife of Emile de Girardin, the owner of this influential publication. These articles generally enjoyed great success.

The author, a young woman of 32, was already well known for her precocious and remarkable poetic talent. Not only had she already been acclaimed for her poems, but she had also manifested her literary talent in some very successful novels and …

El Surrealismo Y Cuatro Poetas De La GeneracióN De 1927, Carlos Marcial De Onís

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

El surrealismo en la poesía española contemporánea nunca ha sido estudiado con rigor. La palabra "surrealismo" se emplea para encasillar a una obra o a un autor, pero no se explica casi nunca la razón de dicho encasillamiento, que adolece así de vaguedad. Se parte por la crítica de la asunción (que no es válida) de que todo el mundo está familiarizado con la significación de dicho vocablo cuando se aplica a un género literario específico, como es la poesía. Porque el surrealismo no es un movimiento literario, ni siquiera artístico, sino una empresa espiritual que trataba de afectar a …

Simone Weil's Search For Unity Through The Union Of Contradictories., Barbara J. Brim

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

There is a good deal of modern literature particularly that of the post­ World War II period, which might be best described as “distorted” author deliberately focuses on some negative aspect of life, usually the sordid, and exaggerates it to an unbelievable nightmare. The author makes his point all too well. In fact, some of these works are masterpieces of human understanding. However, when one book after another presents the same negative theme, treated in the same way for a kind of shock effect, we begin to feel as though literature has as its sole aim a kind of psychological …

Stendhal Et La Musique, Rafael Valdés Camín

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

A l’âge de vingt ans, en 1807 si l’on en juge par le portrait que fit Queneday, Beyle paraissait un dandy. Une boucle de cheveux lui cachait le front et son regard inquisitif et franc semblait se perdre à l’horizon. Dans le portrait de 1835, par Dedreux, dans celui de 1839 par Dorcy, celui de 1840, par Sodemark, ainsi que dans son dernier portrait par Ducis le dandy de 1807 à complètament disparu. La boucle de cheveux n’est plus évidente…le front est visible et le visage ride nous montre la pensee incessante. Le regard ne se fixe plus à l’horizon. …

Mathieu Bidar's Hippolyte: A Critical Edition, Evyenia L. Triandafilidis

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

The Hippolyte of Mathieu Bidar has nos been reprinted since the original edition of 1675, nor has there been a modern critical edition. The desire to do a critical edition of this tragedy was prompted by the prevalence of the theme of Phaedra and Hippolytus, which has been presented repeatedly on the French stage, and because of the editor’s interest in the role that the Greek tradition played in the French classicalism of the seventeenth century. Copies of Bidar’s Hippolyte are rare, since only three are known to be extant. The manuscript used is a copy of the original edition, …

Pierpont Morgan Manuscript 324: Le Roman De La Rose; A Study In Social Transition, Louise A. Miller

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

Art and literature, significant forms of human expression, serve as two valuable cultural sources for the understanding of a given civilization. The philosophical rationalism of Voltaire and the mythological paintings of Boucher, as contrasted to the concern with self of Chateaubriand and the tragically realistic paintings of Gericault, provide an important expressive background to the understanding of society before and after the French Revolution. These sources provide a broader insight into the societies of the time, their influences upon and their reactions to the immediate historical event. Similarly, the starkness of the paintings of Buffet and the preoccupation with the …

The Doctor In Marcel Proust's A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu., Michael L. Rowland

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

This study undertakes an examination of the doctors and illnesses in Marcel Proust’s life and of the doctors and illnesses in A La Recherche du Temps perdu. The first chapter reviews Prout’s relationship with doctors, especially with his father, who was a practicing physician. Illness, in addition to being an inconvenience, was for Proust a source of many important privileges, upon which he never ceased to draw. In this respect, the question is raised to what degree Proust’s illnesses were genuine. The doctors that appear in A La Recherche du Temps perdu comprise the next topic of discussion. An effort …

The Poetry Of Jorge Luis Borges, 1923-1963., Cleon Wade Capsas

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

Nineteen hundred and sixty one was a year of signal importance in the career of Jorge Luis Borges. On May 1, 1961 he was awarded, jointly with Samuel Beckett, the Prix International des Editeurs. Later that same year he published Antología personal, a forty-nine piece selection of his own work dictated by personal preference, which by the fact of selection is important for an appreciation of his work. Finally in the autumn of 1961 he traveled abroad (if we except a few short trips to Uruguay) for the first time in 38 years. He was a Visiting Professor at the …

1. Introduction, Robert L. Bloom, Basil L. Crapster, Harold A. Dunkelberger, Charles H. Glatfelter, Richard T. Mara, Norman E. Richardson, W. Richard Schubart

Section XII: The Post-Enlightenment Period

Criticism of the methods and conclusions of the Enlightenment was initiated almost as soon as the movement itself had begun. It is for this reason that this chapter follows immediately after the one on the Enlightenment, rather than after the later chapters on nationalism, liberalism, industrialism, evolutionary biology, and the social sciences. These movements made their appearance during the latter part of the eighteenth century, but often served only to broaden and strengthen the earlier criticisms of the Enlightenment and the demands for a more adequate way of thinking than it offered. The movements of thought with which we are …

Francesca Da Rimini In Dramatic Literature, Bill Lattin

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L'Aspect Metaphysique Du Mal Dans L'Oeuvre Litteraire De Charles Baudelaire Et D' Edgar Allan Poe, Arnolds Grava

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

L'oeuvre litteraire de Poe et celle de Baudelaire ont ete l'objet de nombreuses recherches faites par des hommes de lettres et des critiques distingues tant en Europe qu'en Amerique depuis la seconde moitie du siecle dernier jusqu'a. nos jours. II est assez curieux de constater qU'aucune de ces oeuvres critiques n'a traite, du moins directement, Ie cote philosophique, c'est·a.-dire, les implications meta physiques de la production litteraire des deux poetes. Par-ci, par-Ia on peut trouver quelques chapitres, generalement trop courts, consacres a. l'etude plus ou moins approfondie, soit du satanisme baudelairien, soit de l'esprit de la perversite chez Poe. C'est …

Humor In George Duhamel's Chroniques Des Pasquier, William Henry Adamson

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the nature and extent of the humor in Georges Duhamel's ten-volume saga, "Chroniques des Pasquier," and to offer a suggested classification of it. There is no intent to make detailed comparisons with other works, or to attempt to fit the present analysis into any aesthetic or philosophical system other than the relatively simple classification into which the subject seemed rather naturally to divide itself, the writer disclaiming any pretension to the technical knowledge necessary to any of numerous other modes of inquiry. It was thought best to limit the study to this …

A Critical Study Of Alfred Jarry Based On An Analysis And Translation Of Ubu-Roi, Clyde B. Mackenzie

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

The works of Alfred Jarry are not only unknown in America, but they are unavailable other than through private importation. It is the purpose of this study to analyse and present the literary and moral essence of this author through an analytical and critical examination of his works.

The Novels Of Edouard Rod (1857-1910), James Raymond Wadsworth

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

Swiss by birth and in his ethical attitude, German by training and in his emotions as well as in his philosophy, French by unofficial adoption and in his intellectual curiosity, Edouard Rod occupied an unusual place among the novelists of his generation. An inherited tendency toward melancholy, a sad and lonely childhood, and his introduction to the philosophy of Schopenhauer, enabled him to analyze successfully the pessimism of his period and laid the foundation for the doctrine of despair which constitutes one of the most constant factors in his work. Still, the inborn idealism and that enthusiasm for Wagner which …

Bourget And Bazin: Two Leaders Of The Catholic Renaissance, Sister M. Eulalia Aure

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

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French Origins Of American Imagist Poetry, Beatrice Hope Zedler

Bachelors’ Theses

Every reader, I am sure, has at one time or another chanced upon a passage which instantly struck his attention by its resemblance to something else which he had read. He may have dismissed this occurrence as a merely accidental similarity, or he may have questioned whether one work had influenced the other. The latter has been my experience. In reading the poetry of Theophile Gautier, I was startled by its similarity to some of the poetry of Amy Lowell and by its adherence to two of the principles of Imagism, as set forth by Miss Lowell in the preface …

A Survey Of Junior High School Literature Texts Based Upon An Evaluation Of Literary Characteristics, William R. Moore

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The Skepticism Of Anatole France, Margaret E. Camp

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

When Anatole France died 1n 1924, he had the satisfaction of knowing that he had lived long enough to enjoy the honors which are not usually bestowed upon men until their death. His long life filled with years of labor and earnest endeavor to improve the lives of his fellow-men, through a better adjustment to society, culminated in his election to the French Academy.

By some critics he has been called the greatest writer of today. It is difficult to tell exactly upon what merits this distinction is based. Anatole France was not content to simply call himself a skeptic. …

The Romantic Movement Of The Nineteenth Century In Its Relation To The French Spirit, Clarence R. Wilkinson

Bachelors’ Theses

Recently some prominent German stated that our literature of to-day is cheapened, because of the vast quantities of it now printed. Ever since the invention of the printing-press made possible a wider and less expensive circulation of reading material, there has been an ever-increasing supply of printed matter. Owing to the continually-growing circle of readers, whose demands vary, there have been found writers who would cater to the lower tastes which are lurking in the nature of every man, but which the well-balanced individual crushes with the heel of his will-power. Coupled with the productions of other authors, those of …

Corneille: The Neo-Classic Tragedy And The Greek, Prosser Hall Frye

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

It is not solely the fault of our critlcs that we have no such criticism as the French; it is also the fault of our literature. To write a history of English literature like M. Lanson's history -of French literature is, even on that small scale, impossible from the nature of the subject. . To be sure, there is no such general interest in the former as in the latter. The historian or the critic who undertakes French letters finds an opinion already formed, a canon already established. His meal is at least partly ground for him; ' he has …