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A Critical Approach To Homiletic Literature, Winthrop H. Richardson
A Critical Approach To Homiletic Literature, Winthrop H. Richardson
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
A critical study of the literary values contained in homiletic writing demands at the outset a careful consideration of what differentiates literature from mere language. Following a line of distinction made by Professor Albert Guerard of Stanford, literature may be defined from two points of view: technique and intention.
A more exalted concept is furnished by the philosophy of James Russell Lowell, as it has been paraphrased by Norman Foerster: “Literature is the ideal representation of human nature…”
Recognizing the fact that literature involves “overtones of the soul” (Guerard), or “spiritual imagination” (Foerster), we are forced to depart from the …
A Historical Study Of The Theatre Of The Mother Lode During The Gold Rush Period, Berton Everett Trulsson
A Historical Study Of The Theatre Of The Mother Lode During The Gold Rush Period, Berton Everett Trulsson
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
Many events of the gold rush have been adequately narrated in numerous books and articles. The succeeding pages in this thesis will recall, historically by topic, important incidents of one phase of that period never before treated as a separate study that phase is the theatre of the Mother Lode region.
The argonauts of the Mother Lode wanted to be entertained and could pay for it. Many preferred the saloon and gamboling hall, but the theatre did not languish because of this, and in fact, developed in some instances directly out of the saloons and fandango halls.
It was the …