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  • King Lear and Contemporary Critics 
    Manion, Frederick Paul S.J. (2012-05-18)
    It is idle to conjecture as to which of the Four Great Tragedies is greatest. As one writer has put it, the reader is always inclined to judge as the greatest the one he has read most recently. However this may be, King ...
  • John Buchan the Romantic 
    Batte, Mary John Thomas, Sister (2012-05-18)
    INTRODUCTION: JOHN BUCHAN, THE MAN When Lord Tweedsmuir came to Canada in the Fall of 1935 as Governor General, he was a noted man of letters, author of many popular novels, a biographer, poet, and historian. While many ...
  • A History of the Criticism of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure 
    Boettcher, Jacques G. (2012-05-18)
    The play Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare has possibly suffered more abusive criticism than any other play by Shakespeare with the exception of Hamlet. The important thing to be considered in this matter is not ...
  • The Functions of Dramatic Structure in Death of A Salesman 
    Holecek, Sister Mary Bettina S.S.N.D. (2012-05-18)
    Certain branches of scientific literary criticism have not advanced significantly in some two thousand years since Aristotle wrote his Poetics. Consequently, one result of the abundant critical activity carried on during ...
  • Essays In Explanation: W.B. Yeats's Definitions of Art and Culture 
    Johnson, Patricia Ann A.B. (2012-05-18)
    A COAT I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; Any study of William Butler Yeats is complicated. The complications arise, primarily, from the personal contrived elusiveness ...
  • Emerson and Rome 
    Mehen, Sister Francis Bernard I.H.M. (2012-05-18)
    New England, in the opening years of the nineteenth century, was religious--very religious and very Protestant. I do not mean by this that the prevailing religious tendencies were necessarily anti-Catholic, but rather, ...
  • The Earth Philosophy of George Meredith 
    Archbold, Ruth Grace (2012-05-18)
    The scientific question of how and the accompanying philosophic why an individual reacts to his environment has always been an object of interest. Yet there are but few techniques available to investigate why an individual ...
  • Dryden as a Political Satirist In Absalom and Achitophel 
    Biros, Sister Mary Bonaventure O.P. (2012-05-18)
    Satire and the satirists have been in evidence in all ages of the world's history. Satire has always ranked as one of the cardinal divisions of literature, and it has been distinctly cultivated by men of genius. This was ...
  • A Critical Study of Pre-Raphaelitism and Rossetti's Divergence From Its Original Doctrine 
    Aumann, Edna Elizabeth (2012-05-18)
    Pre-Raphaelitism has a deeper significance and a fuller connotation in the field of art and literature than anyone thesis can hope to reveal and evaluate. Explanations concerning the word alone have been many and varied, ...
  • The Critical Principles of William Dean Howells 
    Affeldt, Robert James (2012-05-18)
    BIOGRAPHY William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 -- Ma y 11, 1920), novelist, leader of American letters for the quarter-century ending in 1920, was born at Martin's Ferry, Belmont County, Ohio. His ancestry was mixed, a Welsh ...
  • Congreve's Use of Women Characters In Plot Motivation 
    Kelleher, Rose Katherine (2012-05-18)
    However much they may disagree as to the morality of Congreve's plays, literary critics do agree that in his work we find the summation of that high type of Comedy of Manner s perfected during the period of the Restoration ...
  • A Concordance to the English Poems of Richard Crashaw 
    Brown, Sister Mary Georgia R.S.M. (2012-05-18)
    The poetic stature of Richard Crashaw has probably been more variously assessed than that of any other poet of his day. Even among those critics who have recognized genius in him, there has been considerable difference of ...
  • Common Themes in the American World War II Novel 
    Joyce, William Kelly Jr (2012-05-18)
    The idea of investigating the World War II novel first presented itself to me when I was on duty as an active member of the Armed Forces during the Korean Police Action. I read what was being written about the Korean ...
  • Blair's Rhetoric In Relation To Eighteenth Century Aesthetics 
    Babel, Simon Edward (2012-05-18)
    Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres is a celebrated work which belongs to the realm of rhetoric. It was used widely as a guide and text in rhetorical study and intellectual discipline during the nineteenth ...
  • A Study of the Parallelism and Evolution In the Imagery of Gerard Manley Hopkins 
    Mlodzik, Mary Nazaria, Sister (2012-05-18)
    The main purpose of this paper is to show how the imagery of Gerard Manley Hopkins' verse is drawn from the notes in his Journal and to study the evolution to the fixed and definite forms of his imagery. Although Hopkins ...
  • Some Aspects of the Renaissance As Reflected in the Works of Christopher Marlowe 
    Brown, M. Rose Ellen, Sister (2012-05-18)
    The purpose of this thesis is to show that Christopher Marlowe is an exponent of the Renaissance in that one can detect some aspects of that age reflected in his works. Before considering the personality of Marlowe, the ...
  • Social Satirists in the Novels of Thackeray 
    Bruce, Alice Marie (2012-05-18)
    The subject of William Makepeace Thackeray an d his work has been but barely explored in consideration of the possibilities for study in a figure so significant of his age. The most complete and valuable critical work ...
  • Shakespeare's Change From Tragedy to Dramatic Romance 
    Bachand, Sister Joan of Arc O.P. (2012-05-18)
    Scholars have long noted a difference in the type of play represented in the various periods of Shakespeare's career. Three types were commonly recognized as the chief on the Elizabethan stage: comedy, tragedy, and history. ...
  • Rhetorical Devices as Means of Expressing the Emotions 
    Brady, Charles Ernest (2012-05-18)
    PREFACE In reading the works assigned for class study, the writer was impressed with the ability of some authors to express emotion. His interest was increased when he noticed that two men could write on the same subject ...
  • The Rhetorical and Critical Theories of Alfred Lord Tennyson 
    Allard, Helen Bullis (2012-05-18)
    The purpose of this paper is to set forth the results of a study from original sources of the rhetorical and critical theories of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. In a study of this sort, without doubt the best sources of information ...

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