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The Will of the Child to Do : An Outline of Theme in Faulkner's Major Novels 1926-1936
(1962)Research for this paper has been in three main areas, and they form a triangle. besides Faulkner's books themselves, I have read, for the purpose of gaining perspective, several of his interviews from the 1950's and as ... -
The River
(1963)This is a mongrel work; let him who would read it be aware. The conception is that of a novel, though the execution results in something approximately the length of a short story. Characters are not fully sketched through ... -
A Gift of Vision: A Study in the Mythology of William Butler Yeats
(1963)If it were possible, I would like to crawl into the mind of William Butler Yeats end trace with him the history of the myth. Although we cannot become Yeats, we can, through his poetry, look at the long history of the ... -
The Mock Tournament in Middle-English and Middle-Scots Literature
(1963)Four examples of the mock gournament genre are discussed in this paper. But examples of the genre or historical references to peasant tournaments occur in all European countries, giving the genre a deeper significance. -
The Origins and Evolution of the Fable
(1963)There are several texts that I shall use in my comparison of the fable and natural history among the Ancients. Of the Aesopic texts, the most important is a collection by Ben E. Perry entitled Aesopica. These fables are ... -
Evolution for Spectators
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"Everything is Something It Isn't": A Study of the Outsider in Three Novels by Theodore Dreiser
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Three Stories
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No Native Grounds for a Native Son?
(Kalamazoo College., 1963-05-01)The paper studies the conflict in the racial and artistic responsibilities of the contemporary author James Baldwin, proceeding through an analysis of the causes of the conflict, an indication of the manifestations of the ... -
A Demonstration of an Hypothesis of the Function of Irony in Comedy and Tragedy
(1964)The purpose of this paper is to provide a demonstration of an hypothesis. This demonstration is necessarily limited by my present knowledge, but I hope nonetheless to give a broad outline of my approach which will point ... -
Evil in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe
(1964)The following essay is the result of a three-month study of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. Little use has been made of secondary materials in order that the study might be the thoughts of one student. I ... -
Nelson Algren and the "Concept of Chicago"
(1964)To most accurately discuss influences on Algren's writing, I shall attempt to use the specific interpretations that he adopted. Chief of these is the Marxist application of economic condition and superstructure ... -
A Comparison of the Themes between August Strindberg's Naturalistic and Expressionistic Plays
(1964-05-18)The purpose of this paper is to acquaint the reader with some of August Strindberg's major dramatic themes. Since so little has been written in the English language about the plays of Strindberg, the paper is to be ... -
James Agee: A Study of His Philosophy of Living and a Characterization of Style in His Prose Works
(1964-06)This paper is a result of an interest developed in James Agee late one night in the summer of 1963, when my good friend and fellow-student D. James Morrice introduced me to Agee by reading some of the powerful and ... -
The Appearance of the Poetic Character in Andrew Marvell
(1965)I propose to treat the entire work as the production of a single spirit. I will be interested in the continuity as well as the variety to be found in Marvell. Such an approach points away from the kind of criticism which ... -
Appearance and Reality in Four Comedies of Shakespeare and Sycherley
(1965)The general purpose of this paper is to understand the material in the comedies of these two playwrights within the contexts in which they were written. My approach is to take a theme as one perspective to relate the ... -
A Study of Three Literary Heroes and Their Gods
(1965)These three heroes are men who could be in any society at any time. They are disturbed by basic questions concerning every individual who is willing to take the human situation seriously. In this essay they have been shown ... -
Religion and the Drama of Some Modern English Playwrights
(1965)The author addresses the question "Why is religious drama so often bad drama?" by contrasting plays where religious themes develop naturally from the actions of the characters with those that are overtly doctrinaire or ... -
Determinism and the Function of the Past in the Novels of George Eliot
(1965)The study, which I am about to offer is a departure from the seminal article of Levine's. This introduction will be an attempt to isolate some of the specific themes which arise from George Eliot's unique artistic ...
