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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 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 ... -
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 ... -
Evolution for Spectators
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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 But examples of the genre or historical references to peasant tournaments occur in all European countries, giving the genre a deeper significance. -
"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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
Mark Twain's Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows
(1965)In this paper I am attempting a new approach to the body of Mark Twain's writings: an examination of the repeated confusions of dream and reality which occur in Twain's work. From this subject I have often branched out ... -
Madness and the Search for Truth in Melville's "Mardi"
(1965)In this paper I have used the same chapter divisions of the text as Merrell Davis in his analysis Melvi11e's Mardi. I have not treated the novel in its entirety, but have tried to stick to the mad characters, their ... -
The Obscene Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter book
(1965)Among the ninety-five Riddles of the Exeter Book there are eight that have been classified as being obscene. They are also separated from the other Riddles by having intended double meanings; one innocent, the other of ...
