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  • Byron, Don Juan, and catharsis

    Creator:
    Greene, Wanda S.
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    This thesis seeks to explain how Lord George Gordon Byron achieves catharsis through the writing of his truth in Don Juan. In the poem the narrator expresses Byron's innermost emotion while at the same time the protagonist, Juan, relates to readers on a more conscious level. The ability that Byron...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Water, fire, and stone : images and meaning in Melville

    Creator:
    Martin, Brian D.
    Abstract:
    This thesis is a study of Herman Melville’s symbolism. I have chosen to investigate the elemental images of water, fire, and stone in Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852), and Clarel; A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876). This work is a semiotic study, insofar as the...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    the sun. But what does the sunrise itself signify to us? —John Ruskin. “Athena Chalinitis,” 1869

  • The practice of home

    Creator:
    Goodrich, Charles
    Abstract:
    If home is the hearth, a place of safety and centeredness, it is also the portal, the magic door. From home we go out into spaces more humanized and technologized, or into spaces more natural, more other-than-humanized. We dress up and head downtown, or we pack up and head for...
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    Masters Thesis
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    embraced the other center of value, the village, town and city. From Thoreau to John Muir to Henry Beston

  • From the encoded to the explicit in the 20th Century Irish romance : a study of Elizabeth Bowen's The last September and Edna O'Brien's The country girl's trilogy

    Creator:
    Breeden, Shobana L.
    Abstract:
    This thesis uses both feminist and new historic theories to argue that the women's romance novels The Last September (1929) by Elizabeth Bowen and The Country Girl's Trilogy (1960, 1962, 1964) by Edna O'Brien are tragic bildungsroman that subvert and challenge the Irish patriarchal marriage expectations of their respective time...
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    Lieutenant John Anderson as “an episode memorialized in Lois’ short-lived engagement to a British