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  • Hamlet's delay : an attempt at synthesis

    Creator:
    Cohen, Martin, 1943-
    Abstract:
    The study of the question of why Shakespeare's Hamlet delays killing Claudius in revenge for his father's murder is examined in light of the major critical theories from neo-classical to modern scholarship. An expanded treatment of the works of Fredson Bowers, Eleanor Prosser, Bertram Joseph, and Roland Frye, is provided...
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    expanded treatment of the works of Fredson Bowers, Eleanor Prosser, Bertram Joseph, and Roland Frye, is

  • The social dimension of Shakespeare's art : a Midsummer Night's Dream

    Creator:
    Schaefer, Mimi
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    The study of the social dimensions of Shakespeare's art is represented by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, C.L. Barber, Robert Weimann, Edward Berry, and Michael Bristol. Their work analyzes the background in Elizabethan social practices and popular dramatic traditions that contribute to the form, structure, and meaning of Shakespeare's comedies....
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    Max Reinhardt, Peter Hall, and Joseph Papp. This study suggests that the popular festive tradition

  • The postwar novel as postmodern : revisiting Catch-22 & Slaughterhouse-five

    Creator:
    Spreitzer, Peter
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    This thesis is an exploration of Catch-22 (1961) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), two early documents of American postmodern literature. In particular, this thesis attempts to present the critical discussions surrounding each novel as parallel to the broader theoretical discussions surrounding the concept of postmodernism. My contention is that, in both of...
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anti‐war
 messages,
Catch­22
(1961)
by
Joseph
Heller
and
Slaughterhouse­Five
(1969)
by
Kurt
 Vonnegut

  • The accessible Chaucer

    Creator:
    Luepke, Natasha M.
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    In this thesis I explore the ways in which twenty-first century Americans have access to Geoffrey Chaucer and his works. I look at issues surrounding Chaucer within the canon debate, high school history and literature textbooks, and Chaucer in popular culture, such as in movies like A Knight's Tale. I...
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    William Shakespeare. I seek to avoid that rhetoric in my own work, in that I view reading of any kind

  • "Born of ourselves" : gendered doubling and the femme fatale in Vernon Lee's ghost stories

    Creator:
    Delf, Liz
    Abstract:
    This thesis examines the characterization of the femme fatale and the implications of this trope for late-Victorian gender and sexuality in the ghost stories of female aesthete Vernon Lee. In her treatment of the femme fatale figure, Lee both reinforces and complicates the image of the sexualized, often bestialized woman...
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    his brother William against visiting the “tiger-cat” Lee at the Pagets’ home in Florence and

  • A form with a message : didacticism, adolescence, and femininity in young adult novels

    Creator:
    Davenport, Mattie R.
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    In this thesis, I discuss the uses of two different forms of young adult novels for relaying messages about adolescence and femininity to adolescents from adult authors. I explore the traditional and organized quest narrative as written by Anne McCaffrey in her Harper Hall Trilogy with a young female hero....
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    purposes of explaining and detailing the necessities of the quest, I turn to Joseph Campbell‟s The Hero

  • Literacy narratives across the curriculum

    Creator:
    Coffey, Marjorie D.
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    This thesis proposes expanding the locations where literacy narratives are currently used as readings and as writing assignments and considering broad conceptions of the types and uses of literacy narratives read in classrooms. In particular, this thesis asserts the value of expanding the literacy narratives read beyond the current canonical...
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  • An autumn journey : time, place, and pattern in Henry David Thoreau's later work

    Creator:
    Dotterman, Anthony Matthew
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    This thesis situates a discussion of Thoreau's later natural history essays in the context of the author's other writings. Beginning with an examination of the writings of Thoreau's friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, this paper examines Thoreau's relation to and departure from Emerson's understanding of time, place, and pattern...
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    Thoreau's Transcendental allegiances. To quote William Rossi: "Now that the once potent myth of Thoreau's

  • 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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    "killed his kinsman and neighbor William Chaworth in a duel in a London club in 1765 following a drunken

  • Aliens and academics : how cultural representations of alien abduction support an entrenched consensus reality

    Creator:
    Bryan, Frederick Clark
    Abstract:
    The alien abduction phenomenon has garnered considerable media attention in the last fifteen years, including many representations in books, film, and television. An overview of significant abduction literature is presented. Contrasts and comparisons are noted between popular written accounts and both the visual representations they engender and reports outside the...
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    things in heaven and earth Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. William Shakespeare3