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

    Creator:
    Martin, Brian D.
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    the sun. But what does the sunrise itself signify to us? —John Ruskin. “Athena Chalinitis,” 1869

  • "The life of things" : weird realisms in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads

    Creator:
    England, Saara Amelia
    Abstract:
    My thesis explores the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth as emblematic of Western philosophy and literature's longstanding preoccupation with the relationship between mind and matter. The poets' attempts to mediate their languages and sensibilities with "real nature" have a complicated legacy for today's readers, as Romantic literature...
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    both sides of the Atlantic; and was considered one of the “two seminal minds of the age,” as John