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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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

Creator:: Davis, Caryn M.
Abstract:: At first glance, Edgar Rice Burroughs's wildly popular romantic fantasy novel, Tarzan of the Apes (1912), and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist science fiction-utopian novel, Herland (1915), with its dystopian companion, With Her in Ourland (1916), may appear to have little in common. Tarzan celebrates the human connection with wild nature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland Abstract approved: Peter J. Betjemann At first glance, Edgar

"Present fears" and "Horrible Imaginings" : Gothic elements in Shakespearean Tragedy

Creator:: Appel, Ian S.
Abstract:: Gothic literary works are characterized as such by their ability to represent and evoke terror. The form this representation takes is varied; often terror originates in the atmospheric effects of settings, in the appearance of mysterious, supposedly supernatural phenomena, and, perhaps most significantly, in the behavior of villainous characters. Shakespearean...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! M.H. Abrams allows for this diversity of applications in his

Under the Shadow of this Red Rock: Reading T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land for its Places, Persons, and Poetics

Creator:: Summers, Stephen James
Abstract:: Thomas Stearns Eliot’s 1922 modernist poem The Waste Land presents itself as an alternative to the decaying society Eliot found himself inhabiting. It begins as a personal means of pulling together one’s fragmented consciousness, but in doing so Eliot manages to present a solution to a world of selfishness—looking beyond...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: . Likewise, William Yeats’ “Easter, 1916” and Milton’s “On the Massacre in Piedmont” all expound a

American Literature in the South

Creator:: Currin, Lillie Florence and Adams, Kate D.
Abstract:: Literature is recorded thought or knowledge; the aggregate of books and other publications, in either an unlimited or a limited sense; the collective body of literary productions in general, or within a particular sphere, period, country or language. In a restricted sense, the class of writings in which expression and...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis
Full Text:: group of writers. Among-the poets of the South during this early period,, Edgar Allan Poo alone arose

Women's voices : the emergence of female identity in Bleak House and Little Dorrit

Creator:: Van Ras, Tamara L.
Abstract:: Dedicated to recording, portraying, and indicting the social inequities that he witnessed in nineteenth century Victorian England, one of Charles Dickens' many concerns was the roles assigned to women both in the public and private spheres. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the narratives of Amy Dorrit and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: through the use of fairy tale imagery and language. Amy Dorrit is the youngest child of William

Cutting off the Medusa's head : mythological transcendence in Emily Brontë and Eudora Welty

Creator:: Caputi, Roseanne Pascalette
Abstract:: The purpose of this project is to draw a more explicit connection between Eudora Welty and the literary influence Emily Brönte had on her, revealing Welty as a writer who is more integrated into literary tradition and history than many readers and critics have acknowledged. Both writers rely heavily on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: their inhabitants. I thought, "Nothing new there." I had been reading William Faulkner and Carson

Vibrant colors, transient shadows : woman artists and the brushstrokes of impressionist sensibility in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

Creator:: Kondrack, Kayleen Rose
Abstract:: This thesis explores the artistic imperatives and internal struggles of women painters in two novels, Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927). I identify Chopin's Edna Pontellier and Woolf’s Lily Briscoe as painters who exhibit Impressionist strains, both in how they paint and how they...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Imperative: Contrary to William Bankes’ Standpoint ............... 61 “The Window” into Domestic Space

Rational Madmen : Monomania in Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” and Stedman’s “How Old Brown Took Harpers Ferry”

Creator:: Green, Paisley
Abstract:: In this project, I explore the use of monomania as a literary and rhetorical device that pathologizes deviance from certain norms—in this case, sexual and political norms— and allows for contradiction, dissonance, and reform. Using Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark” and Edmund Clarence Stedman’s poem “How Old Brown Took...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: studies in particular. When reading a text with an unreliable narrator—say, Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell

Vicarious power : masculinity, access and the hard-boiled detective

Creator:: Winsor, Shiloh
Abstract:: Dashiell Hammett's fiction and detective pulps generally, offered the reader a chance to participate in vicarious power, by giving them a sense of the profession of detection, both in and out of the stories. It was the realism of the detective figure that allowed the audience to relate to him....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . In the hard- boiled story, order is not even really attempted, and 8 Recurring character in Edgar

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Hamlet's delay : an attempt at synthesis

Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

"Present fears" and "Horrible Imaginings" : Gothic elements in Shakespearean Tragedy

Under the Shadow of this Red Rock: Reading T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land for its Places, Persons, and Poetics

American Literature in the South

Women's voices : the emergence of female identity in Bleak House and Little Dorrit

Cutting off the Medusa's head : mythological transcendence in Emily Brontë and Eudora Welty

Vibrant colors, transient shadows : woman artists and the brushstrokes of impressionist sensibility in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

Rational Madmen : Monomania in Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” and Stedman’s “How Old Brown Took Harpers Ferry”

Vicarious power : masculinity, access and the hard-boiled detective

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