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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

A study of the stylistic ramifications of Father Charles Edward Coughlin's sermons from 1930 to 1934

Creator:: Acklin, Melissa Barrett
Abstract:: During the depression era, millions of Americans listened to the weekly radio addresses given by Father Charles Edward Coughlin. He devoted his career to speaking out against the evils of America and felt it his duty to warn Americans against the perpetrators of this evil. But after 1934, the tone...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: A Study of the Stylistic Ramifications of Father Charles

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:: Victorian England, one of Charles Dickens' many concerns was the roles assigned to women both in the

Space and movement : dance, art, and the poetry of William Carlos Williams

Creator:: Hoch, Jamie
Abstract:: The Modern era, roughly the time between 1860-1930, brought about a significant restructuring of artistic mediums. From the canvas to the page, artists of the twentieth century turned towards collaboration as a means by which they could reconfigure their works. Painters, writers, and dancers, borrowed aesthetic techniques from one another...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Poetry of William Carlos Williams. Abstract approved: Tracy The Modern era, roughly the time between

Caught between two spheres : the relationship of Charles Dickens' street people to the Victorian concept of home

Creator:: Wylie, Lynne S.
Abstract:: Nineteenth-century England witnessed burgeoning urban growth and the resultant struggle of the poor to find adequate shelter. Against this backdrop, Charles Dickens was a fierce advocate for the rights of the street people of London to have sanitary and adequate housing, earning him the title of radical. By combining sentimentality...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : The Relationship of Charles Dickens' Street People to the Victorian Concept of Home. Abstract

A feminist love story : the cinematic possibilities of Shakespeare's Juliet

Creator:: Faherty, Dionna E.
Abstract:: Literary and feminist theory have recently begun to recognize William Shakespeare's character of Juliet as a possible feminist heroine, but communicating this interpretation on film will be complicated. Not only will the film need to deal with the issues of adaptation that come with moving any play onto film, but...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: begun to recognize William Shakespeare's character of Juliet as a possible feminist heroine, but

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

Creator:: Schaefer, Mimi
Abstract:: 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....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

"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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Things”: Weird Realisms in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads

The adorned and the adored : issues of sympathy and ownership in Victorian literature

Creator:: Schmuhl, Emily J.
Abstract:: This thesis is comprised of two articles that examine sympathy, material culture, and ownership in Victorian literature. In the first article, I explore the figure of the heiress in the Victorian literary tradition, focusing on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. George Eliot marked the heiress figure...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: heiress in the Victorian literary tradition, focusing on Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Charles

"'I wouldn't have believed it -- even of a white man'" : critiquing whiteness in Charles Chesnutt's "The house behind the cedars" and Nella Larsen's "Passing"

Creator:: Franks, Tricia May
Abstract:: In their respective novels, The House Behind the Cedars (1900) and Passing (1929), both Charles Chesnutt and Nella Larsen utilize racial passing, the process of a mixed-race individual living as "white," to explore the relations between black and white people during early-twentieth century America. This thesis specifically argues that Chesnutt...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: '" : critiquing whiteness in Charles Chesnutt's "The house behind the cedars" and Nella Larsen's "Passing" AN

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Hamlet's delay : an attempt at synthesis

A study of the stylistic ramifications of Father Charles Edward Coughlin's sermons from 1930 to 1934

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

Space and movement : dance, art, and the poetry of William Carlos Williams

Caught between two spheres : the relationship of Charles Dickens' street people to the Victorian concept of home

A feminist love story : the cinematic possibilities of Shakespeare's Juliet

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

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

The adorned and the adored : issues of sympathy and ownership in Victorian literature

"'I wouldn't have believed it -- even of a white man'" : critiquing whiteness in Charles Chesnutt's "The house behind the cedars" and Nella Larsen's "Passing"

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