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  • Unfinished work : reading Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth

    Creator:
    Ridinger, Angela F.
    Abstract:
    Ralph Ellison died without ever completing his second novel. After his death, the executor of his literary estate, John F. Callahan, edited Ellison's work into a novel published under the title Juneteenth. This thesis examines the problems posed by Ellison's posthumously released text, especially the issues of authorial intent and...
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    subjective and open to interpretation. In the case of Juneteenth, readers cannot even make an educated

  • "My nonsense is only their own in motley" : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ware Jr., and the "nature" of christian character"

    Creator:
    Jensen, Timothy Ward
    Abstract:
    Recent changes in the historiography of American Transcendentalism have inspired a reappraisal of the relationship between the Transcendentalist movement in New England and the pietistic wing of the Unitarian church. This thesis explores this reappraisal through a close reading of selected writings by Henry Ware Jr. in juxtaposition to the...
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    Transcendentalism. "My Nonsense is Only Their Own Thought in Motley:" Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ware Jr., and

  • The soul announces itself : Terrence Malick's Emersonian cinema

    Creator:
    Fech, Bill
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    This thesis takes an auteurist approach to the films of director Terrence Malick by reading them through the spiritual philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson. I establish Malick's thematic concern with the human struggle to achieve better existences in a broken material world, a concern buoyed by his signature aesthetic that...
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    spiritual philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson. I establish Malick’s thematic concern with the human struggle