Image Theses and Dissertations Scarlett and Sethe: ruled by race ruled by gender : an examination of the "unredeemable woman" in twentieth-century American literature View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Dionysus Redivivus: the narrative intention of Robinson Jeffers' The Women at Point Sur Of all Jeffers' major narrative poems, The Woman at Point Sur has met with the most critical disfavor; yet it is acknowledge as perhaps the most important to the study of Jeffers. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations [Frame-and narrator technique: four short works by Joseph Conrad] The purpose of this thesis is to study the function of the technique of frame-and-narrator in four short works of Joseph Conrad: The Lagoon, Youth, Amy Foster, and Heart of Darkness. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations The dido-aeneas story in chaucer's house of fame and legend of good women One of Virgil's stories which was most frequently retold in the Middle Ages was the love story of Dido and Aeneas. The popularity of this story and the rhetorical tradition within which the Aeneid was placed makes Chaucer's choice of the Dido-Aeneas for the first part of the House of Fame significant; and his return to this story in the Legend of Good Women emphaizes his facination with the tale's potential. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations It's only a paper moon: a reading of flannery o'connor's "the artifical nigger" This thesis presents a close reading of Flannery O'Connor's short story "The Artificial Nigger." I have attempted to demonstrate that the redemption which is claimed for the major character, Mr. Head, is ironic and therefore false. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Protest, the Older Ways, and Environmental Justice in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms In her protest novel, Solar Storms, Linda Hogan explores how an environmental justice movement can emerge from dispossessed populations whose lands and culture has experienced centuries of colonialist violence and exploitation. Hogan's vision of environmental justice, this thesis project argues, responds to the challenge of history and present ruination through a turn to the indigenous lifeways of the past and a dedication to future-oriented political action. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations The story's the thing : holding up a mirror to nature in Raymond Carver's "Put yourself in my shoes" and Alice Munro's "Material" View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations A comparative study of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and The Excursion This study examines the similarities that exist between Harold of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and the Solitary of Wordsworth's The Excursion. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Isn't it pretty to think so? : theatricality and The sun also rises. Does the shadow know? the "Between" and Hemingway's "The battler". Philosophizing badly?: hypertext and the politics of empowerment View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations A critical analysis of W.B. Yeat's In the Seven Woods This thesis is a detailed analysis of In the Seven Woods, one of the early volumes of W. B. Yeats's verse. I have attempted to demonstrate that this is an important biographical document because it reflects the thoughts and emotions of the poet during a crucial period of his life. I have also examined this as an example of Yeats's practice of unifying the poems of a given volume by the repetition of key symbolic motifs. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Chaucer's monk This thesis is an examination of Chaucer's Monk. It concentrates on two questions concerning Chaucer's presentation of him: What is Chaucer's primary attitude toward the Monk, and is he consistent in his attitude toward him in the General Prologue as well as in the Monk's Prologue and in the Monk's Tale. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Elements of the unreal in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby / View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations John Donne's "The Progresse of the Soule" This thesis is an attempt to study John Donne's poetic fragment, The Progresse of the Soule, by examining the poet's life and milieu up to 1601, the critical history of the poem, the circumstances which caused Donne to write the poem, the meaning of the poem, and the relative success or failure of the poem. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Flem Snopes, the epitome of evil in Faulkner's trilogy This thesis indicates the various techniques Faulkner used to delineate the character of Flem Snopes, and shows how the author utilized several narrators to give depth to a flat character. I attempt to demonstrate, too, through notes on the text and comments by critics, how Faulkner deteriorated by his characterization of Flem, lowering him from a supermran to a lonely, pathetic figure who meets his end in no grand way, but is brought to earth by his illegitimate daughter and a "white-trash" sharecropper. View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations The transposition of the other to the place of the subject : View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Had enough of people for a while : alienation in postmodern British fiction View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations The nature of things : the positioning of the reader in Thomas Bernhard's The voice imitator View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen : the speaker's quest for power in Shakespeare's sonnets View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations Self-sacrifice as desire : Anthony Trollope's Eleanor Harding and Alice Vavasor View Item
Image Theses and Dissertations A Calibration Procedure for Measuring the Thermal Conductivity of Molten Salts at Elevated Temperatures View Item