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The Concept of Leadership in Modern American War Novels
This thesis explores the topic of leadership through the war novels of: Styron and Uris, Jones, Mailer and Shaw, Cozzens, Hersey and Heller and finally, Wouk and Michener.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Wiggins, Stanley C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Shakespeare's Richard III: The Sources for his Characterization and Actions in the First Tetralogy
A thorough study of the progressive development of the description of Richard in the sources of Shakespeare's play and a comparison of the results of such a study with Shakespeare's portrait may make possible a deeper and clearer understanding of the character of the man as well as some further insight into the methods of Shakespeare's art.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Bender, Connie Patterson
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Byron's Approaches to Reality in Don Juan
Don Juan was Byron's effort to come to terms with the reality of his own environment, and he demanded the liberty to try to understand life and to present his conclusions without editorial or social oppression. It is an examination of the problem of appearance and reality; as a satire, the poem attacks appearances maintained by hypocrisy by placing them against the background of reality which is apparent to Byron.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Sircy, Otice C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dostoevsky and the Irresistible Idea
The primary goal of this paper is to investigate the phenomenon of a dream, a desire, or an idea transpiring in the thoughts of an individual, growing in importance to the individual, and finally becoming an idée fixe, or irresistible idea, which cannot be suppressed by the individual. The investigation will be concerned with the two of Dostoevsky's heroes who best exemplify the phenomenon.
Date:
January 1968
Creator:
Jones, Kenneth R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Shakespeare's Use of the Melancholy Humor
The purpose of this study is to define what melancholy meant during the English Renaissance, to throw some light on the origins and types of melancholy which became dominant in the thought and literary expression of the period, and to examine the various melancholy types among Shakespeare's characters.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Choi, Young Ju
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Epic Strain in Joseph Conrad
This thesis will attempt to show that the three major works of Conrad's middle period -- Nostromo, The Secret Agent, and Under Western Eyes -- are essentially literary epics.
Date:
January 1968
Creator:
Witt, Dorothy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Representation of Father-Son Relations in the Major Novels of Samuel Clemens
John Marshall Clemens was a failure, as a man, as a husband, and as a father. It is his lack of emotion, his inability to express or receive love, with which this thesis is mainly concerned, for it is his emotional vacuum that so greatly affected his fourth son, Samuel Clemens.
Date:
June 1968
Creator:
Coplin, Merritt Keith
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Solitary Dissenter : A Study of Emily Dickinson's Concept of God
The province of this paper, therefore, is to reveal Emily Dickinson's concept of God which resulted from her personal confinement and subsequent delving as a "solitary dissenter."
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Elliott, Gary D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library