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Anti-Intellectualism in the Works of John Steinbeck
There is evidence in Steinbeck's works of anti-intellectualism which is expressed by a somewhat maudlin handling of human emotions,and by a doggedly persistent attack on various intellectual types. This attitude is further revealed in Steinbeck's personal life by his abstention from any literary coteries or universities and his adamant refusal to discuss his life and works or offer his considerable talent to any institution of higher learning.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Dodge, Tommy R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
"The Aviary Trio" : An Experiment in the Stream of Consciousness Technique and a Study of Its Theory
This thesis presents a comparison of the ideas of two philosopher-psychologists, James and Bergson, and studies the theory and techniques in the three works of fiction that comprise "The Aviary Trio."
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Lamb, Robert David
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Cleopatra: A Comparative Critique
Shakespeare's Cleopatra is a character of magnificent aspect, a puzzling paradox of magnetic intensity, an intensified diversity unmatched by any other Cleopatra in literary history. Although she was not his invention, Shakespeare made of her a living woman, believable in spite of her incredulous behavior.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Orcutt, Helen Jewell Smith
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Conflict of the Heath
The Return of the Native, and, to a lesser degree, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, served as the "darkling plain" upon which Hardy tried to pose and to solve his theories of the universe, its meanings and its duties toward man. The "darkling plain" in Hardy's works is represented by Egdon Heath and the country surrounding this heath.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Lusk, Donna Jane
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Homer's Asymmetrical Gods
The objective of this paper is not to be right about Homer's understanding and use of the gods in some absolute sense, but to enter the spiraling Homeric conversation as a lesser voice--to be right, given the paper's presuppositions and limitations.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Thrash, William H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction : Man in a Falling World
This thesis argues that Katherine Anne Porter's novel, Ship of Fools, "is not a departure from the body of Porter's work which precedes it, but a culmination in theme and technical achievement."
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Ferguson, Susan Margaret
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Language Drift in English : Gender Loss and Semantic Change
In parallel passages from Old and Middle English and in noun cognates from Modern English, Old English, and Modern German, the most discernible elements of language drift are gender loss and word meaning change, respectively. They can be observed, discussed, and calculated to show a definite progression toward the development of Modern English.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Parker, Mary A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Monomythic Pattern in Three Novels by D. H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, and Women in Love present sequentially in fictional version Lawrence's own personal journey into self-discovery in the form of a creation myth of sensual love which repeats the archetypal patterns of some of the great mythologies. It is the purpose of the following pages to show how these three novels reveal the major archetypal patterns of mythology as suggested by Joseph Campbell in his study, The Hero with A Thousand Faces.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Hoffmann, Dorothy A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Moral Judgments of Jane Austen
It is the purpose of this thesis to examine the relevance of Jane Austen's moral and social judgments for the twentieth century, in terms of insight into human nature and human relationships and of a realistic and penetrating treatment of the moral and social problems most vital to moiety in the 1960's.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Thornton, Katherine
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Patterns of Imagery in Henry James' The Ambassadors
This thesis explores the use of art, domestic, nature, religious and monetary imagery in the novel, The Ambassadors by Henry James.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Wood, Bobbye Nelson
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Phenomenology and Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism
This thesis discusses the principles of phenomenology as well as the critical theory and interrelation with the Anatomy of Criticism.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Tuck, Ralph Michael
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay
Millay and Dickinson, born more than sixty years apart, were subject to vastly different influences and environments, although their homes were in the same geographic area. Their poetry reflects the difference of their times and their own temperament, but both wrote from a great depth and understanding of feeling and experience about subjects common to all mankind - death, love, anguish, the significance of nature.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
McDonald, Henry Sue
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Primitivism and Progress in the Fiction of George S. Perry and Fred Gipson
This thesis examines the degree of primitivism in the fiction of George Sessions Perry and Fred Gipson for the purpose of determining their respective attitudes toward the effect of modern technology on rural Central Texas.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Wilson, James W.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Racial Attitudes of the White Person Toward the Black Person as Represented in Selected Works of James Baldwin
This study concerns itself primarily with James Baldwin's treatment of the attitudes he thinks most white people hold. He desires to make the white man conscious of his attitude towards Negroes and to analyze the reasons for them, and incorporates his ideas into setting, characterization, and plot.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Duke, Elizabeth Anna
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Role of Women in the Work of William Faulkner
This study attempts to categorize the major women characters of Faulkner, and with a brief description of each, cast light upon the relationship of that character to Faulkner's other women and to the author's ultimate view of womankind.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Balkman, Betty Ann
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Shadowless Soul : Parallel Ideas of Nietzsche and Swinburne
The purpose of this paper is to point out the parallels of the ideas of Nietzsche and Swinburne with the objective of exonerating Swinburne's poetry from the charge of "intellectual thinness."
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Thomas, Marilyn
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
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 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
Strife, Balance, and Allegiance : The Schemata of Will in Five Novels of D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence made the final break through the mask of Victorian prudery to gain a full conception of man and his role in the universe. His principal emphasis is on the restoration of man's conception of himself as animal, an animal capable of conceptualizing, but essentially animal all the same. In attempting to restore man to the mindless state of irrational animism, Lawrence did away with the conventional idea of man as the perfection of God's created universe. Lawrence did not conceive of man as being controller of the natural universe; he thought of man as being, like Mellors in Lady Chatterly's Lover, a warden who lives within natural order. He attacks vain intellectual sophistry of the scientific, industrial society and finds man to be a brute spirit caged by the conventions of his puny reason and his self-imposed social customs. Philosophically, he changes the emphasis from being to becoming.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Fiddes, Teresa Monahan
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
Symbolism in Coleridge's Minor Poetry
In his minor poems, Coleridge applies symbolic techniques to embellish the poetry and satisfy his spiritual needs. His symbolism allows for a release of pent-up emotions and transmits philosophical ideas in "capsule forms" rather than in historical prose, making them relate to the poetic appeal.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Madewell, Viola D'Ann
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tolkien's Elvish
"This thesis is a critical analysis of Tolkien's Elvish. This critical analysis is motivated in the same way as critiques of other aspects of literary art, such as plot, characterization, and structure. The latter are subject to critical evaluation precisely because they are a part of the writer's creative art. Elvish is also the product of the artist's creativity. The fact that Tolkien is a trained philologist and distinguished language scholar and has obviously lavished much time and effort on Elvish make this created language a valid area for analysis and criticism...in view of the extent of the available data, all that can be attempted here is a description of Elvish morphology and syntax in light of both the evidence and Tolkien's comments about it."--leaves 1-5
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Tuck, Mary Patricia
System:
The UNT Digital Library