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Browning's Literary Reputation: 1833-1870 (open access)

Browning's Literary Reputation: 1833-1870

The purpose of this thesis is to present English opinion of Robert Browning, contemporary with him, from the anonymous publication in 1833 of his first poem, Pauline, through the appearance in 1868-69 of what is agreed to be his masterpiece, The Ring and the Book. This study will consider the acceptance of each of Browning's publications, in chronological order of their appearance.
Date: August 1961
Creator: Shelton, John A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Eccentrics of Tobias Smollett's Novels (open access)

The Eccentrics of Tobias Smollett's Novels

Tobias Smollet's purpose in writing was twofold: to entertain the reader and to satirize man and his society. To accomplish his aim, the author created eccentric personalities in the old Elizabethan humour convention. This thesis looks at Smollet's characterizations, especially of the eccentrics, in his novels.
Date: August 1961
Creator: Shockley, Glenn R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dominant Themes in the Novels of Ernest Hemingway (open access)

Dominant Themes in the Novels of Ernest Hemingway

This thesis proposes to show that Hemingway's novels reveal a change of attitude which culminates in an increased faith in the ultimate goodness and dignity of man.
Date: January 1961
Creator: Davis, James Bert
System: The UNT Digital Library
Don Juan in Hell: a Key to Reading Shaw (open access)

Don Juan in Hell: a Key to Reading Shaw

Since George Bernard Shaw claims that the third act of Man and Superman is a complete commentary on his philosophy, this thesis is a revealing of the philosophy demonstrated in the Dream Scene, and it is an intensive study of the third act based upon a reading of the play.
Date: August 1961
Creator: Hanks, Harry S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of the American Abroad in the Fiction of Ernest Hemingway (open access)

Characterization of the American Abroad in the Fiction of Ernest Hemingway

With the exception of To Have and Have Not, the novels of Ernest Hemingway are set outside the United States; all, however, contain American characters. These Americans might be divided into three categories: American tourists; Americans who live abroad, but either do not like it or are not completely adjusted to it; the Hemingway heroes, characteristically American expatriates who are completely adjusted to and accepted in their alien environments. Toward the tourists, he maintains an attitude of contempt; toward the middle group, his attitude varies from disgust to sympathy; the heroes are, in various guises, Hemingway the expatriate, himself.
Date: August 1961
Creator: Jordan, R. A. (Rosan A.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metamorphosis: William Faulkner's Incorporation of Short Stories into Longer Narratives (open access)

Metamorphosis: William Faulkner's Incorporation of Short Stories into Longer Narratives

This study analyzes these stories in their original and later forms, both to discover the types of changes Faulkner made and to determine whether or not he followed any pattern in the revisions.
Date: January 1961
Creator: Faught, Patsy Kelley
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Criticism in the Works of John Steinbeck (open access)

Social Criticism in the Works of John Steinbeck

This thesis is a study of John Steinbeck's observations and opinions during twenty-eight years of writing about the relationships between people of difference economics and social classes.
Date: January 1961
Creator: Penner, Allen Richard
System: The UNT Digital Library
Differences in Katherine Mansfield and Anton Chekhov as Short Story Writers (open access)

Differences in Katherine Mansfield and Anton Chekhov as Short Story Writers

The purpose of this study is to examine the extent of Katherine Mansfield's literary indebtedness to Anton Chekhov. Throughout the critical writing about Mansfield there are many suggestions that her work is similar to that of Chekhov, but, these allusions are, for the most part, vague in pointing out specific likenesses.
Date: January 1961
Creator: Rowland, John N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dostoyevsky's American Reputation to 1930 (open access)

Dostoyevsky's American Reputation to 1930

Undoubtedly, Dostoyevsky's influence upon the novel is great, but, even yet, few concrete studies have been made and no full-length study has been published. It is hoped that this account of Dostoyevsky's reputation in America during the 1920's will be of assistance in the greater task of tracing Dostoyevsky's influence.
Date: June 1961
Creator: Lacy, Dallas L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of the Mask in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill (open access)

The Use of the Mask in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill

The purpose of this thesis is to indicate the use of the mask by Eugene O'Neill. It is probably possible to say that the mask has been used or implied in all of O'Neill's works, but this thesis will be confined to discussion of the works in which the mask or the implication of the mask is specifically evident.
Date: June 1961
Creator: Rasco, Roger Curtiss
System: The UNT Digital Library
Naturalism in the Novels of Frank Norris (open access)

Naturalism in the Novels of Frank Norris

Considered as a whole, the seven novels written by Frank Norris contain enough of naturalism to justify classifying him as a naturalist. His failure to fully comprehend the implications of the naturalistic philosophy results in both strengths and weaknesses. He fails in The Octopus to maintain the objective point of view that the naturalists set for themselves, and a looseness of conception and a diffuseness of effect result. By allowing the ranchers freedom of choice in the matter of the means to be employed against the railroad, he achieves something very close to tragedy. Vandover, too, has a choice, and the novel suffers as a study in determinism, but Vandover becomes a more interesting character than he would have been without will.
Date: August 1961
Creator: Hazlerig, Jack O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Tragedy of Shakespeare's Hotspur (open access)

The Tragedy of Shakespeare's Hotspur

It seems obvious that Shakespeare was interested in Hotspur as something more than a strictly historical character. The firey character found in I Henry IV is no longer recognized as the Ill-fated rebel from Holinshed and Daniel. Holinshed offers only a spark which Shakespeare uses to build a very real flame. The events leading up to the rebellion and the rebellion itself are historical, but the name of Hotspur in Holinshed is no more outstanding than that of Worcester, Glendower, or any of the other rebels. In Shakespeare's drama no other rebel character even approaches the development of Hotspur.
Date: August 1961
Creator: Wright, Eugene Patrick, 1936-
System: The UNT Digital Library