Isolation and Caritas: Polar Themes in Melville's The Confidence-Man (open access)

Isolation and Caritas: Polar Themes in Melville's The Confidence-Man

The thesis examines isolation and caritas, or charity, in The Confidence-Man as polar themes which express, respectively, withdrawal from and suspicion of the human community and integration within and appreciation for that community. Isolation is considered a negative theme; caritas, an affirmative theme.
Date: December 1971
Creator: Hollen, Norman V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shakespeare's Satire of the Literary and Theatrical Milieu, 1593-1603 (open access)

Shakespeare's Satire of the Literary and Theatrical Milieu, 1593-1603

The purpose of this study is to investigate the evidence of Shakespeare's satire in certain plays written during the years 1593-1603. The study examines only the satire which deals with other writers and actors and events that are connected in some way with the theater.
Date: December 1971
Creator: Kelsoe, Patricia Pitner
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Treatment of the American Dream in Three Novels by Bernard Malamud (open access)

The Treatment of the American Dream in Three Novels by Bernard Malamud

The American Dream is an established theme in much American literature from the beginning to the present. In dealing with this major theme, three critics, Leo Marx, Henry Nash Smith, and R. W, B. Lewis have evolved a cohesive definition of this complex and ambiguous vision. Three major components define the Dream: a pastoral dream of a new, fertile Eden, a success dream of financial prosperity, and a dream of world brotherhood to be realized in the new continent. These three components are examined individually in three novels by Bernard Malamud, A New Life, The Natural, and The Assistant. In these novels, Malamud asserts the failure of the American Dream, but envisions the rise of a new humanity and morality that could lead to the salvation of the American people and to a time where dreams could be reborn.
Date: December 1971
Creator: McAndrew, Sara
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey and an Annotated Bibliography of Fanny Burney Scholarship, 1920-1970 (open access)

A Survey and an Annotated Bibliography of Fanny Burney Scholarship, 1920-1970

To provide a current survey of the scholarship and an annotated bibliography on Fanny Burney from 1920-1970 for scholars and students is the purpose of this paper.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Paddack, Terence Elizabeth Howard
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Origin of the Nine Tales in Pickwick Papers (open access)

An Analysis of the Origin of the Nine Tales in Pickwick Papers

The purpose of this study is to determine whether each of the nine introduced tales in Pickwick Papers was written at the same time as the main narrative of the number in which the tale appears.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Lindley, L. Clark
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Be" in Dallas Black English (open access)

"Be" in Dallas Black English

This dissertation purposes to answer the question of whether or not the verb system of Black English in Dallas has the same features as those that characterize Black English in other sections of the country. Specifically, it describes in detail the use of the verb "be" within the speech of blacks in the Dallas metropolitan area and accounts for these usages formally within the framework of a transformational-generative grammar of the type proposed by Noam Chomsky.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Jones, Nancy (Nancy N.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cherokee Language and Culture: Can Either Survive? (open access)

The Cherokee Language and Culture: Can Either Survive?

One of the three-fold purposes of this study is to indicate the relationship between the cultural advancements of the Cherokees and the development and implementation of a written, printable language into their culture. In fulfilling a second purposes, the study emphasizes the influence of literacy on the social values of the Cherokees. The third purpose is to consider the idea of the Cherokees themselves that bi-lingual education, first in Cherokee, then in English, and a renewed national pride and productivity in literacy could go far in solving the problems of social alienation and educational negativism that exist among un-assimilated Cherokees.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Lyde, Judith Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Divine Pilgrimage of Conrad Aiken: A Study of his Poetic Quest for Personal Identity (open access)

The Divine Pilgrimage of Conrad Aiken: A Study of his Poetic Quest for Personal Identity

Because his search for self is such a dominant and important theme of his work and because it grows out of a rich tradition in western thought, it is the purpose of this thesis to examine this search and to clarify Aiken's ideas concerning the self and the methods and form he used to communicate these ideas.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Jauchen, Mary
System: The UNT Digital Library
Myth and History in Two Plays by Nicholas Rowe (open access)

Myth and History in Two Plays by Nicholas Rowe

The purpose of this study is to examine two plays by Nicholas Rowe, eighteenth-century English poet, dramatist, editor, and translator, in order to ascertain their historical content, as opposed to their mythological and fictional content.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Reedy, Mary Virginia Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Narrator of the Short Poetry of Thomas Hardy (open access)

The Narrator of the Short Poetry of Thomas Hardy

Throughout the poetry of Thomas Hardy, excluding The Dynasts, there reappears a characteristic and constant narrator device which Hardy employs to force the reader to maintain perspective and objectivity upon the action of the poems and to provide a framework of attitudes and conclusions by which the reader can judge the content of the poems.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Lyle, Mary Herring
System: The UNT Digital Library
Psycholinguistic and Neurophysiological Aspects of Language Acquisition (open access)

Psycholinguistic and Neurophysiological Aspects of Language Acquisition

The purpose of this thesis is to propose a theory of language acquisition which could serve as a basis for further studies in this area. The thesis is divided into two sections, the first dealing with the psycholinguistic aspects of language and its acquisition, and the second dealing with the activities of the brain which relate to language ability, behavior, and acquisition.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Vincent, Nora B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Samuel Johnson's Epistolary Essays: His Use of Personae in The Rambler, The Adventurer, and The Idler (open access)

Samuel Johnson's Epistolary Essays: His Use of Personae in The Rambler, The Adventurer, and The Idler

One goal of the present study is to emphasize Johnson's "talent for fiction, the range of his comic invention, and the subtlety of his tone." A substantial group of essays from all three serials, those written in the form of letters ostensibly submitted to the essayist by his readers, appears to offer many examples of the inventiveness of Johnson's mind, and it is to this group that the term epistolary essays refers. Johnson was following a well-established tradition in utilizing the device of the imaginary correspondent, but the main objective of this dissertation is to analyze the various personae which Johnson adopted in these essays.
Date: August 1972
Creator: Vonler, Veva Donowho
System: The UNT Digital Library
"A Straunge Kinde of Harmony": The Influence of Lyric Poetry and Music on Prosodic Techniques in the Spenserian Stanza (open access)

"A Straunge Kinde of Harmony": The Influence of Lyric Poetry and Music on Prosodic Techniques in the Spenserian Stanza

An examination of the stanzas of The Faerie Queene reveals a structural complexity that prosodists have not previously discovered. In the prosody of Spenser's epic, two formal prosodic orders function simultaneously. One is the visible structure that has long been acknowledged and studied, eight decasyllabic lines and an alexandrine bound into a coherent entity by a set meter and rhyme scheme. The second is an order made apparent by an oral reading and which involves speech stresses, syntactical groupings, caesura placements, and enjambments. In an audible reading, elements are revealed that oppose the structural integrity of the visible form. The lines cease to be iambic, because most lines contain some irregularities that are incongruent with the meter. The visible structure is further counterpointed by Spenser's free use of caesura and frequent employment of enjambment to create a constantly varying structure of different line lengths in the audible form. This study also examines precedents that Spenser could have known for the union of music and poetry. English lyric poetry written for existing melodies is analyzedand the French experiments with quantitative verse supported with musical settings are discussed. Special emphasis is given to the musical associations of the Orlando furioso, particularly its …
Date: August 1972
Creator: Corse, Larry B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Development of a Critical Standard for the Novel in Fraser's Magazine, 1830-1850 (open access)

The Development of a Critical Standard for the Novel in Fraser's Magazine, 1830-1850

This thesis is concerned with establishing the nature of the critical standard which Fraser's Magazine, a Victorian journal, used in evaluating the artistic merit of current English novels. Eminent critics such as William Thackeray, Thomas Carlyle, and William Maginn were associated with the magazine during its early years of publication: thus, the early numbers contain some of its most valuable criticism. Because the English novel was in a period of transition in the decade of the 1840's and the years immediately preceding and following it, this study is confined to the twenty-year period from I830 to 1850. Imitative writers of romance and novels of manners were gradually being replaced with novelists concerned with social reform and with the artistic merit of the genre itself. Thackeray's and Maginn's associations with the magazine also occurred during this period, and their literary opinions are an important indication of the magazine's critical development.
Date: December 1972
Creator: Lively, Cheryl L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fielding's Creative Psychology: A Belief in the Good-Natured Man (open access)

Fielding's Creative Psychology: A Belief in the Good-Natured Man

The philosophy of Henry Fielding turns more upon a study of human nature than upon any stated adherence to a system of beliefs. The thesis of this paper is that he was a moderate law-and-order Anglican of his time, but strongly influenced by the deist Shaftesbury's studies of the psychological characteristics of men. These inquiries into motivations and Shaftesbury's advocacy of the social virtue of desiring good for others seem to have helped determine Fielding's philosophy.
Date: December 1972
Creator: Dundas, Doris Hart
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gothic Elements in the Novels of Shirley Jackson (open access)

Gothic Elements in the Novels of Shirley Jackson

The problem with which this paper is concerned is that of tracing Gothic elements in the six complete novels of Shirley Jackson (1919-1965). Jackson's novels, magazine reviews of these novels, articles on Gothicism, and histories of English literature form the sources of data for this research project.
Date: December 1972
Creator: Cook, Bettye Alexander
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Original Poem: As Tho Until Now Such a Music Impossible, with a Comparison of Browning's "Abt Vogler" and Allen Ginsberg's "Transcription of Organ Music" (open access)

An Original Poem: As Tho Until Now Such a Music Impossible, with a Comparison of Browning's "Abt Vogler" and Allen Ginsberg's "Transcription of Organ Music"

This thesis presents an original long poem, followed by a short study of two other poems: "Abt Vogler" by Robert Browning, and "Transcription of Organ Music" by Allen Ginsberg.
Date: December 1972
Creator: Foster, Donald Allen
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of Time in Faulkner's Fiction: A Synthesis of Critical Opinion (open access)

The Role of Time in Faulkner's Fiction: A Synthesis of Critical Opinion

The purpose of this investigation is to evaluate and synthesize the conflicting views of those critics who deal with the manner in which William Faulkner conceives time in his fiction.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Rusk, James H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Byronic Hero and the Renaissance Hero-Villain: Analogues and Prototypes (open access)

The Byronic Hero and the Renaissance Hero-Villain: Analogues and Prototypes

The purpose of this study is to suggest the influence of certain characters in eighteen works by English Renaissance authors upon the Byronic Hero, that composite figure which emerges from Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the Oriental Tales, the dramas, and some of the shorter poems.
Date: August 1973
Creator: Howard, Ida Beth
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dance of Death and The Canterbury Tales: a Comparative Study (open access)

The Dance of Death and The Canterbury Tales: a Comparative Study

This paper is a discussion of parallels between John Lydgate's Dance of Death and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Date: August 1973
Creator: Massie, Marian A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mark Twain's Southern Trilogy: Reflections of the Ante-Bellum Southern Experience (open access)

Mark Twain's Southern Trilogy: Reflections of the Ante-Bellum Southern Experience

The purpose of this study is to explore Mark Twain's involvement with the southern ante-bellum experience as reflected in his Southern Trilogy, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), and Pudd'nhead Wilson. He came to denounce the South more and more vehemently in these novels, and each occupies a critical position in his artistic and philosophical growth.
Date: August 1973
Creator: Robinson, Jimmy Hugh
System: The UNT Digital Library
Political Theories in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy (open access)

Political Theories in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy

Shakespeare's second tetralogy, while in the process of exposing the divine-right and the Machiavellian theories, also shows how the divine-right order breaks down and paves the way for practical Machiavellianism.
Date: August 1973
Creator: Dashner, Debbie Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Linguistic Aspects of the Heroic Couplet in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley (open access)

Some Linguistic Aspects of the Heroic Couplet in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley

This dissertation is an examination of the characteristics of Phillis Wheatley's couplet poems in the areas of meter, rhyme, and syntax. The metrical analysis employs Morris Halle and Samuel Jay Keyser's theory of iambic pentameter, the rhyme examination considers the various factors involved in rhyme selection and rhyme function, and the syntactic analysis is conducted within the theoretical framework of a generative grammar similar to that proposed in Noam Chomsky's "Aspects of the Theory of Syntax" (1965). The findings in these three areas are compared with the characteristics of a representative sample of the works of Alexander Pope, the poet who supposedly exerted a strong influence on Wheatley, a black eighteenth century American poet.
Date: August 1973
Creator: Holder, Kenneth R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hawthorne's Concept of the Creative Process (open access)

Hawthorne's Concept of the Creative Process

Hawthorne is one among the few American writers who have dwelt on the subject of the creative process throughout his works. Through introspection and then skillfully enumerating the necessary elements of artistry, Hawthorne educated his audience in the progression of creating a piece of work. Many changes have taken place in literature since Hawthorne's time, but the basic principles set forth in his theories still hold true. Hawthorne's theories of art and his analysis of the creative process are surely among his most important contributions to literature. In the absence of a long national literary history, he mingled the Actual with the Imaginary and adapted his work to a form of the novel called Romance. With materials he could find concerning the short history of his country, he showed how past events influence the present. He examined the creative process that took place in his own work and shared with posterity the conditions under which he created.
Date: December 1973
Creator: Holland, Retta Fain
System: The UNT Digital Library