Browsing by Subject "Major English"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)George Whitefield, a widely known evangelist in the eighteenth century, preached thousands of sermons in his lifetime. At his death in 1770, he left behind approximately 110 published sermons. Seventy-five of these sermons ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1972)Those of Melville's critics who note his ambiguity usually react in one of two ways. Either they try to solve his ambiguity, or they decide that his "art" is hopelessly confused. My study maintains, however, that instead ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)Virginia Woolf's private writing shows that her perceptions were not "the usual." Her diaries, letters, and memoirs, non intended for publication, reveal her almost in the act of perceiving. Acute perceptions and subjective ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1995)Published in 1686, John Shirley's The Illustrious History of Women is one of the numerous works about women by men, so popular in the seventeenth century. More properly a catalogue than actual history, this text is a ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)The internal audience is an identifiable character or characters addressed within a literary or rhetorical work. The external audience is a reader or listener, real or implied, who is not in the presence of the speaker. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1973)South western author J. Frank Dobie (1888-1964) developed intellectually through along lifetime with his books blending tale, history, and natural history published from 1929 into the years after his death. The writings ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)The purpose of this dissertation was to discover, through a comparative study of Donne's Essays in Divinity and Sermons and Hooker's Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, to what extent John Donne followed Richard Hooker's ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)Leadership and its development are examined in terms of their integral language features. These language features are identified as an essential key to more efficient leadership training. As an interdisciplinary undertaking, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)Even before his death Alexander the Great had become the subject of much speculation and exaggeration. The unprecedented magnitude of his accomplishments, his motives, and his relationship to the gods all contributed to ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)Because they seek in varying ways to correlate life and art - some succeeding, most failing - it becomes necessary to adopt a system of classification to cover the ways of the artist-figures in Tennessee Williams' fiction ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1995)The story of Griselda and Walter in Chaucer's version the
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)Without defining another subgenre of the novel, this study calls the centripetal/centrifugal, open-ended forms of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, James Joyce's Ulysses, and John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse, encyclopaedic ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)When Paul Blackburn died in 1971 at age forty-four, his few books of poetry were out of print; some of them were exceedingly rare. Friends of the poet, seeking to rectify this and make his work better known, posthumously ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1973)From the earliest period in his poetic life Shelley's mission was to reform the world. But his passion was for reform far broader and more inclusive than simply a change in social manners and institutions. It was an ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)This study investigates the function of game-play as a structuring device in modern fiction and proposes a formal paradigm for fictional narratives using the rhetoric of play. It surveys the philosophical, psychological, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)When critics talk about the use of language in Theater of the Absurd plays, they often mention that part of its effect comes from its similarity to everyday talk. One of the key features in both everyday conversation and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1972)Far from being a fixed, artificial form, the sonnet is a generic type of lyric poem capable of flexible but balanced perfect lyrical expression of a single thought or emotion, encompassing within a few lines both a ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)Smollett's use of comic grotesque and absurd effects is one of the most outstanding qualities of his last novel, Humphry Clinker. This dissertation describes patterns of rhetoric that Smollett uses to create these effects. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1972)Much of the critical attention focused on the seven novels of Saul Bellow deals with the philosophy he develops. Critics note the general affirmation of his thought as opposed to the generally prevailing literary nihilism. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1989)The child is an essential figure in Thomas Hardy's fiction, and Hardy's concept of childhood is intimately related to his vision of life. In the novels of character and environment-Under the Greenwood Tree, Far From the ...