Browsing by Subject "Criticism and interpretation"

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    • The ambiente of five Latin American novels by Graham Greene 
      Lanning, Carmen Nadine (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)
      Graham Greene has written five novels with distinctly Latin American setting: The Power and the Glory, set mainly in the rural Mexico of the 1930's; Our Man in Havana, focusing chiefly on Havana just prior to the Castro ...
    • Crane's concept of heroism : satire in the war stories of Stephen Crane 
      Shaw, Mary Ann (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)
      This study examines Stephen Crane's use of satire in The Little Regiment, "Death and the Child", "An Episode of War", Wounds in the Rain, "Spitzbergen Tales", and The Red Badge of Courage in order to understand more fully ...
    • Death and resurrection in Sean O'Casey's Ireland : solar myth and bird metaphor in the mature plays 
      O'Valle, Violet May Owen (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)
      The nine full-length plays Sean O'Casey wrote in England from 1928 to 1959 share a heavy reliance on myth, legend, and folklore. The mythopoeic whole these works form has not been readily discernible largely because it ...
    • The development of Matthew Arnold's literary criticism in his letters to Arthur Hugh Clough 
      Sims, Brenda Rowland (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)
      The Letters of Matthew Arnold to Arthur Hugh Clough leave a record of Arnold's principles of literary criticism. In these letters, Arnold developed many of the ideas that later become a part of his essays of literary ...
    • Dialectic and Antony and Cleopatra 
      Ferguson, Elaine Murman (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)
      This dissertation attempts to show that Shakespeare shapes Antony and Cleopatra in order to focus on the merits of a dialectical balance between alternate points of view. Though much has been written on the moral ambiguity, ...
    • The documentary experience : Hawthorne, Melville and the aesthetics of fancy 
      Turner, Alden Rolfe (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)
      The literary aesthetic conventions and innovations practiced in American fiction writers' recourse to historical documentary materials falls within a documentary tradition associated with the generic development of the ...
    • Edward Taylor studies from 1971-1984 : an analysis and annotated bibliography 
      Wainwright, Jana Diane (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)
      In the past fifteen years Edward Taylor has been accepted as a major figure not only in colonial literature but in American literature generally, and his poems are even found today in larger studies of world literature. ...
    • The extension of self-culture, Margaret Fuller and Emily Dickinson 
      Smith, Susan Margaret Belasco (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)
      To the Transcendentalists, "self-culture" was based on the data that each individual had the potential for perfection. Ralph Waldo Emerson's early commitment to Kantian idealism caused him to assert reality as largely ...
    • The fool : character as technique in the novels of William Faulkner 
      Ware, Cheryl Lynn (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)
      A close analysis of the fool characters in William Faulkner's novels clearly establishes the importance of this character type in Faulkner's work. Focusing on Benjy Compson in The Sound and the Fury, Ike Snopes in The ...
    • Forms and functions of black humor in the fiction of Evelyn Waugh 
      Lynch, Tibbie Elizabet (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)
      The black humor novel is a distinctive form of contemporary satire which relies heavily upon parodic structure, verbal disjunctions and truncations, and flattened characterizations. While this literary form is usually ...
    • Life and art : a classification of the artist-figures in selected fiction of Tennessee Williams 
      Cherry, Grady (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 ...
    • "A silent way unseen" : Maugham's use of nonverbal behavior in three novels 
      Fell, Katherine Rowe (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)
      The nonverbal behavior of three of W. Somerset Maugham's characters with artistic temperaments--Charles Strickland in The Moon and Sixpence, Larry Darrell in The Razor's Edge, and Edward Driffield in Cakes and Ale--provides ...
    • A Southern writer's retrospective : betrayal, rage and survival in the reconstruction fiction of Grace King 
      Williams, Carol Anne (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)
      This study is an examination of the metaphors, motifs, and symbols in the fiction of Grace Elizabeth King, a Louisianian whose work spans the period 1888-1932. It analyzes the characterization of women in her novels and ...
    • Thoreau as a free-lance journalist 
      Harrison, William Clinton (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976)
      That the author of Walden and "Civil Disobedience" also wrote for newspapers and magazines tends to be lost on Henry David Thoreau's increasing readership. Yet he referred to himself as a reporter to the gazettes and his ...
    • Women in the novels of John Updike : a critical study 
      Deen, Carol Ann Stanley (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)
      Although a few of the women characters in John Updike's early novels have received some critical consideration, there has been no thorough study of the women in all of his novels. This dissertation analyzes and evaluates ...