Browsing by Subject "English"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)Research into attitudes about American English (AE) held by a native and nonnative English (EFL) speakers depends on a number of related disciplines: dialectology, sociolinguistics, and EFL pedagogy (TEFL). Because linguists ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)This dissertation is an annotated, descriptive bibliography of the 947 items in the Herbert J. Frost/W. Somerset Maugham Collection housed in Sterling C. Evans Library at Texas A&M University. Of these, the 464 primary ...
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(2016-04-26)When the Supreme Court of the United States guaranteed the right to marry for same-sex couples in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, 2015, the issue of integrating the LGBTQ community into society was propelled into the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)Literature written for children and set in Texas began in 1855 and continues to the present, but consideration of it as literature has been confined to cataloging and brief, annotated bibliographies. This study concerns ...
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(2010-07-14)How do we explain when high school students graduate and are barely able to communicate Spanish? With the growth of global interdependence, students within the United States need to be realistically prepared for an ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1975)Throughout his writing career, Mark Twain employed creative fantasies, dreams, memories, and reveries based upon aberrations influencing his childhood and personal tragedies marring his young adulthood as sources for ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)A synthesis of theories of the creative process suggests that creating takes place in recursive stages, demands varied modes of cognitive functioning, and requires the commitment to produce effective innovation. Of these ...
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(2014-11-12)This dissertation investigated two issues: cross-language transfer among three typologically distant languages—Korean, English, and Chinese—and the language learning motivation of Korean students as it relates to two foreign ...
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Death and resurrection in Sean O'Casey's Ireland : solar myth and bird metaphor in the mature plays (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 ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1990)Not available
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)The purpose of this study is to investigate the child's use of metaphor, a topic not yet been pursued by linguists concerned with the acquisition of language. The first section of this study is a historical sketch of ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)This is a study of how insights into the process of reading can enhance our understanding of two novels by Thomas Hardy--Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the d'Urbervilles. The process of reading may be seen as a ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)The theme of incest pervades much of the work of William Faulkner. It appears in the early writing and the late, in the Yoknapatawpha books and those outside the cycle; it is found in a variety of different relationships ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1973)The relationship between Sir Philip Sidney, renowned Elizabethan courtier and writer, and the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno has not been satisfactorily established, nor has the effect of that relationship on Sidney's ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1975)The novels of Charles Williams are often described as "supernatural thrillers;" they might also be described as Hermetic adventures. To understand what Hermetism meant to Williams and how it is expressed in the novels he ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1978)Prom approximately 1675 until 1700, John Dryden and John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave were allied as poet and patron. Dryden received financial assistance as well as encouragement from his patron. More important, Dryden and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1975)While there are a number of conditions which have contributed to the continued neglect of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755), perhaps the major one is the sheer magnitude of material to be found in ...