Browsing by Subject "Major English"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1995)The textual critic of literature must be able to see a work in its aesthetic nature to recover it, and the concepts of the autonomy of the individual work and its corollary, the ideal intrinsic unity of that work, help ...
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(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 ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1975)When critics focus on Caroline Gordon's Southern fiction, which includes two collections of short stories and eight of her nine novels, they most often evaluate or praise her craftsmanship in fictional technique or in her ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)Thomas Hardy's works are eminently adaptable to film because they are dramatic in nature and cinematic in technique. His love for the theatre is reflected in his plots involving "actors," his view of life as a theatrum ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)What writers of composition texts have written about coherence is not useful to teachers or students. The valuative nature of the language they use to describe coherence does not further instruction. They confuse three ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)In 1797 Coleridge's main philosophical concern involved the "causae causarum": the fundamental causes of evil and suffering. The immediate physical causes of evil that had earlier held his attention, such as Property, ...
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(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 ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Immediately following the fall of Napoleon after Waterloo, the Bourbons regained power in France and, among others, Marshal Ney and Colonel La Bedoyere went to trial. The trials were instruments of revenge, and both Ney ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1972)This dissertation is an examination of the extent to which the themes of retirement and solitude appear in the major prose works of Samuel Johnson, his application of the themes, and some of the ends to which he uses the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)This dissertation analyzes the 635 Spectator papers to determine how they depict women and to see how this depiction compares with those of other contemporary authors. After a look at the historical and literary backgrounds ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1990)Not available
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(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 ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)The sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson form a narrative which tells the story of a protagonist who would become a "genuine man." Tracing Emerson's personal and philosophical development for the years 1826-1832, the sermons ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1979)Melville's "Mardi" contains a largely unexplicated body of philosophical discussions and discourses which depict his extensive intellectual development during the two years in which the book was written (Spring 1847 to ...
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(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. ...
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(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 ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)Thomas Bangs Thorpe won a lasting place in Southwestern humor with "The Big Bear of Arkansas," a tall tale epitomizing the "rip-roaring" frontiersman's yarn. Thorpe's other sketches have faded into obscurity. This study ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)Although critical analyses of O'Casey's later plays include references to myth, the references are in general rather than specific terms. For the first time, three representative plays by O'Casey, of three different genres, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)The purpose of this study is to determine how a select group of adolescents constructs written stories about personal experience, how they make use of the syntactic resources of English to encode information in narrative, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1972)Pericles, a popular play based on the old legend of Apollonius of Tyre and produced in London sometime between 1605-08, has long been the subject of scholarly conjecture. Although all contemporary sources attribute the ...