Browsing Theses/Dissertations - English Language and Literature by Title
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Between two worlds and between the lines : a reading of the supernatural in James Hogg's fiction.
(2010-10-08)I examine James Hogg's portrayal of the supernatural in The Shepherd's Calendar, The Three Perils of Man, The Three Perils of Woman, and The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. To do so, I use terminology ... -
Body and mind of violence : the early works of Bernard MacLaverty.
(, 2012-11-29)Bernard MacLaverty's often critically ignored early works embody and consider anti‐violence rhetoric not limited to the concurrent Troubles of his native province, as well as model a process of coming to terms with a ... -
"Books with more in them" : reading and imagination in the novels of George Eliot.
(, 2012-08-08)This thesis examines the connections between reading and the imagination in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda. The ideal imagination, for Eliot, is both sympathetic and reality-infused, ... -
Charles Dickens’s Bleak house: Benthamite jurisprudence and the law, or what the law is and what the law ought to be.
(2008-06-09)Dickens’s foggy world of the nineteenth-century Chancery Court is famous, and infamous, for keeping its litigants in a constant and never-ending state of legal confusion, costs, and “conglomeration” (Bleak House 1873 I: ... -
Chesterton and his interlocutors: dialogical style and ethical debate on eugenics.
(2007-12-04)Before Nazi Germany’s eugenic practices had been completely exposed and denounced, G. K. Chesterton, a British writer best known for his fiction and Roman Catholic apologetics, published Eugenics and Other Evils in 1922. ... -
A collaborative work of art in action: the 1979 American Book of Common Prayer, Rite II.
(2006-11-22)In his book, Art in Action, Nicholas Wolterstorff argues that a work of art can only truly be understood within the context of its action. This paper presents the Eucharistic Rite II of the 1979 American Book of Common ... -
Coming to terms : spiritual autobiography, constitutive rhetoric, and religious identity in the composition classroom.
(2015-07-07)Building on current scholarship indicating the need for students' spiritual identities to be welcomed in the academy, this argument proposes using the reading and writing of spiritual autobiography to prompt students' ... -
“Copies of life, and models of conduct” : realism and female virtue in the novels of Charlotte Lennox, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen.
(2015-07-23)In the field of British literature, it is well established that during the eighteenth century the novel came into being as a genre with distinct characteristics, namely, realism. It is also well established that the ... -
Cormac McCarthy's heroes : narrative perspective and morality in the novels of Cormac McCarthy.
(2008-10-14)Critics writing on Cormac McCarthy often note the striking paucity of revelations of interior thought in his novels. James Bowers, for instance, claims that few modern writers reject “the Joycean tradition of interiority” ... -
Debating nature : revising pastoral in Hawthorne's America.
(, 2012-08-08)In 1849, Ralph Waldo Emerson gave Nathaniel Hawthorne a presentation copy of his second edition of the famous essay Nature. Hawthorne’s three American romances composed over the next three years – The Scarlet Letter (1850), ... -
E-textuality, e-medieval, e-Malory : the rebirth of Le morte d'Arthur on the web.
(2008-10-14)Until recently, traditional textual criticism has been unable to account for the rich historical and literary contexts surrounding medieval textual culture, especially the culture of Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte d'Arthur. ... -
Education and cultural memory in American fiction post-Brown v. Board : Ernest Gaines, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Eudora Welty.
(2011-05-12)This dissertation examines a number of historical novels composed and published during a time period when questions pertaining to education, equal opportunity, and expanding national memory were central to American ... -
Ekphrasis and ethics in the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Eavan Boland.
(2010-10-08)This study argues that W.B. Yeats is an important poetic precursor for Eavan Boland, and particularly for her sophisticated engagement with the age-old subgenre of ekphrasis, in which a poem responds to a work of visual ... -
The end of the journey : the rhetoric of conclusions in Old English poetry.
(, 2013-09-24)For much of the twentieth century critics of Old English poetry dismissed it as aesthetically sub-par, especially complaining about its formulaic and repetitive nature. In the last thirty years or so Old English scholars ... -
The ends of love : vice and charity in The End of the Affair.
(, 2012-11-29)The End of the Affair offers a compelling portrait of the two possible ends of natural love. Sarah Miles and Maurice Bendrix are confronted with the choice to let their natural love be subsumed into the love of God, ... -
Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem : Wilfrid Ward and the art of Newman.
(, 2013-09-24)This dissertation investigates John Henry Newman's understanding of the imagination and its role in religious and aesthetic experience. Newman’s fictional and poetic works fell into the background in scholarly discussions ... -
Fate, providence, and free will: clashing perspectives of world order in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
(2006-12-11)Through the medium of a fictional world, Tolkien returns his modern audience to the ancient yet extremely relevant conflict between fate, providence, and the person's freedom before them. Tolkien's expression of a ... -
Fiction based on fact : subversions of power and propriety in Charles Reade's matter-of-fact romances.
(, 2011-09-14)As Charles Reade began to write It Is Never Too Late to Mend, he developed a method of research and writing that he would use throughout the remainder of his career. In the Memoir, he declares: “The plan I propose to ... -
The flawed ideal : justice and injustice in Malory's Morte Darthur.
(2011-05-12)In his Morte Darthur, Sir Thomas Malory portrays Arthur, not as the strong, fully just king of later portrayals, but as a weaker monarch more in keeping with those of fifteenth-century England. Arthur begins well by ... -
Frank O'Connor's "world of appearances" : epiphany and false personality in his stories of childhood.
(, 2012-08-08)This study illuminates the influence of two vastly different short story writers on the work of Frank O’Connor: James Joyce and Anton Chekhov. O’Connor vowed never to imitate the Russian master, and yet Chekhov’s theme ...