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Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 269-281).

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Sir Norman Angell (whose full name was Ralph Norman Angell Lane) was a British journalist who exerted a great deal of political influence. Toward the end of his life, he granted the collection of his personal papers to the Ball State University Library. A number of these documents are In German, and this thesis is an English translation of them, to make their contents more readily available to those students and faculty members who work with them.Several of the articles included here were written by Norman Angell and published in German newspapers. while it is certain that Sir Norman knew German, this translator has been unable to determine whether he himself or some other translator sot his articles into German. This translator consulted dictionaries when necessary; she also referred to several books and to the Ball State Library micro-cards of the Reichstag minutes for aid in deciphering hand-written names and titles.

This thesis has documented over thirty-four performances given in Indiana by Carl Sandburg, poet, biographer, journalist, and lecturer. The information given for each performance includes newspaper coverage before and after the event, as well as personal recollections of those who saw him perform or knew him.Through this study, a picture of Carl Sandburg, the man and lecturer, appears.

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Norman Angell, most often remembered as the author of The Great Illusion, (1910), was also a member of the British Parliament from 1929 to 1931 and deserves to be remembered for the overall political career that this brief stay in Commons represents. Although Angell was never a popular political figure--the vast working class public failed to identify with him--he was not without great influence during the period in which the Labour Party went from one of ridicule and political obscurity to one of power and respectability. This study analyzes Angell's career in light of his impact on Labour Party leaders, particularly Edmond Dene Morel and James Ramsey MacDonald.The Angell-MacDonald relationship was a complex and ironic one. Although of similar ideological persuasion, neither assumed a dominant role in their relationship. They were both proud, vain and stubborn men, a fact which precluded their assuming a leader-follower relationship. Angell's relationship with Morel was equally full of irony since Morel, the most vociferous member of Labour's intelligentsia in 1924, epitomized the radical element which Angell desired to eliminate in the Labour Party. The fact that Angell had the confidence of both men and wrote many of Morell's articles criticizing MacDonald's policies in 1924, even though he publicly supported "Ramsey," is a measure of his intangible role in the drama of the First Labour Government.Angell's involvement in the personal lives as well as the political careers of these two antagonists predated the First World War. This is significant for several reasons. For one, Angell was instrumental in bringing these strange bedfellows together in 1914 through their co-founding of the Union of Democratic Control. Secondly, it contradicts the current notion that Angell was never greatly interested in politics. Thirdly, it shows that Angell was never completely satisfied with the nonpolitical peace movement which his Great Illusion fostered.Historians have so completely equated "Norman Angellism" with Ralph Norman Angell Lane that this study takes on an added dimension. It offers a perspective from which to view Angell if any future biography is to do justice to the man. Contrary to current thinking Angell was a politician; he eagerly sought a political identity and wanted political power. This study also shows that Angell, although often a man of great vision, should not be remembered as a prophet of the contemporary experience, but rather, as a spokesman for the nineteenth century. Angell was and even saw himself more as a product of the nineteenth century British liberal tradition than as a twentieth century man. Although he held twentieth century economic views, he actually mirrored the social, political, and cultural philosophy of the nineteenth century English middle class. He never altered his greater conception of English society even in the face of new economic and political realities.The tragedy of Angell's being remembered as the author of The Great Illusion is therefore twofold. It not only hides the historical significance of his political career but reflects adversely on the real thrust of his life. Internationalism and pacifism, the two "isms" most often referred to in conjunction with his seminal work, mask his most basic instincts. Norman Angell might have been an internationalist and a pacifist, but, Ralph Lane was a Nationalist and a British patriot of the first rank.

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Born in Columbus, Georgia, Carson McCullers was a Southerner by circumstance, but she maintained an emotional and psychological attachment to the South throughout her life. Her choice of a Southern setting with Southern characters for almost all of her works of fiction illustrates that the place off her birth commanded an unmistakable influence on her creative imagination. Therefore, the major Southern themes of place--the burden off the past, the antipathy toward change, the formal versus the formless existence, and the preference for objects rather than ideas-abound in her fiction. She utilizes those themes consistently to establish the significance of physical place in her fiction.Simultaneously, a second concept of place is operant in the McCullers fiction--the metaphysical sense of place. The duality between the physical and the metaphysical is evident throughout the McCullers canon from one of her earliest untitled stories to Clock Without Hands, her final novel. The early story of the girl who stands outside the gates of a convent and dreams of a marvelous party inside is the first manifestation of that duality.The short fiction incorporates an especially stringent duality. Like the convent gates, the boundaries of the South represent a formidable barrier against the outside world. An either/or dichotomy emerges in the short fiction which contrasts the South to non-Southern locales, particularly New York City.Mrs. McCullers' first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter introduces the physical/metaphysical dichotomy of place in which several characters, especially Mick Kelly, find the physical locale undesirable and long for a more satisfying place.Reflections in a Golden Lye presents an extension of physical/metaphysical dichotomy since the rigidly defined boundaries of the army base setting are similar to those of a small Southern town.The lever/beloved dichotomy in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe is simply an embellishment on the physical/metaphysical duality.The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers' most realistic novel, comes close to blending the physical and the metaphysical sense of place. Frankie Addams finds an answer to her metaphysical search for place in Mary Little-John.Mrs. McCullers brings the prototype convent story to its ultimate happy ending in Clock Without Hands by resolving the conflicts between the physical and the metaphysical search for place. In the character of Jester Clane, the author presents a happy fusion off the two conflicting philosophies. He proves that one can open the gates of the convent, enjoy the marvelous party, and return to the physical world with new wisdom and commitment. He finds his metaphysical sense of place by conquering the burden of the past, by overcoming the antipathy toward and by rising above his formless adolescence to become formal, fully developed adult who can transcend the coercive codes of the confined community.