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Call number: LD2668 .T4 1929 W41

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / Historically speaking, the Grange has been treated as an essentially Midwestern phenomenon that flourished and died during the depression decade of the 1870's. The Grangers themselves are remembered chiefly for their crusades against the railroads and other corporate oppressors of the rural classes and as forerunners of the Populists and the Progressives of a later era. This interpretation is based largely on Solon Justus Buck's well-known work, The Granger Movement. This dissertation develops a revisionist view, suggested by Dennis S. Nordin, which distinguishes between the Granger movement described by Buck and a later one, concentrated in New England, New York, Pennsylvania and the eastern Midwest during the period 1880-1920. Furthermore it deals specifically with the Grange, or Patrons of Husbandry, rather than that class of agrarian protesters loosely labeled "Grangers" by Buck. The Grange proper was primarily a fraternal order whose chief mission was the social and intellectual advancement of farmers and their families, not attacks on business. The present study examines the Grange in the two New England states where it was strongest and probably most influential [TRUNCATED]

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Economic reform completely dominated the later half of the nineteenth century. Cooperation proved the more dominant of alternatives. This study examines the significance the English working class perceived in their own Rochdale cooperation. The American labor press reveals the philosophy by which Americans adapted the English idea peculiar to their own cultural traditions. The Sovereigns of Industry are most representative of genuine cooperative practices in labor. The Texas Cooperative Association represents the largest agricultural cooperative undertaking. Both organizations have been examined primarily through their own records. The class fidelity among English workers and the need for class survival necessitated successful cooperation. The American worker, free of permanent caste, experienced no such solidarity and instead opted for individual advancement and upward social mobility.

Euclid's geometry is well-known for its theorems concerning triangles and circles. Less popular are the contents of the tenth book, in which geometry is a means to study quantity in general. Commensurability and rational quantities are first principles, and from them are derived at least eight species of irrationals. A recently republished work by Johannes Kepler contains examples using polygons to illustrate these species. In addition, figures having these quantities in their construction form solid shapes (polyhedra) having origins though Platonic philosophy and Archimedean works. Kepler gives two additional polyhedra, and a simple means for constructing the “divine” proportion is given.

The purpose of this study has been to determine what extraliterary forces--cultural, historical, political, social--shaped the critical reception of Alice Walker's first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970). The philosophies of Hans Robert Jauss, as espoused in Toward an Aesthetic of Reception (1971), guided this study. Particular interest was placed on Jauss's claim that every work has its own specific, historically, and sociological determinable audience, that every writer is dependent on the milieu, view, and ideology of that audience and that literary success presupposes a book which presents what the audience expects, a book which presents the audience with its own image. (26)The Third Life of Grange Copeland appeared at the end of the Civil Rights Movement, in the midst of a Black Arts Movement (a movement that presented black artist with a criteria for representing their people), and on the cusp of a black feminist movement which moved black women from the object to the subject position in black literary discourse.The politically charged context in which Walker's first novel appeared determined her first audience's reception to her work. The reception from black civic leaders, literary critics, scholars and the black community was largely negative. This initial negative response has followed Walker throughout her literary career despite the fact that she has won both the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. / Department of English

Uppsatsen granskar två platser i Emily Brontës roman, husen Wuthering Heights och Thruscross Grange. Analysen kretsar kring karaktärerna på dessa platser och relationerna mellan dem med utgångspunkt i Henri Lefebvres teori The Production of Space. Uppsatsen granskar maktperspektiv, äganderätt och olika karaktärers anknytning till hus och hushåll.

This diploma thesis deals with the comparison of three literary works, namely Harry Potter series by Joanne Kathleen Rowling, The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson, Groosham Grange and Return to Groosham Grange: The Unholy Grail by Anthony Horowitz. The aim of the theoretical part is to outline the theory of fantasy and also the lives of the three above mentioned authors. The rites of passage and the Gothic tradition are also included in the first, theoretical, part. The aim of the interpretation is to compare the following themes occurring in the discussed works: the journey to the world of fantasy, the picture of the other world and the hero and his opposite. The summary attempts to prove that the discussed works have different messages. In particular, Rowling focuses on morality, Horowitz deals with farce and Ibbotson concentrates on humour.

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