<p>The study investigates the manner in which verbal imagery in Shakespeare's plays achieves substance through the corresponding visual imagery of stage effects. Such reinforcement of the verbal by the visual pinpoints important iterative themes, and the dramatic effects of such an emphasis are examined.<br /><br />The dramatic imagery, that is the combination of verbal and visual elements, is discussed in detail with reference to three plays, Othello, Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest. Essentially the discussion forms a stimulus and a parting of the waters in preparation for further study</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

<p>The purpose of this study is to make some distinotions between medieval and modern attitudes and assumptions concerning the individual and his relationship to society, in order to discern Chaucer's metbods and purposes in the characterisation found in some of The Canterbury Tales. Critical dispute which I will summarise in Chapter One, suggests that the assumptions and preconoeptions related to our own idea of "personality" are inappropriate to and misleading in an evaluation of Chaucer's characters.</p> <p>Tbe fourteenth-century idea of tbe self and of man's relation to society, ultimately to creation, and God, is contrasted with some aspects of our own "self-picture", the implications of our possession of "personality" in Chapter two. I will look briefly at the beliefs to be inferred from the theological doctrine of personalities, and outline some medieval conceptions of the Inner Man, and of his objectives and his inadequacies.</p> <p>My remaining three cbapters will comprise a detailed study of the characters found in The General Prologue, and The Wife of Bath's Tale. In Chapter Three we shall see how the external details of the portraits implicitly lead to moral assessment, to a knowledge of spiritual condition which reacbes its culminating statement in The Parson's Tale. This chapter applies the findings of the first and second parts of Chapter Two. Chapter Four pursues the ideas of the third section of Chapter Two, medieval ideals and virtues. Constance embodies some of these ideals and qualities; the Man of Law is an elaborate foil for such characteristics. My final chapter explores the characterisation of the Wife of Bath as the presentation of contrasting qualities and attitudes, a conviction and constancy in sinning and falling. In endowing medieval man and medieval characters with "personality" we are presupposing in the man a moral autonomy and a manner of introspection he is unlikely to have expressed, and in literary characters, a verisimilitude, external or "psychological" calculated to elicit the sympathetic identification of the reader. My contention is that Chaucer's characters are highly artificial, that they comprise elements of iconograpby, exemplary materials, theological, literary and contemporary allusion, calculated to arouse a rational response, and ultimately, an ethical judgment.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

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<p>An examination of the continued pre-eminence of the individual in those novels published between 1915 and 1927 that ostensibly concern themselves with society.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

<p>This study provides a technical examination of the mechanics of point of view in four of Defoe's works of prose fiction. It is probably one of the first studies that has reviewed Defoe's artistic abilities from a purely technical aspect. By examining the technical skill that the works exhibit, the thesis attempts to provide new information and ideas about the individual works, as well as to suggest that Defoe is a capable and careful writer.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

<p>A study of Ann Radcliffe's ethical, religious and aesthetic theory and the effect of her morality in restricting her art and outlook, with some discussion of the techniques by which she achieves her successes within this limited framework.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

<p>This thesis examines Hopkins's letters and journals in order to establish which of Arnold's works be read, and what he thought of them. It then compares Hopkins's critical theories, to be found in his letters, with those ideas of Arnold which Hopkins could have gleaned from his reading. A brief study of the poetry is made in the light of conclusions drawn in the earlier part of the thesis.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

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<p>This thesis attempts to define Shaw's meaning for the terms "poet" and "poetry" as they appear in his prose works, and to compare that meaning with the usage of modern criticism. It examines in the light of these definitions some passages selected from Shaw's plays, pointing out the oracular and often Biblical nature of their rhythm and imagery, and making a distinction between those speeches which are rhetorical or persuasive and those which are poetic or introspective. It then explores in detail the rhythmic dialogue and symbolic significance of three dramas, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan, contending that the creative ability which is present in these plays may reasonably be called poetic.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)

<p>An examination of Canadian criticism from 1880 to 1920 in which the morally-ennobling, and aesthetically-strengthening, influence of the land appears. A study of the land's impact on the characters of three novels of the same period.</p> / Master of Arts (MA)