Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 31-09, Section: A, page: 4767. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1970.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 31-09, Section: A, page: 4771. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1970.

As Conrad began his writing career, the literary and intellectual naturalism of the late nineteenth century influenced him both directly through contact with particular works and authors and indirectly through subtle inspiration from general ideas and the Zeitgeist. The writer's fictional development from Almayer's Folly to Lord Jim reflects an integration of naturalistic ideas and characteristics into a growing complexity of content and style. As his thematic concerns evolved, the novelist devised modern fictional schemes for juxtaposing concepts from intellectual naturalism to other philosophical perspectives associated with romanticism, symbolism, and impressionism. / The naturalistic objectivity of Conrad's early narratives in Almayer's Folly (1895), An Outcast of the Islands (1896), and Tales of Unrest (1898) develops into the complex subjectivity of his literary impressionism in Heart of Darkness (1899) and Lord Jim (1900). The writer's employment of naturalistic literary characteristics and intellectual ideas also progresses from a simple application in Almayer's Folly into an intricate integration with other stylistic and philosophical concerns in Lord Jim. Conrad's incorporation of naturalism in Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim strengthens the antithetical tensions between human ideals and instinctual forces, creating the moral ambiguity that establishes the two novels as significant works of modern literature. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-07, Section: A, page: 2344. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-09, Section: A, page: 5048. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-09, Section: A, page: 5048. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-10, Section: A, page: 5439. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-09, Section: A, page: 5049. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 40-09, Section: A, page: 5081. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1979.

William Butler Yeats's involvement in the esoteric and the occult has attracted considerable interest in the past decade, but much remains unknown about his philosophical development during the period of his life when he was engaged in the most profound spiritual or psychical investigation or experiment of his brilliant career, an experiment which gave birth to A Vision. Often described as the most important work in the canon to the understanding of his art and thought if not his life, this ambitious work represents Yeats's attempt to explain the basic psychological polarities of the human personality, the course of Western civilization, and the evolution and movement of the soul after death. The cogency and gravity of the experiment of investigation which produced a book of these epic proportions cannot be underestimated; indeed, the contents of this well-recorded experiment may well be the most significant body of unexplored Yeats material. The fundamental aim of this study, which includes only the first crucial months of the Automatic Script, is to present to the scholarly world for the first time a transcript of the often obscure, often complex body of materials that led directly to Yeats's most profound work of art. In order to place this manuscript in its proper biographical and critical context, explanatory notes have been included, explicating the essential features of the experiment (i.e., the recording of dates, the authors of questions and responses, the placement of diagrams and notes by George and Yeats, the physical state of the manuscript, etc.) and unraveling or spelling out the numerous references to Yeats's primary works, those appearing prior to as well as those growing directly out of the Automatic Script; special attention has been focused on those materials which were eventually embodied in the 1925 version of A Vision. An editorial / introduction preceding the transcript demonstrates how this momentous experiment was the logical extension of a series of psychical investigations and, in much broader terms, the culmination of a spiritual odyssey that Yeats had begun almost as early as the days of his youth. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-08, Section: A, page: 2522. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.

This is a work of fiction dealing with family relationships and the effects of small-town living upon them. The doubling is an important factor, serving to elucidate familial and filial responsibilities and the results thereof. The novel takes place in rural Florida, bringing together a drifter from outside and a native Arcadian. The ensuing relationship develops amid the violence that is inherent and often expected in farming communities. The pastoral image is inverted, yet the serenity subsumes the drifter, allowing him to perceive through the ferocity, the sublime. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-02, Section: A, page: 0434. / Major Professor: Janet Burroway. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.