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271	Sense and Sensibility: A Sermon on Living the Examined Life Mejias, Sarah J 09 August 2017 (has links) Jane Austen’s novels remain an essential component of the literary canon, but her first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, is frequently neglected. However, in Sense and Sensibility is the genesis of Austen’s technique through which her major characters cultivate and reveal a strong inner life, demonstrated through the character of Elinor Dashwood. This technique is a characteristic she incorporates in each of her succeeding novels. Her approach to literature centers on the interiority of her characters and their ability to change, but it her first novel Austen takes a unique approach. Following the structure of an eighteenth-century sermon, Austen creates a sermon for lay people that centers on the cultivation of a strong interior life. Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility sermon inner life interiority Christian Christian-principles Evangelical Reformation fiction didactic Ancient Philosophy Christianity Ethics in Religion History of Religion Literature in English, British Isles
272	Accepting the Failure of Human and State Bodies: Interactions of Syphilis and Space in "Hamlet" and "The Knight of the Burning Pestle" Radford, Laura E. 15 November 2013 (has links) The purpose of this thesis is, first, to explore the presence and meaning of Foucault’s heterotopia within William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”and Beaumont and Fletcher’s “The Knight of the Burning Pestle.” The heterotopia is a privileged space of self-reflection created by individuals or societies in crisis. In each play, the presence of crisis is explained though the metaphor of syphilis; to which individual characters respond by entering the reflective space of the heterotopia in order to countenance and “cure” their afflictions. The second purpose of this thesis is to examine the ways in which the crises acted upon the stage reflect pressing social anxieties of late – Elizabethan and early- Jacobean England: succession to the throne and shifting market structure. Both playwrights create heterotopic space for their audience through the structure of their dramatic work, and ask their audience to enter this reflective space, and consider –and learn from – their remarks upon the state of society. Shakespeare Beaumont Fletcher disease syphilis Foucault heterotopia Elizabeth I economics capital structures Literature in English, British Isles Modern Literature
273	Buffoons and bullies: James Joyce's priests in "Stephen Hero" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", a study of revision Cotter, Cynthia Ann 01 January 1991 (has links) Irony and satire in two of James Joyce's works. Stephen Hero Portrait of the artist as a young man Authorship -- Study and teaching Priests in literature Literature in English, British Isles
274	Robert Louis Stevenson and Scotland: A most complicated relationship Dunsmore, Patricia Berard 01 January 1991 (has links) No description available. An inland voyage Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Weir of Hermiston Thomas Hardy 1840-1928 Scotland -- In literature Literature in English, British Isles
275	Shakespeare's Bolingbroke: Rhetoric and stylistics from Richard II to Henry IV, part 2 Jenson, DeAnna Faye 01 January 2004 (has links) In order to contribute to the body of work on Bolingbroke and on Shakespeare's development of character, this thesis examines various rhetorical and stylistic methods used by Shakespeare in his creation of the character of Henry Bolingbroke. Richard II Literary style Henry IV Bolingbroke English language -- Rhetoric Literature in English, British Isles Rhetoric
276	The divided consciousness in Charles Dickens' Hard times Seymour, Earl Paul 01 January 1973 (has links) What I shall do in this paper is apply Frye’s concept of romance to Hard Times, i.e., Frye's defining romance as a device for using archetypes. The novel, as Frye sees it, is a vehicle whereby “realism” or life-like representation is applied. Hard Times contains “stylized figures” which thematically and formalistically support the dehumanization concept Dickens is portraying. Thus Dickens turned, as it were, toward a potentially revolutionary form within which to accomodate what is in many ways his most original piece of writing. Dickens Charles Arts and Humanities English Language and Literature Literature in English, British Isles Social and Behavioral Sciences
277	A Jungian interpretation of The Tempest Smith, Tana 01 January 1978 (has links) The following psychological interpretation of Shakespeare's The Tempest is unique to articles on the same subject which have appeared in literary journals because it applies a purely Jungian reading to the characters in the play. Here each character is shown to represent one of the archetypes which Jung described in his book Archetypes ~ the Collective Unconscious. In giving the play a psychological interpretation, the action must be seen to occur inside Prospera's own unconscious mind. He is experiencing a psychic transformation or what Jung called the individuation process, where a person becomes "a separate, indivisible unity or whole" and where the conscious and unconscious are united. Shakespeare William 1564-1616 Tempest Shakespeare William 1564-1616 Criticism and interpretation Psychoanalysis and literature Arts and Humanities English Language and Literature Literature in English, British Isles
278	“It could have happened to any of you”: Post-Wounded Women in Three Contemporary Feminist Dystopian Novels Lewis, Abby N. 01 May 2021 (has links) My goal for this thesis is to investigate the concept of (mis)labeling female protagonists in contemporary British fiction as mentally ill—historically labeled as madness—when subjected to traumatic events. The female protagonists in two novels by Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure (2018) and Blue Ticket (2020), and Jenni Fagan’s 2012 novel The Panopticon, are raised in environments steeped in trauma and strict, hegemonic structures that actively work to control and mold their identities. In The Panopticon, this system is called “the experiment”; in The Water Cure, it is personified by the character King and those who follow him; and in Blue Ticket, it is the social structure as a whole reflected in the character of Doctor A. To simply label these novels’ woman protagonists as ill would be to ignore that their behavior is not mental illness but in fact rational behavior produced by the traumatic dystopian environments. feminism British dystopia post-wounded women shame resilience theory gender Sophie Mackintosh Literature in English, British Isles Women's Studies
279	From Byronic to Gothic Blood Sucker: Subversion toward a Non-Gendered Identity Hoover, Hannah 01 May 2021 (has links) Analyzing Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and linking trends of the Byronic hero that have merged into a variety of genres reveal that the hero is a mode of subversive gender expression, which has evolved within the Gothic through feminine desire. Delving into Bram Stoker’s Dracula will provide unique insight into the audience’s desires/expressions of gender. Finding the transition point from the monster vampire of Dracula to Stephanie Meyer’s desirous, sparkling boy-next-door in Twilight will track the trajectory of gender and sexual norms through time. From the foundational adaptation of the Byronic hero in Wuthering Heights to the repressed vampiric desire of Dracula, to queer desire/domestication within Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, ending with sparkling vampires of Twilight, we can invite the Byronic hero, which already supports rejection of societal expectations, into a genderless space, becoming a champion of desire absent from the constraints of gender and sexuality conformity. Byronic hero genderfluidity sexuality repression subversion vampire gothic Victorian masculinity/femininity Children's and Young Adult Literature Literature in English, British Isles Literature in English, North America
280	A Lesson in Mourning: The Evolution of the English Anti-Elegy Bennett, K. Matthew 01 May 2022 (has links) This thesis analyzes the evolution of the anti-elegy originating with Thomas Hardy’s elegiac sequence in memory of his wife Emma; Poems of 1912-1913. Using French post-structuralist Georges Bataille’s The Accursed Share as a theoretical lens, Hardy’s anti-elegies are analyzed and rhetorically connected to English war poet Siegfried Sassoon’s anti-elegies. Hardy’s anti-sentimentality, fatalistic outlook on death, and rejection of the Christian afterlife seeps into the language of Sassoon’s war poems which serve as a protest to the dehumanizing effects of late capitalism witnessed during the First World War. Hardy and Sassoon’s anti-elegies, with their hyper-focus on the elegized body, are corrupted by capitalism to diminish the human body into a interchangeable, unhuman cog; fully understood as Bataille’s “thing.” The anti-elegy, distorted by capitalism, creates the possibilities necessary for Randall Jarrell’s “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” which protests humanity’s objectification under capitalism while creating the ultimate anti-elegy for the anti-elegy. elegy anti-elegy mourning capitalism World War I Thomas Hardy Georges Bataille Ethics and Political Philosophy European History Literature in English, British Isles Literature in English, North America Modern Literature

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