Inaug.-Diss.--Erlangen. / Lebenslauf. "Literaturverzeichnis": p. 7.

Abstract of Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Illinois, 1927.

Inaug.-Diss.--Berlin. / Lebenslauf. "Literatur": p. 71-72.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of English, 2004. / Title from second page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-93).

This thesis has endeavoured to closely examine the personal relationship between Kennedy and Macmillan to determine its impact on the making of Anglo-American foreign policies. The result establishes that their relationship was a complex contribution to the making of Anglo-American foreign policies in the early 1960s, but that it was not a significant factor in the development of those policies. The interpretation of their relationship by scores of writers spanning three decades has largely been responsible for creating and extending the myth of the existence in the early 1960s of a 'Golden era' in Anglo-American relations crowned by the unique and intimate personal relationship between President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan. Indeed, the genuine friendship cultivated between these two men distinguished their relationship from other bilateral relationships they had had with other heads of state and government. Nevertheless, this research which has been based largely on archival material reveals the tangible limits of the influence this famous personal relationship actually had on Anglo-American diplomacy. During the brief era in which the KennedylMacmillan relationship existed, American policy makers had been generally successful at persuading London to accept, albeit with occasional acute reticence, American initiatives and policy goals. Macmillan's leadership was an important factor in this acquiescence but not a crucial one. Seen from the point of view ofWashington and in particular President Kennedy and his White House aides, Prime Minister Macmillan's importance to the United States was focused on his political position as head of the Conservative Party. Kennedy's policy was based on the calculation that Macmillan's political life was essential to the smooth running ofAnglo-American relations. This thesis analyses the decision making process at the executive level in five case studies and firmly establishes that Kennedy was not personally influenced by Macmillan in the shaping of American foreign policy. Likewise, Macmillan's actions were chiefly predicated upon American institutional policies and not on his friendship with Kennedy. The result of this research will show that the personal relationship between John F. Kennedy and Harold Macmillan as such made no significant impact on the making of Anglo- American foreign policies.

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The purpose of this thesis is to point out the romantic elements in five of Frank Norris's novels.

The intention of this thesis is to help clarify the confusion existing in literary criticism about the degree of E.T.A. Hoffmann's 'Romanticism'. Chapter I deals with the problem of arriving at a satisfactory definition of what actually constitutes a Romantic work. While not claiming to provide an all-encom¬ passing definition, it works from the assumption that there are a number of elements common to the majority of works classed as Romantic: the conception of the imagination as a radically creative force, symbolic expression as a means of circumventing the problem of the inadequacy of language to portray poetic insight and the complexity of the uni¬ verse, a belief in a fall from an original state of harmony and innocence and, finally, the importance of particular literary antecedents of whom it was thought that they exemplified elements of 'das Moderne' in art. It is con¬ tended that in terras of such a definition, Hoffmann must be regarded as a Romantic. Chapter T then goes on to discuss secondary literature which has concerned itself with the problem of E.T.A. Hoffmann's 'Romanticism'. Chapter II shows that Hoffmann's interest in psy¬ chology and the so-called 'Nachtseiten' does not constitute a shift away from Romanticism but that, rather, this interest should be regarded as a logical development of his 'Romanticism'. Chapters III, IV, V7and VI deal with Hoffmann's oeuvre from the Fantasie-uund Nachtstiicke to Pes Vetters Eckfenster. They show that in,terms of the definition of Romanticism outlined in Chapter I, Hoffmann remained a Romantic throughout his life. The conclusion provides not only a summation of the thesis but also points to the future by suggesting that Hoffmann's development of Romantic aesthetics through the practice of writing made a significant contribution to the development of the novel. Further, that his works in many respects pre-empt the existential and aesthetic problems discussed by the Modern and Post-Modern movements.