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  • Dryden as a Political Satirist In Absalom and Achitophel 
    Biros, Sister Mary Bonaventure O.P. (2012-05-18)
    Satire and the satirists have been in evidence in all ages of the world's history. Satire has always ranked as one of the cardinal divisions of literature, and it has been distinctly cultivated by men of genius. This was ...
  • The Earth Philosophy of George Meredith 
    Archbold, Ruth Grace (2012-05-18)
    The scientific question of how and the accompanying philosophic why an individual reacts to his environment has always been an object of interest. Yet there are but few techniques available to investigate why an individual ...
  • Emerson and Rome 
    Mehen, Sister Francis Bernard I.H.M. (2012-05-18)
    New England, in the opening years of the nineteenth century, was religious--very religious and very Protestant. I do not mean by this that the prevailing religious tendencies were necessarily anti-Catholic, but rather, ...
  • Essays In Explanation: W.B. Yeats's Definitions of Art and Culture 
    Johnson, Patricia Ann A.B. (2012-05-18)
    A COAT I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; Any study of William Butler Yeats is complicated. The complications arise, primarily, from the personal contrived elusiveness ...
  • The Functions of Dramatic Structure in Death of A Salesman 
    Holecek, Sister Mary Bettina S.S.N.D. (2012-05-18)
    Certain branches of scientific literary criticism have not advanced significantly in some two thousand years since Aristotle wrote his Poetics. Consequently, one result of the abundant critical activity carried on during ...
  • A History of the Criticism of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure 
    Boettcher, Jacques G. (2012-05-18)
    The play Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare has possibly suffered more abusive criticism than any other play by Shakespeare with the exception of Hamlet. The important thing to be considered in this matter is not ...
  • John Buchan the Romantic 
    Batte, Mary John Thomas, Sister (2012-05-18)
    INTRODUCTION: JOHN BUCHAN, THE MAN When Lord Tweedsmuir came to Canada in the Fall of 1935 as Governor General, he was a noted man of letters, author of many popular novels, a biographer, poet, and historian. While many ...
  • King Lear and Contemporary Critics 
    Manion, Frederick Paul S.J. (2012-05-18)
    It is idle to conjecture as to which of the Four Great Tragedies is greatest. As one writer has put it, the reader is always inclined to judge as the greatest the one he has read most recently. However this may be, King ...
  • Lewis Carroll and his Interpreters 
    Schmoke, Margaret Ann (2013-11-15)
    How did it happen that the Reverend Charles Dodgson, thirty years of age, lecturer on geometry at Christ Church, Oxford, hitherto remarkable chiefly for his precision, on a single July afternoon, while rowing up the ...
  • The Literary Criticism of G. K. Chesterton 
    Reilly, Robert James (2016-01-22)
    The purpose of this paper is to show that Chesterton's literary criticism is not a thing distinct from his thought as a whole, but is rather a by-product, a necessary extension of his philosophical concepts. In order to ...
  • Nature Imagery as a Source of Objective Correlative In The Poetry of T. S. Eliot 
    Beall, Eugenie Reagan (2012-05-18)
    Both as a poet and a critic, Thomas Stearns Eliot has profoundly influenced post-world War I literature. Not only has he conveyed his view of the human condition poetically, but he has articulated the philosophy which ...
  • Religious Gleanings From Tennyson's Poetry 
    Bornhorst, Catherine Marie, Sister (2012-05-18)
    The study of "Enoch Arden" and "Idylls of the King" during High School days instilled in me a keen admiration for Tennyson. After more extensive study I noted the religious element to be very pronounced in a great number ...
  • A Revaluation of Wordsworth's Sonnets 
    Brown, Mary Carmen, Sister (2012-05-18)
    It was Longinus who wrote to his friend, Terentianus, “The judgment of literature is the final after growth of much endeavor.” Any literary anniversary presents for literary criticism, the challenge to ascertain new judgments ...
  • The Rhetorical and Critical Theories of Alfred Lord Tennyson 
    Allard, Helen Bullis (2012-05-18)
    The purpose of this paper is to set forth the results of a study from original sources of the rhetorical and critical theories of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. In a study of this sort, without doubt the best sources of information ...
  • Rhetorical Devices as Means of Expressing the Emotions 
    Brady, Charles Ernest (2012-05-18)
    PREFACE In reading the works assigned for class study, the writer was impressed with the ability of some authors to express emotion. His interest was increased when he noticed that two men could write on the same subject ...
  • Shakespeare's Change From Tragedy to Dramatic Romance 
    Bachand, Sister Joan of Arc O.P. (2012-05-18)
    Scholars have long noted a difference in the type of play represented in the various periods of Shakespeare's career. Three types were commonly recognized as the chief on the Elizabethan stage: comedy, tragedy, and history. ...
  • Social Satirists in the Novels of Thackeray 
    Bruce, Alice Marie (2012-05-18)
    The subject of William Makepeace Thackeray an d his work has been but barely explored in consideration of the possibilities for study in a figure so significant of his age. The most complete and valuable critical work ...
  • Some Aspects of the Renaissance As Reflected in the Works of Christopher Marlowe 
    Brown, M. Rose Ellen, Sister (2012-05-18)
    The purpose of this thesis is to show that Christopher Marlowe is an exponent of the Renaissance in that one can detect some aspects of that age reflected in his works. Before considering the personality of Marlowe, the ...
  • A Study of the Parallelism and Evolution In the Imagery of Gerard Manley Hopkins 
    Mlodzik, Mary Nazaria, Sister (2012-05-18)
    The main purpose of this paper is to show how the imagery of Gerard Manley Hopkins' verse is drawn from the notes in his Journal and to study the evolution to the fixed and definite forms of his imagery. Although Hopkins ...
  • A Translation Into English of the De Tragoediae Constitutione of Daniel Heinsius 
    Baumgartner, Edward George, Reverend (2012-05-19)
    The name of Daniel Heinsius, the author of De Tragoediae Constitutione, is well known to students of the history of English literary criticism. Generally, however, it is by name and reputation only that Heinsius is known, ...

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