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Between reality and mystery: food as fact and symbol in plays by Ibsen and Churchill.

Pocock, Stephanie J.

In Henrik Ibsen's and Caryl Churchill's plays, food is both fact and symbol, a reminder of both the shared physicality of the actors and spectators and of an equally powerful human desire for symbolic significance. This ...
Subversive pseudo-dialogic: W.B. Yeats's use of the dialogic to present the monologic.

Parris, Molly V.

The application of Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the dialogic provides unique insight into the poetry and plays of W.B. Yeats. Though this early twentieth century Irish writer favored poetry over the novel form on which ...
The Anglo-Catholic quality of Christina Rossetti's apocalyptic vision in The Face of the Deep.

Armond, Andrew D.

Critical scholarship on Christina Rossetti's The Face of the Deep: A Devotional Commentary on the Apocalypse, where it exists at all, tends to interpret the work as an individualistic and subversive foray into biblical ...
A collaborative work of art in action: the 1979 American Book of Common Prayer, Rite II.

Nobles, Heidi Gabrielle.

In his book, Art in Action, Nicholas Wolterstorff argues that a work of art can only truly be understood within the context of its action. This paper presents the Eucharistic Rite II of the 1979 American Book of Common ...
Fate, providence, and free will: clashing perspectives of world order in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.

Lasseter, Helen Theresa.

Through the medium of a fictional world, Tolkien returns his modern audience to the ancient yet extremely relevant conflict between fate, providence, and the person's freedom before them. Tolkien's expression of a ...
"Sacramental Resistance" to pastoral dreams: the Midwestern land in the works of Sherwood Anderson and his contemporaries.

Buechsel, Mark Peter.

This project investigates the neo-sacramentalism of various Midwestern modernists, particularly that of Sherwood Anderson. Modernists from the Midwest tended to draw from Midwestern nature a sacramental vision of the world ...
Chesterton and his interlocutors: dialogical style and ethical debate on eugenics.

Shipley, Don M.

Before Nazi Germany’s eugenic practices had been completely exposed and denounced, G. K. Chesterton, a British writer best known for his fiction and Roman Catholic apologetics, published Eugenics and Other Evils in 1922. ...
Journeying toward the beatific vision: the uses and abuses of Dante in Robert Elsmere.

Dammon, Hope.

In Robert Elsmere, Mrs. Humphry Ward addresses the Christological concerns of Victorian England. Robert’s crisis of faith and resulting inability to maintain a belief in the divinity of Christ is juxtaposed against his ...
“A woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised”: an ethical-critical analysis of theological rogues in Mark Twain’s personal recollections of Joan of Arc and L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series.

Terry, Natalie Ann.

This thesis uses ethical criticism to examine the transformative nature of the interaction between authors, characters, and readers, focusing on Mark Twain’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc and L.M. Montgomery’s Anne ...
Charles Dickens’s Bleak house: Benthamite jurisprudence and the law, or what the law is and what the law ought to be.

Welch, Brenda Jean.

Dickens’s foggy world of the nineteenth-century Chancery Court is famous, and infamous, for keeping its litigants in a constant and never-ending state of legal confusion, costs, and “conglomeration” (Bleak House 1873 I: ...
Beneath the surface: psychological perception in Jane Austen's narration.

Werley, Erin D.

This thesis argues that Jane Austen’s novels are more psychologically sophisticated than they have been given credit for and that the psychological depth of her heroines is revealed by Austen’s unique narration. First, I ...
"The waters return": myth and mystery in Graham Swift's Waterland.

Schrock, Laura.

The following chapter will engage Waterland in isolation from Swift’s other novels and collection of short stories, not because these texts do not mutually illuminate one another, but because Waterland deserves a treatment ...
E-textuality, e-medieval, e-Malory : the rebirth of Le morte d'Arthur on the web.

Brown, Karen Grace.

Until recently, traditional textual criticism has been unable to account for the rich historical and literary contexts surrounding medieval textual culture, especially the culture of Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte d'Arthur. ...
Cormac McCarthy's heroes : narrative perspective and morality in the novels of Cormac McCarthy.

Cooper, Lydia R.

Critics writing on Cormac McCarthy often note the striking paucity of revelations of interior thought in his novels. James Bowers, for instance, claims that few modern writers reject “the Joycean tradition of interiority” ...
Analogy, causation, and beauty in the works of Lucy Hutchinson.

Getz, Evan Jay.

Lucy Hutchinson's translation of the ancient epic De Rerum Natura is remarkable in light of her firm commitments to Calvinist theology and the doctrine of Providence. David Norbrook and Jonathan Goldberg offer strikingly ...
Augustinian Auden : the influence of Augustine of Hippo on W. H. Auden.

Schuler, Stephen J.

It is widely acknowledged that W. H. Auden became a Christian in about 1940, but relatively little critical attention has been paid to Auden’s theology, much less to the particular theological sources of Auden’s faith. ...
Through the lens of the land: changing identity in the novels of Bernard MacLaverty.

Gibson, Jordan Leigh.

Many critics, like Oona Frawley, believe the land of Ireland has the unique power to connect the collective Irish conscience to the past and is often a rallying cry to garner support for the freedom of Ireland. MacLaverty ...
"More attachment to life & larger" : Orlando and Woolf’s theories of fiction.

Adams, Kat (Mary Katherine)

While Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando (1928) is often considered a light, autobiographical fantasy, it in fact is the summation and execution of Woolf’s theories of fiction as expressed in her critical and non-fiction essays. ...
Twentieth-century hair-oines: constructing femininity in literature, 1850s-1920s.

Davies, Noelle.

Women's hair at the turn of the twentieth century (1850s-1920s) can be read as a visual indicator of changing understandings of femininity during this time. As women began to explore the promise of greater female power ...
"The true artist-seer, the heavenly fool" : the transformation of the artist in J. D. Salinger's publications.

White, Holland.

This thesis traces the development of the function of art and the role of the artist throughout J. D. Salinger's publishing career, including his earlier uncollected short stories. Salinger creates a dichotomy between true ...