Search
Now showing items 21-30 of 43
The biblical element in Donne's poems of sacred and profane love /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1970)
The literary mark: Linguistic oppositions and literary analysis.
(2000)
This study uses the linguistic concept of markedness as a method for analyzing literature. Because markedness is rarely used when examining literature, I spend the first part of the work explaining the concept and how it ...
Resisting madness: Women's negotiation of social control in early modern English literature.
(2000)
The first chapter deals with studies of madness and gender, referring to Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy as well as Erik Midelfort's and Michael MacDonald's analyses of mental illness during the Renaissance. This ...
The Pursuit of Privacy in Medieval Landscapes
(2015-05-08)
The Pursuit of Privacy in Medieval Landscapes identifies the ways in which individual pursuits of privacy in the medieval world are shaped by the landscapes in which those pursuits occur. There is a correlation between the ...
The Faerie Queene and the Greek romance.
(1981)
In the legend of Courtesie, however, Greek romance is not simply a source of fictional material for allegory, but an enlivening influence on Spenser's art of romance. Here Spenser attempts an elaborate re-creation of the ...
The quest for self in the early novels of Kingsley Amis /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1975)
Tolkien's Faerian Drama: Origins and Valedictions
(2014)
I attempt to define the characteristics of Tolkien’s concept of “Faërian Drama,” and how it differs from the medieval dream-vision, through the way it changes the lives of dreamers such as Scrooge, the Pearl poet, and Smith ...
$elling $hakespeare: Cultural literacy/cultural capital .
(2000)
The Shakespeare Industry is the meeting of the institutionalized Shakespeare with the forces of capitalism. The business of selling the works and name of the playwright is a centuries-old practice of which Shakespearean ...
"Can the sensational be elevated by art?" :
(1997)
Since few scholars are acquainted with Braddon, I spend Chapter 1 recounting her background and the works of previous scholars about her. Chapter 2 delves into the serialized mode of production in order to contextualize ...