Browsing OSU - Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Author "Wadoski, Andrew"
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Ecophilosophy of J.R.R. Tolkien: Rural, Urban, and Wilderness Roads to Conscientious Living and Environmental Guardianship
Korver, William Graham (2019-05-01)A core message of J.R.R. Tolkien's canon concerning the human and non-human global community appears in The Lord of the Rings when Gandalf addresses the Captains of the West, as they prepare their plans to march on the ... -
Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great: Tracing the Literary Zeitgeist from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Bales, Bret (Oklahoma State University, 2010-12-01)This study examines literary examples of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, specifically their appearances in medieval epic poetry and Renaissance drama, and compares the two time periods considering the attitudes ... -
Prudence: Using John Aubrey's Brief Lives for Initial Research
Brackett, Alexandria L. (Oklahoma State University, 2011-12-01)Through the methodologies of new historicism and close reading this essay focused for the most part on Aubrey's biographies of Thomas Hobbes and John Milton to explore the different investigative styles that Aubrey employed ... -
Reception history of John Milton in Russia and the former Soviet Union (1745-2013)
Uzakova, Oydin (2014-05)This study divides the reception history of John Milton in Russia and the former Soviet Union into three periods: pre-Soviet, Soviet, and post-Soviet. The rationale for this division is rooted in the clear ideological ethos ... -
Rewritten to aftertimes : Adaptations of John Milton's poetry, 1674-1767
Rodrigue, John Luke (2013-05)Post-Romantic Milton criticism often sees a dichotomy in the poet's thought. On the one hand, he is considered a champion of modern values, such as the freedom of worship and the freedom of speech, and a strong proponent ... -
Serpents Sting: Female Transgressive Sexuality and Metaphors of Syphilis in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
Davis, Kristina (Oklahoma State University, 2011-12-01)The focus of this project is twofold: firstly, this thesis establishes an understanding of the history, the medical and psychological impact that syphilis had on women as well as why writers like William Shakespeare and ... -
Shakespeare's sea creatures
Seth, James Harper (2017-05)This dissertation analyzes Shakespeare's oceanic characters in The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Pericles, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. Using three distinct categories of aquatic creatures, I investigate Shakespeare's ... -
"Th'ensample of True Loue Alone": Spenser's Amoret as Second Eve
Spaulding, Kyndra Rae (2015-05-01)C.S. Lewis once stated that, "To understand the Garden of Adonis, you have to take it along with the whole myth of Belphoebe and Amoret." This paper attempts to do just that, showing the role the Garden plays in defining ...