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A comparative analysis of planning considerations in the composing process :
(1981)
Chapter I introduces the investigation, states its purpose and problem, its limitations, a definition of terms, and a preview of its organization.
From ambivalence to acquiescence :
(1981)
A novelist's success depends a great deal on the reader's memory. Although a work of fiction must tell its own story, the use of structural patterns and devices found in previous and contemporary works can be used by a ...
Natural magic :
(1980)
Though integration rather than alienation is the aim of Wharton's ironic method, alienation is a crucial unifying theme threaded throughout her best work, a motif so insistently explored that it, rather than manners or ...
The ironic vision in the fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and William Faulkner /
(1983)
Similarly, these authors debunk the myth of the brave new future. In a fallen, "irremediably flawed" world there is a disjunction between past and present which prevents continuity of culture, ethics, traditions, and family ...
The sociolinguistics of Kenneth Burke.
(1982)
In recent years Kenneth Burke has come to speak of his own work as the science of "logology, " by which he means words used to chart the general principles of word-use. Perhaps the best introduction to Burke is what he ...
Irony and the self in the lyric poetry of James Merrill.
(1982)
The paper also discusses Merrill's use of form and formal poetic convention in his early lyric poetry, as well as the function of form in his two novels. His use of form suggests that it is a distancing device so that the ...
Categories of the self-conscious narrator in Wolfram, Dante, and Chaucer /
(1984)
These four categories may be discovered in each of these romances. Their presence indicates conscious efforts by these narrative poets to manipulate complex audience/text/narrator interaction. The sophistication of the use ...
The influence of the art of mediation on Sir Thomas Browne's imagination.
(1980)
The art of meditation allows Browne the freedom to construct the enigmatic persona, the "I" which is immersed in subjective consideration of the mysteries of life and the "I" which contemplates these mysteries with objective ...
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 ...
Language and the void :
(1982)
This study examines the connection between language and horror in Poe's horror tales, generally termed the arabesques, which, like Poe's poems, attempt to bring about the effect of beauty that Poe regarded as the aim of ...