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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The unity of Edmund Spenser's Fowre Hymnes.
(1981)
Spenser uses several techniques to achieve this unity in a poem which contains diverse subjects and themes. Its genre, the hymn, incorporates secular and sacred, classical and Christian elements, and thus becomes a very ...
The Old English elegies :
(1981)
The enormous bibliography surrounding the Old English elegies breaks down primarily into studies of structure, cultural context, and genre. This study is concerned first with attempting to define as precisely as possible ...