Browsing University of Central Oklahoma by Author "Lewis, Gladys S., 1933-"
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Aemilia Lanyer's threads in the tapestry of dialectical devotion.
Alger, Jean (2010)Disparate and dialectical dialogues characterize sixteenth-century British cultural, religious, and political ideologies. Christian ideology, in its various forms and interpretations, was most commonly cited as support for ... -
Ariadne's threads of identity : foreshadowing of social and individual identity theories in John Dos Passos' U.S.A.
Morris, Dustin (2009)The eminent biologist E.O. Wilson theorizes a unity of knowledge for all fields of study. Claiming that all knowledge springs from a basis in physics and continues to chemistry, biology, social sciences, and into humanities ... -
Christian culture and Germanic tradition in Old English literature : a syncretic approach to reconciling faith and culture.
Crawford, Kyle R. (2011)Many conservative or 'traditional' Christians today contend that some modern churches, in an effort to engage with contemporary culture, adapt the values and practices of the secular world to too great a degree in order ... -
Communion concepts : confession, conversion, and redemption in The sun also rises, The grapes of wrath, and The poisonwood Bible.
Merrill, A. B. (2010)The elements and themes of Protestant communion are evident in The Sun Also Rises (1926), The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and The Poisonwood Bible (1998). The elements of wine and bread are ubiquitous in these novels and ... -
Early English religious literature : the development of the genres of poetry, narrative, and homily.
Welch, Mary T. (2009)This thesis contends that during the medieval period, as Anglo-Saxon literature developed under, at first, the influence of Germanic oral traditions and later, the authority of continental (and particularly Latin) literary ... -
Ernest Hemingway and the reality of the American dream.
Billings, Nathan (2011)Ernest Hemingway's fiction criticizes the American Dream and its myth of success in the early twentieth century. In The Sun Also Rises, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," Hemingway ... -
Hemingway : insights on military leadership.
Dillon, Shawn (2014)The literature of Ernest Hemingway is rich with military lessons derived from his lifetime of proximity to war and his understanding of soldiers and leaders at all levels as presented through his characters. Hemingway wrote ... -
Hinterland.
Palmer, Betteanne (2007)A young adult novel set in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, aims at an audience of fifteen years old or older. Identity and responsibility emerge as the two most important themes in this bildungsroman, as sixteen-year-old ... -
In the shadow of the giant : the impact of the industrial city on identity in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature
Dostal, Michelle T. (2014)The Industrial Era in America ushered in a time of unprecedented economic growth, yet unfortunately, the industrial-consumer culture created by this growth fostered a devaluation of the American individual during this time ... -
Jonah and the typewriter.
Jenkins, Allen M. (2013)In a small, forgotten corner of rural Oklahoma, a boy named Jonah has a typewriter. No ordinary typewriter, this device allows him to make all his dreams into reality. But after five years away, Jonah comes home to find ... -
Life in a doorway.
Freeman, Charlotte (2012)Life in a Doorway is a story about Brianna Fairchild who is a senior graduating from high school. The week before graduation her twin brother Hayden dies in a tragic accident at the school. Brianna, who was estranged from ... -
Princess Sultana : a reflection of Saudi society.
Khayat, Daniah (2011)The story of Sultana in Princess: a true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia, written by Jean Sasson, proposes an autobiography of a woman in the royal family in Saudi Arabia. Assuming the voice of a woman who ... -
Sulphur and lilacs.
Cividanes, Meggan (2011)Set in a late-1930's mining town in West Virginia and in the broader theater of World War II, Sulphur and Lilacs is about Calvin Fisher, a young Marine whose experiences teach him about honor, duty, family, and love. As a ... -
"The invisible spirit alone" : the romance of reform in Grace Aguilar's theological writings.
Dearinger, Lindsay (2011)The Anglo-Jewish author Grace Aguilar lived in the early nineteenth century when England was experiencing revolutions and reforms in philosophy, politics, and religion. The daughter of Sephardic immigrants, Aguilar authored ... -
The well of loneliness : the influence of place on identity.
Leggett, Andrea Fay (2013)Place affects identity and movement in Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. Hall's main character, Stephen Gordon, is developed through her response to the Gordon family heritage of home, land, and community, which ... -
Victims of patriarchy : failed masculinity in nineteenth-century American literature.
Pruitt, Jennifer (2012)The United States was built upon foundations of patriarchy which called for men to demonstrate their masculinity publicly. In the nineteenth-century, as middle- and upper-class Americans began to populate cities, there ... -
Whist, quadrilles and social hierarchy : Pride and prejudice as a game.
Gaches, Sheri (2012)Jane Austen begins her novel Pride and prejudice by informing readers that what they are about to read is a story about competition. Throughout the novel, Austen's audience becomes aware of the elements of competition in ...