Browsing Languages and Literature Undergraduate Theses by Title
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A Children's Story: The Investigation, Writing And Review
(1981-04-01)Creativity. The world of literature, especially children's literature, thrives on it. The foundation of any literary work, however, lies not in the author's creative talents but in his ability to seek out a topic. The ... -
A Comparative Study Of Queen Elizabeth I As A Character Through Five Representative Genres
(1985-04-01)Elizabeth I was an intriguing and fascinating Queen. From the moment of her birth on 7 September 1533, she was the object of speculation and scandal. She had been thrust into a world that perceived her as a bastard and a ... -
A Critical Analysis Of The Aeneid
(1931-04-01)This thesis is written particularly as a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in Latin and Greek. The subject has been chosen without the advice of the head of that department, but ... -
A Critical Study Of Dostoyevsky - Self, Chaos, and The Saving Feature
(1966-04-01)Critical analysis of Dostoyevsky usually verges upon philosophy. This is a difficult task, for Dostoyevsky, like Shakespeare, presents human beings in all their complexity. He rarely takes sides in his artistic work, and ... -
A Critical Study Of In Defense Of Ignorance: In Defense Of T.S. Eliot And Modern Criticism
(1962-04-01)In the years 1915 to 1925 a group of young poet-critics rose to literary prominence with a series of critical studies, daring critical tenets and experimental poetry. Three men — Ezra Pound, the originator; W.B. Yeats, the ... -
A Literary Comparison Of Daniel Defoe's Account Of The Great London Plague Of 1665 With Two Contemporary Diarists Concerning The Same Event
(1960-04-01)The purpose of this thesis is to institute a comparison among the contemporary accounts of the Great London Plague. The contemporary accounts shall be taken from the diaries of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, and Daniel ... -
A Play Based On The Life Of Adolf Hitler
(1958-04-01)This is a play based on the life of Adolf Hitler. Hot being a strictly historical document, some of the characters and situations are fictitious. Important persons and events are patterned as closely as possible after the ... -
A Poet Looks At Immortality: Emily Dickinson On Death And Eternity
(1965-04-01)Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, the daughter of Edward Dickinson, a respected lawyer and Emil Norcross Dickinson, who "did not care for thought". The family included a younger ... -
A Study of Ethnocentrism and the Variable of Cross-Cultural Interaction
(2010-04-01)Ethnocentrism is a belief that one’s own culture is superior to other cultures. It is a phenomenon that exists in cultures worldwide and has been studied by professionals in a variety of fields including psychology, ... -
A Study Of Past And Present Language Teaching Methodology With A Consideration Of The Unity Theory
(1966-04-01)The purpose of this paper was Initially, to give a short synopsis of the history and present situation of language teaching, with a presentation of views as to what the future may bring to language methodology. The general ... -
A Study Of Sensuousness In Thomas Wolfe
(1965-04-01)Upon finishing any of Thomas Wolfe's novels the student finds himself overwhelmed by various dominant impressions. There is the feeling of utter chaos, of a world completely without order. There is awe at the massiveness ... -
Agnes Repplier Essayist
(1957-04-01)One of the distinguished twentieth-century American essayists was Agnes Repplier. She has been widely acknowledged as being "supreme among American essayists", as one of "the most interesting figures in contemporary life", ... -
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Character Consequences As A Result Of The Prison Experience
(1981-04-01)As man addresses himself to the moral and ethical challenges the world confronts him with, he must ultimately ask himself what it means to he human. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn explores the concept of being and becoming ... -
Alula
(2022)The following is a novella which follows a character, Atlas, named for the famous Atlas who held the Earth above his shoulders by his great strength—but named not for that reason—named rather for that selfsame Atlas’s size, ... -
An Early Winter
(2001-04-01)It is utter foolishness to pray for increased sensitivities in a world like ours. I have always carried a darkness that fed and entertained me. Now, I don’t want it anymore. This is my dilemma—questioning if I can undo ... -
An Experiment in Drama
(1969-04-01)The modem theater, which is to say the avant-garde theater, forerunner of dada, surrealism, cruelty and absurdity in theater, had its inception in France on December 11, 1896 with the production of Alfred Jarry’s KING UBU. ... -
An Internal Study Of Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter"
(1961-04-01)Nathaniel Hawthorne and the problem of evil were not strangers: a brief survey of his life and works will reveal, to even the most casual reader, his preoccupation with moral concepts. His background was a religious one. ... -
Astrophel And Stella: Sir Philip Sidney's Didactic Intent
(1984-04-01)Poesy...is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in the word "Mimesis”—that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forih —to speak metaphorically, a speaking picture— with this end, to teach and ... -
Back and Forth ‘Through the Looking Glass: An Anthology for the Child in all of Us
(2000-04-01)This anthology of short stories twists the concepts of writing a standard honors • thesis. I composed four short stories combining the elements of two of my favorite literary genres: short fiction and children’s literature. ... -
Blackening the Blind Eye: 20th Century American Masculinity and Violence
(2010-04-01)For too long the American male protagonist has been allowed to operate without appropriate questioning of the violence inherent in his actions. This paper will look to question just that. Critics such as Richard Slotkin ...