Browsing Languages and Literature Undergraduate Theses by Title
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Camus: L'Evolution D'Une Attitude
(1974-04-01)Albert Camus a ecrit trois romans: L'Etranger , La Peste , et La Chute. Dans chacune de ces oeuvres, il nous presente un protagoniste par qui il nous demontre une attitude nouvelle dans sa philosophie. Meursault, dans ... -
Cardinal Newman in the Nineteenth Century: His Relation to Science
(1935-04-01)Scientific philosophy and false of the nineteenth century had gone to extremes. It is in the face of certain difficulties which this century presents that we look into the works of Cardinal John Henry Newman, one of the ... -
Chaucer's Thread Of Suggestiveness: An Analysis Of A Theme Of Incest In Troilus & Criseyde
(1998-04-01)Chaucer's masterpiece, Troilus and Criseyde, materializes before the reader like an intricate medieval tapestry. A mindful artesian, Chaucer weaves together a copious variety of psychological details to produce the story ... -
Choices And Chances: A Creative Exploration Of The Human Struggle Toward Meaning And Identity
(1987-04-01)During my years as a hard-studying academic, I have done much research and written torrents of analytical and evaluative compositions—some of them bad, some of them mediocre, some of them good. For my honors thesis, though, ... -
Cicero's Notions Of Immortality And Their Sources
(1960-04-01)The purpose of this thesis Is to trace the history of the Ideas of the soul and immortality In Greek thought, and their adoption and comprehension by M. Tullius Cicero In his essays De Senectute, Tusculanae Dlsputationes, ... -
Comparison Of The Trilogy Of Aeschylus And Mourning Becomes Electra By Eugene O'Neill
(1934-04-01)In order to understand the full extent of the influence of the Orestia on Mourning Becomes Electra one must consider, in the first place, the impetus for action in both trilogies. I shall first take up the question of the ... -
“Conscience is but a word that cowards use:” Richard III’s Machiavellian Impulse
(2015-04-01)This thesis focuses on William Shakespeare’s play, Richard III and Niccolo Machiavelli’s political treatise, The Prince. This thesis begins by contextualizing the presence of Machiavelli’s work in Early Modern England. The ... -
Critical Pedagogy: Helping Transform Student Lives Through Critical Thought
(1994-04-01)The traditional educational methodology, or "the banking method," a phrase coined by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, has been the basis of education in the United States for well over twenty years. In this method the ... -
Dancing Queen A Play in One Act
(2002-04-01)Cast of Characters Gracie Abigail Victoria Liz The Mother, late forties The Younger Daughter, late teens The Older Daughter, mid twenties Abigail's Friend, late teens TIME: Early spring, two weeks before high school ... -
Daniel Berrigan: Priest, Poet, And Protestor Bound By Commitment
(1984-04-01)Change in life is inevitable and we expect it. Sometimes, however, its suddenness catches us by surprise. In the literary world, students of a particular author and work refer to this phenomenon as maturity. Poet Daniel ... -
De Magistro Sancti Aurelii Augustini Hipponensis Episcopi
(1933-04-01)The fundamental purpose of this treatise is to turn into English the Latin text of St. Augustine's De Magistro. The method has been but to make clear the thoughts expressed by St. Augustine, although some may still be ... -
Dickens And Capital Punishment
(1984-04-01)The psychology and. punishment of murderers has always been a subject of interest for Dickens. Many of his articles and novels contain references to his attitudes regarding the all-too-frequent use of capital punishment ... -
Die Letzte Am Schafott Gertrud von Le Fort
(1962-04-01)The last 80 years In Germany have been the setting in which modern German Catholic literature was reborn, took its faltering steps, and grew to recognition by the literary world. It has already been accepted by some critics ... -
Dostoyevsky And Solzhenitsyn: Their Bridge Over A Troubled Century
(1974-04-01)The world has heard a great deal about Alexander Solzhenitsyn lately. His audacious works, his unconventional stance among his fellow writers, and finally his unprecedented banishment by the Soviet government have thrust ... -
Down the street the dogs are barking
(2000-04-01)own the streets the dogs are barking traces my life from about the age five to the age sixteen, give or take a couple days. But it isn’t about one girl. No. It’s a story told through the mouths of several girls—myself now, ... -
Dreaming of Trodden Midnight Streets
(2009-04-01)This collection of poems was born out of a desire to honor and preserve those moments and people, that in the past four years, have inspired me, taught me to love, broken my heart, and pushed me to be a better and truer ... -
Dualities In The Death Of Jim Loney
(1994-04-01)James Welch’s novel, The Death of Tim Loney, presents a protagonist who inspires conflicting reactions from the reader. Loney, a half-breed Native American living in Harlem, Montana, struggles to find his identity amid a ... -
Feminine Romanticism In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
(2016-04-01)This thesis explores Romanticism presented in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I incorporate Anne K. Mellor’s work in identifying Romanticism’s two main forms: feminine and masculine Romanticism. The Romantic ideologies as we ... -
Flannery O'Connor: Prophet In The Wilderness
(1972-04-01)As one surveys the gamut of contemporary American literature, one frequently mentioned name is that of Flannery O'Connor. She is a widely discussed contemporary writer — and yet one of the most misinterpreted and ... -
For the Love of Another
(2004-04-01)“For the Love of Another” is a creative nonfiction piece relating the struggle of a high school student through the fall semester of his senior year. The story is set in Helena, Montana, where Stephen McLeod, the main ...