Browsing Languages and Literature Undergraduate Theses by Title
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"I Caught This Morning . . ." A Study Of Gerard Manley Hopkins
(1973-04-01)My interest in Gerard Manley Hopkins began after I read a brief collection of his later poetry for the first time. Hopkins* acute sensitivity and tremendous depth of character reveal the man’s search for meaning in life, ... -
If Words be the Food of Love, Speak On: A Theory of Consumptive Language and Its Application to Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
(2006-04-01)My undergraduate thesis explores the implications of consumption related rhetoric, references to eating, stomach, and digestion etc., within the context of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. I begin by developing my own ... -
"...Into Something Rich and Strange"
(1986-04-01)Unless a student is very lucky, when she attends college she will end up with more than one roommate. Some unlucky, girls have so many roommates during their four-year journey to real money that they live with one of every ... -
Ionesco
(1974-04-01)Toutes les oeuvres de Eugene Ionesco repondent a des questions vque 1'auteur se pose en permanence, sur les pieges du langage, la contagion ideologique, la comedie humaine, et la mort. La mort est le seul theme constant ... -
It Must Have Been the Roses
(2000-04-01)This is my survival story. It is a story of loss in all its forms: loss of innocence, loss of youth, loss of identity, and loss of life. It is an attempt to give structure to the grief I struggle with; the griefthat allowed ... -
"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words" The Function Of Language In The Contemporary Dystopia
(1993-04-01)The first time I read George Orwell’s 1984 was in 1984. I spent my allowance on the Commemorative Edition after hearing Walter Cronkite on the evening news comment about how close we’d come to Orwell’s predictions. That’s ... -
It’s All Metafictional
(2004-04-01)In 1960 William Gass coined the term “metafiction” as a way to describe the up- and-coming fictions that were about fiction. However, Gass’s definition is rather vague and unsatisfactory. In the 1970s, Mark Currie writes ... -
I’ve Got a New Attitude: The Influence of Foreign Language Education on Cultural Attitudes
(1999-04-01)There is much dissention among theorists about whether foreign or second language education influences students’ attitudes toward the target culture and language. Although many foreign language advocates assume that language ... -
Keats: A Tribute To Beauty
(1965-04-01)'If I should die,' said I to itself, ‘I have left no immortal work behind me— nothing to make my friends proud of my memory— but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made ... -
L'Esprit Anarchiste En France: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
(1970-04-01)Au moment ou il lanpa cette tirade contre le gouvernement traditionel, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon venait d’achever sa reputation en publiant l'oeuvre majeure, Qu'est-ce que la propriete? ou Recherches sur le principe du droit ... -
L'image du Jardin et la Quete du Bonheur Dans L'oeuvre de Voltaire, de Flaubert, et de France
(1971-04-01)Francois-Marie Arouet, dit Voltaire, represente au monde du dix-huitieme siecle un homme d'esprit independent. Il se moquait franchement du temperament borne de la societe de son epoque. Cet homme independent passait ... -
La Influencia Estadounidense En La Cultura Contemporanea De Espana
(1981-04-01)Durante los anos que una persona norteamericana estudia la lengua espanola en Carroll College, tiene la oportunidad de estudiarla donde se habla diariamente. Tiene que vivir por un ano academico en una ciudad de Espana y ... -
La Mitologia De La Ficcion Contemporanea Hispanoamericana
(1970-04-01)En nuestro pais la cosa mas popular que discutir es la relacion entre el hombre y el mundo en que el existe. Hay mucha gente que ahora no esta satisfecha con el metodo en que el hombre se relaciona con el mundo y tambien ... -
La Querelle Du Cid De Corneille
(1970-04-01)Pierre Corneille naquit le 6 juin 1606 a Rouen. D’une bonne famille bourgeoise, son pere et son grandpere avaient occupe avant lui 1’office de mitre des eaux et forets dans le vicomte" de Rouen. Pierre aussi occuperait ... -
Language, Dialect, and Power: The Effect of Language on Social Status
(2013-04-01)My thesis consists of two parts: a critical essay on language and power in social relations and an original short story which shows the power relations between social classes. It is easy for a person to assume that language ... -
Le Hermos Brelien Et Les Grands Themes De Jacques Brel
(1985-04-01)Having heard of Jacques Brel while living in France and also while studying French at Carroll College, I never realized his fame was so far reaching until this study began. it is usually very difficult for continental ... -
Le Style Et Les Thees Employes Par Stendhal Pour Creer "Beylisme"
(1975-04-01)Il y a un root qui decrlt le style de Stendhal, Ce root est Beylisme, qui comprlt son style et ses themes, En cette these J*essays d’isoler ce style. Je voudrals apprendre s’il y a vrai- ment un style qul lul est partlcullere, ... -
Leeza Meets Thomas Shepard: Confessional Dialogues in the Salvation Culture
(1999-04-01)The notions of salvation and its intended function in society were deeply imbedded in the identity of America's second colonial people, the Puritans. The first Puritan colony was established in 1620 with the view that they ... -
Like Everything Does a memoir
(2000-04-01)I am not only writing a memoir, but a story of a crisis survived. I cannot think of any other story, I believe, until this one is framed and taken out ofmotion. Annie Dillard quotes that “Ifyou prize your memories as they ... -
“Look at These Faces, Sandstone and Woman:” Three Women’s Search for Identity in Landscape
(2008-04-01)Nature writing as a genre has traditionally been one of the most prominent ways in which nineteenth and twentieth century writers have explored identity and the individual’s place in the world. Among this vast category, ...