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Unity Through Resonance: A Study of the Function of Imagery in Browning's The Ring and the Book
This paper will direct itself to answering the question, How does imagery unify The Ring and the Book? The answer lies in the repeated use of images having the same subject. . . . Anne Stevenson, in another context, ...
China's Destiny and the Ideological Battle for China
In late 1942, as China was threatened by Japanese encroachment and beset by internal economic and political problems, Chiang Kai-shek, director- general (Tsung- ts'ai) of the Kuomintang (hereafter KMT), busily compiled his ...
The Anxiety of Obsolescence: Pessimistic Depictions of the Artist in the Modern American Novels of Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, and Nathanael West
This study will present the existence of a strand of artistic despair running through modernist American fiction. The consistent failure to positively present the high modem ideal comes about as a result of what I call ...
Accuracy Versus Drama: Press Coverage of Khe Sanh, January-April 1968
The media have faced much criticism for the reporting of the Vietnam War. This paper will attempt to show that, in the case of the battle of Khe Sanh, press coverage for the most part reflected official military and ...
Beyond Just the Words
Human communication is embodied -- facial expressions, gestures, and prosody (tone of voice and rhythm) add layers of important information to just the words used by a cognitive agent. In fact,just the use of words often ...
Cadmium Cobaltinitrite: Its Preparation and Properties
Cadmium Cobaltini trita is a heretofore practicaJly unknown compound. It was partially isolated in 1920 by S. C. Ogburn and J. T. Dobbins in the course of some original investigation of inorganic cobal tinitrites. Little ...
A Search for Tragedy in American Drama
Eric Bentley says: "Observers from every point of view would agree that the theater at the moment is in a more than usually uncertain and disordered state." [3] Mr. Bentley is not
one known for compromise. He does not ...
A Reflection of the Scientific Attitude in English Literature of the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
It is of tremendous and outstanding importance, then, vhen any age finds itself slowly but definitely changing not only its thoughts but its manner of thinking from the preceding ages. Such is the case of the seventeenth ...
"More lively perceptions": Irony and Its Sources in Jane Austen's Novels of Impression and Persuasion
Irony comes from mainly from two sources in Jane Austen's writings: the juxtaposition of an impression or a persuasion with the truth of a situation. This can be seen most clearly in three novels: Lady Susan, which shows ...