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The "Projective" Unconscious: Charles Olson and Carl Jung
Charles Olson ( 1910-1970), writing the bulk of his most influential works in the late forties through mid sixties, is an American poet who gained fame as a teacher in the Black Mountain College, a successor of Ezra Pound, ...
"Tell us a story": Ancient Rhetoric and the Power of Story-Telling in Legal Fiction
The power of storytelling in the practice of law is a theme which resonates throughout Twentieth Century American legal fiction. Put simply, it's the idea that "whoever tells the best story wins the case." Storytelling can ...
Unspeakable Visions: The Innovative Poetry and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Jack Kerouac
Throughout the experiences and poetry and prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Jack Kerouac, the careful reader will see that both of the writers strove to extend the limits of their chosen art
form. They worked carefully ...
The Proletarian Novel in America, 1900-1940
In this thesis I have tried to give what I think is an accurate picture of the proletarian novel. I have tried to trace the origins, motives and developments of this form in the years from 1900 to 1940. It has been necessary ...
A Local Habitation and a Name: C. S. Lewis and the Language of Christian Apologetics
C.S. Lewis is a source of intrigue for many twentieth century readers. His audience consists of Christian lay-persons, students of English literature, scholars, clergy, and others. For many of
us, C.S. Lewis' popularity ...
W. H. Auden's Sociological Concern: Influences of Marx, Freud, and Lawrence in His Early Poetry
In evaluating the early poetry of W. H. Auden, one cannot escape the conclusion that social problems are his primary concern. Although the same might be said of many recent poets, there are few who approach the issues of ...
Edith Wharton's Evolutionary Monster; Undine Spragg of The Custom of the Country
In Wharton's own words she describes her intent for the book, "I argued that in The Custom of the Country I was chronicling the career of a particular young woman, and that to whatever hemisphere her fortunes carried her, ...
The Conflict Between the Apollonian and Faustian Ideals of Poetry in Keats
It is almost impossible for us to reach any conclusions concerning Apollonian-Faustian dicotmy in his soul. I do think his was an Apollonian mind and sensibility of the moment. I am sure he forgot few of
those things which ...
Death After the Banquet: The Elegiac Unity of Beowulf
The purpose of this paper is to make a generic investigation of the poem and, if possible, reveal what it means by defining what it is. Since the poem comes from a definite and somewhat known tradition, generic criticism ...