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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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
Quest for Expression: The Ekphrastic Poetry and Artistic Creation of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) is widely praised for her mastery of poetic form and language. Recently, Plath scholars have uncovered another dimension to this already complex literary figure. In addition to poetry, Plath also ...
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 ...
"Sex explains it all": Gender in the Literature of Ernest Hemingway and Robert Frost
Gender is merely an attribute, rather than the single determining factor of one's identity, yet Hemingway and Frost both devised their own distinctly masculine personality -- a public image which became progressively more ...
Through Reason to Imagination: The Intellectual Development of C. S. Lewis (1922-1960)
Lewis' literary transformation is, too, complete. The Oxford youth who intended to fashion a philosophic New Look simply because he was "against government" surrendered not only his will but also his reason to the depths ...
The Odyssey of Leopold Bloom: An Attempt to Find What Will Suffice
Standards of morality have changed to the extent that James Joyce's Ulysses is no longer condemned for being exceptionaIly obscene. Almost fifty years after its publication, however, Joyce's novel remains notorious for ...