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Outstanding nineteenth century poets: An aid to their appreciation
(Wichita State University, 1929-07)The purpose of this paper is to serve as an aid to the teacher in the presentation of the representative works of ten outstanding English poets from the time of Burns to that of Rossetti inclusively, and to serve as a guide ... -
The English and American new comedy: Its ancestory, aims, and tendencies
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Tragedy in contemporary drama with an historical survey of the tragedy of the past
(Wichita State University, 1930-06)The following is an attempt to analyse the elements or contemporary English tragedy in the light or the tragedy of the past, with the view not so much of defining the present type as of determining the differences ... -
Local color and realism in Hamlin Garland's short stories
(Wichita State University, 1932-05)The purpose of this work has been to investigate and determine, by careful and methodical procedure, the characteristics of Hamlin Garland that cause him to be recognized as a local colorist and veritist of high note in ... -
The nature treatment of the classicists compared with that of the Romanticists
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Contributions of English women novelists to the novel through the eighteenth century
(Wichita State University, 1933-06)The purpose of this thesis is to discover the contributions which some of the English women novelists of the eighteenth century made to the development of the novel. Although the form and scope of the English novel were ... -
Rupert Brooke: A bibliographical study with annotations
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Confusing words
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The success of Edwin Arlington Robinson's failures: A treatment of his poetry
(Wichita State University, 1933-06)Several authors have treated Robinson’s failures as failures, but they have failed to show that behind every failure is a gleam of light; that these poor specimens of humanity have some sort of a place in the world. My ... -
Infantilism in English literature
(Wichita State University, 1934-05)Until recent years, all the principal characters in English literature were adults. Children had no place in literature except as they might affect their elders and their elders’ relations to one another. It was not ... -
A study of the treatment of Arthurian legends since the eighteenth century in the literature of Great Britain and America
(Wichita State University, 1934-06)The treatment of the old legends by modern authors differs widely from that of Malory or Tennyson. It is my purpose to show the variation in this treatment by comparing the modern development with that of Tennyson ... -
A study of the archaisms and neologisms from the British press of 1933
(Wichita State University, 1934-06)Words persist in popular print and in spoken language long after they disappear form the page of the literary writer. They are likely to persist longest in isolated places, away from cultural centers, among people of the ... -
Kansas in American poetry, by Mildred Aldridge Turner
(Wichita State University, 1935-07)In this dissertation, Kansas in American Poetry, only poems which are written about Kansas have been considered. Some of them were written by native born Kansans, some by men and women who have adopted Kansas as their ... -
An analysis of the literary importance of Gerard Manley Hopkins
(Wichita State University, 1937-06)It is only in recent years that the attention of students of literature has been directed to the merit s of the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, a poet who, paradoxical as it may seem, is rightly classified as the ... -
Catholic imagery in the poetry of Francis Thompson
(Wichita State University, 1937-06)In this study an attempt will be made to explain allusions drawn from Catholic sources; to clarify the underlying thought implied in the imagery; furthermore, to illustrate the qualifying effect ot this imagery upon ... -
The influence of Landor's Imaginary conversations on the development of Browning's dramatic monologues
(Wichita State University, 1939-05)The friendship of Walter Savage Landor and Robert Browning has been of considerable literary significance. Even though a wide difference in age existed--thirty-seven years-- they were attracted to each other. Greater ... -
Poetic accomplishment of Langston Hughes
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The social protest novel of the twentieth century
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A study of the development of counterpoint in the narrative technique of modern fiction
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An analysis of the influence of the Quakers on Daniel Defoe
(Wichita State University, 1943-03)