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Interpreters of Chicago : a study in American regionalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1932)
The second discovery of America came when the writers discovered the interesting elements in the varied communities which made each of them unique. A like discovery had been made in England years before by George Eliot, ...
"To move wild laughter in the throat of death" : an anatomy of Black Humor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
This dissertation presents an extended definition of a literary genre that has been labelled "Black Humor" by many contemporary critics. Though the phrase has been used with increasing frequency in the last ten years, it ...
Frederick Buechner : an introduction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1987)
American writer Frederick Buechner has published, since 1950, eleven novels and ten major works of non-fiction. The critical reception of Buechner’s work has been generally problematic; his work has been undervalued, at ...
Comic pattern in the novels of Smollett
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
This dissertation focuses upon the disparity between the bodies of Smollett's novels and their endings. The former is set in a society which historians identify as the "real world" of eighteenth-century London, a world ...
English literature and modern Bengali short fiction : a study in influences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1969)
Modern short fiction is defined as a genre which deals, by means of a process of oblique questioning, with the concerns of "submerged population groups." Because answers to these questions are not necessarily supplied by ...
Clyomon and Clamydes a critical edition
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1962)
, conclusions about its performances, reception, author, and date of composition must rest upon such meager inferences as can be drawn from the text itself. After its publication in 1599, except for occasional mention in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century play...
A study of tragic situation and character in English drama, 1900- 1912
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
It is the purpose of this study to examine the subject-matter of those English dramas of 1900-1912 which portray serious action and produce tragic effect. In this study all purely aesthetic questions are ignored. The ...
The Celtic legends and their use in the modern Celtic plays and poetry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
The recovery and opening of the Irish legends is undoubtedly the most important phase of the Irish literary movement. The legends contain the very essence of the Irish genius. These stories of "old, unhappy, far-off things" ...
The nature of nothingness in King Lear
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
"The approach toward life in the sixteenth century was paradoxical. Writers and thinkers struggled with the questions and problems of life; they tried to determine if life had any value, and if it consisted of something. ...
The miracle play : medieval and modern
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
"The purpose of the present study is to investigate one of these three types,--the miracle play. It is the aim of the thesis to study typical examples of the medieval miracle and the entire list, so far as possible, of ...
A study of the early Tudor comedies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1965)
"After centuries of theatrical entertainment that consisted of miracle plays, mysteries, folk plays, festival plays, interludes, pageants, moralities, banns, tilts, disguisings, entertainments, masks, and mummings, there ...
The centrique part : John Donne's Elegies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1987)
"An extended study of the Elegies of John Donne is long overdue. Beyond such notable exceptions as "Going to Bed," "The Perfume," and "The Bracelet," the Elegies, overall, constitute a neglected area of Donne's canon. In ...
John Horne Burns : Toward a Critical Biography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1985)
The dissertation traces John Horne Burns's life and career as a novelist and English teacher, from his origins in Andover through his literary success with The Gallery (1947), Lucifer with a Book (1949), and A Cry of ...