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A model for the analysis of cohesion and information management in published writing in three disciplines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1987)
This study proposes a model to compare cohesion and information management in samples of professional writing in three disciplines (counseling psychology, biology, and history). When tested with the chi-square procedure, ...
Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
Text from page ii: The following discussion of the poet, Robert Bloomfield, is divided into four parts: first, a detailed account of the poet's life; second, an account of each of the poet's works, its contents and its ...
English bourgeois tragedy from 1576 to 1642
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
What is English bourgeois tragedy? What forces produced it, and what is its significance in the first great period of English drama? It is the purpose of this dissertation to answer these questions by a detailed study of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Omission of the central action in the English and Scottish popular ballads
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
There are four main divisions of the examples of omission and suspense: minor omissions, suspense, omission of the central motive, and omission of the central action. The term "minor omissions" includes not only the ...
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 ...
Tudor prose satire : the dynamics of a visual mode
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
"Peter Bruegel’s Dulle Griet (”Mad Meg”) is a collage of feverish movement replete with monstrous figures, absurd concoctions, and soberly aggressive peasant women. A besieged village forms the lower half of the setting ...
The public voice of Richard Crashaw : a study in the use of religious tradition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
"It is something of an understatement to say that of all the poets of the seventeenth century, Crashaw has been most subjected to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. He has suffered the fate of being labeled the ...
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 ...
The Old English Herbal in Cotton Ms. Vitellius C. iii : studies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
MSS. Bodleian Hatton 76 and B. M. Harley 585; it has the briefest of introductions, but a number of grammatical tables are appended. Recently a number of scholars have undertaken further work with the codex. The Herbal is scheduled for publication...
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" ...
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 forms and extent of Milton's influence upon Thomson, Gray and Collins
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1908)
The attempt to trace in some detail and to indicate to some extent the influence of Milton upon the conceptions and language of Thomson, Gray, and, Collins; to show that their obligation to him is something more specific ...
The dramas and prose works of John Rastell
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1976)
A study of the literary career of John Rastell (1475- 1536), Thomas More's brother-in-law, this dissertation re-evaluates and adds insights to previous scholarly work. Its purposes are to collect and evaluate published and ...
The speaker in the major poems of William Cowper
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1968)
"The fate of William Cowper as poet may very well turn out to be analogous to what threatened to be the fate of Samuel Johnson: the history of the man will become more important than his literary achievement. Of course the ...
"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 ...
Concretes and abstracts in the Old English epic Beowulf
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
That poem may surely be said to be abstract in character in which the motive is more real than the deed, in which the thoughts of a man's heart are given more dramatic prominence than the facts of his appearance, in which ...
The character of Gawain in English literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1961)
There are thus three basic areas of investigation: Celtic tales and traditions, culminating in the work of Geoffrey of Monmouth; medieval metrical and prose romances, both French and English; and English prose and poetry ...
Sir Philip Sidney : contrasting views on the value and morality of rhetoric and poetry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1978)
Sidney’s attitude toward rhetoric passes through three rather distinct stages. At first, he is quite positive toward it, treats it with respect, and, what is perhaps even more important, with enthusiasm. His attitude toward ...