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Browning and the Florentine Renaissance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
justice and who were the most liberal patrons of art in all Italy....
Middleton's dramaturgy : a study of the major comedies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
the art of Middleton's comedies and, secondly, by dealing with the best of the comedies, whether or not the setting happens to be London. The early satiric comedies are excluded as inferior to the best that Middleton wrote."--Page 2....
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 ...
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 ...
Tudor prose satire : the dynamics of a visual mode
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
knowledgeable the viewer may be as to the precise nature of the traditions and conventions which influenced Bruegel. But one critical assumption, valid for both visual art and literature, maintains that elucidation of an artistic work enhances one’s appreciation...
The Old English Herbal in Cotton Ms. Vitellius C. iii : studies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
. as evidence of the state of their sciences at a particular time. Art historians are concerned with the tradition and the MS. from the standpoint of the survival of classical art and from the standpoint of the development of plant portrayal from naturalistic...
The centrique part : John Donne's Elegies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1987)
tradition within which Donne's Elegies were written in order to discover both their adherence to and their departure from that tradition."--Preface....
The conception of tragedy in recent English drama
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
It is the purpose of this thesis to examine the conception of tragedy in English drama of the period 1900-1912. In the investigation three questions have been considered. 1. What conceptions of tragedy prevailed in English ...
Ben Jonson's relation to Donne
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
Edmund Gosse in his Life and Letters of John Donne has speculated at some length about the personal relationship between Jonson and Donne. Upon the evidence before him, however, Gosse hesitates to assume that this relationship ...
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 ...
"To move wild laughter in the throat of death" : an anatomy of Black Humor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
satisfactorily defined. This study examines thoroughly the identity of the Black Humorist and the chemistry of his art in order to provide the satisfactory definition which is at present so badly needed. Although the dissertation does not consider every novelist...
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 ...
Interpreters of Chicago : a study in American regionalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1932)
Lee Masters, Ben Hecht, and Sherwood Anderson found voices to teach the world not only the ugliness but also the romantic quality in Chicago. In recent years, outside of this school, there has been a return to romance in the works of Henry Kitchell...
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 ...
The dramas and prose works of John Rastell
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1976)
in the long tradition of dialogue-debates. The last chapter explores Rastell's prefaces in which he shows his concern for translation as a means of enabling the English language to express more complex concepts as well as his desire to stimulate the growth...
The other side of the window : an essay on structural iconography in English and American fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1978)
The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the structural and symbolic function of the window as a major motif in certain works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English and American fiction. Within this body ...
Clyomon and Clamydes a critical edition
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1962)
"Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes (Greg, Bibliography, no. 157) was printed by Thomas Creede in 1599--the same year he printed the second quarto of Romeo and Juliet and Greene's Alphonsus, King of Aragon. Like Creede's other ...
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 ...
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" ...
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 ...