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"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 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 ...
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 ...