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A critical analysis of the sonnets of Charles Tenyson-Turner
(1962) Berry, Joe Wilkes; Williams, George; Thomas, J. P.
A study of Chaucer's House of fame
(1962) Hazelton, Valton F; Williams, George
Alienation in the life and works of Katherine Mansfield
(1966) Middleton, Bettye L. Sutherland; Williams, George
Katherine Mansfield, a British short story writer of the first part of the twentieth century, lived in the chaotic social and cultural atmosphere that marks this age, a time when old traditions were crumbling, belief in the established faiths suffered attacks of doubt, and the rise of the industrialized economy created an atmosphere of widespread alienation. Mansfield was not exempt from the influence of this instability in social conditions nor from the anxieties of estrangement and alienation from life around her. In Chapter One, this thesis attempts to establish the general tone and atmosphere of alienation suffered by the age and to examine some of the causes for this estrangement. Under the influence of this atmosphere, Mansfield experienced a personal sense of alienation, experiences which affected her vision of life and reflected in her literary creations. Alienation, on the personal level from which Mansfield developed her message, is a process which can have several levels or degrees of intensity. Some levels of alienation may be of equivalent intensity, while other degrees are obviously more intense and agonizing. Mansfield's works have been divided, in Chapter Two, into various types or degrees of alienation which she attempted to portray. One type is the alienation between friends and lovers, which does not seem to be as intense a stage of alienation on the whole as in the involvement of closer ties of affection, such as parent-child alienation or husband-wife alienation. Then there is the alienation from a larger group of people, social estrangement which includes the anxiety of nonbelonging and nonacceptance. Fifthly, the agony of total individual alienation from all human contact, from all identification with life in nature and from all objects of affection comprises one of the more intense forms of alienation. Lastly, the irrevocable alienation of death is the one form of alienation in which all hope is gone of overcoming the absolute separation that is established. Chapter Three is an attempt to discover some pattern to the conclusions Mansfield developed through her experiences with alienation and to define the faith which she accepted shortly before her death, a faith in love which could dispel the disunity of self-alienation, allowing her to achieve unity and oneness of being.
Circular structure in the novels of George Moore
(1963) Hollow, John Walter; Williams, George
This thesis is a study of the novels of George Moore's final "canon." It covers A Modern Lover (although this novel does not remain in the final "canon," it is Moore's first and as such it rates study), A Mummer's Wife, Muslin, Esther Waters, The Lake, 1141oise and Abelard, and Aphrodite in Aulis. A few of Moore's short stories are considered, but only in passing. The thesis attempts to show that Moore's novels all have structures of one of the following three types, all modifications of the basic "circular structure." The protagonist of the novel ends where he began. The protagonist of the novel ends at a clearly defined point opposite of that where he began. The protagonist ends as either a or b and, more over, minor characters end either where they began or at opposite points. The final chapter of the thesis attempts to show that Moore's interest/in story-telling and in "eternal recurrence" justify the interpretations of the novels that are given. The thesis ends with a summary and conclusion, followed by an Appendix on Evelyn Innes and Sister Teresa.
D. H. Lawrence's political philosophy as expressed in his novels
(1963) Tyeryar, Gary Lewis; Williams, George
As I have indicated in my title, the subject of this thesis is the political philosophy of D. H. Lawrence as expressed in his novels. I had originally intended to present a general, critical analysis of the political philosophy; but as research progressed, it seemed necessary for me to discover exactly what political views Lawrence really held. Therefore, the thesis has become, to a very large extent, a presentation and an organization of the strictly factual material that I have found in Lawrence's novels. In order to be absolutely fair to Lawrence, I have presented this material, as often as possible, in Lawrence's words rather than my own. My concern has been with the facts, rather than with a criticism or an evaluation of the facts. The chief contribution that I have made is in extracting the facts, and organizing them. I have taken the liberty, however, of selecting novels which I consider characteristic of the man. They are: Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, Aaron's Rod, Kangaroo, The Plumed Serpent, and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Apocalypse and "Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine" are also discussed. The facts have been organized into the following categories: The Genesis of Lawrence's Ideas, Lawrence's Anti-Capitalistic and Anti-Mechanization Views, Lawrence’s Anti-Democratic Leanings and his Attitude Toward War, The Communist and Fascist Questions, and Individual Liberty, Leadership and Power. Throughout his writing, Lawrence often appears guilty of making seemingly inconsistent statements. This is true, in part; because in his mind, Lawrence erroneously equated Industrialism, Capitalism, and Democracy. He felt that all three tended to demoralize men and to destroy individuality through conformity. The result was a mob state, with war as its natural manifestation In his search for a better system, Lawrence demonstrated Communistic and Fascistic tendencies; but it is clear in the novels that he accepted neither system. Some of the life-qualities that Lawrence felt important for the individual to possess are apparent in the powerful, superhuman leaders in the novels. The leader abstains from submitting to the extreme desires of his will. He has, by means of an inner quality which he communicates to his fellow men, the capacity to make men submit to him. Basically, man needs to regain the "electric spark of life" which runs between him and the cosmos.
Recurrent character types in the works of James Matthew Barrie
(1963) Amundson, James David; Williams, George
The object of this thesis is an examination of repetitive character types in the works of James Matthew Barrie. It deals only with the characters found in more than one work, who are given new names. The discussion begins with Barrie's experimental period of writing articles for newspapers and journals, and focuses on Barrie's concern for point of view as seen in his development of a characteristic narrator. This narrator originates as a device to give unity to collections of Kailyard articles, and develops into a thematic device and finally into the vehicle for Barrie's primary theme. This theme is found to be the problem of immaturity or childishness in individuals and in society as a whole. The theme of childishness is then traced in Barrie's treatment of Barrie's immature masculine and feminine characters, and finally in the small group of female supporting characters Barrie relied upon as foils for his major characters. This close range of characteristic traits shows that Barrie's primary concern was not intended to be in any way impressionistic; his concern was the expression, in his own idiom to be sure, of a narrow range of vital themes.
The journal of Jedediah Hotchkiss, June 1861-August 1862
(1960) McDonald, Archie P; Vandiver, Frank E.; Loewenheim, Francis; Williams, George
The natural man in Thomas Hardy's short stories
(1964) Etheredge, Dorothy Elinor; Williams, George
This thesis is a study of the concept of the natural man within the four collected volumes of Thomas Hardy's short stories, A Changed Nan and Other Tales, Life's Little Ironies, A Group of Noble Dames, and Wessex Tales. By definition, the natural man or woman within the short stories is one who is born and reared in a rural environment some distance from the complexities and ideals of a sophisticated society. Although his natural characters play important roles within the short stories, Hardy was not the first writer to represent the virtues of life separated from a sophisticated civilization. A resume of the concept of the natural man (primitivism) from antiquity to Hardy reveals that Hardy's simple characters generally resemble the primitives of all ages. Nature is considered as a guide for what is right, and man in an environment close to the soil is able to discern the truths of nature with ease. Among the primary virtues characteristic of natural men of all ages are self-sufficiency, endurance, loyalty, innate or unconscious wisdom, and benevolence. Throughout the history of primitivism, the turmoil of city life and the corruption of society have been contrasted with the tranquillity of the country and the virtues of simple people living in a secluded environment. It has also been characteristic for contact with society to result in loss of naturalness or happiness for primitive man. The natural characters of Hardy's short stories live in country hamlets or small inland or seacoast towns. Because of its simplicity, and seclusion, their native environment appears to influence the naturalness and spontaneity of their actions. A study of these natural men in their native homes reveals that some of these individuals in the stories appear to possess all of the major virtues (loyalty, unselfishness, endurance, unconscious wisdom) self-sufficiency, and kindness)) but each character in the short stories who is a natural man possesses one or more admirable traits. When the natural virtues and simple environment of Hardy's primitives within the short stories are contrasted with the complex setting and corruption of unnatural) sophisticated individuals, the nobility of the natural men is further magnified. A number of the stories employ a contrasting figure (sometimes society as a whole) to the natural man. As Hardy's simple characters come in contact with sophisticated society and its ideals, their naturalness is often sullied. However, some of Hardy's strong natural men pass through society unscathed; and there are a few individuals who appear to be natural men even though they are an integral part of a complex society. Sometimes society's ideals and society's enforced laws cause unhappiness for Hardy's natural men. Regardless of Hardy's purpose in representing the natural man within the stories, the simple characters of both his novels and short stories follow the traditional views concerning the goodness of life away from complex society, and these natural individuals are Hardy's most admirable portraits of mankind.
The symbolic moment in the fiction of E. M. Forster
(1965) Hoak, Barbara Ann; Williams, George
This thesis is a study in the fiction of E. M. Forster of a principle which has been named the "symbolic moment." The symbolic moment is defined as a short period of time which has the effect of removing character or reader from consciousness of the continual flux of mundane occurrences since it has the potential of revealing reveaIing universal, a kind of reality beyond the everyday human life processes. This thesis demonstrates that one way of seeing the structure of Forster's works is as a series of symbolic moments which are more vivid and more meaningful than everything happening between them, since they juxtapose levels of reality or meaning in incidents which often have archetypal reference. The thesis examines Forster's ideas about the structure of the novel and concludes that the symbolic moment principle fits in with Forster's conception of a novel as representation of human life, in which not all periods of time have equal significance when examined in retrospect. The symbolic moment characteristically takes the form of a confrontation--between two characters, or between a character and an object or event—which may bring about a revelation of reality if the character is prepared to accept it. The symbolic moment is examined as a focal point of structure and themes in two of Forster's short stories: "The Eternal Moment" and "The Road from Colonus." Forster's novels are a series of symbolic moments, and in the early novels—especially Where Angles Fear to Tread and A Room with a View—Forster's characters progress through them to some kind of growth in understanding which allows them to accept all sides of man's good-and-evil nature. However, the hero of The Longest Journey is criticized for not adapting himself to the flux between the symbolic moments and for drawing the wrong conclusions from his moments of vision. Howards End a novel of compromise between views of reality, moves discursively and thus is not really structured around the symbolic moment. A Passage to India contains three major symbolic moments corresponding to the three divisions of the novel, and presenting to several characters the incomprehensibility of the universe and the necessity for inclusiveness and adaptability rather than assertion of human value and personality. Finally, the thesis discusses the various aspects of significance of the symbolic moment, as it structures the plot of a novel, presents universal truth to life, and reveals meanings to characters and to reader. The symbolic moment relates to Forster's concerns with appearance and reality and with the problem of epistemology. It is a moment of incarnation of "truths" and attitudes which could not effectively be expressed discursively.
Themes in Thomas Hardy's short stories
(1960) Kass, Miriam; Williams, George; Thomas, J. P.; Meyers, Robert L.

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