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Irony in the novelettes of Edith Wharton.
… this study, entitled "Irony in the Novelettes of Edith Wharton," is to show that as a conscious stylist Mrs. Wharton imbued with a framework of irony the eight novelettes discussed. The individual works are Sanctuary, Madame de Treymes, The Marne, Ethan Frome, False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark, …
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Edith Wharton's treatment of marriage.
… style and setting and the continuity of theme in Edith Wharton's fiction. Her treatment of marriage and divorce is used as the basis for comparison. Several themes are traced through her work and their possible relation to her own life is indicated. The most important themes are the underlying …
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A study of Edith Sitwell as a critic.
Edith Sitwell is one of the few women in British literature to establish reputation as an accepted poet, and she is perhaps the only woman to become accepted as a critic. These forces combined to provide Miss Sitwell with the background necessary for her achievement: a lineage of aristocratic and …
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Edith Wharton's Heroines: Studies in Aspiration and Compliance
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Edith Wharton: Vision and Perception in Her Short Stories
In Edith Wharton's short stories, vision and perception play key roles in stories pertaining to marriage and divorce, artists and writers, and social and personal values.
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Aristocracy and Appalachia: Edith Vanderbilt and Her Moonlight School
<p>A short biography of Edith Vanderbilt, focusing chiefly upon her marriage to George Vanderbilt.</p>
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Edith Stein: Toward an Ethic of Relationship and Responsibility
The philosopher Edith Stein (1891-1942) never set down formally an ethical plan. However, in Stein's professional and personal texts, "ethic" is defined as a harmonious matching of internal thoughts and beliefs with external actions, while always moving toward truth. This dissertation seeks to …
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Edith Wharton's irony : from the short stories to the infinitudes
Although Edith Wharton is finally recognized as a major American novelist, her remarkable canon of short stories has been largely ignored. Such neglect is regrettable, for the diversity of the stories suggests that some common perceptions of Wharton may well be misconceptions: that her works are …
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Buried Alive: Gothic Oppression in the Novels of Edith Wharton'
<p>Edith Wharton is undoubtedly one of American literature's foremost critics of society; however, little has been written of her use of the Gothic as part of her social commentary. Within all of Wharton's fiction, ranging from her ghost stories to her more celebrated classics such as The House of …
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Imprisoned and Empowered: The Women of Edith Wharton's Supernatural Fiction.
… represented in selected supernatural fiction by Edith Wharton, we explore the socio-gender relationships, as well as the gender roles of women in general as they existed in the early part of the twentieth century. These associations are discussed, as is the influence Henry James may have had on …
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A New Man: Masculine Confusion and Struggle in the Works of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton’s male characters offer an important commentary on the evolving situation of the man in American society. Wharton did not wish for women to usurp all social positions from men but rather to claim their rightful position alongside them. Characters such as Lawrence Selden in <i>The …
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Die philosophische Begründung einer Theorie von Individuum, Gemeinschaft und Staat bei Edith Stein
Das Ziel der Arbeit ist, Edith Stein als philosophische Stimme in der aktuellen Diskussion um die Begründung von Menschenwürde, um die Beziehung von Philosophie und Naturwissenschaften am Beispiel der Auseinandersetzung der Neurophilosophie mit der Gehirn-Geist bzw. Leib-Seele-Problematik und um …
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Silencing and silenced women in Edith Wharton's non-ghost short stories.
… spanning more than fifty years (1885 to 1937), Edith Wharton portrayed American women weathering a tremendous sea change in society's expectations of them. In the 1960s the unsealing of Wharton's personal papers encouraged scholars to assign new value to Wharton's short fiction. Focusing on the …
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