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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"English Criticism"”.
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The Many Functions of Taste: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century England
… point for my analysis of nineteenth-century criticism is the recognition that the word "aesthetic" was not commonly used in English until the early 1800s. For the first two-thirds of the nineteenth century, English criticism still relied on an eighteenth-century vocabulary of "taste." For …
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Receiving "The true name" : reading Lilith as a mystical dream-vision.
George MacDonald's penultimate novel, Lilith, has puzzled readers and critics alike with its strange symbolism and seemingly chaotic dreams. One's comprehension of the novel ultimately hinges upon the right interpretation of dreams. Those who ignore or gloss over the dream sequence as a mere plot …
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Between reality and mystery : food as fact and symbol in plays by Ibsen and Churchill.
In Henrik Ibsen's and Caryl Churchill's plays, food is both fact and symbol, a reminder of both the shared physicality of the actors and spectators and of an equally powerful human desire for symbolic significance. This thesis examines the depictions of both facets of human consumption in Ibsen's A …
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The Gospel Song Movement
Th. D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1916
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Reading <i>Waiting for Godot</i> through the lens of Christian existentialism
<p>Samuel Beckett’s play <em>Waiting for Godot</em> is commonly interpreted within the context of the Theater of the Absurd, existentialist literature, or Christian allegory. This thesis recognizes the validity of all such readings while attempting to merge these seemingly contradictory …