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Critical Symmetry: William Blake's Influence on the Critical Theories of Northrop Frye
Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (1947) ushered in a new era of Blake studies. This thesis examines the influence of Blake's poetry, criticism, and thought on Frye's critical theories as expounded in Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957) and subsequent works. Two …
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Antonine Maillet et l'univers mythologique de la Bible, selon Northrop Frye
… vue du critique littéraire anglophone Northrop Frye, pour qui la Bible est la matrice de l'imaginaire littéraire occidental (The Great Code : The Bible and Literature, 1983). Notre étude se concentre sur la structure interne du monde fictif de Maillet, en commençant par les concepts clés de Frye …
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Breaking the silence: A rhetorical analysis of selected works by Sandra Cisneros and Toni Morrison through the lens of Northrop Frye's rhetorical theories of speech and style
… and Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Sula. Northrop Frye's rhetorical theories of hieratic and demotic style and speech may be examined and applied to the fiction of Cisneros and Morrison. The introductory portion of this analysis begins with a discussion of Northrop Frye's rhetorical theory of the …
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Identification of the products and mechanism of decomposition of thiazate
… facet of the research undertaken by Dr. Herschel Frye of the Department of Chemistry of the University of the Pacific while he was a graduate student at the University of Oregon. Frye succeeded in making an analytical reagent for zinc and other transition metals similar to dithiszone but water …
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The will of the people: Comedy and the comic persona in Shakespeare's sonnets
… examining modes of literature by Northrup Frye, Anatomy of Criticism. Selected sonnets are analyzed according to criteria set forth by these authors to determine if the poems present speakers or heroes whose attitudes and preoccupations and powers of action and expression match Huizinga's …
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A novel cuisine
… year old writer, critic and consultant, Norman Frye, whose speciality is all things culinary. He lives with his pet rat in a converted cellar below an early 20th century city town house in Kenilworth, Cape Town. The action takes place over fifty days as the central characters and their …
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The divided consciousness in Charles Dickens' Hard times
What I shall do in this paper is apply Frye’s concept of romance to Hard Times, i.e., Frye's defining romance as a device for using archetypes. The novel, as Frye sees it, is a vehicle whereby “realism” or life-like representation is applied. Hard Times contains “stylized figures” which …
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The Green World of Dystopian Fiction
Northrop Frye was the first theorist to develop the green world archetype; Frye used the term to refer to a recurring motif in Shakespearean comedy. In several of Shakespeare's comedies, the protagonists leave the civilized world and venture into the green world, or nature, to escape from the …
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Funktion der Grossstadtallegorie und des "Mythos" in der "Zehnten Duineser Elegie" von Rainer Maria Rilke. (German text);
… together with a critical appraisal of Vico's and Frye's theories on myth provide the theoretical framework for the investigations undertaken in this thesis. An analysis of the depiction of city life in Rilke's early works helps establish the function of the city-allegory in the Tenth Duino Elegy. …
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A Paleontological Study of Pedimeant Gravels of Southwestern North Dakota Which Exhibit Evidence of PermaFrost Activity
… that the two sites of Tuthill, Laird, and Frye (1964) are not correlative and that one of them, the Marple Ranch site, correlates with the two sites of this study. Although age determinations based upon Pleistocene mollusks are generally considered unreliable, the pediment deposits are …
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In search of the myth in history : the narrative of the quest from sacred to secular
… Hill, Jack Goody, Walter Ong, and Northrop Frye. Keywords: myth, metaphor, mythological narrative, literacy, literary trope, action.
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Self-Consistent Conversion of a Viscous Fluid to Particles and Heavy-Ion Applications
… This conversion, typically done in the Cooper-Frye formalism, is ambiguous for viscous fluids. In this thesis work, self-consistent phase space corrections are calculated by solving the linearized Boltzmann equation. These species-dependent solutions are contrasted with those obtained using the …
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Creating Divergence: Examining The Development Of Creativity Through Executive Function, Language And Mindset
… (i.e., cognitive control, Zelazo, Muller, Frye & Marcovitch, 2003), motivation factors (i.e., mindset and persistence), and situational factors (i.e., language used within a task) would interact with age to show different patterns of influence during different times of development. Although …
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Writing visionary drama: an anarcho-Christian approach to the contemporary British play through four theatre texts by James Martin Charlton: The World & his Wife, Coming Up, ecstasy + GRACE, Coward
… the structuralist approach of critic Northrop Frye, paradigms and theories from the work and writing of Christian non-theatre artists William Blake and Bob Dylan, and prototypes from early and classical drama from the medieval and Renaissance eras, as well as work by contemporary dramatists. …
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Flux corrected transport applied to hydrodynamics for heavy ion collisions
… by combining Landau hydrodynamics and the Cooper-Frye freezeout formalism is given. The results are compared with the Landau Gaussian and a known approximation for midrapidies. The Landau Gaussian provides the best approximation to experimental data. Furthermore, the chemical freezeout results for …
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Three Paths To Religious Integration In Ernest Hemingway’s War Fiction
… Furthermore, I look to the theories of Northrop Frye in analyzing this literature because Frye’s structuralism allows for genre-bending oeuvres such as Hemingway’s. I argue that, contrary to much literary criticism, the Hemingway wartime protagonists are theists who seek the divine in times of …
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Anatomy of Influence: The Decisive Effect of Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism on James Reaney’s Donnellys Trilogy, as Directed by Keith Turnbull
… James Reaney completed his PHD under Northrop Frye. Frye’s thought and worldview are at the centre of these plays and although Reaney based his writing on a local legend from his childhood, it is undeniably grounded in Frye’s work, Anatomy of Criticism. Frye’s influence on Reaney becomes clear …
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HENRY JAMES AND ROMANTIC REVISIONISM: THE QUEST FOR THE MAN OF IMAGINATION IN THE LATE WORK
… Romantic revisionist scholarship (e.g. Northrop Frye, Frank Kermode, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, and Paul de Man) as well as French theory (e.g. Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida) and other traditions (e.g. Kenneth Burke, R.P. Blackmur, and Lionel Trilling) to challenge …
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The Impact of Preparation, Field Experience and Personal Awareness on Counsleors' Attitudes Toward Providing Services to Section 504 Students with Learning Disabilities
… experience regarding learning disabilities (Frye, 2005; Greene & Valesky, 1998; Milsom, 2002). School counselors from ASCA's southern region were asked to respond to the Attitudes Toward Learning Disabilities Instrument online survey. The findings of this study demonstrated that although …
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