Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 222 for “"O'Connor"”.
-
Rediscovering Frank O'Connor
… twentieth-century Irish writers such as Frank O'Connor have largely been neglected by a critical era which favors longer, more experimental fiction, following James Joyce's models. Both in practice and in theory, Frank O'Connor set standards for the modern short story beyond its current …
-
The Theology of Flannery O'Connor: Biblical Recapitulations in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor
This thesis examines the way Flannery O'Connor's stories draw upon and transfigure various biblical texts. With sometimes shocking freedom, she twists open the original stories or references, reworking and redistributing their basic elements. Often reversing the polarity of the original stories, …
-
Symbolism in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
-
Sandra Day O'Connor: Moderate or Something More?
… of its first female justice, Sandra Day O'Connor. This paper attempts to expand judicial behavior scholarship by examining O'Connor's policy preferences for possible ideological change during her twenty-five year tenure on the Court. Average liberalism scores for her overall and civil …
-
Convergences: Teilhard De Chardin and Flannery O'Connor
… in the study of the whole man, so Flannery O'Connor, Catholic-Southern-writer, insisted that the work of the fiction writer who is also a Catholic is the whole man. As a fiction writer he must "render the highest possible justice to the created universe. This is the way the fiction writer …
-
The Feminine Archetype in Selected Works by Flannery O'Connor
No abstract prepared.
-
The Aesthetics of Grace in Flannery O'connor and Graham Greene
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:35:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7309987.pdf: 13336870 bytes, checksum: 7830156df93ee0435f77fe2e758d5228 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
-
General Sir Richard O'Connor, a profile of his life and career
In 1940, General Sir Richard O'Connor, with two divisions under his command, initiated a campaign in north Africa which resulted in the destruction of the Italian Tenth Army and the conquest of Cyrenaica. O'Connor's success freed Egypt from the threat of an Italian invasion. In addition to these …
-
The Freedom of Flexibility: Lessons from the Child Characters in Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor had a penchant for repetition, often revisiting the same character types, plot devices, and overriding ideas in two or more stories. This repetition always goes hand in hand with reinterpretation. Even when the characters and plots seem suspiciously similar, the differences signal …
-
Southern Post-Modernism, Anti-Romanticism and Gender Difference in Flannery O'Connor and Some Other Southern Contemporaries
<p>Flannery O' Connor has long been an established southern writer of the mid-twentieth century. This paper discusses briefly the tenets of both Modernism and Post-Modernism as literary movements of the twentieth-century, then looks specifically at how O'Connor's fiction makes her a key hallmark …
-
A study of stimulated Brillouin scattering and its application to phase conjugate oscillators / by Martin O'Connor.
A study of stimulated Brillouin scattering and its use for correcting phase aberrations in laser oscillators.
-
The Fragile "Bonds of Whiteness": Relationships Between Native White Southerners and Foreigners in Porter, Mccullers, and O'Connor
… The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, and Flannery O'Connor's 'The Displaced Person.' In each work, the author constructs dynamics between the native, white Southerner and the white foreigner (of Swedish, Grecian, and Polish descent, respectively). I propose that the Southerner's perception of the …
-
Violence & Volition: Choice, Acceptance, and Identity in Selected Works by Flannery O'Connor, Kurt Vonnegut, and Cormac McCarthy
… People”, and “The Displaced Person” Flannery O’Connor highlights the choices people make within that violence can directly affect the results of that violence. Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, through the character of Billy Pilgrim, extends choices around violence even further, suggesting …
-
The applicability of the O'Connor and Arnold model of English intonation to the analysis of Luxembourgish intonation
… is to examine whether the well-known O'Connor and Arnold model for the analysis of English intonation can be applied to the analysis of Luxembourgish intonation. After defining the concepts of intonation as applied in this dissertation, the main points of several other important studies …
-
A jungle of shadows : interpenetrations of the anagogical and the grotesque in the short stories of Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor (1925-64) has become established in critical thought both as a "Christian" writer and a writer of the "grotesque". Indeed, to be true to the nature of her art, neither designation can be easily discarded. It is the premise of this study that O'Connor's mature, post-l 952 work, …
-
Freedom At The Freak Show: Carnivalesque Imagery In The Fiction Of Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor And Katherine Anne Porter
… sideshow in the work of Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and Katherine Anne Porter, arguing that all of these authors employ Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea of the carnivalesque as a reaction to and against the expectations put on them as women who are pressured to conform to the Southern ideal. In the …
-
Redefining the Gothic: How the Works of Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams & Flannery O'Connor Retained Gothic Roots and Shaped the Southern Gothic
… McCullers, Tennessee Williams and Flannery O’Connor, particularly in terms of three main themes: isolation, the pervasion of American normalcy and gender roles. While each of these authors clearly inserts some autobiographical information into his or her characters, the real commonalities …
-
Distorted Traditions: the Use of the Grotesque in the Short Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson Mccullers, Flannery O'connor, and Bobbie Ann Mason.
This dissertation argues that the four writers named above use the grotesque to illustrate the increasingly peculiar consequences of the assault of modernity on traditional Southern culture. The basic conflict between the views of Bakhtin and Kayser provides the foundation for defining the …
-
El neodesarrollismo en la Argentina : un enfoque de desarrollo e integración regional
Fil: O'Connor, Ernesto A. Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas; Argentina
Page 1 of 12