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Percy Foreman : a rhetorical study.
… study of the public speaking techniques of Percy Eugene Foreman, Houston attorney, explores factors of background and training contributing to Foreman's ability as a speaker, investigates natural and acquired methods of communication pertinent to his success, and analyzes three Foreman …
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Alternatives to alienation in the novels of Walker Percy
Each of Walter Percy's three novels and many of his philosophical essays explore the alternatives to alienation chosen by modern man. These alternatives reflect Soren Kierkegaard's three stages of existence, and hence illustrate the influence Kierkegaard had on Percy's writings. The options chosen …
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Intercambio de recursos en la ficción de Percy Wyndham Lewis
This study is an attempt to induce understanding of the modern Tarr (1918), his humorous novel Snooty Baronet (1932), his social satire The VulgarStreak (1941) and his autobiographical work of fiction Self-Condemned (1954). American Resource Theory of social exchange by Uriel G. Foa is the …
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From Country to Country Club: the Landscapes of Walker Percy
When Walker Percy emerged on the literary scene in 1961, the American landscape had begun to transform in new and dramatic ways. As more and more Americans moved from city centers to suburban developments, Percy found that, in more ways than one, the center would not hold. This American cultural …
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Exploring the Life and Music of Percy Grainger Through Transcription
… of this lecture recital was to demonstrate how Percy Grainger’s life affected his compositional works and arrangements, as well as the stylistic choices made in my transcriptions of his music. This was achieved through a discussion of the different occupations that Percy Grainger had throughout …
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Communication in the Ruins: Walker Percy and the Art of Symbolic Mediation
… of the symbol through the work of Walker Percy. In the first chapter, I provide the necessary background for undertaking this project. First, I situate Percy in his historical moment and review key events in his life that helped to shape his philosophy of communication. Second, I sketch …
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: vengeance as a vehicle for presenting his moral principles
… poet, with the possible exception of Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley has been attacked by critics who argue that in both his personal life and in his poetry and prose writings, he was immoral. Regardless of what may be said against Shelley's personal life, as a writer he is profoundly moralistic …
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Percy Grainger’s “Hill-Song Nr. 1”: A critical edition, wind band transcription, and phrasal analysis
Percy Grainger never had the opportunity to hear his original scoring of “Hill-Song Nr. 1”, since he considered the instrumentation of two piccolos, six oboes, six English horns, six bassoons, and contrabassoon to be too infeasible. Indeed, he only ever produced a manuscript score of this version, …
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The Godwinian psychology of hope and its legacy in the work of Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley
… Malthusian political economy in the late 1790s. Percy Shelley defined his literary project as an attempt to revive liberal hope in the wake of the `failure' of the French Revolution, a definition initiated by his reading of Godwin. His reaction against Wordsworthian conservatism is framed in the …
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Spirit matter(s): post-dualistic representations of spirituality in fiction by Walker Percy, Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor
… of Spirituality in Fiction by Walker Percy, Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor, examines the ways in which these authors have presented spirituality in The Moviegoer, Song of Solomon, and Mama Day respectively. In these works, spirituality is a need for connection among humans in this …
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Public quarrelling in the Romantic period: the rhetorical styles of John Burgoyne, Thomas Paine, William Cobbett, and Percy Bysshe Shelley
… (1737-1809), William Cobbett (1763-1835), and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). All four authors engaged in radical writing about war, politics and various controversial social issues during the American War of Independence and the Regency period (1811-1820). This study situates their political …
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Solving the World's Problems: Walker Percy's Cultural Critique in Love in the Ruins
<p>This thesis examines Walker Percy's manipulation of time in Love in the Ruins as a component of indirectly communicating his solution to problems in twentieth-century Western society: existential authenticity. By examining this often overlooked novel, I clarify the process by which Percy conveys …
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Escape Velocity: A Narrative Short
… the appendices. The film concerns Larry Pipe and Percy Knuckle, best friends who dream of moving to Barbados. They hope to open a beachside bar and spend the rest of their days relaxing and watching girls. When Percy starts dating Melinda Bundt, however, Larry's jealousy threatens to destroy the …
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Frankenstein: a monstrous romanticism
… are drawn between the protagonist and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Another aim and extension of this autobiographical project is to examine how Percy Shelley's editing of the original manuscript of Frankenstein added or detracted from the plot. Finally, the genre implications of Frankenstein …
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Gabriel Musella's Graduate Recital
… recital: Robert Jager; Ron Nelson; J. S. Bach; Percy Gralnger; Samuel Barber; Silvestre Revueltas; Alfred Sadel; Terig Tucci
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Percy Graingers's "The Warriors--Music to an Imaginary Ballet". Innovations in orchestration. The addition of the melodic percussion section as an equal force in 20th century orchestral writing
… of this document is to provide information on Percy Grainger's innovations in writing for what Grainger himself described as "tuneful percussion" in his orchestral work The Warriors. To Grainger, "tuneful percussion" refers to mallet keyboard instruments and members of the traditional keyboard …
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Certain evidences of classical Greek influence on Shelley
… motivation from classical sources. The case of Percy Bysshe Shelley, nineteenth century English Romantic poet, provides an excellent illustration of this point. This study will attemp to place before the reader evidence of Shelley's debt to ancient Greece as revealed in his life and his poetry, …
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Catholic Literary Theory: The Conditional Existentialism of Four Protagonists and Their Creators
… - Flannery O'Connor, Mary McCarthy, Walker Percy, and Cormac McCarthy. In the three novels and one imaginative memoir considered in particular, these authors create their existentialist protagonists, who in their turn reflect the conditional existentialism of their creators. This …
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