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Stephen Downing
<p>This dissertation is made up of two parts. The first is an original composition for chamber ensemble, and the second is an analytical article about memory in Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Unremembered.The original composition is entitled Abstract music for an imaginary film: nos. 1-9 and is scored for …
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Stephen Leacock: Humour And Humanity
Stephen Leacock is often regarded as a writer without an imaginative centre, as an author who lacked a vision of sufficient power and clarity to sustain a lifetime of serious writing. Leacock's writings emerge, however, from a centre that is the confluence of the two traditions of humanism and …
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The realism of Stephen Crane
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1936. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Themes in the poetry of Stephen Crane.
Stephen Crane discusses three major themes in his poetry. He experimented with various techniques and literary philosophies, including imagism, symbolism, naturalism and realism. The only consistent factor in his own expressed philosophy was a desire to adhere to the truth. His poetry is free …
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The Mirrors of Naturalism: Stephen Crane's Pragmatic Determinism
… dependent upon, one another. On the one hand, Stephen Crane’s fiction reveals determinism’s heavy weight upon the naturalist genre (the sense that humans cannot affect their worlds), yet unlike Frank Norris or Jack London, for instance, Crane innovatively employs pragmatic elements that work …
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Stephen Phillips : the dramatist, his poems, his dramas
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1930.
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Stephen Pepper's Ethical Empiricism and Recent Critics of Naturalism
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Stephen Sondheim's Gesamtkunstwerk: The Concept Musical As Wagnerian Total Theatre
Stephen Sondheim, famous for writing such musicals as Company, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, and Assassins, is often referred to as the originator of the modern concept musical. Despite varying definitions of the concept musical, it is generally agreed that the form embodies a specific identity or …
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Stephen Crane, Journalist: A Prismatic Career in the Gilded Age
The object of this study has been to discover Crane's indebtedness to his newspaper apprenticeship. The investigation has been concerned with all phases of Crane's life and art, but special emphasis has been placed on his newspaper experience.
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The question of value: Reading Stephen King in a literary context
… Book Foundation awarded best-selling author Stephen King the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A number of scholarly elitists, including renowned critic Harold Bloom, vehemently condemned the National Book Foundation's decision to offer such a prestigious award to a …
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Stephen Crane and the Cinematic Spectacle of the New York Slums
<p>This work attempts to examine Stephen Crane's novella, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (Story of New York) as well as a sampling of his New York slum fiction known as his Bowery Tales and Midnight Sketches in light of the burgeoning technological revolution of cinema as popular art form. By my …
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The haunted house of memory in the fiction of Stephen King
… a set of key issues and themes in the fiction of Stephen King, and then to present, in the form of a creative extract, a demonstration of an imaginative engagement with those same literary preoccupations mapped out in that opening critical section. This thesis is thus divided into two parts. The …
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Stephen Dedalus and the Mind as Hypertext in <em>Ulysses</em>
… with the physical world. Specifically, within Stephen Dedalus’ chapters, a physical or visual interaction with an object pushes him away from his immediate place in Dublin and further towards his mind so the reader may untangle and interpret its meaning. For Stephen, Dublin becomes a text to …
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Questions for the sea : a collection of poems by Stephen Symons
This collection of 47 poems, Questions for the Sea, explores questions pertaining to the frailty of human existence within the natural and built environment. Many of the poems involve some form of human exposure, and subsequent response, to the e.ects of the natural elements. The presence of the …
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The metamorphosis of the drunkard in selected fiction of Stephen Crane
Although Stephen Crane developed out of an ancestral and moral chemistry that might have produced a minister rather than a writer, he abandoned the letter, though not the spirit, of his parents' Methodism. Crane's studies of society, Maggie and George's Mother, are works of a writer who expresses a …
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