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Charles Ritchie and the English diary tradition
(1987)
The literary merit of the diaries of Charles Ritchie is
apparent to anyone who reads them. A more critical assessment is
hindered, however, by the fact that there is as yet in Canada no
literary context in which the ...
Dramatic significance of I.i of Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth : a study of the relationship between the opening scene and the complete drama
(1988)
This thesis is an examination of the dramatic significance
of I.i of Hamiet. Othello and Macbeth in terms of the
opening scene’s relationship with the complete drama. To facilitate
the reader’s understanding of this ...
Daguerreotype as analogy for Whitman's Leaves of Grass
(1993)
We commence our examination of the kaleidoscopic range
of connections between Whitman and the daguerreotype with a
simple, unpretentious news column by Whitman entitled "Visit
to Plumbe’s Gallery". This leads to ...
Image, symbol, and the life of the imaginaton in the works of Sinclair Ross
Until very recently, studies of the works of Sinclair
Ross have over-looked his literary artistry to focus on his
place among those writers whose time and place is the
Canadian prairie during the Depression, Ross’s ...
Implications of the themes of the "living" and the "dead" in four decades of Patrick White's novels
(1988)
A lifelong search into the very nature of reality and the soul has led
Australian Nobel Prize-winner Patrick White to investigate some of the
explanations which man has been attempting to provide since time immemorial.
The ...
Dutch Canadian experience : a study of perspectives
(1991)
Although my family immigrated to Canada from the
Netherlands when I was one year of age, I have always
been aware of the fact that I have no birthright to
this country which is my home. I have always been
aware of two ...
Existential elements in the poetry of Theodore Roethke
(1992)
This study is an attempt to illustrate, through a
chronological reading of The Collected Poems, the existential
elements in the poetry of Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963).
Though he was by no means a rigorous philosopher, ...
A.S. Byatt : tradition and the female talent
(1994)
A. S. Byatt commented in an interview with Juliet Dusinberre in 1983
that literature was her means of escape from "the limits of being female" (186).
For other artists who are also women, art is seen as a way of escaping ...