In the writing of several critics and scholars comparisons have been made between Margaret Atwood^s Surfacing and the supernatural tales of Henry James. This present study is based on the special relationship that appears ...

This thesis is a study of a small collection of Spenser's poems which was published in London in 1596. The title of the collection is the Fowre Hymnes and it is one of the most confusing of Spenser's poetic works. In ...

Margaret Laurence makes frequent reference to the element, water, and also uses water-related words in her fiction; often these convey symbolic meanings. This thesis is based on a study of Laurence's five novels: This ...

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 ...

This thesis analyzes the process by which three American novels about the Vietnam War—David Halberstam*s One Very Hot Day^ Gustav Hasford*s The Short-Timers, and Stephen Wright's Meditations in Green—attempt simultaneously ...

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 ...

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 ...