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Realism in the Medieval Mystery Plays
(Creighton University, 1933)
An intensive study and analysis of some of the medieval mystery plays—remnants of the York, Townley, Coventry, and Chester Cycles—will inevitably show that realism was very prevalent in the literature of the fourteenth ...
Religious Experiences Reflected in Works of Aubrey De Vere
(Creighton University, 1936)
This paper deals with the religious experiences of Aubrey De Vere as reflected in his writings and is an attempt to trace them with a view to making one of Ireland's foremost poets better known and appreciated. To this end ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne as Revealed Through His French and Italian Notebooks
(Creighton University, 1936)
The French and Italian Notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne are an exception to his other works, in that they reveal not only his peculiar idiosyncrasies, but also characteristics which tend to humanize the man. For over one ...
The Interpretation of Nature by William Wordsworth and Thomas Hardy
(Creighton University, 1935)
In view of the important role which Nature plays in the works of William Wordsworth and Thomas Hardy, it is not surprising that this influence was predominant in their lives, and that the resulting impression greatly ...
Kansas History as Seen in the Works of Margaret Hill McCarter
(Creighton University, 1937)
The undaunted initiative, the patient endurance, the great intelligence, and the exalted genius of the pioneers and founders of the state, have resulted in a high order of Kansas society. Prom the very first, even with ...
The Significance of Moral Values in the Poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson
(Creighton University, 1939)
The purpose of this thesis is to show that the validity and excellence of Edwin Arlington Robinson's poetry is due chiefly to three characteristics: First, the poet's apparent realization of the beauty of right moral ...
The Conflict Between Thomas Becket and Henry II
(Creighton University, 1930)
One of the most conspicuous and familiar objects in the neighborhood of London is the high hill and pointed spire of Harrow. Guided by this landmark, two horsemen in the year 1143 or thereabouts made their way from London ...
The Life and Editorials of C.P. Mooney
(Creighton University, 1932)
In choosing a subject for original investigation, the writer being a native Memphian, who grew from childhood during the years of C.P.J. Mooney's editorship of the Commercial Appeal, and who felt the steady growth of the ...
Edwin Arlington Robinson’s Interpretation of Tristram
(Creighton University, 1937)
"The third great epic, Tristram, which was to complete the Arthurian trilogy, so majestically and movingly interpreted the world-famous medieval romance that the outstanding excellence of Robinson's verse, thus far ignored ...
Catholic Teaching in Patmore’s The Angel in the House and the Unknown Eros
(Creighton University, 1937)
The world of today, as at various times in the past, seems to be at a crucial point. This age of science, which was to make man supreme, has apparently only enslaved him through the radical social and religious changes it ...