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The Primacy of the Individual: Its Affirmation in the Declaration of Independence and in the American Scholar
(Creighton University, 1961)
By the very nature of its subject-matter, the present study is both historical and literary.|Historians and political philosophers without number have examined The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson and discussed ...
A Comparative Analysis of Four Basic Patterns of Style in Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century British Expository Prose
(Creighton University, 1966)
The purpose of this thesis is to assess certain substantial similarities or differences between prose style as it existed in the nineteenth century and the prose style which characterizes the present century. The prose ...
Myth and Experience in Contemporary Fiction: Individuation in Stephen Dedalus and Quentin Compson
(Creighton University, 1967)
The Protestant theologian, Paul Tillich, analyzing the needs of moderns in The Courage to Be, sees twentieth century man as a rootless being who "has lost a meaningful world and a self which lives in meanings out of a ...
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell: A Study of Man in Space-Time
(Creighton University, 1969)
Reality as presented in the Alexandria Quartet of Laurence Durrell, is relative; and as such, the Quartet, using the form of the relativity proposition, translates the scientific principles of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity ...
Bernard Shaw's Conception of the "Womanly" Woman
(Creighton University, 1966)
Although the problem of woman's legal emancipation has long since been solved, the question of woman's place in society today is still open to many interpretations. Even contemporary feminine authors have mixed opinions ...
Shakespeare’s Historical Tetralogies: Compared and Contrasted
(Creighton University, 1962)
"No poet has ever expressed England, its character, its folk-speech and song, its virtues and its follies and some of its vices, and even its physical appearance, so sensitively and memorably." These words were spoken of ...