A reading of Emily Dickinson
- Authors: Wilson, Ian
- Date: 1970
- Subjects: Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2286 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007689 , Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
- Description: From Chapter 1: Even before the publication of The Poems of Emily Dickinson in the variorum edition by Harvard University in 1955, under the editorship of Thomas H. Johnson, there was a steadily growing interest in the work of this poet and in her position both in the sphere of American literature and in the larger field of English poetry. In 1957, The Letters of Emily Dickinson appeared, with Johnson as editor, and Theodora Ward as associate editor. With this publication critical literature received an incentive to increase and extend the exploration already undertaken.
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An experimental investigation of three developmental reading programmes
- Authors: Pienaar, P T (Peter Thomas), 1932-
- Date: 1970
- Subjects: Reading (Adult education) Reading comprehension Reading (Elementary)
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2283 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007614
- Description: From Chapter one - 1.1 Genesis: My interest in increasing the efficiency of children's silent reading began in 1958 when I was teaching a Standard 5A of 24 boys and 15 girls in a two-stream Primary School in Rhodesia. the majority of children were able readers and the mean Word Reading Age was 12.7 which, in relation to an average chronological age of 12.3, yeilded an above average Reading Quotient of 103. These children needed lots of reading practice, and in addition to the usual Reading periods I resolved to set aside at least one period a week for Comprehension, as reading for meaning was then called.
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Deliberately withheld meaning : aspects of narrative technique in four novels by William Faulkner
- Authors: Walters, Paul S
- Date: 1970
- Subjects: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2167 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001746
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Shakespeare's early comedies: studies in The comedy of errors, The taming of the shrew and The two gentlemen of Verona
- Authors: Bryant, Peter
- Date: 1970
- Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Comedy of Errors Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Comedies Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Two gentlemen of Verona Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Taming of the shrew
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2291 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009964
- Description: This dissertation offers fairly full readings of three early Shakespearean comedies. Because these works are still partly misunderstood, it has seemed reasonable to lay the critical emphasis on explication, though a certain amount of judging has been inevitable. The aim has been to induce recognition of aspects of these plays to which much modern criticism has seemed opaque.
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The archetypal fable : an inquiry into the function of traditional symbolism in the poetry of Edwin Muir
- Authors: Gillmer, J E
- Date: 1970
- Subjects: Muir, Edwin, 1887-1959 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2297 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011975
- Description: Edwin Muir's poetic vision is bound up with that belief in a twofold structure of reality that in European culture has been called Platonist but which is so ancient and widespread that no one can determine its origins. Though no longer fashionable in a time when materialist philosophies flourish and even Christian clerics are busy "de-mythologizing" their faith, it has been the potent source of our greatest poetry and perhaps, as Kathleen Raine believes, of all true poetry. Those who hold this conviction regard the sensible world as the reflection of an "intelligible" or spiritual world which gives meaning and purpose to life, and they see the objects of nature as images that evoke the ideal forms of a divine reality. For poets, as for traditional men, this belief is less a metaphysic than an intuitive way of apprehending and ordering experience, a "learning of the imagination" inherited from ancient and mysterious sources. To Muir it came directly and spontaneously in the symbolic images of dreams, and the fact that he entitled the first version of his autobiography The Story and the Fable testifies to the importance, both for his life and his poetry, of his belief in two corresponding orders of experience. Intro., p. 1-2.
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- Date Issued: 1970