Browsing Master's Theses by Author "Feder, Helena"
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The Angel in the Garden : Recovering Elizabeth von Arnim's The Pastor's Wife
Oles, Ashley (East Carolina University, 2012)This thesis aims to examine Elizabeth von Arnim's The Pastor's Wife for two major purposes: 1) to work toward recovering von Arnim's work, which I believe to be important and worthy of critical attention, and 2) to examine ... -
Sylvia Townsend Warner's Modernist Ekphrasis And Synesthesia
McMahon, Rosemary (East Carolina University, 2017-07-18)The presence of music and sound is crucially important in the writing of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1873-1978). A noticeably acoustic writer, music, and noise in general, are major tools Warner employed to convey the vacillation ... -
"The Tonic of Wildness" : Thoreau's Critique of Industrial Capitalism
McMillan, Bryan Todd (East Carolina University, 2015)This thesis is a critical intervention in contemporary Thoreau scholarship. It argues against Ashton Nichols's application of his concept of "urbanature" to the writings and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau's ...