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In the Beginning was the Word: Hebraic Intertextuality and Critical Inquiry of Ambrose Bierce

This study corroborates theories that ordinary representation of narrative time as a linear series of "nows" hides the true constitution of time and that it is advantageous for us as readers and critics to consider alternatives to progressive reality and linear discourse in order to comprehend many of Ambrose Bierce's stories, for his discourse is fluid and metonymic and defies explication within traditional western language concepts. The Hebraic theory of intertextuality encourages limitless c… more

Date: August 1990

Creator: Streng, Rodney L. (Rodney Lin)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Richard Wilbur and the Poetry of Apocalyptic Interstices

In my dissertation I assert that Wilbur's poetry is not so much an attempt to balance spiritual and physical realities as an attempt to mine the richness that exists in the boundary between the two worlds. I also examine and comment on his poetry that exists in the space created by other apocalyptic interstices as well.

Date: August 1994

Creator: Compton, Randall D. (Randall Dean), 1964-