Date on Master's Thesis/Doctoral Dissertation

8-1948

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

M.A.

Department

English

Degree Program

English, MA

Committee Chair

Hassold, Ernest C.

Committee Co-Chair (if applicable)

Duncan, Joseph

Committee Member

Mallalieu, William C.

Subject

Autobiographies; Biography as a literary form; Biography; Kentucky--Biography--History and criticism; Kentucky; Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to trace the historical development of autobiographical writing in Kentucky; to analyze the literary and philosophical characteristics of these works and, by this means, to divide these writings into several categories; and, finally, to reveal by an interpretation of these autobiographies, certain cultural aspects of Kentucky life and society. As thus stated, the intentions of this study are several; but, actually, all these aims are inseparably related part. of a single general problem which is to investigate Kentucky autobiographical writing as a whole in order to better understand the individual works in that literature.

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