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"Wood Leoun" . . . "Crueel Tigre": Animal Imagery and Metaphor in "The Knight's Tale"
<p>The people of the Middle Ages believed animals were disconnected from themselves in terms of ability to reason and ability to resist passions. Humans and animals were created by God, but he bestowed man with a soul and the ability to resist earthly delights. When men were described in terms of …
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In Search of Emily in The Knight's Tale, The Teseide, and the Two Noble Kinsmen
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The Leap : Existential Storytelling and the Knight's Perspective
‘The Leap: Existential Storytelling and the Knight's Perspective' is a creative writing PhD thesis. It consists of a science fiction novel which uses devices and ideas taken from existential philosophy, accompanied by a critical commentary. The protagonist of the novel is a young knight named …
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The Tale of Tribes
The Bilad al-Sham, or the Eastern Levant, is a region of land located in the eastern Mediterranean. The Bilad al-Sham culture, referred to as Shammi culture, has an emphasis on self image and resents the tribal culture. The narrative in Jordan is that of a country built on tribal culture and …
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The Tale of the Southern Tour
The Tale of the Southern Tour for orchestra is commissioned by The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Shaoguan City in Guangdong province in 2019. The piece received its world premiere in December 2019 at the Guangzhou Opera House. The work is a musical sketch depicting ancient Chinese story of …
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A Comparison of Chaucer's Nonne Presstes Tale and Spenser's Mother Hubberd's Tale
"The fable in general, and the beast-fable in particular, are among the very oldest and most universal of the known forms of literature." A fresh and special development of it took place about the twelfth century, or earlier, somewhere in the central part of the northern coast district of the old …
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Cinema expression : morphology of the contemporary tale
The general understanding of the term ‘morphology’ is that it refers to the form and structure of something and implies changing characteristics, rather than a fixed entity. Within the primary ambit of this research, morphology refers specifically to the contemporary tale as found in narrative …
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Representations of Women in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Man of Law’s Tale” and “Tale of Melibee”
This thesis project discusses stereotypical representations of women as it explores Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Understanding the Middle Ages and its treatment of women in society and art, the first section explores the idea of clergy and aristocracy as dominant groups responsible for …
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A tale of two particles
It was the earliest of times, it was the latest of times, it was the age of inflation, it was the age of collapse, it was the epoch of perturbation growth, it was the epoch of perturbation damping, it was the CMB of light, it was the dwarf galaxy of darkness, it was the largest of cosmic scales, it …
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Heart Regeneration: An Evolutionary Tale
… robust cardiac regenerative capacity throughout their life, a phenomenon that is mediated through the proliferation of pre-existing cardiomyocytes. The adult mammalian heart lacks any meaningful endogenous regenerative response following injury. However, embryonic mammalian cardiomyocytes are …
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The history writer’s tale : historical fiction and the depiction of identity in Michiel Heyns’s ‘the typewriter’s tale’ and ‘bodies politic’
This study investigates the relationship between historical fiction, history, and the portrayal of the identity of historical figures with specific reference to two novels by Michiel Heyns, namely: The Typewriter’s Tale (2005) and Bodies Politic (2008). Throughout the study the relationship between …
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"A Sad Tale is Best for Winter" the Use of Nature and Children in Adaptations of the Winter's Tale
… compares adaptations of William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. It compiles different adaptations in one list, examining the factors that unite them. Because of diverse media and focus, the study establishes criteria to determine what constitutes an adaptation of The Winter's Tale. These …
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The Tale of Mental Causation: Fact or Fiction?
Mental causation is with us all the time. Being a table is different from being a human---although we are composed of physical particles, we have understanding, reason, or perception, which are able to make a difference in the physical world. In this dissertation, I have detail discussions of …
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Pathétique: a tale of two rabbys
My thesis incorporates a variety of contrasting styles and musical material in an attempt to unify them under the same work while maintaining a unique sound. Since I began composing, I've heard this collaboration in my head between the rock music that I listened to growing up with the contemporary …
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The prison and the city: A tale of two cultures
This thesis explores the working lives and experiences of uniformed prison staff at HMP Pentonville and HMP Hull – two inner-city Victorian local prisons in England. It examines the meaning and role of place in the narratives of prison staff at work in two (distinct yet similar) prisons within the …
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A Medieval tale: Saxons, Normans and the telscombe ring
… found in July, 2010 using a metal detector near the village of Telscombe, in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. The object, hereto referred to as the Telscombe Ring, was reported and documented per the Treasure Act (1996). In 2012, it was disclaimed as treasure, returned to the finder …
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Black Aggie: A Tale of American Folklore
Black Aggie: A Tale of American Folklore italic is a musical work written for wind symphony and synthesizer. The piece has the possibility to be performed in two different ways. It can either be performed by a live wind symphony or can be played as an electronic realization with media. The piece …
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