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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"British & Irish"”.
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Reconstructing ice dynamics in the central sector of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet
… (NW England and Scottish borders) of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet exhibits a palimpsest glacial geological and geomorphological signature characteristic of multi-phase ice flow and ice-marginal fluctuations. Despite its influential position at the heart of the British-Irish Ice Sheet, …
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Jiggs and Other Stories
… writers as well as a panoply of African, British, Irish, French, German and Russian novelists, short story writers and playwrights. The collection is prefaced by an introduction intended to give a full sense of what kind of enrichment these stories hope to achieve. Each story is summarized …
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Late Devensian ice sheet dynamics and the deglaciation of the Hebridean shelf, western Scotland, UK
… a large portion of the northern sector of the British Irish-Ice Sheet (BIIS). This area has not received much attention in past studies.<br/>This thesis aims to examine how the HIS evolved and interacted with the changing climate and the underlying landscape after 27 ka. The work is subdivided …
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Zhivago in Chicago
This is a book of poems.
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The Labor of Writing in the Pastoral Genre: Philip Sidney's Arcadia through John Milton's Paradise Lost
<p>I argue that the pastoral genre is a literary response to changes in the agrarian economy as landed property is freed from older notions of obligation and political dependence on the monarch. Thus, the Renaissance English pastoral can be read as a cultural form that corresponds to agrarian …
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Drowned landscapes of the Belgian Continental Shelf : implications for northwest European landscape evolution and preservation potential for submerged heritage
… were fed by meltwater from the Fennoscandian and British-Irish ice- sheets causing their levels to rise and exert major pressure on their confining barriers. During ice mass disintegration major volumes of meltwater enter proglacial lakes and may cause them to burst out of their confinements …
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The pleasure pier of amusements & curios
Collection of short stories.
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FISTFUL OF DEBRIS
Fistful of Debris is a collection of fiction aimed to explore the varied dimensions of familial loss. Each piece focuses on the personal growth and intimate details of a female protagonist's life, as she attempts to rebuild and heal. In a society that sensationalizes tragedy, this collection aims …
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The Death of Women in Wordsworth, Byron, and Poe
This thesis explores and analyzes the portrayal of women, death, and suffering through the experiences of male speakers in William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and Edgar Allan Poe's poetry. These poets create bereaved male speakers who mourn the loss of a dead woman in order to present themselves as …
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National History and the Novel in 1930s Britain
… I describe how the 1930s inheritors of British cultural privilege found themselves symbolically disenfranchised from a national identity inextricably linked to war, imagining alternative national stories outside the prevailing imperial and military mythologies.
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Using sea-level and land motion data to develop an improved glacial isostatic adjustment model for the British Isles
The Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) of the British Isles is of interest due to the constraints that can be provided on key model parameters such as regional ice sheet history, viscoelastic earth structure and the global meltwater (eustatic) signal. Many past studies have used as their primary …
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Engaging and Evading the Bard: Shakespeare, Nationalism, and British Theatrical Modernism, 1900-1964
<p>Engaging and Evading the Bard is about British theatrical modernism and its ambivalent relationship to Shakespeare. The conventional narrative of early twentieth-century British theater and drama situates their rise within the broad European context of Continental artistic developments, such as …
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Accounting for Mysteries: Narratives of Intuition and Empiricism in the Victorian Novel
This dissertation explores the tensions between an empirical epistemology and an intuitive method of knowing the world as depicted in popular Victorian novels. These narratives attempt to assimilate alternate modes of understanding; however, the uneasiness of the relationship between empiricism and …
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The End of the Age of Miracles: Substance and Accident in the English Renaissance
<p>This dissertation argues that the 'realist' ontology implicit in Renaissance allegory is both Aristotelian and neoplatonic, stemming from the need to talk about transcendence in material terms in order to make it comprehensible to fallen human intelligence. At the same time dramatists at the …
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The Wayfarer's Way and Two Texts for the Journey: The Summa Theologiae and Piers Plowman
<p>This dissertation draws on the virtue ethics tradition in moral theology and moral philosophy for inquiries regarding the acquired and infused virtues, virtue's increase and remission, and virtue's relation to sacramental practice. I rely on two medieval texts to ask and answer these questions: …
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Spenser's "Inward Ey": Poetics, Lexicography, and the Motivations for Edmund Spenser's Linguistic Idealism
Edmund Spenser's concepts of language have been seen as "anti-linguistic" to the extent that his idealism extols the power of thought while depicting speech as a corrupting monster--most notably the Blatant Beast of <italic>The Legend of Courtesy</italic>, Book 6 of <italic>The Faerie …
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Bodies of Parchment: Representing the Passion and Reading Manuscripts in Late Medieval England
<p>In a diverse range of late-fourteenth- and fifteenth-century devotional literature, Christ's body is metaphorically related to a book or a document at the moment of his crucifixion. His skin transforms into parchment, whips and scourges become pens, and a steady flow of blood, of ink, covers his …