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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"British and Irish literature"”.
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Contested connections: Networks and genre in twentieth-century British and Irish literature
… of networks: those depicted in literary texts and those made up of literary texts. I argue that portrayals of marginalized populations’ interpersonal networks vary little from genre to genre and can, therefore, expose linkages between supposedly distinct types of writing. My methodology derives …
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Reading Speculative Subjectivities: The Second Generation and the Afterlife of Migration
… takes a transethnic, transnational, relational, and comparative approach to literature about the children of immigrants, the second generation. It argues that second generation is a distinct subject position that is shaped but not wholly defined by race, ethnicity, and nation and, as such, ought …
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Food for Sympathy: Illness, Nursing, and Affect in Victorian Literature and Culture
The profuse illness and nursing narratives in Victorian texts frequently feature sympathy for physical suffering as a major cultural and literary trope. In a wide variety of texts ranging from social reform writing to autobiographies, from novels to poetry, physical suffering was often closely …
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Constitutive rhetoric reexamined: the case of Scottish nationalist discourse
… studies concerned with identity, Maurice Charland's constitutive rhetoric has been widely influential in the field of communication. Charland's notion of the origins of identity in discourse has not been significantly challenged since he first described constitutive rhetoric as a process. At …
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The Apocalyptic Visions of J.G. Ballard: Surrealism, World War II, and Modern Technology
… literary career, J.G. Ballard’s engagement with, and synthesis of, various twentieth century artistic and intellectual movements assisted Ballard in deciphering the twentieth century, while also enabling him to prophetically speculate on the future of the human condition. Ballard incorporated …
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Not Just the Facts: Victorian Detective Fiction's Critique of Information
… in fiction check alibis, investigate clues, and perform acts of detection and ratiocination which link their labor to social procedures of information management. We can read the genre as a response to drastic mid-Victorian changes in the perception of “information.” Specifically, I argue …
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Experiments in Decentralization: Suburban Spaces in the Writings of Early Twentieth-Century British Female Novelists
… Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, Vita Sackville-West, and Elizabeth Bowen utilize imagery of suburbia to formulate critiques of patriarchal gender norms. As lower-middle and working-class families relocated to suburbia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, they colonized a way of life …
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The Purchase of the Past: The Elizabethan Past and the uses of History in Eighteenth-Century Britain
“The Purchase of the Past: The Elizabethan past and the uses of history in eighteenth-century Britain” examines the place of the late sixteenth-century Elizabethan and Shakespearean pasts in eighteenth-century popular culture and politics. Through an analysis of five moments, three times at which …
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Cultural Transmission in the Age of Modernism: Mentorship in the Novel, 1890--1960
… education in the late nineteenth century and ending with the nationalization of education in the immediately postwar period, this dissertation considers specifically the relationship between educational policy and the possibility of institutional cultural transmission. Focusing on the …
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Identity and Awareness: Manifestations of Self and Persona in Early Modern English Drama
… ways these characters respond to the demand that they represent themselves in the respective social worlds they inhabit. The protagonist in each of the plays, in Gammer Gurton's Needle, in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, in Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, in Arden of Faversham, …
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A study of the prose style of selected sermons of John Keble
… Hoping Against Hope," delivered by Keble in 1846 and Sermon L (Russian War), delivered in 1854. The method for analysis is taken from the essay, "A Method of Analyzing Prose Style with a Demonstration Analysis of Swift's A Modest Proposal"' written by Edward P. J. Corbett. Additionally, W. J. A. …
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The supernatural as rhetorical focus in the three major poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
… "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Kubla Khan," and "Christabel" demonstrate his serious and imaginative use of the hackneyed motifs of the supernatural. The eerie, the exotic, the nocturnal, and the medieval dominate the setting of these poems; superstitions, spells, and mysterious voices …
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The Anti-Marriage Plot in the Age of Informal Empire, 1850-1930
… emerged in the nineteenth century where marriage and its adjacent forms—alliance, coalition, union, association—became extraordinarily fraught proxies for understanding a convoluted, Anglo-centric world-system. In reading novels by José Mármol (Amalia), Anthony Trollope (The Prime Minister), …
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Metatheatricality on the Renaissance Stage, the Audience and the Material Space
… modern metatheater enabled the Renaissance stage and its original audience to develop a complex and symbiotic relationship. Metatheater--by which I mean a particular mode of theatre, in which actors, playwrights, dramatic characters and/or (in particular) audiences express or share a perception of …
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The will of the people: Comedy and the comic persona in Shakespeare's sonnets
… five sonnets, numbers 104, 91, 138, 143, and 130. For social and literary context, the study relies on two seminal works, a sociological treatise examining the play element in culture by Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens, and a critical treatise examining modes of literature by Northrup Frye, …
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Social Memory and Nineteenth-Century British Historical Fiction
… examines the representation of social memory in British historical fiction from 1810 to 1880. I argue that social memory is crucial to the analysis of historical fiction during this period because it affords us an opportunity to see how authors in the nineteenth century viewed the social …
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Panic on the British Borderlands: The Great God Pan, Victorian Sexuality, and Sacred Space in the Works of Arthur Machen
… early twentieth century, Arthur Machen's life and his writing provide what Deleuze and Guattari argue to be the value of the minor author: Contemporary historical streams combine in Machen's fiction and non-fiction. The concerns and anxieties in the writing reflect developments in their times, …
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Relational Selves in Eighteenth-Century Literature
… emerged as a union based on singular affection, and when heterosexuality cohered as an ideology. But Relational Selves in Eighteenth Century Literature argues that a libertine logic of communal attraction, spontaneous affiliation, and transitory affection remains central to the literary …
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