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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Bungay"”.
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"""Forms of Some Intenser Life"": Genre and Imperialism at the Turn of the Century"
… (with Ford Madox Ford), H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay, Bram Stoker’s The Snake’s Pass, and Algernon Blackwood’s “The Willows.” This concentration of generic discontinuities not only demonstrates genre’s formal instability but also its inability to function as a symbolic solution to the real …
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Soliciting desire: the ad-man as narrative negotiation between art, desire, and consumer capitalism in twentieth-century novels
… takes as its primary subjects H.G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay, Theodore Dresier’s The “Genius,” Frederick Wakeman’s The Hucksters, Jonathan Dee’s Palladio, and William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition and demonstrates that the ad-man character’s particular constellation of traits provides a rich vehicle for …
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Health experiences of women who are street-involved and use crack cocaine : inequity, oppression, and relations of power in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Women who live in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside experience some of the most devastating health problems among residents of British Columbia. While crack cocaine use has been associated with many of these problems, we lack an understanding of how women who use crack cocaine experience these health …
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Solomon on Stage, Representations of Magic and the Occult in Early Modern English Drama
… Others, such as *Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay* (1589), *John a Kent John a Cumber* (1590), and *John of Bordeaux* (1591), shape more successful Solomonic exceptions who avoid damnation and even become the heroes of their narratives. When Solomon himself appears on stage in *David and …
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Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama, 1587-1603
… presented in Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. It considers early modern debates surrounding what magic is, and how it was often confused and/or conflated with mathematical skill. It argues that Greene utilised the set of difficult, ambiguous distinctions that arose from such debates for …