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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Byronic"”.
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Immortal Melancholia: A Psychoanalytical Study of Byronic Heroes
<p>This culminating project examines Byronic heroes using psychoanalytic theory across four case studies in media, including classic literature, theater, film, and television. The Byronic hero is a literary archetype inspired by the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824). Typical …
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The Byronic Myth in Brazil: Cultural Perspectives on Lord Byron's Image in Brazilian Romanticism
… him. Their notion of what it meant to be "Byronic," however, differed from ideas held in Europe. The Brazilian Byronic hero was more extreme, macabre, and sentimental, lonelier, darker, and deadlier. Byron had various cult followings in Brazil that established rites and ceremonies and …
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Kierkegaard And Byron: Disability, Irony, And The Undead
… critic, and eroticist, Møller was eminently Byronic, and both he and Byron had served as models for the titular character of Kierkegaard's "The Seducer's Diary." Chapter 3, "Irony," claims that Kierkegaard felt a Bloomian anxiety of Byron's influence. By accusing a contemporary of …
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Albie the mad Albanian: The cross-cultural influence between Byron and Albania
… centrality of Albania to the formation of the Byronic persona. In addition, this thesis draws on Albanian scholarship on Byron, furthering international work on this crucial aspect of Byron’s career.</p>
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Danse Macabre: Origins, Evolution, and Execution
… archetype, the Gothic narrative, and the Byronic hero. Through exploring the <em>Danse Macabre</em> within their dystopian narratives, the notion of a hereafter is emphasized as an integral component within their natural laws. These spiritual ideals perpetuate the Christian concept of …
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Dangerous men: the crisis of masculinity in Romantic women's fiction
My dissertation establishes a pre-history of the Byronic and Austenian hero, contributing to larger discussions of masculinity, women’s writing, and feminist literary studies in the Romantic period. I address a gap in Romantic-era scholarship by interrogating how proto-Byronic and Austenian heroes …