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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"Clarissa"”.
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Garden Doors: Tempting The Virtuous Heroine In Clarissa And Betsy Thoughtless
… Miss Betsy Thoughtless, and Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, or a History of a Young Lady provide a place for the characters to gain knowledge; but without preparation to receive this knowledge - if restrained behind the veil of decorum - they come to harm, rather than constructive awareness. A fine …
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From Silence to Sankofa: The Role of Archives in Addressing Urban Renewal’s Displacement History
… its use of eminent domain. In Rochester, NY, Clarissa Uprooted is a public history and community building project centered around the story of Clarissa Street, a historically Black neighborhood that was demolished for renewal in the 1960s. Through document analysis and interviews, I examine …
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Die vloedbos sal weer vlieg
… meer geskep is in Roland Bartes In mythologies, Clarissa Pinkola Estés in Women who run with the wolves en Sigmund Freud se analise van Der Todestrieb. Die Leksikon van A. D. de Vries en J. E. Cirlot word deurgaans verskaf. (121-122 pages missing)
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"What a Poor, Passive Machine": The Psychosomatic Heroine from Richardson to Austen
… heroine originates with Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa and continues as a trope that Frances Burney’s Cecilia and The Wanderer, Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion, and Geraldine Jewsbury’s The Half Sisters interrogate and transform. Like other heroine types, the psychosomatic …
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Family relationships and masculinity in Fanny Burney's Evelina and Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim
… is some common ancestor of both novels, such as Clarissa, by Samuel Richardson, which bears some similarity to both works and was published in 1747 – 48. This thesis will explore the questions of whether La Roche’s novel influenced Burney’s novel in some way or if Richardson’s work functioned as …
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"""Addicted to Pleasures"": Representing Commodities of Empire and Consumerism in Eighteenth -Century English Culture"
… Pope's The Rape of the Lock, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe..
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The Dandelion diary : die perdeblom kalender
… Tale analyses, especially the dialogue between Clarissa Pinkola Estes and Mari-Louise Von Franz, seek to assist in understanding gender issues that are placed in the foreground by the poetry under discussion. In this regard the role of women in an archetypal context is discussed in conjunction …
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Ambivalent Scales: Methods for Reading Scenes of Sexual Violation
… These include <em>Measure for Measure</em>, <em>Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady</em>, <em>Dora: Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria</em>, and <em>Monsieur Venus</em>.<em> </em>I explore how a critique of consent that incorporates ambivalence can generate methodological …
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"THE DISTEMPER OF A GENTLEMAN": GROTESQUE VISUAL AND LITERARY DEPICTIONS OF GOUT IN GREAT BRITAIN 1744-1826
… In chapter five I argue that Samuel Richardson's Clarissa depicts Mr. Harlowe as a nouveau riche character representative of the changing physiognomy of the upper classes; his over-consumption demonstrates the contagious nature of immoderation and the tragic effects that it has upon women, who are …
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MATERIAL MEDIATION: WOMEN, CONNECTION, AND VITAL MATERIALISM IN VIRGINIA WOOLF’S MRS DALLOWAY, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, AND BETWEEN THE ACTS
… While the ability of the married characters Clarissa Dalloway, Mrs Ramsay, and Isa Oliver to do so is limited by their continued acquiescence to the roles required of wives and mothers, the single and independent women Lily Briscoe and Miss La Trobe are afforded greater opportunities to …
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Redemption and the Other: The Supernatural Narrator and the Intertextual (Sub)version of the Miltonic Command
… Eve in the archive. Although Samuel Richardson's Clarissa has been suggested as a successful redeemer of Eve, Clarissa's blatant will to death and, therefore, will to power precludes a successful redemption of Eve. The successful Redemption of Eve comes in Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the …
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Bad Mothers in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
… novels of Samuel Richardson: Pamela I and II, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison, novels that concentrate on the dynamics within various families with the emphasis placed on the role and behaviour of the mother. Richardson‘s women have pre-ordained roles in the society in which some of the …
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Masculinity and the whoremonger in mid-eighteenth century memoirs does whoremongering conform to contemporary ideals of masculinity?
… study. The notorious Lovelace in Richardson's Clarissa; Lothario in The Fair Penitent by Nicholas Rowe; and Mr. B, another of Richardson's constructs in Pamela are all recognised characters that feature in the genre of the seduction narrative. They are recognised characters and yet little work …
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THE VICTORIAN HERITAGE OF VIRGINIA WOOLF: THE EXTERNAL WORLD IN HER NOVELS (TIME, SETTING, COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE, SOCIETY)
… Mrs. Dalloway depicts an external culture; Clarissa vacillates between her isolated present and the communication of memory. She unifies her worlds at her party, and Woolf reiterates this unity in her own language. To The Lighthouse evokes an internalized, timeless milieu. Nevertheless, …
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Fairy Tales: The Dark Side
… Jack Zipes, Marina Warner, Andrea Dworkin, and Clarissa Pinkola Este̒s provided evidence of the relevance of fairy tales to the lives of contemporary women. Jones also researched two aspects of abuse faced by women in contemporary New Zealand: intimate partner violence, and sexual assault. …
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Reader as woman: gender and identification in novels
… of the thesis is s consideration of four novels (Clarissa, The Scarlet Letter, Portrait of a Lady, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles), all of which are centered around a heroine defined by her suffering. In the figure of the heroine/victim is conjoined the activity of the hero and the passivity of the …
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Mistiek in die bundel Die swart kombuis deur Sheila Cussons
… and the poet, Jungian analyst and cantadora Clarissa Pinkola Estés. The ideas of literary theorists Roland ix Barthes, Umberto Eco, Jonathan Culler and Frank Kermode are also included in the approach to the text. Attention is, furthermore, paid to symbolism, mythology and the use of poetry as …
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