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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Don Juan"”.
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Byron's Use of Contemporary History in Don Juan
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The Narrator as Gossip of Byron's Don Juan
… is to study the narrator as gossip in Bon Juan. In a short first chapter, I present the composite character of the narrator giving appropriate illustrations. I prepare for the second chapter by pointing up the importance of the narrator as gossip and by showing the suitability of the …
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The Self-Deception of Julia in Byron's Don Juan
<p>Indeed, almost every character of Don Juan represents some form of self- deception. Julia and Inez are victims of deceit through perverted sexual love; Lambro and Suwarrow are examples of deception through a perverted love of country Adeline and Henry are symbols of the hypocrisy of a perverted …
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<i>Don Juan Tenorio</i> by Don José Zorrilla: A new translation and introduction
<p>The Don Juan created by Zorrilla is quite likely a composite of the Count of Villamediana (Don Juan de Tassis, who probably influenced Tirso de Molina in his creation of the original Don Juan) and Miguel de Mañara. Ultimately, however, there is no firm proof of any Don Juan Tenorio as such …
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Byron and 'the Barbarous . . . Middle Age of Man': Youth, Aging, and Midlife in Don Juan
… allusions to this opening scene throughout <em>Don Juan</em>. It is in that work, begun in 1818, the year he turned thirty, that Byron plays out his journey through midlife on the page and truly confronts what it means to transition from youth to age. The composition of <em>Don Juan</em> took …
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The paradoxical exemplar : the image of Saladin in Don Juan Manuel's El conde lucanor
Don Juan Manuel’s laudatory portrayal of Saladin, the Muslim Sultan of Babylon, in Exempla 25 and 50 of El Conde Lucanor presents an interesting paradox, particularly when considering that the fourteenth-century text was intended as moral instruction for a Christian audience. This report addresses …
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Tussen verlangen en verlies : antropologische aspecten van de Don Juan-figuur in de tijd van de Romantiek
Contains fulltext : 18576_tussveenv.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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El que toma candela del fuego ajeno. Don Juan Manuel y la refundación castellana del mundo cortesano en el siglo XIV
… dissertation I propose that the books written by Don Juan Manuel are part of a coherent and organic literary and political project written from the margins of political power, intended to renew the Castilian courtly world. I have called this project Juan Manuel’s seigneurial clerisy. The topics of …
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Masculinidad Como Espectaculo: Modernidad Y Consumismo en Espana (1898--1931)
… the explosion of texts around the figure of the Don Juan, another archetypical representative of Spanish masculinity. I study Unamuno's play Nada menos que todo un hombre and Perez de Ayala's novel Tigre Juan as critiques Don Juan as symbol of Spanish virility. In these two works Don Juan is …
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"Das Lebend'ge will ich preisen" : from Ästhetik to Humanität : a comparative study of Byron and Goethe with special reference to Don Juan and the West-östlicher Divan
… textual analysis of the West-östlicher Divan and Don Juan that I turn in Chapter 5. This close examination illuminates these connections better than any purely theoretical analysis could, and thus appropriately supports Goethe's and Byron's view that the only way to express the particular is …
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The nature of appropriation: Eric Linklater's 'Juan in America'
… influences which shaped Eric Linklater's 'Juan in America' (1931) and show how these influences work together to create a unified satirical text. 'Juan in America' pays homage to Byron's 'Don Juan' (1819-1824) through appropriation, intertextuality and allusion, and Linklater's …
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Enemy life: theorizing exile through Milton, Shelley and Byron
… Lost, Prometheus Unbound, Manfred</em> and <em>Don Juan</em>. The dissertation examines <em>Paradise Lost</em> for its competing narratives of exile, Adam and Satan, and explores notions of home, transgression, the purification rituals which are the origin of sovereign Power and the parody that …
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The construct of masculinity in Spanish romantic theatre: a psychoanalytic analysis
… que progresión hasta desembocar en la figura de Don Juan como sublimación del hombre. De la mano de Freud y Lacan, se han realizado análisis de los modelos de masculinidad románticos con el fin de categorizar a los modelos románticos.
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O estereótipo no donjuanismo
O Mito de D. Juan ainda continua vivo ou, pelo contrário, extinguiu-se, tornando-se uma lenda ligada ao donjuanismo? Esta foi a principal interrogação que motivou a autora deste trabalho. Confrontados com um número de obras e de opiniões muito considerável a respeito deste mito, pretendeu-se, num …
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Aspekte der Translationskontrolle in der Drosophila-Spermatogenese: Charakterisierung regulatorischer Elemente
… in verschiedenen Aspekten dargestellt. Das Gen don juan wird in männlichen Keimzellen exprimiert und die mRNA unterliegt der Translationsrepression bis zum Stadium der elongierten Spermatiden. Diese wird durch den 5' nicht-translatierten Bereich (UTR) vermittelt. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde …
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On knowingness : irony and queerness in the works of Byron, Heine, Fontane, and Wilde
… close reading. First, Lord Byron's epic satire Don Juan is read with regards to the interplay of narrative strategies and the depiction of gender, homoeroticism and the concept of the child. Furthermore, reviews published at the time of the publication of Don Juan are examined: Why did the …
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"'The Life We Image': Chaos and Control in the Poetry of Byron, Shelley, and Yeats"
… first chapter, on Byron’s poetics, centres on Don Juan, Beppo and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and argues for the presence of a coherent poetics in his oeuvre. Chapter two, on Shelley’s poetics, examines A Defence of Poetry and its relationship with Shelley’s poetry, giving particular attention …
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A Critical Examination of Readers Theatre
… leads to Charles Laughton, Paul Gregory and Don Juan in Hell. This production and other Laughton-Gregory collaborations clearly influenced the form Readers Theatre took between 1950 and 1970, but it raises other questions. Readers Theatre has academic connections; it began as an …
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