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Showing 1 to 20 of 2010 for “"English Language and Literature"”.
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Disciplinary variation in academic writing : a corpus study of PhD theses in English language and literature
… not uncommon to find Departments or Schools of English which bring together researchers working in the fields of English Language and Literature. With a view to checking the extent to which knowledge in these two areas is conveyed in similar ways, the present research examines the genre of …
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A historical and critical account of the teaching of English language and literature in English-medium universities in South Africa, with particular reference to the University of Cape Town and the South African College
… trace the development of the academic study of English Language and Literature in South Africa from its origins to 1971. It is a particular study of the South African College and the University of Cape Town, with reference, where necessary, to other centres. The influence of this institution on …
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Christian Liberal Arts Higher Education in Russia: A Case Study of the Russian-American Christian University
… undergraduate academic programs: 1) business and economics, and 2) social work. RACU also offers a major in English language and literature. The academic model of RACU was designed according to the traditional American Christian liberal arts model and adapted to Russian higher education …
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English and Englishness: a cultural history of English studies in British higher education, 1880-1980
… previous work on the subject, the history of English Studies in higher education is not best understood in terms of the emergence of a mature form of academic activity which has since continued to develop through time on the basis of the unity of its object (lq`English literature') and of its …
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Written corrective feedback at a Saudi University : English language teachers’ beliefs, students’ preferences, and teachers’ practices
This study investigates the beliefs and practices of writing tutors regarding written corrective feedback (WCF) in a Saudi Arabian university. The central focus of this work is threefold: (a) the relationship between teachers’ beliefs and practices regarding the provision of WCF on students’ L2 …
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The Chorus in Elizabeth Cary's 'Tragedy of Mariam'
… The Chorus’s prescriptions for wifely virtue and judgements of Mariam’s moral standing frequently contain contradictions. Comparing the contradictions in the Chorus’s statements with similar contradictions in early modern domestic conduct guides, I argue that Cary uses the Chorus to …
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'Intervital' spaces: The representation of liminal epiphany in Tennyson's death poems (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
… “Victorian” Utilitarian voice of authority and the now marginalized “Romantic” voice of creative vision. Through the study of the epiphanic motif in Tennyson’s poems we discover an inherent death paradigm according to which Tennyson describes his characters’ journeys of death through three …
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The Imagery of Sylvia Plath
… been made towards the poetry of Sylvia Plath and tries to show their limitations & Chapter II discusses the essentially allusive nature of the poetry and proposes a different method -- extensive analysis of the imagery - whereby a greater understanding of what the poet is trying to communicate …
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Unwholesome Fiction: James Joyce's APorlrail of the Artist as a Young Man through Mikhail Bakhtin and The Dialogic Imagination
… Bakhtinian precepts necessary to his understanding of the novel, noting especially-implicity and explicitly-their similarity to the thinking of Jacques Derrida.</p> <p>The second chapter deals with the problematic narrative position adopted by Joyce in <em>Portrait</em>, examining its …
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Allegory in the Major Fiction of Frank Norris
… is generally recognised by critics as American literature's first naturalist. But there is enough evidence in Norris' writing -- primarily the extensive use of allegory and allegorical symbolism -- to suggest another interpretation of his work. Norris seems to be much more in tune with the …
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Art and Property in The Forsyte Saga and A Modern Comedy
… novels in that it is both the only pre-war book and the only book in which the Forsytes are seen in a completely negative light. Forsytes symbolize the forces of Property, which are always striving to suppress all forms of Art. By the end of The Man of Property Property stands triumphant. …
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