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Middle English Prose Style: Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich
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The 'lexis' of medieval computus in selected Anglo-Latin and Old English prose
… and theology in selected Latin and Old English texts between the fifth and the twelfth centuries. It has investigated whether the Latin vocabulary of computus underwent significant change as the science developed from Victorius of Aquitaine’s 532-year Cursus Paschalis (c. 457), through …
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"A Good Reder": the middle English Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy, instruction, publics, and manuscripts
The present work is a study of the Middle English prose text known as The Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy, a consideration of its transmission and reception history, and a survey of its manuscript witnesses; it also incorporates an edition of the text from two of its manuscripts. The text is …
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The Prose Style of John Dryden: Antecedents and Effects
Any discussion of John Dryden’s prose style necessitates a knowledge and understanding of his literary heritage and environment. For Dryden not only helped produce his own age hut was produced by it, and by the forces that made it what it was. Moreover, Dryden threw his shadow over the future, and …
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The Organization of Prose and Its Effects on Reading English as a Foreign Language (Iran)
… the relative sensitivity of Iranian readers of English as a foreign language to the organizational conventions in English prose passages. Study 1, using a multiple-choice reading test investigated the subjects' sensitivity to the hierarchical organization of ideas in expository prose passages. …
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An edition of the Middle English Pains of Sin from Cambridge, Magdelene College Library, Ms Pepys 2498
… thesis presents a diplomatic edition of a Middle English prose text called the Pains of Sin, found in two important fourteenth century manuscripts, but hitherto unedited. The edition is annotated with explanations of meaning, descriptions of manuscript idiosyncrasies, and other points of interest. …
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A taxonomy for the evaluation of computer documentation
… individual characteristics of documentation and English prose in general and not organized in such fashion as to be usable in an evaluation procedure. This thesis takes these characteristics, adds others, and systematically establishes a hierarchical structure of characteristics that allow one to …
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Improving Spoken Programming Through Language Design and the Incorporation of Dynamic Context
… is also an important part of the process. In English prose speech recog- nition, knowledge of the context of the conversation or document being produced is useful to disambiguate otherwise error-prone phrases or words. Our spoken programming environment explores the same idea applied to …
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Reading Through Prayer: Lectio Divina and "Liturgical Reading" in Some Medieval Texts
… Book of Nunnaminster</em>, Cynewulf's Old English poem<em> Elene</em>, and the Middle English prose <em>Seinte Margarete</em> of the Katherine Group. This approach reveals as well the high degree of association between prayer and reading in medieval culture where prayers are most often …
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St. Thomas More's Treatice to Receave the Blessed Body of Our Lorde: An Edition
… life of devotion to this Sacrament as a private Englishman and also as a public controversialist. But a person might be pardoned for wondering why this Treatise has received so little mention in proportion to the notice given More's other Tower pieces. In modern, as well as in earlier, works …
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Corporate Christians and Terrible Turks: Economics, Aesthetics, and the Representation of Empire in the Early British Travel Narrative, 1630 - 1780
… dissertation examines the evolution of the early English travel narrative as it relates to the development and application of mercantilist economic practices, theories of aesthetic representation, and discourses of gender and narrative authority. I attempt to redress an imbalance in critical work …
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A Reevaluation of the Literary Works of Edward Alexander [Aleister] Crowley
For the last fifty years the poetry and prose of Edward Alexander [Aleister]Crowley (1875-1947) has been systematically ignored by scholars and critics on the narrow grounds that it deals with the occult sciences, is pornographic, or simply because detractors did not agree with Crowley's personal …
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'The Auditive Intelligence': Intonation in Henry James
… represents a largely unprecedented moment in English literary history; because in James’s writing intonation possesses a prosodic sophistication typically reserved for verse, the auditive intelligence forms part of his broader aspiration to transform the cultural status of the novel.