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Showing 1 to 20 of 540 for “"English literature"”.
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The birth of English literature
Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-30T22:46:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 5956358.pdf: 631179 bytes, checksum: 380ab157690efe11f776e3cf46fc200e (MD5) license.txt: 4813 bytes, checksum: 715c4321821a960fa1a1e91d2ac7ebce (MD5) Previous issue date: 1893
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Feminist Herstory Through Indian English Literature
… my curriculum design project, which uses Indian English feminist literature to amplify monolithic understandings of feminism in the Indian context. The purpose of this project was to design a workshop curriculum that uses Indian English feminist literature to define and exemplify the need for …
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Uncommon Sense in Renaissance English Literature
… tragedy and Elizabethan satire in Renaissance English drama, particularly the works of John Marston and William Shakespeare. Unlike Ben Jonson, who incorporated both Senecan tragedy and Elizabethan satire in his drama but did so in different plays (Catiline, Every Man Out), Marston and …
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The Gift in Old English Literature
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Legendary metal smiths and early English literature
'Legendary Metal Smiths and Early English Literature' is a study of Christian religious influence on the portrayal of a powerful technology, metallurgy, in Old English verse. Starting from the controversy over the supernatural role of metal smiths in a metrical Anglo-Saxon charm, it proceeds to …
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Theorising the will in early modern English literature
… of the will was conceptualised in early modern English literature. The attempt to understand its function and purpose was a crucial concern for a vast range of Elizabethan and Jacobean writers, largely because of the important role the notion of the will played in the development of classical …
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Colour in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
… the polychromatic palette that surrounded English men and women, and the particoloured palette of early modern writers, has thus far received little scholarly attention. This thesis rethinks the culture of colour in England between c. 1580 and c. 1660 to stimulate and enhance critical …
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Madness and Gender in Late-Medieval English Literature
… discusses presentations of madness in medieval literature, and the ways in which these presentations are affected by (and effect) ideas of gender. It includes a discussion of madness as it is commonly presented in classical literature and medical texts, as well as an examination of demonic …
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Bringing Frames into Focus: Reading Middle English Literature
<p>Middle English readers were critical readers who expected rhetorically-sophisticated texts. Middle English authors, who were themselves trained as readers first, acknowledge such a readership by using a variety of framing devices within their texts. The reading techniques that students applied …
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Fraternity and Governance in Fifteenth-Century English Literature
… and governance within fifteenth-century English literature, arguing that the familial relationships in these texts go beyond the interpersonal and are used by the authors to think through questions of both self-governance and the governing of the polity. Drawing on methods used by …
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Remaking English literature : editors at work between media
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2013.
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A study of the Romantic movement in English literature
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Consciousness as Disease in Early Nineteenth-Century English Literature
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The Place of Chaucer in Sixteenth Century English Literature
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:51:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0005939.pdf: 17046535 bytes, checksum: 819e42ca47bcfd060bfd74b273732e9f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1953
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The poetics of religious conversion in medieval English literature
… the Christianization of the West, critics of Old English conversion narratives have tended either to isolate their ""Germanic"" or ""heroic"" elements or to submerge their historical particulars within programmatic typological or generic interpretations. My dissertation focuses on the dynamic …
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Climate anxiety and ecotonal landscapes in middle English literature
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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The problem of evil in early modern English literature
… was a predominant concern of early modern English literary culture, and that response to the so-called “problem of evil” was one of its major leitmotifs. With chapters spanning from the Elizabethan to the Restoration eras, its interpretations of canonical poetic and dramatic texts (by …
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