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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Eyre"”.
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"Reader" in Jane Eyre
… show the development of feminist power of Jane Eyre, the heroine of Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre, by examining how her reader is addressed in the totality of this novel. The main body of this thesis will follow the four parts of Jane Eyre’s different period of her life: in childhood, in …
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Toxic Masculinity and Queerness in "Jane Eyre" and "Emma"
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Shades of Grey : Anglo-German Diplomacy and Eyre Crowe, 1905-1914
In January of 1907, British Foreign Official Eyre Crowe wrote a memorandum detailing the present relations between Great Britain, France and Germany. In this memorandum, Crowe argued that war between Britain and Germany could not be avoided for long. This study examines Eyre Crowe's influence in …
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Sleep and Sleeplessness in the Victorian Novel, Jane Eyre to Dracula
… during the fifty-year period from <em>Jane Eyre</em> (1847) to <em>Dracula</em> (1897). This inquisitiveness foreshadows modern medical sleep science and immerses the reading public in a body of popular literature that subverts the concept of "normal" sleep. My dissertation explores the ways …
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Seismicity and structure of the eastern Gawler Craton and Lake Eyre region
Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre represents the lowest point and the largest lake (when filled) in Australia. Located northeast of the Gawler Craton, the region is associated with pronounced intraplate seismic activity and thick sedimentary cover that potentially obscures the elusive boundary between older …
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Seismicity and structure of the eastern Gawler Craton and Lake Eyre region
Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre represents the lowest point and the largest lake (when filled) in Australia. Located northeast of the Gawler Craton, the region is associated with pronounced intraplate seismic activity and thick sedimentary cover that potentially obscures the elusive boundary between older …
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Landscape evolution of the Umbum Creek Catchment, Western Lake Eyre, Central Australia.
… Significant deformation of the Etadunna and Eyre formations indicate tectonic activity occurred at the end of the Miocene and was probably related to movement in the Lake Eyre Fault Zone. Pleistocene faulting is expressed as minor blind faulting associated with pre - existing basement faults. …
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Jane Eyre as an Independent Cinderella. Parallels between the Fairy Tale and the Novel
… Cinderella and Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre (1847). At first, the Cinderella motif is examined in detail and its elements explained. The versions referred to are Cendrillon (1697) by Charles Perrault and Cinderella (1812) by Brothers Grimm. Common themes are then compared between the …
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Passionate craftsmanship: the artistry of Charlotte Brontë's <i>Jane Eyre</i> and <i>Villette</i>
… but few contain them to the extent that <em>Jane Eyre</em> and <em>Villette</em> do, and even fewer employ them as the main vehicle of their structure and theme.</p> <p>For in <em>Jane Eyre</em> and <em>Villette</em> it is the imagery, symbolism, and the other techniques of poetry—as distinguished …
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An invisible main character : divine providence in Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
… the centrality of divine providence in Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall deepens our understanding of the role of religion in these texts. I also want to build on feminist criticism that notices the ways in which the heroines' faith empowers them and argue that their faith in divine …
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Jane Eyre And Her Transatlantic Literary Descendants: The Heroic Female Bildungsroman And Constructions Of National Identity
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>JANE EYRE AND HER TRANSATLANTIC LITERARY DESCENDANTS: THE HEROIC FEMALE BILDUNGSROMAN AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY</p> <p>by</p> <p>ABIGAIL RUTH HEINIGER</p> <p>May 2013</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Anca Vlasopolos</p> <p>Major: English</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> …
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Texts between Two Cultures: Challenges of Cross-Cultural Translation in the Arabic Versions of Jane Eyre and Frankenstein
… of two well-known texts of the period, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley as case studies. The selection of the two texts emerges from the observation of the parallels between the values and conservatism of nineteenth-century English society and contemporary Arabic …
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The Woman Question in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: the interaction of Romanticism and mid-nineteenth-century Victorian England
… which one is best for interpreting <em>Jane Eyre</em>? The answers vary. Terry Eagleton, for example, declares that "there are indeed Marxist and feminist theories of literature which ... are more valuable" since his hypothesis ts that "literature . . . is vitally engaged with the living …
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