Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 500 for “"Geoffrey"”.
-
Sir Geoffrey Le Scrope, (c.1285-1340)
No abstract available.
-
Optimal harvesting models for metapopulations / Geoffrey N. Tuck.
Bibliography: leaves 217-238.
-
Completeness and incompleteness in Geoffrey Chaucer's The canterbury tales
… are given.</p><p>The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, is examined with reference to the proposed aspects of completeness. The various ways in which the work can be and has been considered incomplete are discussed. The four fragmentary Tales in The Canterbury Tales--The Cook's Tale, …
-
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: Rhetoric and Gender in Marriage
… in medieval society, the marriage group of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales attempts to reconcile the ongoing battle for sovereignty between husband and wife. Existing hierarchies restricted women; therefore, marriage fittingly presented more obstacles for women. Chaucer creates the …
-
Chronic depression : clinical features, classification and natural history / Geoffrey Schrader.
Bibliography: leaves 339-361.
-
The academic vocation in Geoffrey Hill and J. H. Prynne
The following thesis is a study of Geoffrey Hill and J. H. Prynne in the context of the university. It argues that various institutional academic commitments – such as to scholarship, teaching, and administration – bear directly on both Hill’s and Prynne’s practices as poets and as critics. The …
-
Invention? Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Nature of De Gestis Britonum
Geoffrey of Monmouth has long been credited with inventing the bulk of British history, and more especially the Arthurian legend, through his composition of De Gestis Britonum, also known as Historia Regum Britonum. Because so little of the text can be corroborated by other sources, Geoffrey is, …
-
Medieval Feminine Humanism and Geoffrey Chaucer's Presentation of the Anti-Cecilia
Perhaps due to its seemingly straightforward religious nature, the Second Nun's Cecelia Legend in The Canterbury Tales is often dismissed by scholars and readers alike. However, through analyzing Chaucer's earlier analogues, it becomes apparent that Chaucer has left out key pieces of the Life of …
-
Consummatum est: The end of the word in Geoffrey Hill's poetry
… that the idea of the end is a crucial motive of Geoffrey Hill’s poetry. It analyses the verbal and formal means by which Hill attempts to have his poems arrive at ends. The ends are, chiefly, the reconciliation of antagonists in word or thought; and the perfect articulation of the poem. The …
-
A comparison of two medieval story-tellers : Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower
… the narrative and framing techniques used by Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower. These authors were selected for several reasons. Being contemporaries, they lived through the days of the reign of Richard II, his deposition, and the accession of Henry IV. This was a time change: the age of …
-
A philosophical approach to the foundations of human geography / by Geoffrey Wells
Bibliography: leaves 490-527
-
Oxygen toxicity and radiation injury to the pulmonary system / by Geoffrey McLennan.
The work in this study encompasses oxygen free radical related inflammation in the peripheral lung and in lung cells. Animal and human studies have been used. Methods include cell culture with function studies, protein chemistry, animal and human physiology, and cell and lung structure through …
-
Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: Criseydan Conversations 1986-2002 A Narrative Bibliography
Conversations among scholars in the study of Chaucer have been essential in constructing the foundations on which we now stand. However, in light of recent pressures in the very competitive and practical aspects of academic life, the scholarly conversation is often lost amidst the desire to find …
-
Reinvention in the Line of Death: A Reconsideration of Geoffrey Hill's Commemorative Verse
This paper considers the embodied ethics of Geoffrey Hill’s poetic practice. Hill stages his engagement with poetry through the idioms, images, tropes, and diction of the literary tradition. Through this pragmatic rehearsal of the language of the dead, Hill’s poetry projects the tradition into the …
-
Reinvention in the Line of Death: A Reconsideration of Geoffrey Hill's Commemorative Verse
This paper considers the embodied ethics of Geoffrey Hill’s poetic practice. Hill stages his engagement with poetry through the idioms, images, tropes, and diction of the literary tradition. Through this pragmatic rehearsal of the language of the dead, Hill’s poetry projects the tradition into the …
-
Representations of Women in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Man of Law’s Tale” and “Tale of Melibee”
… representations of women as it explores Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Understanding the Middle Ages and its treatment of women in society and art, the first section explores the idea of clergy and aristocracy as dominant groups responsible for the creation of the feminine ideal …
-
Form's Philosophy: Poetry and Moral Thinking in Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, and Geoffrey Hill
… of Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, and Geoffrey Hill. For these poet-critics, poems could be a means of articulating matters of moral and spiritual value. This emerges, however, less often by propositional statement than by means of the multifaceted generic operations of poetry, drawing …
Page 1 of 25