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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Gower"”.
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A Devil of a Coincidence: Study on Milton and Gower
… Mirour de l'Omme (c. 1376) by John Gower. In both Milton and Gower's poems, Satan, Sin, and Death are personified as having this familial, incestuous relationship which ultimately creates the world's evils. Their depictions are not merely reminiscent of one another, but rather, often …
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A comparison of two medieval story-tellers : Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower
… 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 chivalry and true knighthood was …
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Late medieval authorship and the prophetic tradition
… project examines the works of two authors, John Gower and Christine de Pizan, who use prophecy to assert their superior analytical skills. Although both authors draw heavily from the tradition of the prophet Daniel, a prophet known for his inspired interpretive abilities, they claim their …
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The Anti-Crusade Voice of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
… Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Gower, were against the later crusades regardless of their target. However, since the anti-crusade voice of Gower and Langland has been discussed by many other scholars, this study focuses on Chaucer's poems and their implicit opposition of …
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John Gower and the Apollonius-tradition: including an anonymous Latin prose version, the Latin verse version of Godfrey of Viterbo, and John Gower’s English verse version of the Apollonius story (Confessio amantis, book eight), (together with translations of the Latin, notes, and a glossary of Gower’s Middle-English)
… been to draw attention to the way in which John Gower uses the Apollonius story, and to look at his telling of the tale, not as a mere source of Shakespeare’s Pericles, but as a version in its own right: one version in an ancient tradition which was already more than a thousand years old when …
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"In Propria Persona": Artifice, Politics, and Propriety in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
… an author creates different voices, in John Gower's Confessio Amantis. I argue that the Confessio attempts to expose how discourses of sexual desire alienate subjects from their proper place in the political world, and produce artificial personae that only appear socially engaged. The first …
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"Who Stand i' th' Gaps": Narrative Authority in the Early Modern English Travel Play
… accounts demand a narrator, in the words of Gower in Shakespeare's <italic>Pericles</italic>, "who stand[s] i' the gaps." However, because the traveler's task is to represent what is, for his readers, unknowable, his authority cannot be challenged and is subject to abuse. In this thesis, I …
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Caracterización in situ de germoplasma de chayote (Sechium edule (Jacq.) Swartz) en la comunidad El Castillito, Las Sabanas, Madriz
… mediante el método Ward y la distancia de Gower agrupó a las 35 accesiones recolectadas en 6 grupos sobresaliendo la longitud, espesor y peso de fruto, así como el peso de semilla, forma del fruto, presencia de espinas , costillas en el pericarpio, y el color del fruto. Se concluye que los …
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Ties that bind: investigating Hyksos provenance and migration using dental morphology.
… Smith’s mean measure of divergence (MMD) and Gower distance analysis were utilised due to their ability to accommodate missing values. Geometric morphometrics were explored digitising standardised photographs of lower first permanent molars and converted into shape data using the R package …
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Quantification of visceral fat using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry
… insulin resistance in both children and adults (Gower et al, 1999; Neeland et al. 2012; Owens et al. 1998). As the accumulation of visceral adipose tissue increases the risk of cardiovascular also increases independently of total obesity (Nakamura et al. 1993). Given its location surrounding the …
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Imagining The Reader: Vernacular Representation and Specialized Vocabulary in Medieval English Literature
… the public. The vernacular allowed authors like Gower, Chaucer, the author of Mankind, and Langland to use the specialized vocabularies of the legal and rural communities to discuss societal problems. They also use representatives of the communities to further open the texts to a vernacular …
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The litigation between Greenhalgh and the Mallard family, [1941-1950]: and its influence on company law in England, Australia and South Africa
… temerity to do battle with the big battalions." Gower in Principles of Modern Company Law 4 ed (1979), referring to the last appeal, says "This last case, however, was merely the culmination of a long battle in the courts which is such an admirable illustration of the vulnerability of a minority …
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"In writing it may be spoke": The Politics of Women's Letter-Writing, 1377-1603
… letters, noting that works by Ovid, Chaucer, and Gower suggest that letters are the often the best means for women to communicate. In the first chapter I assert that Christine de Pizan specifically chose the epistolary genre for her political and social commentary because of the authority of its …
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The Visual Language of Vernacular Manuscript Illumination: John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Pierpont Morgan MS M.126)
… literature in late medieval England, John Gower describes authorial activity as the process of translating and assimilating pre-existing narratives. This dissertation argues that such conceptualizations of authorship were embraced by illuminators of vernacular literature in their burgeoning …
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MULTISOURCE FEEDBACK LEADERSHIP RATINGS: ANALYZING FOR MEASUREMENT INVARIANCE AND COMPARING RATER GROUP IMPLICIT LEADERSHIP THEORIES
This research outlines a conceptual framework and data analysis process to examine multisource feedback (MSF) rater group differences from a leadership assessment survey, after testing the measures for equivalence. MSF gathers and compares ratings from supervisors, peer, followers and self and is …
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Managing change : at an individual level
Dramatic organisational change appeared to negatively affect the social behaviour andwork performance of a particular team of individuals. Management intervention tosupport these individuals in this situation was not apparent. This study endeavoured toexplore how these individuals managed their …
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The Potential for Repurposing Disturbed Mining Properties in Nevada as Utility-Scale Solar Facilities
… like The Nature Conservancy (Moan & Gower, 2022), the EPA (EPA, 2019) and most recently, the Biden Administration, which has allocated up to 450 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to advance similar projects on current and former mine lands (DOE, 2023). This thesis …
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Objects and anxiety in late medieval English writing
… on the tale of "Albinus and Rosemund" in John Gower's Confessio Amantis and consider how the substance or matter of an object has inherent power, even if it cannot be perceived immediately though senses. In that tale, the central object, a golden and bejeweled cup that was crafted from a human …
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The Gawain-Poet and the Textual Environment of Fourteenth-Century English Anticlericalism
… of archbishop Richard FitzRalph; poets John Gower, William Langland, and Geoffrey Chaucer; Oxford dissidents and Bible translators such as Nicholas Hereford; and, most notably, John Wyclif, the Oxford philosopher and preacher who inspired the heretical Lollard movement.</p> <p>The opening …
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Shakespeare's Henry V and the Alexandrian Allusion
… of a conversation between two characters, Gower and Fluellen. In this conversation, Henry is compared to Alexander the Great or "the Pig" as Fluellen terms him.</p> <p>Two critics, Ronald Berman and Robert Merrix, have published studies of this passage; a close examination of the allusion, …
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