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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Guinevere"”.
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The Goddess and Guinevere
… with her as the Sun King. During the Dark Age, Guinevere, as a Picti priestess-queen, carried on the traditions of the goddess, which revolved around matriarchal order in a heroic society. Although the goddess was eclipsed by Christianity in the following age, beneath the gloss of a Christian …
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Behold thy doom is mine: The evolution of Guinevere in the eorks of Chrétien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Malory, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson
<p>Guinevere has existed in literature for nearly a millennium, evolving to suit societal values and mores. She has metamorphosed from Arthur’s noble queen to Lancelot’s jealous lover, from a motherly sovereign to a vindictive adulteress as each author struggled to apply his own literary and …
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Medieval Courtly Love: The Links between Courtly Love, Christianity, and the Roles of Women in Tennyson and Morris.
… surrounds legendary stories like Lancelot and Guinevere. Courtly love encompasses spiritual awakening, lust, passion, adultery, and religion; therefore, the art of courtly love intrigues as well as interests its readers.</p> <p>Many critics have studied the effects of courtly love in literature …
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‘One of the nobelyst knyghtes of the worlde, and most perfitist man’: the role of Bors in Malory’s Morte Darthur.
… and observations, and his dialogues with Guinevere and Lancelot in particular do enable a deeper understanding of these key characters. Hopefully, this essay will persuade students of Malory that Bors is a remarkable character and worthwhile investigating both as a knight of the Round …
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T.H. White and the matter of Lancelot.
… change in the world, and he fails to resist Guinevere. However, Lancelot overcomes his cruelty and sadism, and he faces the consequences of his adultery and his immorality with heroic courage. In his triumph over the darkness within himself, Lancelot finds a sense of fulfillment and peace …
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Decoding Lysine-11 Signals in Ubiquitination
The diverse outcomes of ubiquitination primarily relate to the flexibility of ubiquitin in forming homo- or heterotypic chains on each of its seven lysine residues which in turn stimulate distinct downstream signaling pathways. These ubiquitin signals must be selectively initiated on the substrate …
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Voids in the distribution of galaxies : an assessment of their significance and implications for large-scale structure formation theories
Chapter I gives an overview of the current well-known theoretical models of large-scale structure formation and explains how the predictions of these models can be tested by the investigation of voids in the distribution of galaxies. Chapter II reviews work that has already been done on the …
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The Effects of Physical Activity on Engagement in Young Children With Autism
Children with autism have been found to receive immediate benefits from physical activity, though research for this is limited for young children in preschool and kindergarten settings. This study aimed to measure the effects of physical activity on engagement in three kindergarten children with …
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The De Saint-Venant equations in curved channels
After introducing the subject of curvilinear flow, particularly in the context of meandering natural channels, this thesis then describes the three conventional models for unsteady flow in open channels, namely kinematic, diffusion and dynamic. These descriptions are in terms of the straight …
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(N)Onomastics and Malory: Anonymity and Female Characters in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'arthur
… roles. Primary named female characters such as Guinevere and Morgan Le Fay perform more stereotypical functions in the text as created and limited by the Arthurian literary tradition, but a significant portion of the nameless female characters challenge these assumptions. Malory uses many of …
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Serine/threonine phosphorylation in mycobacterium tuberculosis : identification of protein kinase B (PknB) substrates
Tuberculosis, caused by the intracellular pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is one of the most prevalent infectious diseases in our world today. In order to survive within the host the bacteria need to sense and respond to changes in the environment; however, signal transduction in this …
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An Almost Threesome: Erotic Love Triangles and Authorial Choice in Malory’s Le Morte D’ Arthur
<p>It seems to be nearly a critically unanimous consensus that when translating Chretien de Troyes’ romance of the glorious King Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory, in his <em>Le Morte Darthur</em>, approaches the narrative of Sir Lancelot with the unwavering attitude that Lancelot must not only sustain the …