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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Historical romance"”.
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Genre and Empire: Historical Romance and Sixteenth-Century Chinese Cultural Fantasies
Chinese historical romance blossomed and matured in the sixteenth century when the Ming empire was increasingly vulnerable at its borders and its people increasingly curious about exotic cultures. The project analyzes three types of historical romances, i.e., military romances Romance of Northern …
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Language Change and Infinitival Complements in Old French (Syntax, Historical, Romance)
This study presents an analysis of infinitival complement constructions in Old French which differ syntactically from their Modern French parallels. The analysis is formulated in the terms of the Government and Binding framework and it has the aim both of accounting for the constructions in …
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Studies in medieval Scottish historical romance : an examination of John Barbour's Bruce, Hary's Wallace, the octosyllabic Buik of King Alexander, and the decasyllabic Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour.
… the Conquerour to present Alexander as both a 'romance hero' and a 'philosopher king'.
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Fantasies of Ambivalence: Romance and Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
“Fantasies of Ambivalence: Romance and Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain” examines the relationship between romance and partisan history-writing in Britain following the English Civil War and 1688 Revolution. Considering works of fiction by Delarivier Manley, Marie-Catherine …
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The work of death in the Americas
… of mourning, spoken through and effected by the historical romance, underlies the narrative of national culture as it emerges in the Americas during the early nineteenth century. The writing, consumption and preservation of these texts reveal not only the psychic life of community but also the …
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"From an old country to a new " : opposing worlds and narrative traditions in Willa Cather's : My Ántonia
… in the novel. Using George Dekker’s The American Historical Romance as my framework, I identify two prevailing cultures in Cather’s novel—progressive culture and traditional culture—and suggest that the narrative and the narrator wavers between them. As traditional culture is linked by Dekker with …
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The legacy of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen as reflected in select late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century film media
… Princess Tutu (2002-2003) and Terrence Malick's historical romance The New World (2006). The examination will discern both how film media has influenced modern cultural perceptions of the original operas--and of Wagner's legacy in general--and also how said film media is itself a reflection of …
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Rebels, Wanderers, and Castaways: Characterizing Small Social Groups in the Literature of Empire, 1849-1914
… subgenres—adventure fiction, school stories, the historical novel and spy fiction—to argue that literary representations of small social circles create distinct narrative shapes and modes of characterization. The small groups that shape these texts generate an ambivalent dynamism of small circles …
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Domestic Violence and Empire: Legacies of Conquest in Mexican American Writing
… indicates domestic violence through social and historical conditions. Violence is especially evident throughout this project as women's rights challenge patriarchal structures and civil rights challenge racist policies. Revealing the perilous gains of women and Mexican Americans, social backlash …
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C. M. Sedgwick's 'Patient Investigation' of America's Past: An Intertextual Study of Hope Leslie
… Times in the Massachusetts (1827), literary-historical interpretations have most often explored its proto-feminist impulses, revisionary history of the Pequod War, and models of American citizenship. Inquiries into Sedgwick's historical research for Hope Leslie have largely been limited to …
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Victorian literature and historical time: Genre and historicity after Walter Scott
… This dissertation, ""Victorian Literature and Historical Time: Genre and Historicity after Walter Scott,"" examines how Victorian writers experimented with literary form to create narrative temporalities capable of negotiating these changes. Georg Lukács famously associated literature's …