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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"History of Literature"”.
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Styles and Themes Supporting a Feminist Perspective in 'Verfuehrungen.' by Marlene Streeruwitz
… brings the historical and contemporary silence of women to light and exposes personal and social oppression. By including aspects of women's lives, such as the role of mother, Streeruwitz provides a new literary perspective of women. This is further enhanced by the text's insight into the …
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Styles and Themes Supporting a Feminist Perspective in 'Verfuehrungen.' by Marlene Streeruwitz
… brings the historical and contemporary silence of women to light and exposes personal and social oppression. By including aspects of women's lives, such as the role of mother, Streeruwitz provides a new literary perspective of women. This is further enhanced by the text's insight into the …
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Female Types in Literary History
Constancy has never been considered one of the attributes of woman, which makes it entirely proper that heroines should have altered their characters in fiction almost as often as they have changed their styles in dress; each age has modeled anew the face of woman altering her vices and her virtues …
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John Barth, Ebenezer Cooke, and the literature of exhaustion
… Sot-Weed Factor. The poem, written in the style of Samuel Butler's Hudibras, tells of a tobacco merchant's first visit to Maryland. In 1960 contemporary novelist John Barth wrote a novel, also entitled The Sot-Weed Factor and used Cooke's life and poem as sources. In order to understand why Barth …
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Recondite Reading: William Gaddis's Carpenter's Gothic and the Difficulties of Late Modernism
This thesis concerns the perceived difficulty of the novels of William Gaddis, and in particular with his novel Carpenter's Gothic (1985). It also addresses Gaddis's place in literary history and periodization based upon that difficulty. Almost all critics of Gaddis are surveyed as to their …
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Eduardo Zamacois: attività editoriale e opera letteraria
… Río, 1873- Buenos Aires, 1971) was a main actor of the spanish’s literature and edition movement from the first third of the 20th century. He was the founder of magazines that had a big impact like “Germinal”, introductive of the sicalipsis (“La Vida Galante”) or so innovative that deserved an …
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A study of Edith Sitwell as a critic.
Edith Sitwell is one of the few women in British literature to establish reputation as an accepted poet, and she is perhaps the only woman to become accepted as a critic. These forces combined to provide Miss Sitwell with the background necessary for her achievement: a lineage of aristocratic and …
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A regenerate science : paradigms for science and theology in recent American fiction.
… theology as seen in literary fiction. First, I offer a theoretical approach to integrating science and theology, show some recent anxieties about science and religion, and provide a short history of literature and science. Second, I study the works of Flannery O'Connor as she incorporates …
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Analyse thematique de : Ngemena de Paul Lomami Tchibamba
… me to choose the subject: THEMATICS ANALYSIS OF NGEMENA. Ngemena is a novel by Paul Lomami Tchibamba, published at first in 1960. However, in comparing all the literatures of the time, Ngemena is one of the books of the 1960, which was awaiting a place in the history of literature. It does not …
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The Independent Turn in Soviet-Era Russian Poetry: How Dmitry Bobyshev, Joseph Brodsky, Anatoly Naiman and Evgeny Rein Became the 'Avvakumites' of Leningrad
The first post-World War II generation of Soviet Russian writers was faced with a crisis of language even more pervasive and serious than the "Crisis of Symbolism" at the beginning of the 20th century: the level of abstraction and formulaic speech used in public venues had become such that words …
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Seizure prediction and control in epilepsy
The first part of my thesis presents an overview of the different approaches used in the past two decades in the attempt to forecast epileptic seizure on the basis of intracranial and scalp EEG. Past research could reveal some value of linear and nonlinear algorithms to detect EEG features changing …
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From the Womb to the Word: Pregnancy and Pregnancy Metaphors in 16th and 17th Century English Literature
… theoretical lens in exploring the gendered uses of pregnancy and pregnancy metaphors in the production and dissemination of literary works in early modern England. By also examining the history of the printing press and the role it played in gendered textual production, early modern constructs of …
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