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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"John Dryden"”.
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The Prose Style of John Dryden: Antecedents and Effects
Any discussion of John Dryden’s prose style necessitates a knowledge and understanding of his literary heritage and environment. For Dryden not only helped produce his own age hut was produced by it, and by the forces that made it what it was. Moreover, Dryden threw his shadow over the future, and …
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A study of John Dryden's conception of the poet
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Some Aspect of Wit in the Prose Works of John Dryden
<p>In the great body of prose which represents Dryden’s literary theory and criticism, there is, as would be expected in any seventeenth-century material, an interesting recurrence of the term wit It is used in conjunctions which gradually demand recognition of the significance of this term as a …
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The art of rank: a revaluation of John Dryden's satires
… major satires by the seventeenth-century poet John Dryden are reassessed for their mutual similarities to literature with burlesque elements. Focusing on his greatest satire, "Absalom and Achitophel ," this study shows Dryden's political, intellectual, and literary appropriateness for …
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Appropriating the Restoration hero(ine): intertextuality and the transformation of gender identity, 1677-1759
… on the work of Aphra Behn, Thomas Southerne, John Dryden, Samuel Richardson and David Garrick. Previous scholarship on Restoration ""she-tragedies"" has tended to emphasize how their heroines’ descent into hysteria, madness, and death implies a total loss of female agency and power. My project …
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"Warfare, Trade, and ""Indians"" in British Literature, 1652--1711"
… the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries such as John Dryden, Richard Steele, and Henry Mackenzie, my dissertation provides a more nuanced account of the origins and (d)evolution of ""Indian"" stereotypes than scholars have to date."
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"Warfare, trade, and ""Indians"" in British literature, 1652-1711"
… the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries such as John Dryden, Richard Steele, and Henry Mackenzie, my dissertation provides a more nuanced account of the origins and (d)evolution of “Indian” stereotypes than scholars have to date.
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The metaphor of perspective
This thesis interprets John Dryden’s Annus Mirabilis (1667) and Andrew Marvell’s The Last Instructions to a Painter (1667) in light of recent scholarship drawing on English and Dutch visual culture traditions. These poems were written in close temporal proximity, and both provide a highly …
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Translational Wit: Seventeenth-Century Literary Translations of Selections from Ovid’s Heroides
… to Hippolytus." The first chapter describes John Dryden's system of translational practices and some theoretical issues surrounding literary translation and its critical interpretation. Even though translations have connections to the source text to some degree, each product of translation is …