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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Literary Models"”.
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The Object of My Abduction
… in both structure and content to classical models presented in literary works such as Joseph Campbell's "The Hero with a Thousand Faces” and Christopher Vogler's "The Writer's Journey”. The third part is a personal narrative examining the many graduate school experiences that have helped …
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Apostolic discourse and Christian identity in Anglo-Saxon literature
… but evolving language based on biblical and literary models) through a series of Latin and vernacular works including the letters of Boniface, the early vitae of the Anglo-Saxon missionary saints, the Old English poetry of Cynewulf, and the anonymous poem Andreas. This study demonstrates how …
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Letters of a Learned Lady : Sophia Elisabeth Brenner's Correspondence, with an Edition of her Letters to and from Otto Sperling the Younger
… Further, the letters are discussed in their literary and social context, in particular the correspondence with Otto Sperling the Younger. This particular correspondence documents the contact between a learned man and a learned woman in Scandinavia in the early 18th century. It lasted for …
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Magic City Mischief
… risk-taking nature. While aware of conservative literary models, writing stories about my home of thirty years demanded the more avant-garde tradition of the erotic exemplified by Vladimir Nabokov, Anaїs Nin, and Sidonie Gabrielle Colette. And because my stories are grounded in such a vehemently …
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Franz Liszt's sonata narratives: large-scale forms at the Weimar Court
… Drawing primary attention to the theoretical models of the new <i>Formenlehre</i>, including William Caplin’s theory of formal functions, James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy’s Sonata Theory, and their nineteenth-century complements in Schmalfeldt, Horton, and Vande Moortele, the analyses …
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A socio-literary model for the socio-political interpretation of the seven prophetic messages in the Apocalypse of St. John : an exercise in theology done from the periphery
… is done from the periphery and designs a socio-literary model for the socio-political interpretation of the seven prophetic messages in the Apocalypse of St. John. The main function of the model is to highlight the author of Revelation's socio-political position in relation to the groups in …
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The poetics of religious conversion in medieval English literature
… conversion was conditioned by earlier Christian literary models, and how those models and the social worlds they presuppose were in turn transformed by medieval authors to address the social issues and conflicts posed by their own historical experience of conversion. Specifically, I focus on the …
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Poems to the Sea and Painterly Poetics: Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Cole Swensen
… related types of engagement with visual art. As literary models that have informed my own poetic practice, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley and Cole Swensen have theorized their own writing process to consider ways of using language to enhance the transmission and transcription of their visual …
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Spenser's "Inward Ey": Poetics, Lexicography, and the Motivations for Edmund Spenser's Linguistic Idealism
… a story helps to explain his attitudes toward literary models, whether classical like Vergil or vernacular like Pierre de Ronsard. It also allows me in my final chapter to show how Spenser's depiction of the relation of poetry to power in <italic>The Faerie Queene</italic> is more critical of …
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Bellicose Beauties: Villainesses, Gender Transgression, and Martial Drama in Beijing, 1774-1911
… drama as polytextual plays that parodied former literary models in fiction narratives, hagiographies, and historiographies. Through intertextual comparisons in case studies, I argue that theatrical adaptations of villainesses in Beijing theatre experienced a tendency of “anti-villainisation” - …