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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Literary circles"”.
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El Infiel Espejo: The Short Stories of Silvina Ocampo
… Silvina Ocampo has been a major figure in literary circles of Buenos Aires for some forty years. Nevertheless, her works have received little attention from United States scholars. The study includes some biographical information about Silvina Ocamp as well as a brief survey of existing …
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The Theme of Search in May Swenson's Poetry
… poet who is beginning to gain momentum in literary circles. Her poetry can best be described as gay and sober, enlightening and baffling, refreshing and perplexing, simple and complex. The poet experiences paradoxes in her life situation, examines them, and communicates her doubts and …
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Kierkegaard And Byron: Disability, Irony, And The Undead
… the influence of Byron and Byronism on the literary circles of Golden Age Copenhagen. Chapter 2, "Disability," theorizes that Kierkegaard later spurned Byron as a hedonistic "cripple" because of the metonymy between him and his (i.e., Kierkegaard's) enemy Peder Ludvig Møller. Møller was an …
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The Uncanny Other: Edgar Allan Poe’s America
… celebration of the hybridity of his antebellum literary culture in narratives of heterotopic carnivals which he imbues with a distinctly Modern temporality. This carnivalesque expression translates into further heterogeneity in the forms of intertextuality that the thesis reads in Chapter II, …
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Theatres of migritude: towards a dramaturgy of African futures
… developed largely in African diasporic literary circles and tracing its evolution from the Négritude movement. It will mobilize Shailja Patel's significant work to shape a new migritude that stands in continuation and in contestation with the older version of this artistic project. The …
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Auf neuen sprachwegen? : Rezeptions- und literaturkritische problematik anhand eines textes aus der deutschen immigrationsliteratur
The emerging body of literature defined in German literary circles as Auslӓnderliteratur or during the seventies as Gastarbeiterliteratur, forms the field of this research. The authors are foreigners living in Germany who write in Germanbut for whom German is not their mother-tongue. This …
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Gender, Power, and Persona in the Poetry of Baudri of Bourgueil
… saw a revival in the study of Ovid in the literary circles of the Loire Valley region of France. The poetry of Baudri, abbot of Bourgueil from approximately 1078-1107 and archbishop of Dol from 1107 until his death in 1130, exemplifies this trend. Baudri’s determinedly Ovidian collection …
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Mario Puccini letterato-editore. Prospettive d’archivio e mediazione letteraria tra Italia e Spagna
… in Spain. After being introduced to the Spanish literary circles by Miguel de Unamuno, Puccini became, within few years, the most important critical voice of the contemporary Italian literature, due to his collaboration with the literary magazine La Pluma by Azaña and Rivas Cherif and the …
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Picturing women in Urania by Mary Wroth and Clelie by Madeleine de Scudery
… intense activities of Wroth’s and Scudéry’s literary circles. The next chapter focusses on the Uranian and Scuderian fictionalisation of a predominantly female community. Part three assesses the ways in which these texts seem to inscribe themselves within a protofeminist project of …
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Julio Cortázar's Final del juego: a translation and critical study
… alter ego led to the desire to study his literary output and become a mouthpiece for his ideas.</p> <p>Cortázar has been the subject of countless articles, books and interviews. It seems everyone in Spanish American literary circles is in a hurry to explain his work rationally, a thing he …
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Picturing the Writing Woman: The Representation of Three Early Vernacular Female Poets in Fifteenth-Century Italy
… Italy has been established by the literary historians Virginia Cox, Sarah Gwyneth Ross and Fabio Finotti in recent years. However, art historians have not previously considered this nascent cultural figure in relation to contemporaneous developments in female portraiture. This …
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The Hindu concept of pure consciousness in the poetry of pure consciousness in the poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rabindranath Tagore, and W. B. Yeats: a comparative study
… artist’s poetry, sought to promote it in Western literary circles; Jiménez came to know Tagore’s poetry intimately from working with his wife, Zenobia Camprubí Aymar, on her Spanish translations of Tagore’s English versions of his more popular works. Above all, both Yeats and Jiménez were well …
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A Desire for Meaning: Ḳhān-i Ārzū's Philology and the Place of India in the Eighteenth-Century Persianate World
… language of the imperial court and a prestigious literary medium in South Asia. Not only did Persian connect the Subcontinent with intellectual and cultural trends across western and central Asia, but during the early-modern period, India--even compared with Iran--was arguably the world's main …
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Resurrecting the Anonymous: An Introduction To Mary Steele, the Author of Danebury and The Power of Friendship, A Tale with Two Odes by a Young Lady
… background who was an active participant in a literary coterie that included other published authors such as Mary Scott, Anne Steele, and Hannah More. Drawing upon the work of Marjorie Reeves as well as the original manuscripts contained in the Reeves and Steele collections, this thesis …