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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Literary traditions"”.
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Rewriting the Gospel: The Synoptics among Pluriform Literary Traditions
… context of first and second century pluriform literary traditions. The treatment of Mark by the authors of Matthew and Luke is far from typical of contemporary historical writings. The conservatism of the latter evangelists with the wording and scope of their literary sources resembles, rather, …
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Hacia Cervantes : confluence of the “Byzantine” and the chivalric literary traditions in the Quijote
… (1615) has delighted readers for centuries. The literary criticism analyzing just this one product of Cervantes’s literary genius is voluminous. In particular, the novel’s structure has received significant scrutiny, and discussions regarding its unity, or lack thereof, abound. This debate rages …
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Replacing the Priest: Tradition, Politics, and Religion in Early Modern Irish Drama.
… of the Irish people, returning to the literary traditions to the Celtic heritage. What resulted was a questioning of religion and politics in Ireland, specifically the Catholic Church and its priests. Yeat's own drama removed the priests from the stage and replaced them with characters …
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Blood ties : and 'Kings. what a good idea' : monarchy in epic fantasy fiction
… folktale research, primate behavioural studies, literary traditions, both ancient and modern, and the effect of religious doctrine and history on the symbolic role of the monarch. Folktales are found to have had very little effect on the role of kings in epic fantasy, which has been influenced by …
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High Altitude Fish
… of this author’s creative writing, and the literary traditions from which it has grown. The chapters of the critical introduction are a discussion of the craft techniques of Mark Doty, Ted Kooser, Richard Hugo, Mary Oliver and Molly Peacock. Additionally, Nick Flynn, Sidney Lea, Nickole …
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"Elements of Language Variation in Palsgrave's ""Lesclarcissement De La Langue Francoyse"" (1530)"
… dissertation is devoted to Palsgrave's use of literary authority in conjunction with his observations on variation in French. Palsgrave's goal was to formulate a set of grammatical rules which would thoroughly describe the French language for English learners, and he incorporated both literary …
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The child and the adult in contemporary children's literature : Roald Dahl, Anne Fine, Diana Wynne Jones, J. K. Rowling
… attitudes. I also place the novels in their literary-historical context, examining whether or not they continue the literary traditions of their predecessors in children's literature, or whether their central focus is on contemporary social engagement. I also consider whether literary …
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My name is Afrika: Setswana genealogies, trans-atlantic interlocutions, and NOW-time in Keorapetse Kgositsile's life and work
… his encounter with Afro-American oral and literary traditions, the styles and poetics of Drum writers, the outpouring of African literature he received from the Makerere conference of Uganda, and anti-colonial critical thinkers from Africa and its diaspora. At age twenty three, …
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Post-apartheid Speculative Fiction and the South African City
… South Africa as an impetus for emerging literary traditions within contemporary South African speculative fiction, the argument begins by sketching the connections between South Africa's transition to democracy and the emerging speculative texts which mark this period. Positioning …
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Anamnesis, myth, and the political in selected works of Murakami Haruki
… to Western authors and seemingly ignores the literary traditions of Japan. Through study of the development of the novel in Japan and its characteristic elements, this thesis demonstrates that Murakami utilizes many of these valued precepts in his works. Evidence further supports the …
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"Narrativa di frontiera". Fenomenologia di una forma aperta.
… a genre of research usually neglected by the literary criticism which nevertheless is arousing much interest in recent years: the relationship between Literature and Space. In this context, the specific issue of his work consists in the category of the Frontier including its several …
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Divine Poetics: Representation of Genre in Ovid's Metamorphoses 6.70-128
… relationship with other Greek and Roman literary traditions. Minerva's tapestry is the embodiment of the heroic epic tradition similar to Homeric and Vergilian narrative, and Arachne's tapestry represents the archetype of the Hellenistic poetic tradition. While Ovid perceives the heroic …
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Detour to Otherness: Cultural Identity Discourse in Contemporary *American, Ukrainian, and Polish Literatures
… of the Polish. Regardless of the differences in literary traditions or the kinds of intercultural experience, the works from all three cultures depend on the same techniques of symbolic displacement and contextualization in constructing the meaning of a given culture."
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Beyond English : translating modernism in the global south
… case studies from four linguistic and literary traditions (English, Bengali, Spanish, and Hindi-Urdu), I explore the dimensions and definitions of comparative Anglophone and world literature, comparative poetics, and a comparative study of novels – in the global postcolonial world. I …
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Eco-Otherness and Interconnectedness: Re-thinking Land, Trees, and Nonhuman Agency in Palestinian and North African Literature
… has traditionally focused on Western literary traditions, this study positions Arab literature as a vital contributor to global environmental humanities, challenging anthropocentric and Eurocentric paradigms. By foregrounding nonhuman agency, the thesis underscores how ecological …
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Imagining sittee : constructions of homelands and grandmother narratives in Arab American literature
… authors to be seen in tandem with the literary traditions of other ethnic minorities in America. The report problematizes the imagined homeland by arguing that it is constructed on the basis of simplistic juxtapositions between different generations within the Arab American community, …
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The Transformative Power of Love: The Negation of the Subject in Mysticism and Troubadour Fin' Amors
… to present the similarities found in these two literary traditions. Mystical writings have a far longer history reaching into antiquity and continuing until the present day. The traces in the manuscript traditions situate in the late eleventh century a new poetic form in Occitan with a focus on …
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Chaucer's Use of Rheoric in the "General Prologue" and Linkages of The Canterbury Tales
… of the late fourteenth century, of its literary traditions„ and of the function of rhetoric in composition, combined, will, I hope, throw light on Chaucer's technique.</p>
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Decolonizing the Body
… of literature engage with American and European literary traditions. By doing so, they will gain a broader idea about how their stories are a part of the American story and, consequently, will provide the reader with a more nuanced perspective about what it means to be Queer and Indigenous in the …
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