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Showing 1 to 20 of 145 for “"Literature, Comparative."”.
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Beyond English : translating modernism in the global south
… 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 focus on moments of translatability and untranslatability to question traditional models for studies in English …
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Lenguaje insuficiente, colores suficientes: El azul en Becquer y Novalis.
Lenguaje insuficiente, colores suficientes: El azul en Becquer y Novalis.
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La métamorphose du théâtre aristotélicien : Lope de Vega et Pierre Corneille
Lope de Vega and Pierre Corneille are both famous playwrights from the seventeenth-century, one from Spain and the other from France, respectively. This work looks at the differences and similarities in their dramatic theories and the applications of those theories. More specifically, it …
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Traumatic Appropriation in Maus and In The Shadow of No Towers
There are immense ethical concerns surrounding depicting another’s trauma and turning another’s trauma into a commodity for sale in the marketplace. Of these problems, competition and the denigration of the narratives of trauma sufferers are two of the most pervasive problems. Though comics are …
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The Literary Background of Verdi's Operas
A close look at three specific operas from different periods of Verdi's life, Macbeth, Il trovatore, and Don Carlo will show that he successfully negotiated the balance between artistic freedom and political commitment. For that reason his operas satisfied the patriots of the 19th-century, but …
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Afterlives: Translations of German Weltliteratur Into Yiddish
… the cultural value placed on German language and literature in Yiddish discourse at significant points of historical transition between 1876 and 1966. I compare German literary texts with their Yiddish translations in the context of contemporary understandings of world literature and Jewish …
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The Literary Response of German-Language Authors to Selma Lagerlof
By focusing on the impact of a significant yet neglected woman writer, this study contributes to gender-related literary scholarship. It also adds to our knowledge of Scandinavian-German literary relations during the early years of this century. Since the German writers who responded to Lagerlof …
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Ethnographic Criticism and Native American Fiction: Cultural Texts, Textual Culture in the Novels of James Welch
… claims about approaches to Native American literature more generally, and how they share what I call an ethnographic mode of criticism defined by its parallels with anthropology and its use of ethnographic materials. I show how the ethnographic approach's structuring of the dominant critical …
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"""Though Their Bones Crunched, Their Shut Mouths Made No Moan"": Speaking the Corpse in Twentieth Century Anglo -American War Poetry"
"Initially the term war poet was used to label a profusion of amateur British voices patriotically singing their soldiers off to the trenches of France. Although generally dismissed as unrealistic and escapist, popular WWI poetry shows an obsession with death that reflects deep anxieties about the …
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Erotic Love and the Development of Proto -Capitalist Ideology in Early Modern Comedy
"Much of the conflation of erotic love and commodity ownership rests in the conflation of types of possession. Because the lovers each figure as erotic commodities to their prospective spouse, the lovers' desires for one another work to valorize both sexual gratification and commodity ownership. …
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"Phillis Wheatley: Canon and ""Orature"""
"In my last chapter, ""Phillis Wheatley and British Romanticism,"" I giving serious consideration to the poet's place in the Western canon, by attempting to extend John Shields's exploration of her relationship to above literary movement."
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Pangs of Exile
The feeling of exile is a timeless and continuous element of the human condition. Understanding of this complex literary theme is to be arrived at, not through terminology and definitions, but through historical and ideological perspectives.
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Spiritual Quest in French and English Post-War Novels
The spiritual quest deals mainly with God and what he represents for man. It dramatizes the search for ultimate significance and direction in life. In the face of banal preoccupations and pressures towards conformity, secularization and demythologization, some men pursue a transcendent ideal which …
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A Woman on the Mind: Aspects of Monomaniacal Love (D'annunzio, Flaubert, Wharton)
This study is a comparative reading of three novels on sentimental education: G. Flaubert's L'(')Education sentimentale, G. D'Annunzio's Il Piacere, and E. Wharton's The Age of Innocence. It chronicles the love obsessions of three young men as they search for the female embodiment of the …
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"""Le Cort Mantel"" and ""Mottuls Saga"": A literary comparison"
This dissertation is a literary comparison of the Old French Le cort mantel, also entitled Le mantel mautaillie, and Mottuls saga, an adaptation into Old Norse made by an unknown writer working for King Hakon (1217-1263).
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The Struggle Between Oral and Script Cultures and Its Effect on Narrative Development (Communications, Typography; Britain, France)
Communications historians have in the last several decades begun to trace the outline of a great cultural shift which began with the invention of the phonetic alphabet and accelerated with the invention of print, and which saw man proceed from conceiving of the world primarily in oral terms to …
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The Poetics of Conversion: Salvation and Self-Justification in the Modern Autobiographical Novel
In Western literature the ideas of conversion and salvation have traditionally been associated with Christianity, beginning in the New Testament with conversions like that of St. Paul and continuing later in confessional writings like St. Augustine's Confessions, Dante's La vita nuova, Bunyan's …
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The Myth of Superwoman: A Comparative Study of Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States
In the last ten or fifteen years, women's bestselling fiction has assumed important financial and ideological dimensions in the publishing centers of major industrialized countries. Linked to the bestseller system, contemporary women's fiction in France and the United States provides women with …
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Women's Voices in Arabic, French, and English Salons: Literary Impacts
… presents the voices of women in classical Arabic literature and the literature of eighteenth century France and England. It compares women as writers and sponsors of salons during two different periods of world history.
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The Bastard Hero in The Novel (France, England, Russia)
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 69601 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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