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Showing 1 to 20 of 365 for “"Literature, English"”.
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The Teaching of Children's Poetry: An Exploration of Instructional Practices in University Courses of Children's Literature, English, Language Arts, and Reading Education
… instructors who were members of the Children's Literature Assembly (CLA) of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) at the time of this study, this investigation attempted to ascertain the general perceptions of poetry held by these university professors and adjunct instructors, their …
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'Of his breast noble poets shall eat; of his blood shall men be drunk': nationalism, literature, and Arthurian 'things' in medieval and Early Modern Britain
… of medieval and Early Modern Arthurian literature, English and British nationalism, and new materialism – specifically thing theory and object-oriented ontology. Arthur was not a true historical figure, yet throughout much of British history his cultural and propagandist value has been …
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Ancestral voices: Maria Edgeworth and other orphans of British literature.
… Maria Edgeworth and other orphans of British literature.
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Irony and the secular poems of John Donne
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The Chronicle novel of Compton Mackenzie, 1937-1945: A study of "The Four Winds of Love"
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Belloc: An appraisal of his poetry
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The widow's might: Law and the widow in British fiction, 1689-1792.
… relation to property granted to widows by English law: unlike a wife, a widow had a separate legal identity and could hold real property as could a man. Common law dower granted her a life interest in her husband's estate, but over the course of the eighteenth century, dower was …
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Was Oliver Goldsmith colour-blind?
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The storyteller's voice: The dialogic art of Elizabeth Gaskell.
Elizabeth Gaskell was a gifted storyteller. Her letters and her fiction attest to an imagination rooted in oral narrative, marked by the digressiveness and dispersiveness of living speech. She wrote her first novel, she said, as if she were "speaking to a friend over the fire on a winter's night," …
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Ixion's wheel: Masculinity and the figure of the circle in the novels of Charles Dickens
This dissertation investigates through a close reading of four novels--The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations--the way in which masculinity and authorial subjectivity in Dickens's novels are bound to the figure of the circle, an image which functions …
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"Moving Words, Moving Pictures: A Comparison of the Portrayal of Alienation in the Novels and Films ""Death in Venice"", ""Swann in Love"", ""Under the Volcano"", and ""Last Exit to Brooklyn"""
Rather than trying to demonstrate the failure or success of adaptations by providing a list of either, the current study attempts to draw some general conclusions about adaptation.
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The Lost Tribe in the Mirror: Playwrights of Northern Ireland
"The introductory chapter outlines the scope of the general historical and political background against which these plays were written beginning with the Ulster Literary Theater in 1902. Subsequently, the work of Thompson, Parker, Mitchell and Jones is discussed in chapters 1--5 including a brief …
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Allegory and Metaphor: Soviet Productions of Shakespeare in the Post -Stalin Era
"Productions of Shakespeare in the former Soviet Union continued the long Russian tradition of ""Aesopian language,"" that is, the polemical circumlocution of social issues by means of allegory, allusion or satire. This dissertation discusses nine such Shakespearean productions. Their directors …
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Memorial Reconstructions: Christopher Marlowe, Cultural Memory, and the Royal Shakespeare Company
"Chapter One traces the creation of the Marlowe myth through the critical record and identifies four persistent aspects of that myth: when compared to Shakespeare, Marlowe is repeatedly figured as an atheist, bohemian, ""queer,"" and foreign figure. Chapter Two explores the permanent, physical …
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Utopian Times: The Quest for the Perfect Society in Renaissance Italy and in the New World
Chapter 1 presents information about the historical context of the Italian utopias. Philosophical issues related to the conceptualization of utopia are discussed in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 addresses historical issues concerning the application of utopias in the New World, where More's and Campanella's …
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Discovering the Balkans: British Travellers in Southeastern Europe, 1861--1911
… and the politicization of Balkan travel literature, and the influence of the 1870s Balkan crisis on the nature of travel to the Balkans. Section III investigates the background and influence of ethnography in British travel literature, the ethnographic depiction of the Balkan …
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"On Wings of Everlasting Power: G. W. M. Reynolds and ""Reynolds's Newspaper"", 1848-1876"
"George William McArthur Reynolds, novelist, republican, Chartist leader, and founder and editor of Reynolds's Newspaper, was at the intellectual and rhetorical center of much of working-class radical, political, and social thought in mid-Victorian England. Structuring his political ideas on a …
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"Finite Verb Stress and Clitic Verbs in Old English ""Beowulf"
… language. Also, Beowulf, along with other Old English poems, provides evidence for stress and archaic linguistic features, neither of which is available in prose. By closely examining the text that supposedly represents the earliest stage of the North- and West-Germanic, the present work …
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"""Addicted to Pleasures"": Representing Commodities of Empire and Consumerism in Eighteenth -Century English Culture"
… caffeine and nicotine into eighteenth-century English culture deeply impacted not just British society but, in addition, the content and style of writing in the period---fiction, poetry and drama---as filtered through literary representations. It provides meaningful knowledge towards a richer …
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