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Showing 1 to 20 of 528 for “"Literature, Modern."”.
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Athena's Mother.
Athena's Mother.
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Entre humanismo y barbarie Posibilidades criticas de la narrativa espanola ante el discurso hereditario.
Entre humanismo y barbarie Posibilidades criticas de la narrativa espanola ante el discurso hereditario.
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Profession, vocation or duty?: Economic discourses of woman's work in Golden Age Spanish literature.
… discourses of woman's work in Golden Age Spanish literature.
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Fail Better: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Criticism
Though literature and literary study have needed defense for most of their respective histories, the current crisis in academic literary study and the humanities more generally has forced scholars into the uncomfortable position of selling their disciplines and simultaneously warning students about …
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The Dreamworld of Gajto Gazdanov in the Context of European Modernism
The motive of the vagabond in Gazdanov's prose, originated in vagrancy of exile, assumes deeper meaning as wandering through life to its final destination. For Gazdanov, presentiment of death penetrates every aspect of human existence. The theme of death, ethical judgement of good and evil, and the …
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De Errabundos Y Nomadas: La Desarticulacion Del Motivo Del Viaje en La Literatura Latinoamericana Contemporanea
To show the subversion and transition from the heroic journey which presupposed revelation, development and return, to the antiheroic philosophy of vagabondage in which prevails a poetics of negation (of memory, nostalgia, identification, knowledge and familiarity), I discuss Alvaro Mutis' La Nieve …
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Wanderlust Reexamined: Analysis of Examples From the Fiction of Tieck, Novalis, Eichendorff, and Hoffmann
"This study shows that, in the works discussed here, while there is no single type of ""Romantic wanderer,"" the element of wandering and travel is not only used to depict metaphysical quests. Rather, it equally depicts earthly emotions in that the characters experience life through travel. Franz …
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La Donna E La Condizione Maniacale -Voci Al Femminile
Questo e uno studio sulla condizione della donna all'interno dell'istituzione maniacale italiana. In questo studio vengono presi in esame gli scritti autobiografici di quattro donne italiane: Adalgisa Conti, Augusta F., Lia Traverso e Alda Merini. Parallelamente viene preso in esame il disagio …
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Re-Appropriation of Patriarchal Female Myths in the Short Fiction of Luisa Valenzuela
"Chapter Four investigates Valenzuela's ""Si esto es la vida, yo soy Caperucita Roja"" a re-vision of the fairy tale ""Little Red Riding Hood."" I present a brief review of critical theories concluding with a feminist interpretation of this classic tale, establishing that the classical versions …
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Transitional Discourses: The (Psycho)somatic Fiction of Juan Jose Millas
… by replacing his radical political past with a ""modern"" look and duplicitous discourse. Similarly, the Social Democrats, during their consolidation of power (1983--1992), subsumed their previous counter-discourses within economic policies of modernization and Europeanization. The protagonist of …
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"The Return of Adam to Paradise Lost: Camus' ""Le Premier Homme"
"One of the first theses devoted to Camus' autobiographical novel, this dissertation probes the orphan legacy that triggers the 'first man's' search for origins. My first chapter traces themes in his last work through the three 'cycles,' or 'myths,' which organize Camus' oeuvre, from manuscripts of …
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Collaborations and Resistances Between Writing and Photography in Late Twentieth-Century France
Roland Barthes, Geoffrey Batchen, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Stuart Hall, W. J. T. Mitchell, and Susan Sontag are among the critics who provide useful concepts and theories as a foundation from which to explore encounters between texts and photographs.
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Representations De La Noblesse Dans Le Roman Francais (1789--1848)
The French nobility is considered as a class defeated by the bourgeoisie and irrelevant within the capitalist economy. This widespread view fails to explain the vivid presence of the nobles in the 19th century cultural production. A phenomenological analysis of five novels (L'emigre, by Senac de …
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L'ecriture Automatique Surrealiste Et La Psychanalyse. Breton Avec Freud Et Lacan
"In the conclusion of the dissertation, I corroborate this observation with the fact that poetry and love, in their Surrealist design, constitute the radical contrivance standing in for the lack of a logical, commensurable accord between male and female relations to the signifier of desire, to …
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Beyond the Cheated Eye: Modern American Poetry and the Perils of Post -Romantic Subjectivity
… intersubjective relations and social structures. Modernist fragmentation and even postmodern difference critique this possessiveness without really disputing its place as the driving force of subjectivity. Indeed, postmodern thought is so deeply aware of this possessiveness that it hesitates to …
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"Moving Bodies: James Joyce and the ""New Physics"""
"James Joyce was an innovator in modern literature, and many of his resources and approaches have been examined thoroughly. Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, however, is an under-explored influence on Joyce's later fiction. As he wrote Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, Joyce culled from the …
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Symbols-Ideas in Hippius' Poetry
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Black Versus Bourgeois During the Harlem Renaissance: The Study of a Literary Conflict
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The Incorporative Consciousness: A Study of the Poetry of Denise Levertov and Robert Bly
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The Religious and Moral Philosophy of Sir Walter Scott
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