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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Literature -- History and criticism."”.
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The historical novels of Jessie Joyce Gwayi
… on her domestic position, her present occupation and her state of health. It is her state of health that has made it impossible for her to undertake any further literary work. This has been the worst drawback to the budding Zulu historical novelist. Here also a few writers of various Zulu books …
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Are there classics in American literature?
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Emphasizing cultural connections in American literature using systems theory.
Multiculturalism is a dynamic field of study and will continue to evolve as our society evolves. Multiculturalism has resulted in new departments, new books, new canons, and new theories from many of America's previously ignored cultures. However, most of these changes have not put America's …
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The Devil in American literature : a consideration of four texts.
… there are many things, whereof we may reasonably and profitably be Inquistive." My study of the devil focuses on selected representations in American literature from the colonial to the contemporary period. I have selected four of the most influential and popular representations in American …
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A study of the Romantic movement in English literature
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Memórias de Adriano: literatura e histórias em diálogo
… ligadas aos gêneros literários. Em seguida, visando ainda a relação entre literatura e história, poderemos perceber que Yourcenar, ao retornar a esse passado distante, não se ausenta dos problemas do presente. Por meio dos atos e relatos de Adriano podemos ver que este, bem como a autora, …
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New directions in the rhizome of children's literature and children's culture: a case study in transmedia storytelling
… a “text” in twenty-first century children’s literature and children’s culture. Beginning with John Newbery’s A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744), through the Golden Age of Children’s Literature—that of the 1860s to 1900—and as a result of the shift to a children’s culture in the 1950s onward, …
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Games and the open world : reading digital games through literary theory
… perceived as a boundary between the game world and society, which can be either negotiated or even physically imposed. However, the magic circle presents a dualism that might be reductionist of digital games' true potential as a type of new media. The introduction of this dissertation will set …
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Perpetuation or subversion : a study on the track of imperialism and nationalism in Anglo-Indian and Indo-Anglian literature, 1857-1947
… to track two great movements: Imperialism and Nationalism, through a number of literary texts written by English and Indian authors. With three exceptions, the texts originated in English. In the three exceptions, the translations from Bengali to English either were made by the Indian …
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Criticism of material success in the American novel
… areas of concern in the American goal of success and the self-made man, still held out redeeming features as generally admirable. Arthur Mervyn discovers that to be self-made man is a demanding task requiring hard work and resistance of occasional temptations from evil persons. He chooses to …
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The birth and growth of Indo-Anglian literature and its contributions to English literature
… thought in two ways - one through the Greeks, and the other through modern English scholarship. The former has affected us but slightly, being the result of oral interchange, rather than of immediate literary borrowing, - thus passing only indirectly into our system. The latter is reacting upon …
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Towards a trans-Caribbean poetics: A new aesthetic of power and resistance
… challenge common ideas about power, violence and oppression through the reinterpretation of Caribbean dictatorial regimes in their fiction, and how their stories fare in comparison to other narrative traditions such as the Latin American dictator novel genre. The works of Julia Alvarez (The …
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Subversive pseudo-dialogic : W.B. Yeats's use of the dialogic to present the monologic.
… dialogic provides unique insight into the poetry and plays of W.B. Yeats. Though this early twentieth century Irish writer favored poetry over the novel form on which Bakhtin based his studies, his compositions can be better understood and his intentions further elucidated in light of Bakhtin's …
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A redefined feminine from paleolithic to twenty-first century through children's literature & film
… “master narratives,” silenced, subverted, and deferred. My guidelines were drawn from the deconstruction of philosophical works by Jacques Derrida and redefined the unique circle of “Being and beings” to be not just God and man, but God, Goddess, and Human, the Goddess being the original …
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Las máscaras del poder y resistencia de la mujer en la narrativa de Rosario Ferré.
… most representative fiction deconstructs and confronts the fundamental powers and the central discourses that have dominated the historical and cultural panorama of Puerto Rico during a great part of the twentieth century and the initial years of the twenty-first. Also, as a secondary …
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The Celt and Shelley : a study of certain contrasts and resemblances between Welsh literature and Shelley's poetry
… be attained; there will be an attempt to compare and contrast the outstanding Shelleyan qualities which have been quite generally accepted with those of the Cymric Celts. But it is quite evident by the very limitation of time and space at our disposal, that the present treatment of style in the …
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Intangible gifts : a novel with accompanying exegesis ’Japan, the love story and myself’
… there are strong undercurrents of religious and racial discrimination. Rosanna, the protagonist, narrates her life through fragments of memory, drawing upon her experience as a child and young woman in Australia and Japan. Her understanding of home is a major theme in the novel.
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