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Margaret Cavendish on Inconceivability
… unacknowledged textual puzzle that arises from Margaret Cavendish's use of inconceivability to make claims about what is metaphysically impossible. On the one hand, Cavendish asserts that objects or events she cannot conceive of are impossible in nature (i.e., inconceivability entails …
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Margaret Laurence's treatment of the heroine.
Dept. of English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1972 .P37. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1972.
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Margaret Dreier Robins, social reformer and labor organizer
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Margaret Ruthven Lang: Her life and piano works
American composer Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867-1972) is perhaps best known today for her songs and choral pieces and as the first woman composer to have a work performed by a major American orchestra. Though her chamber and orchestral works have not survived, her piano pieces provide an important …
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Margaret Cavendish's Exploration of Consciousness in Her Writings
… the largely autodidactic English intellectual Margaret Cavendish is fascinated by knowledge and how to secure for herself a place in the micro- as well as macrocosmic community of letters. In particular, Cavendish holds an abiding interest in what we now call "consciousness" which she …
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Margaret Thatcher. Formazione e ascesa di un leader.
… to examine the character of British politician Margaret Thatcher, following the path of her life and her career since her years at the University of Oxford, where she studied chemistry, to her election as the leader of the Conservative Party in 1975. The investigation has been conducted by …
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Margaret Cavendish and Scientific Discourse in Seventeenth-Century England
<p>Although the natural philosophy of Margaret Cavendish is eclectic and uncustomary, it offers an important critique of contemporary scientific methods, especially mechanism and experimentalism. As presented in Observations upon Experimental Philosophy and Blazing World, Cavendish's natural …
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Truth, history and representation in Margaret Atwoods' Alias Grace
In the Introduction of this minor dissertation, Margaret Atwood as a post-modern writer and her interest in fictional autobiographies are considered, particularly with regard to memory, the formation of self-identity and amnesia. Parallels are drawn between Surfacing and Cat's Eye as fictional …
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Motifs of transformation in four novels of Margaret Atwood
The dominant theme that Margaret Atwood foregrounds in her writing is that of victimisation, whether she is writing of the victimisation of a country, of a minority group, of animals or of an individual. She adopts the position that through acknowledgement of that victimisation, and a refusal to …
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Church, chapel and clergy in Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford
This thesis examines the fictional works of Magaret Oliphant’s Chronicles of Carlingford in order to explain her understanding of the significance of Church and Chapel communities and their clergymen within an insular and atypical provincial community in mid-nineteenth century England. By drawing …
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Margaret Rutherford, Alastair Sim, eccentricity and the British character actor
… introduction includes my initial impressions of Margaret Rutherford and Alastair Sim's work, and its significance for British cinema as a whole. In order to determine their enduring appeal, the first section, 'Biographical Perspectives', uses the actors' respective biographies to combine their …
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Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: The Everyday Southern Epic
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (GWTW) has long been termed an "epic" of the American South. The implications of that term, however, have not been fully investigated, particularly as they concern generic criteria. How can we assign the generic characteristics of the epic narrative to GWTW? …
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Preparing for Power: Margaret Thatcher as Leader of the Opposition
This thesis attempts to explore Margaret Thatcher’s years as Leader of the Opposition, by examining how this period helped to shape her as a credible leader and future Prime Minister. Specifically, this research analyses the idea of ‘soft power’, demonstrating that domestic and foreign politics are …
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A Certain Trumpet: Margaret Chase Smith and the Demise of McCarthyism
No abstract prepared.
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Kansas History as Seen in the Works of Margaret Hill McCarter
The undaunted initiative, the patient endurance, the great intelligence, and the exalted genius of the pioneers and founders of the state, have resulted in a high order of Kansas society. Prom the very first, even with migrating Indian tribes when it was still a part of the "Indian Country", men of …
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Molecular biology and distribution of rhizopine genes in Rhizobium species / Margaret Wexler.
Bibliography: leaves 167-188.
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Traduire une pluralité de discours : 'This Side Jordan' de Margaret Laurence
Premier roman de Margaret Laurence publié en 1960, This Side Jordan oppose monde ancestral et modernité par l'entremise de personnages ghanéens et anglais qui cherchent à affirmer leur identité à la veille de l’Indépendance du Ghana. Cette thèse présente la réflexion traductologique qui a …
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