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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Modern writers"”.
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Modern Reinterpretations of the Cuckold
… and often cruel comic effects. Yet three major modern novelists portrayed the cuckold as a protagonist: Gustave Flaubert in Madame Bovary, Henry James in The Golden Bowl, and James Joyce in Ulysses. This study compares their portrayal of the cuckold with medieval storytellers' portrayal of him …
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Representations of ancient Cynicism in French texts, 1546-1615
… representations of Cynicism, I show how early modern writers understood and used Cynic performance for their own purposes. Part I of the thesis is devoted to early modern repositories of Cynicism. I establish the nature and availability of ancient and Medieval sources, and how they are used in …
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QUEEN: The Remaking of Character in the Modernist Novel
… figure in a novel. What is Queen Victoria in the Modernist novel and why does she begin to appear? She is a symptom and symbol of a problem the Modern writers were trying to work out. Despite having an ambivalent or even hostile relationship with the Queen, she is one of the most represented …
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Reversing the Tao: A Framework for Credible Space Deterrence
… a review of deterrence theory from classical to modern writers were explored to compare and contrast with the DoD's present concept to highlight its lack of deterrence theory. In addition, it was highlighted through an analysis of the Chinese view of deterrence in space, space weapons and the …
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Inanimating Matter: The Aesthetics of Putrefaction in Early Modern English Literature, 1580-1660
… of decaying organic matter in early modern English literature. The ubiquitous preoccupation with processes of organic dissolution and decay in the poetry, prose, and drama of the years 1580-1660 has often been understood to reflect this period’s pervasive anxieties about mortality and …
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A Modernist Among the Victorians: The Case of Emily Brontë
… Despite allusions and references to various modernist elements in Emily Brontë’s novel and poetry, there has not been extensive analysis of her work in connection to modern writers of the early twentieth century. I believe that a multi-themed analysis of such components is necessary to …
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Flowers for the Book-binder's Wife: An Investigation of Florilegia and Early Modern Women's Writing
… tutelage of ancient Roman scholars, early modern writers embraced the notion of florilegia, passages or quotations, which once deemed pleasing or insightful were extracted for use in the writer’s own work. The category of florilegia, or flowers, particularly included the subcategory of …
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Colour in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
In early modern England, colour was both a material and a textual preoccupation. However, the polychromatic palette that surrounded English men and women, and the particoloured palette of early modern writers, has thus far received little scholarly attention. This thesis rethinks the culture of …
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The problem of evil in early modern English literature
… that theodicy was a predominant concern of early modern English literary culture, and that response to the so-called “problem of evil” was one of its major leitmotifs. With chapters spanning from the Elizabethan to the Restoration eras, its interpretations of canonical poetic and dramatic texts …
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Neuroscience and Galen: Body, Selfhood and the Materiality of Emotions on the Early Modern Stage
… of the late seventeenth century, early modern theories of anatomy and medicine were primarily based on the writings of Galen, who lived in the second century but was him influenced by a much older medical and philosophical tradition. In this period, the playwrights raise the same central …
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Exiles, Knowledge, and Power: Utopian and Dystopian Worlds in Early Modern England
… to investigate the ways in which exiled early modern writers and literary characters engage with power and access knowledge, often through the creation of utopian and dystopian worlds, which either leads to their exilic identities and disempowerment or allows them to renegotiate their …
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Gathering in the Far Field: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Midwest Regionalism in Theodore Roethke, Robert Bly, and James Wright
… with the overshadowing influence of High Modernism and New Critical theory. Their colloquial style and confessional themes grow directly out of this antagonism toward the ironic and impersonal rhetoric of their literary precursors: Eliot, Pound, Yeats, and the later Fugitive Poets. In …
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Theorising the will in early modern English literature
… faculty of the will was conceptualised in early modern English literature. The attempt to understand its function and purpose was a crucial concern for a vast range of Elizabethan and Jacobean writers, largely because of the important role the notion of the will played in the development of …
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THE "OTHER" WOMAN: EARLY MODERN ENGLISH REPRESENTATIONS OF NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN, 1579-1690
This dissertation examines how early modern writers deployed figures of similarity and arguments of similitude in textual and visual representations of Native American women in trans-Atlantic texts about the Americas. I explore the relationship between representations of English and Native women by …
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Being the Beautiful Fool
… discontent I feel is important which models the Modern writers like Fitzgerald’s Gatsby’s green lighted hope for Daisy. I hope to revive a bit of that Modern era in my time though our green light just might be the glow of The Bachelor from the television.</p>
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The concept of Khilafah according to selected Sunni and Shi I Quranic Commentaries
… ShiCI points of view, in both the classical and modern periods. The term khiläfah, widely used by the Sunnis, is inseparable from imämah, the term which the ShiCis prefer. The concept arose very early in Islam and has continued to provoke discussion into the modern period. Yet, while the thought …
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La litterature and le Livre (literature and the Book) (French text)
… the Book from this logocentric foundation. Modern writers have even postulated the philosophical priority of "being in the Book" (Jabes) and redefined logos as one phase of writing (Derrida). Simultaneously, they have attempted to describe the "outside" of the Book: not as logos or truth, …
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"Feathered Glory": A Poet in Flight from Medieval Ireland to the Twentieth Century
… anglicized as Sweeney, to twentieth-century writers. Suibhne is the protagonist of the twelfth-century text <em>Buile Suibhne</em>, in which he is depicted as a minor king who goes mad on the field of battle, abandons his kingdom and his role in society, and flies like a bird into the woods, …
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Plantation America: the US South and the Caribbean in the literary culture of empire, 1898-1959
… “Plantation America.” How have US and Caribbean writers understood the United States’ relationship to this broader landscape through its most alienated region, the South? And how did the South’s ties to the plantation zone impact how writers imagined the United States as an emerging global empire …
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The influence of Henrik Ibsen on modern dramatists.
Modern drama is divisible into three distinct classes, namely: the romantic, the realistic, and the symbolic plays. These types, however, shade sometimes one into the other so that one cannot distinguish the specific characteristics of each separate form. Many modern writers, in fact, in all …
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