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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Romance Literature"”.
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A Study of the Rescue in Keat's "Eve of St. Agnes"
… Eve of St. Agenes" is generally classified as a romance. A study of this work reveals many devices characteristic of romance literature. Among these devices, the rescue theme is noteworthy because it proves to be an important link binding this poem to the long line of romances in English …
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Analysis
… -.night is a late fourteenth century metrical romance. It is acclaimed by many as the finest representative of Arthurian romance literature in English. The poem comes to us from one source only, a manuscript in the Cotton Collection in the British Museum, Nero A. X. The poet has contrived that …
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Proving Genre: Robin Hood in the Literary History of Medieval English Romance through 1600
… literary history of medieval English romance.The introduction and second chapter establish that Robin Hood and romance have generally been considered distinct traditions, albeit sharing certain isolated features, since at least the late-nineteenth century. A model is described whereby …
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Agency and its Discontents: Nationalism and Gender in the Work of Pakistani Women
… seemingly banal, but immensely popular genre of romance literature in Pakistan, on which very little research has been conducted. To this end I have chosen Qaisra Shahraz's romance epic, The Holy Woman. The final chapter explores tropes of<br/>migration and return in the diasporic imaginary of …
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La escritura de la memoria como herramienta de diálogo en la metanovela española del siglo XXI
This dissertation explores how the use of metafiction in four novels that were published in the 21st century creates a dialogue with the historical memory of the Spanish Civil War. These works, which are referred to as 'metanovels' in this study, are: El corazón helado (2007) by Almudena Grandes; …
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Metafictional aspects in the narrative of Miguel de Unamuno (Spain)
The present work is a study of metafictional aspects in three novels of Miguel de Unamuno. The first chapter provides a definition of metafiction and positions the idea of metafiction within the Spanish novel. This fictional concept is traced through the history of the Spanish novel beginning with …
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THE DANCE MOTIF IN ZOLA'S "L'ASSOMMOIR" (FRANCE)
… of art. The relationship of dance to literature has not been studied before, so the terms of the study have to be determined by using anthropological and sociological studies of dance and works on ballet theater. The text of l'Assommoir is divided into sections like the acts of a …
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Mythical magnitude: Selected short fiction of Marguerite Yourcenar (France)
… establishes them as masterpieces of French literature.
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Los personajes femeninos en las novelas de Unamuno
El presente trabajo es un estudio sobre los personajes femeninos en las novelas de Miguel de Unamuno. Partiendo de la premisa unamuniana, "todo ser de ficcion ... que crea un autor hace parte del autor mismo," proponemos que las protagonistas femeninas en La tia Tula y San Manuel Bueno, martir …
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Le scenario sans amour d'une fille de joie: Une nouvelle lecture de "Nana" a la lumiere de l'analyse transactionnelle. (French text);
This new reading of L'Assommoir and Nana in the light of Transactional Analysis applies to the psychology of Nana (an aspect so often denied, especially by Zola himself) and demonstrates that it overshadows the simple portrayal of a temperament. Thus Nana's premature death can be seen as the tragic …
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El narcotrafico y sus efectos en las culturas mexicanas y estadounidense
La intención de esta tesis es explorar la extensión del impacto de la narcoguerra (la guerra entre las organizaciones que venden las drogas) y la guerra contra las drogas (la guerra de los gobiernos contra las organizaciones) en los Estados Unidos y México. En la época moderna estas guerras estén …
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"Don Quijote" y "La vida es sueno": La voluntad y la realizacion del protagonista. (Spanish text);
A comparison of Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes and La vida es sueno by Calderon de la Barca highlights a long tradition of social, religious, and political themes which preoccupied early 17th century Spain. Although one is a novel and the other a play, both works represent in their …
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Vers Une Problematique De L'Alterite Dans La Constuction De L'Identite Haitienne: Etude De Romans Choisis De Jean Metellus et De Marie Vieux Chauvet
… played a significant role in Haiti's history and literature, and always been present as a recurrent theme in Haitian literature. Many studies have analyzed therelationships between Haiti, France and the United States, focusing on the economic and/or political impact of these countries on Haiti, or …
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Space and Place in the Out-of Doors settings of the Farsas Y Eglogas by Lucas Fernandez, Spanish Playwright (1474-1542)
The out-of-doors settings, created in dialogue in the secular and sacred works by the sixteenth century Spanish playwright, Lucas Fernandez, are the focus of this dissertation. Significantly, Fernandez is the only one of his theatrical contemporaries in Spain to place all of his dramas outside. …
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Political Petrarchism: The Rhetorical Fashioning of Community in Early Modern Italy
Engaging with a variety of literary and historical sources, in both prose and verse, including letters, chronicles, treaties and the neo-Latin epic, this dissertation examines the centrality of the classically-informed, philosophical idea of friendship (amicitia) in the community-building discourse …
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Searching for the writing subject in La vida de la Monja Alférez: autobiografía atribuida a Doña Catalina de Erauso
The writing subject in the La Vida de la Monja Alférez: Autobiografía atribuida a Doña Catalina de Erauso is a difficult subject to determine because of the apocryphal nature of the text, the impact of multiple authors on the subsequent copies of the work, and the gender changes of the protagonist. …
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Divagation, prohibition of divagation and divagation of text
"Divagation", which can be translated into English as wandering, rambling, ranting or even trespassing, is a literary "intergenre", closely tied to a norm and an interdiction. As an "intergenre", divagation appears in a variety of forms. We notice, however, a few recurrent elements: distance from …
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