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Fairytale Characteristics in Medieval Romances
… of the adult world. Stylistically, so many romances do little to counter this impression with formulaic words and phrases expressing simplistic emotions and commonplace sentiments. Yet Middle English romance was an enduring genre, popular over five hundred years or more. Although Chaucer was …
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Untimely mutations: deterritorializing H.G. Wells's scientific romances
… unites a selection of H. G. Wells’s scientific romances with the theoretical approaches of philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Deleuzian theory provides a challenging yet powerful set of conceptual tools, used to rethink existing texts and critical paradigms, allowing the revaluation of literature, film …
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Timing Fate: Build To Order Romances in Singapore
This thesis examines the bureaucratic mechanisms through which housing is accessed in Singapore and the consequent impact on romantic, reproductive temporalities, and labour. Based on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork, the primary focus of this thesis is normative relationships and a system that …
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Ideais de formação em romances de tradição ocidental: o indivíduo e as instâncias sociais
… avaliar a formação de protagonistas de romances dos séculos XX e XXI em que uma das instâncias sociais identificadas acima predomina. Na prática, comparam-se trajetórias de protagonistas a fim de investigar a relação entre a personalidade e as influências das instâncias sociais em que …
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The Scientific romances of Charles Howard Hinton : the fourth dimension as hyperspace, hyperrealism and protomodernism
… within his two-volume collection of Scientific Romances (1884-1896). Hinton's hyperspace philosophy is founded on the belief that the fourth dimension exists as a transcendental yet material space that is accessible to both the mind and the physical senses. Inspired by Immanuel Kant's discussion …
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Private Matters: The Place of Privacy in English Legal Records, Romances, and Letters, 1300-1500
… behavior. In my research, I put court records, romances, and letters in conversation with one another to analyze an unexplored discourse on medieval privacy. My dissertation reshapes our understanding of medieval place, space, and identity and redefines the historical narrative by identifying …
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Early Nineteenth-Century British Song Settings of Poems From the Romances of Sir Walter Scott
During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, young women of a certain station were expected to display their musical talents during evenings at home and in the homes of friends. While their repertoire was certainly varied, there is extant an enormous number of songs apparently popular …
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A Comparative Study of Selected Norwegian Romances by Halfdan Kjerulf, Edvard Grieg, and Eyvind Alnaes
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The Portrayal of zorn in Hartmann von Aue’s Arthurian Romances and in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival
This thesis examines the portrayal of zorn in Hartmann von Aue’s Erec and Iwein, and in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival. The opening chapter provides an insight into the meaning of zorn and examines the physical signs, symptoms, and symbols of anger, as well as its theological, moral, and social …
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Plantation and Wilderness: Themes of Aggression and Regression in the Border Romances of William Gilmore Simms
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Vivências do feminino no final de oitocentos : representação da mulher em alguns romances e periódicos da época
Esta dissertação versa sobre as diversas representações e vivências do universo feminino no último quartel do século XIX, em Portugal. Para tal estudo recorreu-se comparativamente a algumas obras de Eça de Queirós, seleccionadas tendo em conta a temática abordada, entre as quais O Primo Basílio, Os …
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Fiction based on fact : subversions of power and propriety in Charles Reade's matter-of-fact romances.
… to his works. His two long matter-of-fact romances, Hard Cash and Never Too Late have received the bulk of critical study, but these novels are too often relegated to sensation, novel-with-a-purpose, or propagandist fiction without exploring the five matter-of-fact romances together as a …
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Reading Romances: The Production and Reception of French Gothic Ivories in the Context of Late Medieval Literary Practices
… scenes from medieval imaginative literature (romances of Arthur etc.), and are one of the few media displaying such pictures to survive from the period. Thus they are crucial to an understanding of medieval secular art. Research on these ivories has focused on workshop origin, artistic style, …
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ROMANCES QUE ARQUIVAM, ARQUIVOS QUE NARRAM:AS AREIAS DO IMPERADOR DE MIA COUTO E A ARQUEOLOGIA DA HISTÓRIA DE MOÇAMBIQUE
The thesis aims to analyse the trilogy of novels As areias do imperador by the Mozambican writer Mia Couto, highlighting the processes of silencing enacted by power that have led to a distortion of historical “truth,” problematized through the concept of the archive. The work seeks to foreground …
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Diálogos de além-mar : contributo para um estudo das figuras da ficção nos romances Vidas secas e Uma abelha na chuva
… enquanto importante categoria narrativa, nos romances Vidas secas, de Graciliano Ramos, e Uma abelha na chuva, de Carlos de Oliveira. O tema escolhido inscreve-se no diálogo mantido entre as literaturas brasileira e portuguesa nas décadas de 30-40 do século passado. Esta perspetiva comparada é …
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