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Plautus and the Sentimental Ideal of the Roman Family
… Republic onwards, it is possible to detect a sentimental ideal of family life at Rome. She also argued that there is a significant paucity of affectionate terminology in Plautus' mid-republican works. My thesis looks for traces of a Roman sentimental ideal in Plautus' comedies. I analyse his …
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Sentimental damages in English contract law : a critical analysis
This dissertation's primary hypothesis is that the angst-spawning confusion plaguing this area of law stems from a feckless amalgamation of parallel, if not competing, notions of loss. Let me explain. When a promisee seeks judicial relief for breach, the court habitually applies two …
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The narrator in Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey
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Sentimental Form and Realistic Content in De Forest and Howells
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American pain: The sentimental, the lyrical, the medical, the realistic
… did certain literary modes of representation—the sentimental, the lyrical, the medical, the realistic—construct divergent and convergent meanings of bodily pain?
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Sentimental Ideology, Women's Pedagogy, and American Indian Women's Writing: 1815-1921
<p>ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Sentimental Ideology, Women's Pedagogy, and American Indian Women's Writing: 1815-1921 by Christine Renée Cavalier Washington University in St. Louis, 2011 Professor Vivian Pollak, Chairperson This dissertation examines how sentimental notions of respectable …
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Using Multiple Data Sources for Customer Satisfaction Analyzing: A Sentimental Approach
<p>The effectiveness of data and data providers in marketing has created a hype in the marketing world. Businesses often face a divided approach because of the increasing volume of data collected through a variety of data channels. This results in marketers often facing problems in acquiring …
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The Miseducation Of Marianne Dashwood: Jane Austen’s Politicization of Sentimental Discourse
… novel to demonstrate the inherent flaw in how sentimental novels to depicted romances bared a threat to women. I work against the conventional opposition of "good" versions of masculinity versus "poor" versions to posit a notion that instead, most masculinities are unstable and a detriment to …
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"Four types of computer-aided analysis of Laurence Sterne's ""A Sentimental Journey"""
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Not a "Sentimental Charity": A History of the Indianapolis Flower Mission, 1876-1993
… like the one in Indianapolis as naïve or sentimental groups, closer inspection reveals they were much more. My main argument is that though the work of the Indianapolis Flower Mission may at first glance appear trite, it was actually practical and life-saving and deserves serious …
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Wicked widows, crazy spinsters, and competent heroines : the single woman in sentimental fiction
… of critics have given critical attention to sentimental fiction. In 1977 and 1985 respectively, Ann Douglas and Jane Tompkins set the terms for almost all subsequent arguments about antebellum female authors. What critics have not done is given particular attention to the models of single …
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Sentimental Journey?: The Immigrant Experience of World War II-Era War Brides in Montana
During and after World War II, over one hundred thousand American servicemen married women they met in the course of their deployment overseas. In early 1946, these women, commonly known as “war brides,” began to immigrate to the United States to join their husbands. Over one hundred of the women …
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Sentimental Journey?: The Immigrant Experience of World War II-Era War Brides in Montana
During and after World War II, over one hundred thousand American servicemen married women they met in the course of their deployment overseas. In early 1946, these women, commonly known as “war brides,” began to immigrate to the United States to join their husbands. Over one hundred of the women …
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A grammar of sentiment thinking about sentimental jewellery towards making new art about love and loss.
… research project explores English and French sentimental jewellery of the Victorian period. ‘Sentimental jewellery’ or ‘message jewellery’ denotes jewellery created to function as a tangible expression of feeling between donor and recipient, mediated through complex narratives relating to its …
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ENTRE EL DESEO Y EL PUDOR, EL AMOR HEREOS EN LA NOVELA SENTIMENTAL: GRISEL Y MIRABELLA DE JUAN DE FLORES
… shows that women's roles in Juan de Flores' sentimental romance Grisel y Mirabella (1495) were influenced by lovesickness or amor hereos. I also discuss how linguistic and narrative theories, as well as historical rhetoric about sexuality from the time of this text, helps us to understand how …
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Lines of Feeling: Modernist Women's Poetry and the Limits of Sentimentality
Modernist sentimental poetry is frequently cast as an unfortunate literary and cultural mistake. In an era defined by its novel feats of poetic ambition, modernist sentimental poetry seems inexplicably to regress to the familiar forms and feelings of the nineteenth century. Alongside the modernist …
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