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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Western literature"”.
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The Interpolated Sonnet in Western Literature
… oldest, and most popular lyric form in Western literature. Because of its venerable tradition, internal logic, and convenient length, it also occurs frequently as an interpolated poem. It may function as a lyric interlude or as an effective device, advancing the plot or revealing …
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The Oedipus Tyrannus Theme in Western Literature
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An anarchy of man: Cartesian and post-Cartesian representations of the self in selected Western literature
… concerns are portrayed in selected works of Western literature. The novel is set in Canberra and Sydney and tells the story of the relationship between two characters: Joe and Gin. It explores the way we in the modern Western world think about ourselves and those around us. Chapter One …
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Renegades, Slaves, and Pirates: the Representation of Mediterranean Corsair Wars and Barbary in early modern Western Literature and Culture
… the commercial and social exchanges in the Western Mediterranean, affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals from all over Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Although both Europe and North Africa were deeply involved in corso, its image in early modern European culture …
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Problematizing partnership: the experience, perceptions, and insights of Ugandan church leaders in church partnership with Christians overseas, in juxtaposition with the Western literature
… Its findings are then compared to the literature, most of which originates in and adheres to global-north perspectives. A quantitative survey of church leaders found the incidence of these partnerships, gathered preliminary descriptive data, and uncovered specific cases for qualitative …
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Literary Perceptions of Leadership
… pattern of human leadership in the pages of Western literature. Literature is a mirror of human perception and thought. It is a reflection of ideas, a means of transcribing not events as they have taken place, nor of human commentary of actual deeds, but of ideas and aspirations. As such, …
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Homecoming Festivals: The Re-accentuated Image of Don Quixote in Western Novel
… 1615) impacted significantly the dynamics of Western literature. The renowned novel, which builds upon a considerable number of characters and episodes, is considered one of the most read and most analyzed pieces of literature in the world. This novel opens a wide platform for socio-political …
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Wikked Wyves and Blythe Bachelers: Secular Misogamy From Juvenal to Chaucer
… is studied as a separate and distinct topos in Western literature. The topos is divided into three branches: the general (addressed to Everyman), the ascetic (addressed to exemplary Christians), and the philosophic (addressed to the scholar). Representative works of the different branches are …
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The Poetics of Conversion: Salvation and Self-Justification in the Modern Autobiographical Novel
In Western literature the ideas of conversion and salvation have traditionally been associated with Christianity, beginning in the New Testament with conversions like that of St. Paul and continuing later in confessional writings like St. Augustine's Confessions, Dante's La vita nuova, Bunyan's …
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The influence of utilising government initiatives, servicing foreign MNCs and internationalisation on strategic planning process of local companies in Singapore
… attitude of an entrepreneur, as revealed in the literature, but it can also be affected by external influences. The theoretical contribution of this research determines this unique situation in Singapore, and tests the robustness of the conventional models of planning in smaller companies. As a …
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Aktualizace řeckých mýtů v současné anglosaské literatuře a jejich kritický ohlas
… the fantasy genre, and the role of retellings in Western literature. It also introduces the methodological framework and defines literary criticism as a key tool for analyzing reception of both readers and critics. The main analytical section is devoted to a close reading of the selected novels, …
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Understanding accountants' participation in accounting information systems implementation : Malaysian evidence
… private sector. The hypotheses derived from the Western literature were not significantly supported when the results were analyzed. It seems that the existing literature related to the phenomenon under investigation is mainly Anglo-Saxon culture oriented which is different from the Malaysian …
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Same Kentucky Chicken, Different Taste: Cross-cultural Leadership Studies at KFC in Beijing
… has dominated leadership behavior research in Western literature (e.g., Yukl 1994), whereas this study recognizes that Guanxi behavior is an important concept in Chinese values and that it should be employed to develop a model of Chinese leadership behavior. This study also examines whether …
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Blood Heist
… imagery. It fits into the broad category of Post-Western literature.
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Survey and analysis of patterns of stuttering among Zambian school children
… is approximately the same as that reported in Western literature (i.e. .97% of the total school population) and that it is also significantly related to factors such as age, sex, level of education, and housing conditions. However, the predicted increase of incidence from primary to secondary …
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Displacement and the text: exploring otherness in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, Maryse Condé's La migration des coeurs, Rosario Ferré's The House on the Lagoon, and Tina De Rosa's Paper Fish
… out an identity they were previously denied. In Western literature, there has been little authentic representation of characters considered "Other." In authoring her own text, however, the "Other" writes for herself. The appropriation and revision of the Western canonical text, the usurpation of …
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The Romantic Other: Adam Mickiewicz in Russia
… a Polish poet, all at once a representative of Western literature and culture, a Lithuanian bard, a Slavic Byron, and a poet who was also close to Russia's cultural and poetic tradition. Special consideration is also given to Mickiewicz as the Other in Pushkin's poetic paradigm "bard vs. …
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La battaglia interiore. Prova di commento alla Psychomachia di Prudenzio""
… as the first allegorical epic poem of the western literature, it explains the research methods which have been used and it sums up the results of the study. The method of the commentary tries to take into account the complexity of the object and the multiplicity of the secondary sources. …
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Towards an ethics of otherness: re-considering birth, time, and silence in education
The notion of the self in Western literature has overwhelmingly focused on separation and individuality, and has conflated knowing with being. This work proposes to retell the story of the modern Western individual through the themes of birth, time, and silence (as they represent the lifecycle), in …
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Blinking Icons: Letters to Saint Augustine
… detente with Saint Augustine’s broad legacy in Western literature, psychoanalytic theory, theology, philosophy, and political thought, in order to liberate her artistic voice and regain agency.</p>
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