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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"canonicity"”.
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POW/MIC: Prisoners of Words/Missing in Canon: Liberating the Neglected British War Poets of The Great War.
… era. While a few select male poets have achieved canonicity, women war poets of this era have fallen into enigmatic obscurity.</p><p>The intention of this paper is to expound, explicate, and expose the difficulties relating to gaining entry into the canon of English literature, especially where …
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Stammaitic Activity Versus Stammaitic Chronology; Anonymity's Impact on the Legal Narrative of the Babylonian Talmud
… are worth considering when reading a BT text: canonicity, multiplicity, and pluralism. In considering anonymity, one must analyze the impact of anonymous elements on the narrative as a whole, and specifically what the anonymity does to or for the text. When assessing what makes this or that …
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The Imprisonment of Knowledge and Creation of Heresy through Monastic Libraries and the Papal Authorities as Manifested in the Writings of Umberto Eco and John Lydgate.
My thesis, Canonicity and Medieval Heresy: Ideological Rifts and their Potentialities, addresses the way that medieval monasteries produced and protected canonical knowledge. The medieval church deployed monastic libraries to shape and conform the spread of knowledge selectively as shown within the …
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Making the Past: The Concepts of Literary History and Literary Tradition in the Works of Thomas Gray
… aesthetic, cultural, and political dimensions of canonicity in the course of examining the ideological motivation behind Gray’s literary history. Though much of Gray’s poetry is private and written for a narrow literary circle, his literary history seems engaged with issues of public concerns. …
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Influence and Its Opposite: Presence and Absence in the Work of Harold Bloom
… Surprisingly, it is not Bloom's defense of canonicity against post-structural Marxism, feminism, and New Historical criticism that generates the most resistance; instead, Bloom's dissenters more often come from the ranks of conservative traditionalists who might be expected to support him. …
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Tactics and Tradition in the Poetry of Thomas McGrath
… require research into theoretical issues of canonicity and literary history. Born in the agrarian socialist hotbed of North Dakota, his father a one-time I. W. W. member, his mother a devout Catholic (and her family Gaelic-speaking), McGrath became a Communist Party member in the 1930s, a …
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Henry Fielding : literary and theological misplacement
… zones such as epistemology, ethics, mimesis, canonicity, and revelation are investigated. The result of this analysis is that, in all these areas, the novel form, in Fielding’s hands, displays a powerful comic resonance with a theology which seeks to move beyond a strictly deterministic …
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Information sharing among ideal agents
… in this spectrum are proven complete by standard canonicity proofs. We conjecture that these two remaining logics are not canonical and it is an open problem whether or not they are complete. Third, following a influential position paper by Halpern and Moses, the idea of refining and checking of …
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Knowledge sharing among ideal agents
… in this spectrum are proven complete by standard canonicity proofs. We conjecture that these two remaining logics are not canonical and it is an open problem whether or not they are complete. Third, following a influential position paper by Halpern and Moses, the idea of refining and checking of …
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Processing of non-canonical word orders in an L2
… non-canonical word order depends on how the non-canonicity is signaled (case marking vs. surface word order), on the constituents involved (identical vs. different word types), and on the impact of the word order change on sentence meaning. Non-canonical word orders that are signaled by …
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The Adaptive Contexts of Videogame Adaptations and Franchises across Media
Videogame adaptations have been a staple of cinema and television since the 1980s and have had a consistent presence despite receiving overwhelmingly negative reactions. Recognising the perseverance of videogame adaptations, I examine some of the key issues and debates surrounding the genre with …
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Connecting input to comprehension: First language acquisition of active transitives and suffixal passives by Korean-speaking preschool children
… in general were extremely rare, regardless of canonicity. (2) Of the three passive types found in Korean—suffixal (p. 3, (5)), lexical (p. 3, (6)), and paraphrastic (p. 4, (7)), the suffixal passive was the most frequent of all instances of the passive (with or without argument / case marking …
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The Wound and the Show: Representations of Eccentricity in Sterne, Wordsworth, Lamb, and Dickens
… non-development. Sterne, a writer who troubles canonicity, forms a kind of backdrop to my thesis, fostering a legacy in the differently experimental forms which come afterwards. In the case of Sterne, I focus on nostalgia, as a term often used to detract from the value of a literary work, or to …
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The media assemblage: the twentieth-century novel in dialogue with film, television, and new media
… blockbuster, or academic discussions about canonicity. These disparate forces that make up an assemblage are in constant flux as new participants in the assemblage destabilize old relationships and create new ones. Through the use of assemblage theory I am able to look at both the material …
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Versions of America: Reading American Literature for Identity and Difference
My paper examines how American authors of the South Asian Diaspora (Indian-American or South Asian American) can be read 1) as simply American and 2) without regard to ethnicity. I develop this argument using American authors Jhumpa Lahiri, a first generation American of Bengali-Indian descent, and …