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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"cross-generic"”.
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Rescripting the political romance: Narratives of kingship, tyranny and community
… participation in this discourse these romances cross generic boundaries, interacting with textual traditions (including historiography, hagiography, folk tale, and the literature of complaint), inscribing ideologies contesting romance's world-view. This study attempts to trace the ideological …
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Re-working Novelistic Sentiment: Barbauld, Smith, Edgeworth, and the Politics of Children's Fiction
… together. I argue that studying these authors' cross-generic works using a comparative approach reveals the ways in which novels and children's books have informed and influenced each other, both in their reciprocal developments and as distinct genres. I further argue that even as the juvenile …
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Supernatural Visitation in Medieval Literature
… (or Visited), represents a highly widespread and cross-generic literary motif throughout the Late Middle Ages. Although previous studies have considered the cultural origins, taxonomic limitations and contextual import of select supernatural beings - e.g. angels, fairies, demons and revenants - in …
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The medi(atis)ation of the slave experience: a journey from page to screen
… this interdisciplinary project explores the cross-generic development of nineteenth-century slave narratives into their contemporary cinematic iterations. Continuities and changes in the (self-) representation of African Americans are interrogated in two specific cinematic slave narratives: …
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An investigation into attitudes towards illegitimate birth as evidenced in the folklore of South West England
This thesis is a comparative, cross-generic, study of attitudes towards illegitimacy as evidenced in folksong and folk narrative genres. It is a regionally based study, focusing specifically on oral materials collected from the counties of Devon, Cornwall and Somerset, in the South West of England …