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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"epigraphs"”.
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Grotesque Evolutions
… is divided into three sections set off by epigraphs (take note that these do not represent the three themes mentioned above). The first takes on more of a naive, anxious tone, the second presents the beginnings of revelation and growth, and the third deals ultimately with some form of …
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Intertextual abolitionists: Frederick Douglass, Lord Byron, and the print, politics, and language of slavery
… between Douglass' and Byron's work found in the epigraphs to the novella. These links offered Douglass a means of harnessing past conversations on slavery. Douglass' ability to access these communicative environments is made possible due to the intertextual nature of literature. Through the use …
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Reading the Transatlantic Gothic Fiction of Walter Scott and Edgar Allan Poe
… about publishing histories, peritexts such as epigraphs and footnotes, the grotesque as a literary aesthetic, and the politics that surround these issues. Each chapter engages with scholarly research on the specified subject and views Scott and Poe’s engagement with the subject from a …
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The First Pontiff: Pope Damasus I and the Expansion of the Roman Primacy
… writings of Damasus himself, particularly his epigraphs, as well as epistolary correspondence. A key component of the research was also comparison and contrast of a number of historical narratives of the pontificate of Damasus. Other primary sources included works, primarily epistolary, of a …
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a people blessed, a land teeming
… of the poetic tools of lineation, white space, epigraphs, and the unique visual/textual intersection of poetry in constructing a cohesive collection. Inspiration for a variety of creative decisions sprang from the works of Julianna Baggott, Jan Beatty, Cathy Smith Bowers, Eduardo Corral, Emily …
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Snow and window: archetypes of imagination
… briefly, or linked to the main texts through epigraphs. Contemplation of snow through a window is the central theme of the focused texts. Snowflakes falling on the window pane allegorically represent words on the page, and the observation of this process is a metaphor for the ongoing creative …
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Black Lake
… grounded perspective through the use of epigraphs, storytelling, and explorations of grief and guilt. I openly address the meaning of the word maybe in the wake of a suicide. I ask questions. I address my father directly yet also pan out into a reflection on Karen Green’s Bough Down, a …