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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"heroes and heroines"”.
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Thomas Hardy's Tragic Heroes and Heroines
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Re-Defining C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman: Conventional and Progressive Heroes and Heroines in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, and The Golden Compass
C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman are two very popular authors of British Children's Fantasy. Their books The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and The Golden Compass straddle the period of writing that Karen Patricia Smith calls the Dynamic Stage of British Fantasy: from 1950 to the present. Both of …
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"Character Types In Sir Philip Sidney's ""new Arcadia"" And In Italian Romance Epic"
… develops them in the manner of the moralist and anticipating the novelist, focusing not on action itself, but on the moral significance of the action and thus on the characters' inner lives. Consequently, the heroes and heroines of Sidney are more virtuous and more conscious of the necessity …
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Twenty-Four-Hour Woman
… for Sale" sets the stage for this very feminine and colloquial laced collection of verse. Both figuratively and literally, the voices of a seldom-traveled African-American culture are depicted through these songs. In this thesis, I consider myself a GRIOT, sworn to tell nothing but the truth. …
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Free to be: North Korean migrants and the South Korean evangelical church
… celebrated North Korean defectors as national heroes and heroines, today it is only the evangelical church that invites them to criticize the North. I argue that North Korean migrants’ conversion to Christianity is a cultural project with considerable political and ideological hues that reveals …
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Identification of liberation heritage sites at Lamontville and its linkage to the KwaZulu-Natal Liberation Heritage Route
… is an introductory part where the establishment and historical background of Lamontville is discussed. It is the general introduction of the research topic where the following topics form part of the research proposal. These include: introduction, statement of research problem, purpose of the …
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Theocratic governance and the divergent Catholic cultural groups in the USA
… organization, governs the widespread and divergent Catholic cultural groups in the United States. The purposes of this research were (a) to examine the nature of the ecclesiastical governance structure in the Vatican, (b) to explore the nature of the American Catholic cultural …
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Idealism in the novels of Sinclair Lewis.
… (from Main Street to The Man Who Knew Coolidge), and the period of the old Lewis (from Dodsworth to World So Wide). The five novels of the early period perhaps represent the high point of Lewis's romanticism. The protagonists, with the exception of Hawk Ericson (The Trail of the Hawk), remain …
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The historical novels of Jessie Joyce Gwayi
… on her domestic position, her present occupation and her state of health. It is her state of health that has made it impossible for her to undertake any further literary work. This has been the worst drawback to the budding Zulu historical novelist. Here also a few writers of various Zulu books …
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"This strange operation of love" : a unified reading of Sidney's Arcadia.
… issue is the 1593 composite text, amalgamated and edited by the author's sister, the Countess of Pembroke. Some critics blast the Countess for her "meddling," while others praise, or at least endorse, the Countess's work. I believe that in the 1593 form, Sidney's didactic message and purpose …
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Sweet disaster: development of Shakespearean tragicomedy
… Measure</em>. The two plays, thick with moral and intellectual issues, defy facile interpretation and often tempt readers into formulating one-sided arguments which leave far too many questions unanswered, aspects unexplored. Critics agree on only two points: the plays resist easy …