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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"literary heritage"”.
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Georgia's Literary Heritage: An Illustrated Literary Map of Georgia
… of this project was to design and produce a literary map of Georgia that would be of instructional use to English teachers in secondary schools. The illustrated map depicts the setting of major works which are placed in Georgia. Locations within the state relevant to the lives of various …
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Allegory in the Major Fiction of Frank Norris
… seems to be much more in tune with the romantic literary heritage of America than he is with the Zolaesque naturalism he imported from France. Through a study of these allegorical tendencies in the major fiction of Frank Norris, the reader discovers the strong links that Norris has with his …
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The Literary Heritagescape: Translating Literary Settings into Heritage Sites
… examines the particular nature of setting-based literary heritage sites. These sites are in a unique position because of their connection to fiction. Three case studies are used to represent a range of setting-based literary heritage sites: Ashdown Forest, The Sherlock Holmes Museum, and Green …
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The Prose Style of John Dryden: Antecedents and Effects
… a knowledge and understanding of his literary heritage and environment. For Dryden not only helped produce his own age hut was produced by it, and by the forces that made it what it was. Moreover, Dryden threw his shadow over the future, and his prose has been a strong and vital …
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Identifying as author: exploring the pedagogical basis for assisting diverse students to discover their identities through creatively defined literacy narratives
… for students to more easily identify with a literary heritage and identify themselves as authors whose literacy-related experiences have something significant to add to the academic conversation. The chapters present a review of literature, introduce methods and processes for teaching a …
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Outfacing history: the artistic influences of W. B. Yeats and others on Seamus Heaney's Noughties poetry
… addition, Heaney engages with a number of other literary figures in his career as poet and critic, such as Virgil, Ted Hughes, Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, Patrick Kavanagh, and Philip Larkin. As they appear in the collections examined, the impact of these figures on the central …
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Melville's England
… and lined with strange houses". When in literary trouble, Melville rebounded by employing the earliest furnishings of his imagination, using England as his setting and his theme. In his examination of the political, economic, and above all cultural ties between Britain and the United …
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Deep freeze : the social and musical impact of the I{u00F0}unn Society on the Icelandic r{u00ED}mur tradition
… Rimur are regarded as part of Iceland's literary heritage, documented in written manuscripts with the oldest one dating from around 1380. Historically, rimur were performed by one person using her, or his, own melodies. The melodies were orally transmitted and would change according to …
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Deep freeze : the social and musical impact of the I{u00F0}unn Society on the Icelandic r{u00ED}mur tradition
… Rimur are regarded as part of Iceland's literary heritage, documented in written manuscripts with the oldest one dating from around 1380. Historically, rimur were performed by one person using her, or his, own melodies. The melodies were orally transmitted and would change according to …
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Analyzing the Depiction of Women in Iranian Post-Revolutionary Film Adaptations
… intricacies of adapting non-Iranian literary texts in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema, focusing on the shifting representations of female characters. Drawing on a tripartite critical approach encompassing feminist theory (Beauvoir, Butler), cultural discourse (Hall, Foucault) and …
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Making the Past: The Concepts of Literary History and Literary Tradition in the Works of Thomas Gray
This study explores Thomas Gray’s concepts of literary history, tradition, and the past. It proffers critical examinations of Gray’s literary and historical thoughts, illustrating the extent of the complexity of the mid‐century cultural and intellectual climate in which Gray and his contemporaries …
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Wallace Stegner's Wolf Willow and 1960s Critical Essays: Renarrativizing Western American Literature for the West and for America
… a West constructed by Eastern publishers and literary critics who diminished western American literature to local color writing. In Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier (1962), Stegner uses fiction, history, and memoir to engage the mythic West's silencing …
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Discovering Border Crossings in Pagan Epic Literature
… <p>Border crossings remain important for modern literary scholars to consider because they have not vanished. Although they are perceived differently, the concepts remain an integral part of our literary heritage. Analysis which implements border crossing themes explored in this work enables …
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Wallace Stevens' parodies of the order of paradise
… especially T. S. Eliot, who treats the literary heritage with reverence rather than contempt. In the poems written during World War II, Stevens, often accused by critics of political naiveté, develops the metaphor of the poet’s war with his environment as analogue to the soldier’s battle …
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La patria perdida o imaginada: translating teodoro torres in "el mexico de afuera"
… result of the Recovery of the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project has been the "rediscovery" of the novel La patria perdida (1935), written by acclaimed Mexican journalist Teodoro Torres while in exile in the United States. This novel is a kind of Mexican-American Horacio Algiers tale, …
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Culture and identity in Scottish children's fiction
… in giving access to and highlighting Scotland’s literary heritage. It became all the more important then to recognise the existence of a corpus of work that is recognisable as Scottish Children’s Literature existing separately from but complementary to English Children’s literature and which …
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O património oral nas práticas educativas do PLNM em Timor-Leste
O presente trabalho propõe-se descrever e analisar a influência da literatura oral tradicional timorense nas atividades pedagógicas. Esta temática surgiu da experiência enquanto professora da Língua Portuguesa em Timor-Leste, contexto em que assume o estatuto de língua oficial, juntamente com o …