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Female Types in Literary History
… study. Four widely separated periods in the history of literature were selected, and an attempt was made to show that the flesh-and-blood woman of each period found her counterpart in the realm of drama. In each case the type of woman portrayed was determined by all the moral, political, and …
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Lithuanian literary history: a theoretical study of writings /
… to rethink newly the beginning of Lithuanian Literary History writings from the first historiography narrative episodes in the 19th century and the first amateur and professional literary history attempts in the first half of the 20th century. The research covers all forms of Lithuanian …
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The method of literary history by Gustave Lanson
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1929.
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A Literary History of Early Trans Poetry: Readings, Poetics, Transitions, Obstacles, Movements
<p>This dissertation, "A Literary History of Early Trans Poetry: Readings, Poetics, Transitions, Obstacles, Movements," creates an interdisciplinary subfield where I use aspects of trans history and trans cultural production to uncover and document the centrality of contributions by trans poets to …
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Poetry and Prayer: Stotras in the Religious and Literary History of Kashmir
… poetry and prayer in South Asia by studying the history of Sanskrit hymns of praise (stotras) in Kashmir. It offers a broad introduction to the history and general features of the stotra genre, and it charts the course of these literary hymns in Kashmir from the ninth century to the present. …
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'Fun' and Its Contributors: The Literary History of a Victorian Humor Magazine
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:52:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6101636.pdf: 19502686 bytes, checksum: 02d599cb1cd3274193ea4c975a81dd4f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1961
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Proving Genre: Robin Hood in the Literary History of Medieval English Romance through 1600
This dissertation revises the literary history of the pre-1600 narrative Robin Hood tradition by linking it to the contemporary literary history of medieval English romance.The introduction and second chapter establish that Robin Hood and romance have generally been considered distinct traditions, …
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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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A "new literary history" of modern poetry: history and deconstruction in the works of Whitman, Stevens, and Olson
<p>The literary history of Modern and Postmodern poetry needs to be rewritten because much of this poetry throws into doubt the very language which critics normally use to write such histories. Furthermore, Modern poetry provides a more adequate, because less rigid, sense of poetic “tradition” upon …
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Ludvig Holberg's mobile novel Niels Klim's travels underground (1741-1745) : a functionalistic approach to its place in European literary history
… first, Niels Klim is extremely late in European literary history, and as the second, it is unique in the way it plays with the Classical tradition. Thirdly, compared to one of its most commonly acknowledged examples, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Holberg’s text is more fantastical and more …
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Lietuvių literatūros istorija: teorinis rašymų tyrimas /
… to rethink newly the beginning of Lithuanian Literary History writings from the first historiography narrative episodes in the 19th century and the first amateur and professional literary history attempts in the first half of the 20th century. The research covers all forms of Lithuanian …
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Embodying the nation: Post-colonial Irish women's fiction
"Irish literary criticism has long been interested in the politics of literature and its role in decolonizing Irish culture, but it has assumed such a strict separation between public and private that ""women's issues"" have not been considered political topics in Irish literary history and …
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Tactics and Tradition in the Poetry of Thomas McGrath
Thomas McGrath (1916-1990) is the kind of literary figure scholars interested in canon revision dream of finding: an arguably major twentieth-century American poet whose work has gone almost unnoticed by academics, and one whose signature poetic concerns and strategies require research into …
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The prose prefaces of Martial and Statius : a study in literary purpose
… ten short pieces of prose lies in the field of literary history: these are the first extant instances of collections of verse which are headed with pieces of prose, and it is chiefly from this angle that the prefaces are studied. The body of the thesis (Section B) is devoted to a close thematic …
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The Social Views of Ruskin
… Buskin is, assuredly, a problem in the literary history of the I9th century in England. Scoffed at and rejected by the reading public, clamored for and listened to breathlessly by people of intellectual leisure, as well as by students, he stands - a challenge and an appeal - the "Eminent …
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