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Milton and romance: vernacular romance and chivalric traditions in Paradise Lost
The thesis examines Milton's strategic use of romance in Paradise Lost, arguing that such a handling of romance is a provocative realignment of its values according to the poet’s Christian focus. The thesis argues that Milton's use of romance is not simply the importation of a tradition into the …
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Reflexes of Finiteness in Romance
… investigates the concept of finiteness across Romance, a theoretical notion very frequently used within linguistics although still poorly understood (Ledgeway 2007:335). Various Romance verb forms and clauses which are not readily classifiable as either finite or non-finite are examined, such …
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Madness in Medieval Art and Romance
Many medieval chivalric romances contain an episode in which the hero goes insane, lives wild in the woods, gets better, and resumes his adventures. Most studies of such episodes have focused on ways that literature reflects medical and theological topics, but this study explores ways that literary …
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"""Cymbeline"" and the romance of mortality"
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Eolian morphosyntax: A comparative Romance perspective
… characteristics of the southern Italo-Romance variety of Eolian, spoken in the archipelago of the Eolian Islands. Its recent origin and hybrid-style grammar, described in previous studies, leads to an exploration of its morphosyntactic similarities to the two macro-groups of southern …
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Popular romance and the woman reader
'Popular Romance and the Woman Reader' is divided into three parts. The first is an analysis of theories of reading, of the woman reader and of how we read popular texts. The first section discusses women readers and popular romance in a Western context, with special reference to an American study …
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The Continuance of Romance in American Fiction
… recognize an important tradition of American romance in the nineteenth century, yet they pay little if any serious attention to the continuing tradition of romance in the literature of this century.
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Us: Identity, Queer Romance, and Dramatic Writing
The following dramatic text and artist statement examine the process of developing, writing, and editing Us. It explores themes of identity, generationality, and self-definition, and the stakes of representing such complex themes onstage.
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The Lyric Moment in Pre-Romance Verse
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Aspects of complex predicate formation in Romance
This thesis studies the Romance complex predicate structures formed by Modal and Aspectual (MA) and Causative verbs. The claim made in this thesis is that the composition of infinitival Infl(exion) in the Romance Null Subject Languages (NSL's) is (-Tense,+Agr). The presence of Agr in infinitival …
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Cycles of agreement: Romance clitics in diachrony
… I investigate two linguistic cycles in Romance per van Gelderen’s (2011) framework: the Subject Agreement Cycle (SAC) and the Object Agreement Cycle (OAC). These grammaticalization cycles turn pronouns into agreement morphology on the verb. Both cycles are comprised of three stages. At …
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Founding Women in Medieval French Prose Romance
… ‘Founding Women in Medieval French Prose Romance’ analyses the important role given to foundresses in the fictional works of 13th and 14th century romanciers. The study of three genealogical texts – Jean d’Arras’ Roman de Mélusine, the prehistory of the Tristan en Prose, and the Roman de …
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Morphology after syntax--pronominal clitics in romance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1991.
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Cruel Sorority, Or, Feminizing Enjoyment in American Romance
… Sorority, or, Feminizing Enjoyment in American Romance" analyzes the often-overlooked anti-social figures and affects found on the margins of American Romanticism. Symptomatically registering dissatisfaction and rage at the foreclosure of democratic possibility and public life, these feminized …
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