Browsing by Subject "Literature, English."
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The biblical element in Donne's poems of sacred and profane love /
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"Can the sensational be elevated by art?" :
(1997)Since few scholars are acquainted with Braddon, I spend Chapter 1 recounting her background and the works of previous scholars about her. Chapter 2 delves into the serialized mode of production in order to contextualize ... -
Contextualizing Byron's homographic signature: Explorations of his other self and voice.
(2001)The redefinition of the sodomite in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century discourses on sexuality produced a new sexual subjectivity in England. The sodomite became a more visible figure in the eighteenth century, but in ... -
'Daughter of Zion': Elizabeth I and the relationship of virginity to monarchical power.
(2000)The argument of the dissertation involves the meanings of virginity and the representations of Elizabeth I during her reign and in the century after her death. Elizabeth has long been associated with the term "Virgin Queen, ... -
D√♭pages utopiques :
(2001)Afin de creer cet espace neutre dans lequel chacun des deux auteurs s'adressera au probleme designe, More et Montaigne entament un processus dialectique que j'appelle dans le troisieme chapitre "speculation utopique." Une ... -
$elling $hakespeare: Cultural literacy/cultural capital .
(2000)The Shakespeare Industry is the meeting of the institutionalized Shakespeare with the forces of capitalism. The business of selling the works and name of the playwright is a centuries-old practice of which Shakespearean ... -
The Faerie Queene and the Greek romance.
(1981)In the legend of Courtesie, however, Greek romance is not simply a source of fictional material for allegory, but an enlivening influence on Spenser's art of romance. Here Spenser attempts an elaborate re-creation of the ... -
From ambivalence to acquiescence :
(1981)A novelist's success depends a great deal on the reader's memory. Although a work of fiction must tell its own story, the use of structural patterns and devices found in previous and contemporary works can be used by a ... -
The function of humor in the works of John Milton /
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A genealogy of eccentricity.
(1998)Finally, in the Victorian era, the eccentric lost yet more cultural power and even began to disappear. Eccentricity was idealized by many, but this only made the eccentric seem a mere (and foolish) idealist. Additionally, ... -
Hamlet in the cinema :
(2007)Realizing that films are a different medium than stage productions, this examination of the films of Laurence Olivier (1948), Tony Richardson (1969), Franco Zeffirelli(1990), Kenneth Branagh (1996), and Michael Almereyda ... -
Holy terror: The vampire as numinous experience in British and American literature.
(2000)This dissertation investigates the experience of the numinous in a specific category of Gothic literature, which employs a vampire as the primary focus of its action, regardless of whether that figure is literal or metaphoric. ... -
The influence of the art of mediation on Sir Thomas Browne's imagination.
(1980)The art of meditation allows Browne the freedom to construct the enigmatic persona, the "I" which is immersed in subjective consideration of the mysteries of life and the "I" which contemplates these mysteries with objective ... -
Jane Austen, Henry James, and the family romance.
(1980)Both authors' closest attachments were to parents, brothers and sisters, and their work focuses largely on family relationships. They also share a preference for one particular story, the Cinderella fairy tale. In Pride ... -
The literary mark: Linguistic oppositions and literary analysis.
(2000)This study uses the linguistic concept of markedness as a method for analyzing literature. Because markedness is rarely used when examining literature, I spend the first part of the work explaining the concept and how it ... -
“The Lord That Counseled Thee to Give Away thy Land”: The Wardship Controversy in the First Quarto Version of King Lear
(2019)This thesis argues that the 1608 First Quarto (Q) version of William Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear responds to then-ongoing popular agitation in England against the institution of wardship. Q implicitly affirms routinely-made ... -
The Materiality of Disability in Animal’s People
(2019-05)Metaphors are useful tools for understanding large, complicated issues, but they are inherently limiting. Particularly in a disability context, the application of metaphor relegates the material differences of a disabled ... -
The mirror speaks: The female voice in medieval dialogue poetry and drama.
(1998)I argue that medieval literature, despite its overt emphasis on male sensibility and subjectivity, is permeated with the influence of the feminine. Through dialogue exchanges between male and female characters, identity ... -
Naming the violence: Women's domestic violence narratives.
(1998)Long before our twentieth-century, psycho-socio-political understanding of domestic violence, women wrote about this form of oppression in their letters, diaries, journals, essays, novels, poetry, and tracts. These highly ...