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A reconsideration of "Christian humanism" in the English Renaissance: Historicizing More, Elyot, and Spenser with a focus on Tudor nationalism.
(1997)
Chapter Two addresses Sir Thomas More as a Catholic humanist, who represents English humanism before the Henrician Reformation and nationalism. Henry's break with Rome gave momentum to the development of Tudor dynastic ...
The unity of Edmund Spenser's Fowre Hymnes.
(1981)
Spenser uses several techniques to achieve this unity in a poem which contains diverse subjects and themes. Its genre, the hymn, incorporates secular and sacred, classical and Christian elements, and thus becomes a very ...
The Old English elegies :
(1981)
The enormous bibliography surrounding the Old English elegies breaks down primarily into studies of structure, cultural context, and genre. This study is concerned first with attempting to define as precisely as possible ...
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 ...
Transporting the subject: The fiction of nationality in an era of transnationalism.
(2004)
My work focuses on the representation of South Asian life in works by four contemporary Anglophone writers: V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Anita Desai. Of course, I also refer to works by other writers, ...
Whose desires are they? The politics of subversion in works by E. M. Forster, Nathalie Sarraute, and Jean Rhys.
(2006)
This dissertation examines the ways in which we read representations of the feminine subject in works that have been deemed complicit in strengthening hierarchies of gender and/or race. Building upon feminist critics' ...
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 ...
On the use of significant words: Mary Wollstonecraft's contribution to the modern rhetorical tradition.
(1999)
This study addresses the absence of female rhetors and theorists from the modern rhetorical tradition as a minor tradition within the western tradition as exemplified within Bizzell and Herzberg's The Rhetorical Tradition ...
Turin and Aragorn: Evading and Embracing Fate
(2011)
Aragorn and Túrin, two of the greatest warriors and most important
protagonists in Tolkien’s legendarium, represent opposing reactions to
destiny, doom, hope, and the forces of fate. Aragorn, descendant of kings,
exhibits ...