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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 ...
Scripture, Sects, and Shakespeare: Rupture and Reconciliation on the Early Modern Stage
(2019-05-02)
Scripture, Sects, and Shakespeare: Rupture and Reconciliation on the Early Modern Stage explores how Shakespearean drama is shaped by and responds to the Protestant Reformation's crisis of hermeneutical authority. With the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Resisting madness: Women's negotiation of social control in early modern English literature.
(2000)
The first chapter deals with studies of madness and gender, referring to Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy as well as Erik Midelfort's and Michael MacDonald's analyses of mental illness during the Renaissance. This ...
The Pursuit of Privacy in Medieval Landscapes
(2015-05-08)
The Pursuit of Privacy in Medieval Landscapes identifies the ways in which individual pursuits of privacy in the medieval world are shaped by the landscapes in which those pursuits occur. There is a correlation between the ...
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 ...
$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 ...