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Forsberg, Laura. "The Miniature and Victorian Literature." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:23845467.

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The Victorian period is famously characterized by its massiveness, with the vast extent of the British Empire, the enormous size of the nineteenth-century city and the massive scale of the three-volume novel. Yet the Victorians were fascinated with miniature objects, which seemed in their small scale to belong to another world. Each miniature object prompted a unique imaginative fantasy of intimacy (the miniature painting), control (the toy), wonder (the microscope and the fairy) or knowledge (the miniature book). In each case, the miniature posited the possibility of reality with a difference

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Giannachi, Gabriella. "Silence in modern European drama." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388413.

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Saxen, Aura. "Becoming Citizens : Representations of Citizenship in European Children's Literature." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-361205.

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This thesis examines the representations of citizenship in award-winning children's novels from Finland, France, Sweden and the UK to analyse how the effects of recent cultural and economic developments affecting European societies are described and explored in children's literature. In recent years, both the EU and the nation-state have seemed to be in a state of crisis. I hypothesise that increased cultural and ethnic diversity, new alternative arenas of citizenship and economic scarcity are currently driving the crises and changes in European states, and each of these developments influence

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Spiga, Giordano. "European newspaper reviewing of African literature in the 1980s." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1993. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29284/.

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This piece of research aims at analysing newspaper reviews of African literature in four European countries (Great Britain, France, Spain and Italy) in the 1980s. It also aims at demonstrating that the figure of the so-called 'committed' reviewer still exists. The survey is based on a body of approximately 300 reviews taken from 14 newspapers. Some of the papers represent the main national dailies; others may be regarded as representative of different ideological stances. In order to deal with as many aspects as possible of newspaper criticism, the thesis is divided into three parts, in which

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Panaou, Petros Coats Karen. "Complex crossings European picture books and the construct of child-ness in national, European, and global contexts /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1417799091&SrchMode=1&sid=6&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1205257790&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2007.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed on March 11, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Karen Coats (chair), Jan Susina, Christopher Breu. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 289-303) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Plapp, Laurel A. "The Orient in Europe : Zionism and revolution in European-Jewish literature /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3170245.

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Law, John Donald. "Managing design in a Single European Market." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360096.

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Reynolds, Matthew Osmund Royle. "English poetry and European nationalism, 1830-1870." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364175.

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Anistratenko, A. V. "Alternative history subgenres in American and European literature: comparison analysis." Thesis, БДМУ, 2020. http://dspace.bsmu.edu.ua:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/18267.

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Mild, Matthew. "The metousiastics of culture : European relativism in literature and cinema." Thesis, Bangor University, 2015. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-metousiastics-of-culture--european-relativism-in-literature-and-cinema(09f8946e-9da2-4d34-bdd2-8432c5fd6da5).html.

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This inquiry examines the connection of relativism with cultural identity in contemporary European films and novels. The focus is on representations of marginal bodies challenging essentialist understandings of cultural identity, called metousi-astic. The method is semiotic and discourse analysis of literary and visual texts from a poststructuralist theoretical stance. The main texts are twelve novels and twelve films, chosen for the purpose of a cohesive discussion about four main thematic and stylistic features. Although this project started off from German and Italian works at the geo-histo

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Belcher, Wendy Laura. "Discursive possession Ethiopian discourse in medieval European and eighteenth-century English literature /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1619156921&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Hetrick, Kristen M. "Writing Illness: Tuberculosis and Cancer in European and North American Literature." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1330698557.

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Kohen, Robert Dean. "Dreaming Empire: European Writers in the Fascist Era." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11405.

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This dissertation explores how literary writers from across Western and Central Europe--namely Germany, Italy, Britain and France--invoked Europe's legacy of empire and colonialism in their attempt to come to terms with the specter of fascism. It argues that empire became the site upon which a wide range of writers built their critiques, sometimes overt and other times subvert, against a rising tide of fascist ideology in the 1930s and 1940s. What results is a condemningly critical--and in the case of writers publishing within fascist regimes, outright subversive--reading of fascism. Fascist r

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Simon, John Ivan. "The prose poem as a genre in nineteenth-century European literature /." New York ; London : Garland, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35461203t.

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Bucciarelli, Melania. "Italian opera and European theatre, 1680-1720 : plots, performers, dramaturgies." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1998. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/italian-opera-and-european-theatre-16801720--plots-performers-dramaturgies(c1235462-b549-497d-aff7-34b0658ea912).html.

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May, Alison. "Joseph Roth : mediator between Eastern European Jewry and the West." Thesis, Keele University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301322.

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Wilson, Charles Adrian. "Pitch spaces and their transformation in European music since 1945." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300669.

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Grant, Morag Josephine. "Redefining 'die Reihe' : information on European serial music, 1955-1962." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322306.

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TOBIASZ, Aleksandra Helena. "Central European literary escapes from history : Vladimir Bartol, Witold Gombrowicz, Sándor Márai." Doctoral thesis, European University Institute, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/74597.

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Defence date: 10 June 2022<br>Examining Board: Prof. Pavel Kolář (European University Institute/ Universität Konstanz, Supervisor); Prof. Alexander Etkind (European University Institute, Supervisor); Prof. Paweł Rodak (Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw, External Supervisor); Prof. Simona Škrabec, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (External Supervisor)<br>The dissertation titled “Central European Literary ‘Escapes’ from History (Vladimir Bartol, Witold Gombrowicz, Sándor Márai)” is an outcome of the interdisciplinary research project conducted at the crossroads of literary studies

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Seyranov, Khamis. "Literature review on Precedent law of the European Court on Human Rights." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22785.

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This review is an attempt to analyze the published materials on precedent law of the European Court on Human Rights. The article analyzes the case law activity by the European Court on Human Rights, its influences on national legal systems. The precedent law of the European Court on Human Rights is one of the complicated issues, because there is not general theoretical view on it. The precedent law of the Court is developing and gains new features. The Court uses its previous consequences in previous decisions on a subsequent case as a precedent norm. The Court creates a case law system that i

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Rogic, Romana. "Perception of inclusion in preschools : European teacher's perspective - A scoping literature review." Thesis, Hälsohögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, HHJ. CHILD, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-47318.

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Background: Inclusion is a term that stands for fully including untypically developed chil- dren in regular educational setting. It should be implemented in all of the present educa- tional settings. However, the definition of inclusion and the way of implementing it differs from countries and cultures, which makes it a problem for having a united view on it. More- over, there are different factors that can occur and have an impact of understanding the term. Aim: The aim of this study is to review the existing literature on the perception of inclu- siveness and the term ˝inclusion˝ from presch

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Di, Cocco Silvia Amalia <1994&gt. "A Comparative Study of European Decadent Literature: Pater, Huysmans, Wilde, and d’Annunzio." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18104.

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This thesis focuses on the different outcomes of the decadent movement through a comparative study of some of the most representative authors of fin de siècle Europe, namely Walter Pater, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Oscar Wilde, and Gabriele d’Annunzio. To begin with, I briefly outline the European cultural and literary framework from the beginning of the 19th century to the first decades of the 20thcentury in order to provide a comprehensive background in which the fictional works of the aforementioned writers developed and influenced one other. Secondly, I analyse “Marius the Epicurean” and “Imagin

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Hilliker, Robert. "Customary practice : the colonial transformation of European concepts of collective identity, 1580-1724." View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3318328.

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Baldridge, Kalyn Rochelle. "L'auguste Autrichienne| Representations of Marieantoinette in 19th Century French Literature and History." Thesis, University of Missouri - Columbia, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10629008.

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<p> Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna, or as she is most well-known, Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) spent her entire life under the watchful eye of many. Fashioned from birth as an Austrian aristocrat, she was transported to France at age fourteen to meet and marry the future king of France. From the onset of her arrival, French writers made attempts to capture what they observed. However, personal bias, political leanings, and accepted rumor led them to do more than record what they saw. Rather than simply narrate a scene, these early witnesses of Marie-Antoinette became the interpreters of her thou

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Hill, Christine A. "Authoring resistance to power| Jane Austen and Michel Foucault." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1566290.

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<p> Using Michel Foucault's knowledge/power dynamic I demonstrate the ways in which Jane Austen examines the socially constructed nature of truth in her last three novels. In <i>Persuasion</i> competing ideas of power are represented by Captain Wentworth and Sir Walter Elliot, positing the idea that a society based on hierarchy is antiquated as economic, political and social configurations within England change. The detrimental effects of the marriage myth are revealed in <i>Mansfield Park</i>, as the social and sexual limitations of women are seen through the parallel stories of the Ward si

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Vespignani, Cesare. "El discurso de la guerra y la formación del estado : tratados políticos y noticias de soldados en España e Italia en los siglos XVI y XVII /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3095282.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-226). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Hood, Robin Elizabeth. "Protagonist moral development in children’s translated European war novels." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25423.

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This study evaluated moral dilemmas and Lawrence Kohlberg's (1975) stages of moral reasoning of protagonists in a sample of children's translated European war novels. The sample, consisting of fourteen books, was defined as all children's European war novels published between 1950 and 1984. The content analysis first determined the moral dilemmas in each of the novels by identifying those story situations where two or more moral issues were in conflict. A second procedure evaluated the protagonists' response to the dilemma, making possible the assignment of a Kohlberg level and stage of moral

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Hoskyns, Janet Mary. "Music education and a European Dimension : #A la recherche de l'Europe perdue......'." Thesis, University of York, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336588.

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Tebbs, Charles. "The art of ending : closure in European instrumental music c.1900-1970." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270687.

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Lee, Young-Zun. "D.H. Lawrence and the European avant-garde : the significance of Dionysian art." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1997. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU093207.

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Lawrence's modern novels are related not so much to the native English tradition as to the wider context of avant-garde movements like Futurism, Expressionism and Surrealism. This thesis investigates the 'unusual' creativity of Lawrence's novels by measuring them against central ideas of avant-garde artists, in particular, Wassily Kandinsky and Antonin Artaud. Lawrence, Kandinsky and Artaud shared a considerable amount of common ground; they all were influenced by Nietzschean ideas. Their innovative arts set out to look for ways of releasing the unconscious, instinctual, 'transrational' or 'li

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Partridge, Henry Charles. "Blessed are the forgetful : aspects of forgetting in modern European philosophy and literature." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430814.

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This thesis challenges the received idea that forgetting is simply an assault on memory. Instead of narrowly identifying forgetting with memory loss, retrieval failure, and the obliteration of the past, this thesis considers the active role of forgetting in maintaining the health of memory and the mind in general. After examining recent literary, phenomenological, and psychological accounts of forgetting, the thesis considers positive approaches to forgetting in the works of Sebald, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, and Kant. Rather than attacking memory, Heidegger argues that forgetting actuall

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Chattopadhyay, Sayan. "Foreign selves : Indian self-fashioning as European and twentieth-century Indian English literature." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648897.

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Rolland, Nina. "Bodies in composition : women, music, and the body in nineteenth-century European literature." Thesis, University of Kent, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA041.

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Notre recherche vise à étudier les relations entre musique et littérature au XIXe siècle à travers la figure de la musicienne et plus particulièrement à travers son corps. Le corps féminin apparaît comme un riche point de rencontre entre musique et littérature, facilitant d’une part la référence musicale dans les textes et créant d’autre part un système musico-narratif complexe ancré dans les discours socio-culturels du XIXe siècle. L’étude de textes canoniques de la littérature européenne nous permet d’envisager les musiciennes au sens large (compositrices, interprètes, prima donna et même au

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Buzard, James. "The beaten track : European tourism, literature, and the ways to culture, 1800-1918 /." Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb366692486.

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D'Angelo, A. G. W. "Malory's work in the light of his times." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18872.

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My examination of Malory's work in the light of his times falls into a number of sections which examine his portrayal of government, society, love, religion and chivalry. I have at tempted to identify in each both Malory's own perceptions and those of his society and to show the links between them. I have also considered the proportions of realism and idealism in his work, where appropriate, as well as the accuracy of the physical picture which Malory's work gives of his times. To some extent my choice of topic has been prompted by a desire to justify, though certainly not to apologise for, th

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Saha, Anita Jean. "Modernist Meanings in the European Renovation of Commedia dell'Arte Drama." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397487798.

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Hayward, Helen. "Hysterical relations : a comparative study in selected nineteenth-century European narratives." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1995. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1465.

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This study of hysteria is indebted to Freud, and it is equally indebted to certain authors who came before him: Balzac, Charlotte Brontë, Tolstoy, George Eliot, and Florence Nightingale. As particular works of these authors show, the hysteric was a touchstone in cultural and scientific research due to her exemplification, in striking ways, of unconscious internal forces. The interconnectedness of social and psychological issues in the work of Balzac in the 1830s and George Eliot in the 1870s is highlighted, with attention to the degree that all the authors treated inflect Freud's exploration o

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Morse, Ainsley. "Detki v kletke: The Childlike Aesthetic in Soviet Children's Literature and Unofficial Poetry." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493521.

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Since its inception in 1918, Soviet children’s literature was acclaimed as innovative and exciting, often in contrast to other official Soviet literary production. Indeed, avant-garde artists worked in this genre for the entire Soviet period, although they had fallen out of official favor by the 1930s. This dissertation explores the relationship between the childlike aesthetic as expressed in Soviet children’s literature, the early Russian avant-garde and later post-war unofficial poetry. Even as ‘childlike’ devices were exploited in different ways in different contexts, in the post-war period

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Chamberlain, Franc. "Embodying the spirit : Nihilism and spiritual renovation in the European theatre (1890-1914)." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.317568.

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Harness, Trevor Francis. "Ramon Perez de Ayala and European modernism : a comparative approach to the novels." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388604.

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Galbraith, Jeffrey R. ""So long as I am a patient sufferer" passive obedience, partisan literature, and drama in later Stuart England /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3386678.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of English, 2009.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 15, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4687. Advisers: Janet Sorensen; Richard Nash.

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Mills, Andrew Joseph. "Escaping satisfaktion dueling violence and the German literary canon of the long 19th century /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3378372.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Germanic Studies, 2009.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 7, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-10, Section: A, page: 3870. Adviser: William Rasch.

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Allan, Robert Mumby. "Walt Disney and Europe : European influence on the animated feature films of Walt Disney." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335467.

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Smith, Jennifer. "Mysticism as an escape from scientific discourse eluding female subjectivity in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3204287.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2006.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0203. Adviser: Maryellen Bieder. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Dec. 12, 2006)."

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Carlson, Joel. "From Spion Kop to the Somme: Experience of warfare and its imperial context." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27667.

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The First World War caught Europe's military establishments largely unprepared for a conflict that exceeded contemporary expectations of length, scale and advances in technology. The British Army was no exception. The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) may have entered the war as one of the most professional forces in the field, but throughout the war British generalship suffered from a distinct lack of imagination in their attempts at coping with the realities of modern warfare. Indeed, the names of such battles as Loos, Arras, the Somme, and Passchendaele evoke images of tragic and unnecessar

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Hood, David James Sarty. "A place called 'nowhere': Towards an understanding of St Thomas More's 'Utopia'." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28419.

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St. Thomas More's Utopia has been the subject of considerable debate over the past 75 years. It claims to be concerned with the 'best state of a commonwealth', but how is it concerned? It is a strange little book that records a fictional dialogue between More, his friend Peter Giles, and a very impulsive and opinionated traveler named Raphael Hythloday. Hythloday has recently returned from a voyage, and the Utopia is mostly taken up with a detailed account of the bizarre customs, laws, and rituals of a people he encountered in a place called Utopia. Hythloday praises them as the best and wises

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Nemec, Jessica. "Divided Within the Self| The Struggle of Finding Identity in Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10684629.

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<p> Authors often explore the details of identity and body politics through their writing. Czech author Milan Kundera’s novel <i>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</i> deals heavily with the marginalized and oppressed body, considering how such bodies function, how they perceive themselves, how they are perceived by others, and how such bodies are, by nature, a defiance of an established hegemony. The novel considers the exiled body and how such exile can deliver freedom, cause further marginalization, or craft an ambivalent mixture of the two. The oppressed and marginalized body, as unde

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Kim, Bomin. "Recycling History| Early Modern Fasting and Cultural Materialist Awareness in Thomas Middleton." Thesis, New York University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3557008.

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<p> This dissertation explores the possibility of an early modern cultural materialism in selected dramatic works of Thomas Middleton in which fasting plays a prominent thematic role. The once venerable Christian practice of fasting was compartmentalized into secular and religious components in the wake of the Protestant Reformation in England even as its overall practical contour was preserved largely intact. It was subjected to conflicting representations and programs for reform, and appropriated by differing political and ecclesiastical factions. The vicissitudes that beset fasting offered

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Teets, Anthony. "Queen Victoria's Shadows." Thesis, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10133413.

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<p> This dissertation discusses how Victorian writers, artists, and critics represent historical queens as shadows of Queen Victoria throughout her long reign (1837–1901). Focusing on Victorian representations of four queens—Catherine de Medici, Mary Stuart, Queen Elizabeth I, and Marie-Antoinette—this project seeks to establish a literary genealogy by showing how British writers drew upon historical interpretations of dead French and English queens to express psychological ambivalence, political anxiety about female monarchy, national, confessional difference, and complex se

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Tvordi, Jessica Lynn. "Deviant bodies and the reordering of desire: Heterosexuality and nation-building in early modern England." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/279980.

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Deviant Bodies explores how post-Reformation anxieties about institutional politics, civic morality, and national boundaries inform--and are informed by--early modern discourses on sexual deviance. Focusing on works by John Bale, John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, James I, Thomas Carew, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton, my study argues that the disruptive presence of queer desire plays an integral role in shaping the emerging, interrelated discourses of heterosexuality and nationalism in early modern culture. Looking at heterosexuality as a complex structure organizing political and sexual relations, m

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