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Hooks, Karin L. "Literary Retrospectives: The 1890s and the Reconstruction of American Literary History." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338301078.

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Hardwick, Joseph Brian. "Romans et theses : french "existentialist" fiction, literary history and literary modernism /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16410.pdf.

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Seyed, Farian Sabahi. "The Literacy Corps in Pahlavi Iran (1963-1979) : political, social and literary implications." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343520.

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Snyder, Jane. "Literary Continuities/Imperative Education." W&M ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550153843.

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Literary Continuities: British Books and the Britishness of Their Early American Readers People get their worldview from what they read. in a reading-saturated society such as 18th-century America, the most popular books determined the public consciousness. as such, the origin of these books must be carefully examined. Herein lies the question of whose books and ideas were popularized. According to quantitative analysis of primary evidence gathered from private and public library collections as well as booksellers' advertisements and inventories, the majority of books read in 18th-century Amer

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Greene, Richard Thomas. "Mary Leapor : a problem of literary history." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306589.

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Hawes, Ben. "Yeat's versions of literary history, 1896-1903." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/915a643d-f367-4025-8ab7-fc64cc1f18ab.

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This study examines the critical prose written by William Butler Yeats in the period 1896-1903, and identifies the evolution within it of a mode of literary history. I concentrate on Ideas of Good and Evil, and on the selected edition Poems of Spenser. The introduction examines notions of golden ages and of original fracture, and the insertion of these tropes into a variety of literary histories. I consider some of the aims and problems of literary history as a genre, and the peculiar solutions offered by Yeats's approaches. I give particular attention to Yeats's alternation between two views

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Bondarchuk, Julia. "Ukrainian-English literary dialogue: history, state, prospects." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2021. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/18494.

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Simpson, Nigel. "Post-structuralism and history." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282616.

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Vallis, Gina. "Finding fault : history and the extra-literary novel /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2004. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Bergman, Jenni. "The significant other : a literary history of elves." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2010. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55478/.

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This thesis is an analysis and literary history of the human-sized elf as a Significant Other. It argues that this character is in direct relation to humans while also situated beyond the boundaries of what is human, familiar, and same, and acts as a supernatural double that defines these boundaries. The first chapter relates the origin of the word elf and the creature's characteristics in the Germanic regions of Europe. Chapter 2 discusses similar beings in Celtic sources and the establishment of a realm in which they dwell. The development of Faerie, primarily in French sources, is further e

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Connell, Liam. "Rewriting the nation : nationalist interventions in literary history." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324204.

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Koopman, Jennifer. "Redeeming romanticism : George MacDonald, Percy Shelley, and literary history." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102805.

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This dissertation examines George MacDonald's preoccupation with his literary predecessor Percy Shelley. While eminently Victorian in many ways, MacDonald was equally a late Romantic, who was inspired by the Romantic poets and positioned himself as the heir to their radical tradition. While he channeled their visionary ardor, he also made it his duty to correct what he saw as their flaws. I read MacDonald through the figure of Shelley, with whom MacDonald seems to have personally identified, but to whose atheism MacDonald, a devout believer, objected. MacDonald's fascination with Shelley works

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Rosenquist, Rodney. "The modernist latecomer : literary history, canonicity and the market." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407191.

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Marriott, Laurence J. "Literary naturalism 1865-1940 : its history, influences and legacy." Thesis, University of Northampton, 2002. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/2959/.

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This thesis examines the emergence of literary Naturalism in France from its beginnings in the fiction and letters of the Goncourt brothers, the positivist philosophy of Auguste Cornte, and the literary criticism of Hippolyte Tame. It then tracks the history and reception of naturalistic fiction in England. The second half concentrates on the rise of Naturalism as an American fictional form, from its beginnings in the 1890s through to critical acceptance and success in the first decade of the twentieth century. It then examines the reasons for the comparative success of American Naturalism at

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Stuckey, Amanda. "Reading Bodies: Disability and American Literary History, 1789-1889." W&M ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1499450073.

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This dissertation brings the field of critical disability studies to bear on organizational paradigms of nineteenth-century American literature. “Reading Bodies” intervenes in these fields with the claim that the book in a variety of formats, publications, and circulations acts as a disciplinary tool that seeks to arrange physical and mental characteristics and capacities into the category of disability. This project moves beyond examining representations of disability to demonstrate that the same social, cultural, and political forces that generated literary movements and outpourings – such a

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Wallis, Lesley Ann. "History, politics and tradition : a study of the history workshop 1956-1979." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369414.

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Moore, Lindsay Emory. "The Laureates’ Lens: Exposing the Development of Literary History and Literary Criticism From Beneath the Dunce Cap." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc822784/.

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In this project, I examine the impact of early literary criticism, early literary history, and the history of knowledge on the perception of the laureateship as it was formulated at specific moments in the eighteenth century. Instead of accepting the assessments of Pope and Johnson, I reconstruct the contemporary impact of laureate writings and the writing that fashioned the view of the laureates we have inherited. I use an array of primary documents (from letters and journal entries to poems and non-fiction prose) to analyze the way the laureateship as a literary identity was constructed in s

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Albu-Mohammed, Raheem Rashid Mnayit. "Making the past : the concepts of literary history and literary tradition in the works of Thomas Gray." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3362.

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This study explores Thomas Gray’s concepts of literary history, tradition, and the past. It proffers critical examinations of Gray’s literary and historical thoughts, illustrating the extent of the complexity of the mid‐century cultural and intellectual climate in which Gray and his contemporaries were writing. It shows the aesthetic, cultural, and political dimensions of canonicity in the course of examining the ideological motivation behind Gray’s literary history. Though much of Gray’s poetry is private and written for a narrow literary circle, his literary history seems engaged with issues

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Birdsall, Stephanie. "Meaning and the literary text." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=24076.

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Often debates over literary meaning can get swept up into larger discussions about social significance, political responsibilities, identity struggles and deification of cultural objects. Literary meaning becomes, in these deliberations, not just a theoretical entity but a powerful social force. All of these queries, however, inasmuch as the literary enterprise is a part of human interaction, are dependent on the brute fact of communication. Any notion of literary meaning must ultimately rest upon a concept of meaning that explains, or attempts to explain, how communication is possible. This,

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Loveland, Jeff. "Rhetoric and natural history : Buffon in polemical and literary context /." Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 2001. http://www.gbv.de/dms/goettingen/32877135X.pdf.

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Whitehead, C. S. "A literary history of the Third Programme 1946 to 1970." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371778.

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Prescott, Sarah Helen. "Feminist literary history and British women novelists of the 1720s." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361324.

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Marsden, Stevie L. "The Saltire Society Literary Awards, 1936-2015 : a cultural history." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24749.

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This thesis presents a history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards and examines their status and role within Scotland’s literary and publishing culture. The Society was founded at a critical inter-war period during which Scottish writers, artists and cultural commentators were re-imagining Scotland’s political and cultural identity. The Society, therefore, was a product of this reformative era in Scotland’s modern history. The Society’s identity and position within this inter- and post-war reformation is reflected in the Literary Awards, which are a means by which the Society attempts to ac

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Woudstra, Ruth. "Truth, history and representation in Margaret Atwoods' Alias Grace." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7417.

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Bibliography: leaves 53.<br>In the Introduction of this minor dissertation, Margaret Atwood as a post-modern writer and her interest in fictional autobiographies are considered, particularly with regard to memory, the formation of self-identity and amnesia. Parallels are drawn between Surfacing and Cat's Eye as fictional works. and Alias Grace, which is based on the life of a historical person. The novel Alias Grace alternates between first- and third-person accounts, and reflects Atwood's preoccupation with narrative techniques. The definition of post-modernism is regarded, as well as Atwood'

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McGoldrick, Lynne. "The literary manuscripts and literary patronage of the Beauchamp and Neville families in the Late Middle Ages, 1390-1500." Thesis, Northumbria University, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.354372.

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Schillinger, Stephen. "Common representations : Jack Straw and literary history as cultural history on the early modern stage /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9363.

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Grylls, Catherine Jane. "The other end of history : three women writers and the romance." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18828.

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The genre of the romance has a long and complex history, encompassing a diversity of literary forms. In this dissertation, I focus on the sub-genre of the domestic romance and on the ways in which this form has represented the problematics of gender as they are constructed within the home and family under patriarchy. I examine the notion of the dichotomy between public and private worlds and the demarcation of these zones as gendered, as domains of masculine and feminine activity respectively. This opposition is a consequence of the development of the middle-class family unit in England attend

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Neufeldt, Bradley. "Cultural confusions, oral/literary narrative negotiations in Tracks and Ravensong." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq22548.pdf.

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Radicchia, Gloria. "Southern Nigeria and the politics of memory: literary accounts on the Biafra war and the minorities’ struggle." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Afrikanska studier, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-34493.

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The Nigeria-Biafra war (1967-70) was a critical event for the country and on an international level: furthermore, it forged forever the memory and narrative of Igbo people, authors, politicians and activists and minority groups. I chose this topic because I have always been interested in how political issues have been represented and argued in literature, how the authors and intellectuals have narrated the struggle and the fracture of such a complex nation as Nigeria and how much powerful collective memory can be for the personal and cultural story of a population. What can make the difference

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Englard, Michael Anselm. "'Grounds for argument' : English literary travel 1911-1941." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610092.

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Magerski, Christine 1969. "The constitution of the literary field in Germany after 1871 : Berlin modernism, literary criticism and the beginnings of the sociology of literature." Monash University, German Studies, 2002. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8724.

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Attard, Karen Patricia, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Humanities. "Lost and found : a literary cultural history of the Blue Mountains." THESIS_CAESS_HUM_Attard_K.xml, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/568.

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This thesis is a cultural tour of the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia. It is concerned with the way in which Europeans employed stories to claim land and, conversely, their fears that the land would claim them.The stories considered are taken from literature and folk legend. The concept of liminality is important to the work because the mountains are a threshold, a demarcation between the city and the bush. Allied with the notion of liminality in the mountains is that of the uncanny (as defined by Freud). The work is divided into four sections. The first section, A POCKET GUIDE, int

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Attard, Karen Patricia. "Lost and found : a literary cultural history of the Blue Mountains /." View thesis, 2003. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20040420.110911/index.html.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2003.<br>A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney, School of Humanities, 2003. Includes bibliographical references.

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Duke, SiaÌ‚n. "Recreating history : literary depictions of Iceland's conversion to Christianity 100-1300." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408108.

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Ribo, Ignasi. "The one-winged angel : history and memory in the literary discourse." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487093.

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This study explores an ambiguity in W.G. Sebald's literary discourse. The author presents writing as a way to resist the fatality of the historical process and to overcome the limits of historical representation. His narratives are founded on the recognition that it is ethically necessary to speak in the name of the victims, but epistemologically impossible to do so. In order to overcome his scepticism, Sebald developed a discourse of memory largely inspired by Nabokov and Benjamin's ideas of aesthetic redemption. The reader should be transformed through a sort of epiphany, an aesthetic illumi

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Donofrio, Nicholas Easley. "The Vanishing Freelancer: A Literary History of the Postwar Culture Industries." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11532.

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Throughout the middle decades of the twentieth century, a wide range of U.S. fiction writers took jobs--sometimes briefly, but often for several years or more--in the film, broadcasting, publishing, and advertising industries. As a result of their experiences in these industries at a time when corporate employment was on the rise and freelance work was becoming less viable, writers like Raymond Chandler, Norman Mailer, Sylvia Plath, and Ishmael Reed crafted new narrative forms to examine the problems of bureaucratized creativity. While drawing on literary modernism's techniques and strategie

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Neidorf, Leonard. "The Origins of Beowulf: Studies in Textual Criticism and Literary History." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11366.

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Beowulf is preserved in a single manuscript written out around the year 1000, but there are many reasons to believe that the poem was composed several centuries before this particular act of manual reproduction. Most significantly, the meter of Beowulf reveals that the poet regularly observed distinctions of etymological length that became phonologically indistinct before 725 in Mercia. This dissertation gauges the explanatory power of the hypothesis that Beowulf was composed about three centuries before the production of the extant manuscript. The following studies test the hypothesis of arch

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Fenner, Jane Louise. "'Remembering Daphne Rooke' : a literary history for the 'new' South Africa." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323024.

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This thesis is concerned with recovering the literary history of Daphne Rooke, who experienced short-lived international fame as a South African novelist during the 1950s and 1960s. The value of this undertaking is predicated upon the fact that the author is currently enjoying something of a 'literary revival' within South Africa. with scholars persuasively arguing for Rooke's relevance within a post-apartheid literary culture. This obviously begs the question of why she was 'forgotten' in the first place; a question which is addressed within this, the first full-length literary history of the

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Seymour, G. S. "History and aesthetics and in the development of English literary criticism." Thesis, University of Essex, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381257.

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Twidle, Hedley Lewis. "Prison and garden : Cape Town, natural history and the literary imagination." Thesis, University of York, 2010. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1057/.

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This work considers literary treatments of the colonial encounter at the Cape of Good Hope, adopting a local focus on the Peninsula itself to explore the relationship between specific archives – the records of the Dutch East India Company, travel and natural history writing, the Bleek and Lloyd Collection – and the contemporary fictions and poetries of writers like André Brink, Breyten Breytenbach, Jeremy Cronin, Antjie Krog, Dan Sleigh, Stephen Watson, Zoë Wicomb and, in particular, J. M. Coetzee. Although it would hardly claim to be a literary history of Cape Town, it begins by asking what i

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Melodia, Festa Beatrice <1990&gt. "Walking the Walk: How Literary Walkers sketched New York City History." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/7182.

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Questa tesi ha lo scopo di analizzare la figura del flaneur Americano e la sua evoluzione nella città di New York. Inizieremo concentrandoci sul concetto di camminare urbano. Procederemo analizzando poi l'origine del flaneur letterario attraverso il paragone dei principali fondatori del termine: Baudelaire e Benjamin. Una volta chiarito il contesto e le origini del concetto di camminare urbano, porteremo alla luce le caratteristiche dell'atto di camminare a New York ripercorrendo così i passaggi che hanno portato il flaneur Americano sino ai nostri giorni. Considereremo brevemente esempi lett

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Karloff, Boris. "The eighteenth century origins of modern literary Yiddish." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670327.

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Ferretter, Luke. "Towards a Christian literary theory." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15232.

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Most contemporary literary theories are either explicitly or implicitly atheistic. This thesis describes a literary theory whose principles are derived from or consistent with Christian theology. It argues against modern objections to such a theory that this is a rationally and ethically legitimate mode of contemporary literary theory. The first half of the thesis constitutes an analysis of deconstruction, of Marxism and of psychoanalysis. These are three of the most influential discourses in modern literary theory, each of which constitutes a significant argument against the existence of God,

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Chapin, Charles Nicholas. "The turn to reading in twentieth-century literary criticism." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609859.

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Owen, Deborah Lynn. "Mann Thinking Across Antebellum Culture---Mann Satterwhite Valentine's Literary Aspirations." W&M ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625791.

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Mosley, Marcus. "Jewish autobiography in Eastern Europe : the pre-history of a literary genre." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306789.

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Delchamps, Vivian. "“Of the Woman First of All”: Walt Whitman and Women's Literary History." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/420.

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This thesis contemplates Walt Whitman's role in the lives of 19th and 20th century women writers and his significance to early American feminism. I consider the ways women inspired him to develop pro-feminist ideas about maternity, womanhood, and female liberation.

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RIBEIRO, FLAVIO DA SILVA. "HUME AND HISTORY: AN ANALYSIS ON THE ESSAYS MORAL, POLITICAL AND LITERARY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2006. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9538@1.

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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>A presente dissertação procura compreender algumas reflexões sobre a história contidas nos Ensaios Morais, Políticos e Literários do filósofo escocês David Hume (1711-1776). Neste trabalho (1758), cuja característica dominante é a heterogeneidade dos temas abordados, o autor busca o conhecimento dos assuntos humanos sob uma perspectiva secularizada, mostrando que entre uma idealização da sociedade (e de uma conduta moral dos homens que nela vivem) e sua realidade concreta a escolha para o verdadeiro esclarecimento deve rec

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Walsh, Bridget. "Dark desires : a literary and cultural history of domestic murder, 1828-1891." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539789.

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Nineteenth-century newspapers were awash with accounts of sexualized domestic murders which gripped the Victorian cultural imagination. This thesis examines the mediation of these crimes through a range of genres, arguing that the portrayal of domestic murder reflected significant discontent with the codes of behaviour imposed upon sections of society, particularly around the issues of gender and class. The thesis first examines the coverage of domestic murder trials in street literature and newspapers, before moving on to examine how the theatre was enlisted in the depiction of an idealized d

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Cataldi, Claudio. "A literary history of the 'Soul and Body' theme in medieval England." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/3e96475b-107e-416c-a574-846f0b99d879.

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This dissertation seeks to reconstruct the development of the literary ‘Soul and Body’ theme over time. This theme is preserved and developed in several medieval English texts, both in prose and verse, dating from the tenth to the fifteenth century. Central to this theme is an opposition between the eternal soul and the decaying body; this opposition was eleborated both in the form of a monologue in which the soul accuses a silent body and in the form of a debate in which the two sides dispute over the responsibility for sin and eternal damnation. The first part of the Introduction offers a br

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