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Dahl, Ian Carl, and Ian Carl Dahl. "Barbarians as Romans: A Survey of the Presentation of Western Barbarians in Trajanic Literature and Art." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625313.

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This paper examines how the monuments and literature during the reign of Trajan imbue the portrayals of westerns barbarians with Roman-like qualities in order to create sympathetic barbarian characters. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate that both imperial monuments and authors employed these presentations of Roman-like barbarians for political purposes. In order to achieve this goal, the portrayals of barbarians found both major imperial monuments at Rome and in the literature of Trajanic authors, such as the Column of Trajan and the historian Tacitus, are examined. The portrayal of bar

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King, Rachel. "Voluntary barbarians of the Maloti-Drakensberg." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5ee6c761-47f6-48df-9d52-bb392d98e4e2.

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This thesis presents an archaeological, historical, and ethnohistorical study of the nineteenth-century BaPhuthi, a peripatetic, horticulturist chiefdom with a political economy premised upon cattle raiding and active in southern Africa's Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains. The BaPhuthi appear as a valuable case study for exploring how 'tribes' and cultural identities (particularly when rooted in subsistence strategies) are historically and archaeologically constructed. Firstly, the thesis explores how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sociocultural taxonomies were crafted by colonists and colonial

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Salter, Mark Basil. "On barbarians, the discourse of civilization in international theory." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0016/NQ46414.pdf.

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Connolly, Christopher Anthony. "Barbarians in the south : China's Vietnam policy, 1966-73." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.729332.

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Alwine, Andrew T. "Greeks and barbarians in fifth and fourth century Sicily." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0014376.

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Godfrey, J. T. "Friends, Barbarians, Future Countrymen: Clientela and Caesar’s De Bello Gallico." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin158980165011195.

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Hague, Barry John. "Cultures in collision : the barbarization of the Western Roman Empire in ideology and reality (c.370-530 A.D.)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272368.

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Buisson, Johanna Marie. "Lingua Barbara (of barbarians in European modern poetry : Michaux, Hughes, Celan)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.620649.

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Hall, E. "Inventing the barbarian : Ethnocentric interpretation of myth in Greek tragedy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.384739.

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Ghini, Anna Lisa. "Barbarians from without : the role of external forces in Xinjiang Uyghur separatism." Thesis, University of Hull, 2011. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:12644.

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Rhett, Maryanne Agnes. "'Quasi-barbarians' and 'Wandering Jews' the Balfour Declaration in light of world events /." Online access for everyone, 2008. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Summer2008/m_rhett_052108.pdf.

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McSweeney, Alexander. "'Isolated among barbarians' : representations of class discourses in the novels of George Gissing." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431703.

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Wright, Nigel Richard Reginald. "Separating Romans and barbarians : rural settlement and Romano-British material culture in North Britain." University of Western Australia. School of Humanities, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0124.

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This thesis investigates the role which Roman artefacts played within rural settlements in North Britain during the Romano-British period. The possibility that Roman artefacts were used by native Britons as markers of prestige is explored through the presence or absence of Roman artefact types. The more prestigious the occupants of the rural settlements were, the more likely they were to have access to a variety of exotic trade items. The methodology employed in this study has been adapted from previous studies on pottery types and settlement remains from Scotland. This thesis examines an area

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Bandeira, Marilia Fatima. "Representações da violência em Disgrace e Waiting for the Barbarians de J. M. Coetzee." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-20012009-164000/.

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O objetivo desta dissertação de Mestrado é analisar a representação da violência por J.M. Coetzee nos romances Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) e Disgrace (1999), o primeiro escrito numa época de grandes convulsões sociais na África do Sul devido, especialmente, à implantação do grande apartheid; e o segundo, logo após o fim do regime e a eleição do primeiro presidente negro sul-africano. Nossa pesquisa visa analisar a forma de representar o mal em épocas distintas da história do país, buscando apreender o determinismo histórico presente na construção de ambos os romances, bem como a posição

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Guida, Katya <1993&gt. "THE QUESTION OF VIOLENCE IN J. M. COETZEE’S WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS AND DISGRACE." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/13556.

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The writer John Maxwell Coetzee stands out as one of the most discussed figures within the context of South African literature. Through his skilful and unconventional writing, his works have contributed to offering a challenging portrayal of South Africa, not only focusing the attention on marginal characters but also giving prominence to alternative voices that allow an original reflection on significant and thorny subjects that connect literature with the historical background. The aim of this thesis is to analyse the question of violence in the novels Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace

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Felt, David Jonathan. "The Man barbarians: As recorded in Chinese sources from the Han through the Southern Dynasties." Connect to online resource, 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:1453524.

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Landelle, Marc. "Les Magistri Militum aux IVe et Ve siècles ap. J.-C." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040234.

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À partir du règne de Constantin Ier, la défense de l’Empire fut mise en œuvre par un corps de généraux qui récupérèrent les anciens pouvoirs militaires des préfets du prétoire : les magistri militum. Confrontés à des menaces militaires incessantes (pression barbare aux frontières et épisodes de guerre civile), ces officiers supérieurs furent la plupart du temps épargnés par les purges qui frappaient le personnel de cour, car ils constituaient une assise fondamentale du pouvoir de l’empereur. Au début du Ve siècle ap. J.-C., l’Empire romain unifié fit place à deux partes imperii indépendantes,

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Martinez-Diaz, Leonardo. "Waiting for the barbarians : the politics of banking-sector opening in Mexico, Brazil, and Indonesia (1988-2005)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439796.

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Black, Lindsay O. "All at sea? : Japan's response to the contemporary maritime security threats posed by infidels, pirates and barbarians." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2006. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3594/.

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This thesis examines Japan's response to contemporary maritime security issues that adversely affect Japanese national interests. The maritime threats studied in this thesis are posed by actors deemed to be on the periphery of, if not wholly outside, the interstate society as defined by the English School. Because the actions of these actors cannot be justified according to the laws and norms of the interstate society they are termed outlaws. In order to understand Japan's response to maritime security threats it is necessary to determine the motivations and characteristics of the outlaws unde

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Quartermain, Thomas Nile Dawbeny Eubanks. "Socio-political identity in Chosŏn Korea during the Japanese and Manchu invasions 1567-1637 : barbarians at the gates." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b42e15e6-7cee-4c89-b391-1cd21a2490eb.

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This thesis explores social and political identities in Choson Korea between the years 1567 and 1637, particularly during the Imjin War (1592-1598) and the Manchu Invasions (1627 and 1636-1637). During the Imjin War, the Japanese caused widespread destruction over the entire Korean peninsula and the Ming army entered the country. The Later Jin briefly invaded in 1627 and launched a large scale invasion in 1636. The Manchus overran Choson's feeble defenses and forced Choson to become a vassal state of the Qing Empire. Scholars are at odds over the form of socio-political identity during this pe

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King, Rachel. "Voluntary barbarians of the Maloti-Drakensberg : the BaPuthi chiefdom, cattle raiding, and colonial rule in nineteenth-century southern Africa." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669789.

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Norman, William Hereward. "The classical Barbarian in the Íslendingasögur." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/277652.

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The Íslendingasögur, written in Iceland in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, primarily describe the lives of Icelanders during the tenth and eleventh centuries. Many of these lives involve encounters with foreign peoples, both abroad and in Iceland, who are portrayed according to stereotypes which vary depending on the origins of those people. Notably, inhabitants of the places identified in the sagas as Írland, Skotland and Vínland are portrayed as being less civilized than the Icelanders themselves. This thesis explores the ways in which the Íslendingasögur emphasize this relati

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Williams, Guy. "Defining a Roman identity in the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus : the dialogue between "Roman" and "foreign"." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/defining-a-roman-identity-in-the-res-gestae-of-ammianus-marcellinus-the-dialogue-between-roman-and-foreign(19007b12-4129-41ed-a2c1-cd57af27b542).html.

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This thesis argues that Ammianus is interested in, and attempts to define, a Roman identity applicable to his own multifarious world. It argues that Ammianus and some of his peers discern a clear increase in the number of foreigners and outsiders in the empire. While some of his peers lament this perception and adopt a hard-line approach, Ammianus has a much more nuanced view. It is argued that the model of Roman identity which he devises not only accounts for foreigners, but actually, in some cases, makes them exemplars of a flexible Roman identity based chiefly on the notion of appropriate b

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Rosenqvist, Mathias. "Waiting for “the black flower of civilization to bloom” : Shades of Modernity in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of English, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8233.

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Nykvist, Andréa. ""A bestial life is turning me into a beast" - koloniserande maktutövande och ambivalens i Deliverance och Waiting for the Barbarians." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-17393.

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Al, Herz Komail Hussain H. "Narrative point of view in translation : a systemic functional analysis of the Arabic translations of J.M. Coetzee's 'Waiting for the Barbarians'." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/17870/.

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Located within the framework of narratology, linguistics, stylistics and translation studies, the present thesis principally probes the nature of the translator’s voice/presence with the purpose of identifying its effects on translated narrative texts and uncovering his or her certain linguistic habits. The thesis adopts the Systemic Functional model of research in descriptive translation studies. That is, identifying translational shifts by mapping the lexicogrammatical systems (lower level) of the source text onto these of the target texts may result in shifts at the global level of translat

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Lee, A. D. "Information, frontiers and barbarians : the role of strategic intelligence in the relations of the late Roman Empire with Persia and northern peoples." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272011.

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Strategic intelligence - that is, information about the activities and affairs of potential enemies relevant to a state's strategic concerns - is an important factor in the foreign relations of any state. This thesis investigates the role of strategic intelligence throughout Roman relations with Sasanian Persia (early 3rd to early 7th century A.D.) and in the empire's relations with northern peoples beyond the Danube, Rhine, and Hadrian's Wall while these remained imperial frontiers during the same period. Two broad questions are addressed. The first concerns the extent to which strategic inte

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Nair, Jacquelyn. "“NEITHER WITH THE OPINIONS OF THE GREEKS NOR WITH THE CUSTOMS OF THE BARBARIANS”: THE USE OF CLASSIC GREEK IMAGERY IN EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1377618049.

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Beden, Nadja. "Body and Mind : A Phenomenological and Corporeal Approach to J. M. Coetzee’s Characters in Waiting for the Barbarians and In the Heart of the Country." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-93917.

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Bosman, Sean James. "“The surprising involvement of the outsider”: an examination of pessimism and Schopenhauerian ethics in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/36105.

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When the Swedish Academy lauded J. M. Coetzee for portraying situations in which “the distinction between right and wrong, while crystal clear, can be seen to serve no end” (“PR” para. 3), it presented an interpretation of his texts that considers ethics to be legislative and imperative (see Cartwright, NS 255). The Swedish Academy’s assertions are worth exploring, given that this highly respected body’s statements are indicative of the critical debates generated by Coetzee’s work. It identified a common metaphysical malaise between Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and Conrad’s Under Weste

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Fascione, Sara. "Gli 'altri' al potere. Romani e barbari nella Gallia di Sidonio Apollinaire." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSE3041/document.

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La thèse analyse, à travers l’examen de la correspondance de Sidoine Apollinaire, le rôle fondamental que ce dernier a joué lors de la grande crise et de l’effondrement de l’Empire Romain d’Occident et, surtout, sa position assumée dans le face à face avec des populations barbares. On considére les lettres de Sidoine principalement comme un témoignage de la manière dont la nobilitas de ce temps s’est adaptée à la nouvelle situation politique et sociale, mais aussi comme une source de références à valeur documentaire. À l’apogée du déclin des institutions impériales et devant le désintérêt de l

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Delattre, Aurélie. "L'Afrique dans la poésie latine d'Ennius à Corippe." Thesis, Dijon, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011DIJOL025.

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Cette thèse étudie l’image de l’Afrique dans la poésie latine, d’Ennius à Corippe. Dans la plupart des occurrences, l’Afrique n’est présente que pour son caractère connotatif et sert surtout l’amplification du discours. Nous pouvons néanmoins en déduire un certain nombre de caractéristiques qui participent d’une imagerie topique attachée à l’Afrique. Nous avons ensuite mis en évidence la manière dont les poètes traitent ce matériau africain, ainsi que les caractéristiques propres à l’Afrique, qui la distinguent des autres régions « barbares » de l’Empire. L’originalité de l’Afrique, enfin, vie

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Oliveira, Marilia Fatima de. "O permitido e o proibido na literatura em tempos de repressão: a censura e os romances In the heart of the country, Waiting for barbarians e Life & times of Michael K, de JM Coetzee." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-09012014-115944/.

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Essa pesquisa investiga as causas do não banimento dos romances In the Heart of the Country, Waiting for the Barbarians e Life & Times of Michael K, do escritor sul-africano JM Coetzee, escritos e publicados durante o apartheid, período em que a censura atuava com severidade sobre os discursos da nação, incluindo o literário. A hipótese que norteou o trabalho questionava se as obras mencionadas apresentariam sinais de autocensura por parte do autor. A análise textual dos romances, porém, na intersecção com o momento histórico, revelava ao longo do trabalho que havia outros fatores influenciand

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Mbadinga, William Charlis. "Les pourparlers de paix entre Rome et les Barbares le long du limes rhéno-danubien de 337 à 375." Phd thesis, Université Paris-Est, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00857547.

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Malgré le redressement accompli par les Tétrarques et Constantin, les relations avec les barbares restent un problème essentiel pour Rome. En témoignent les 25 séquences de pourparlers de paix engagés le long du limes rhéno-danubien entre la mort de Constantin (337) et celle de Valentinien (375). Après une typologie des circonstances dans lesquelles s'engagent ces pourparlers, la thèse analyse la façon concrète dont ils se déroulent. Ils s'organisent en deux étapes : premiers contacts par l'intermédiaire de délégués puis cérémonie de conclusion de la paix. Tout se passe en général dans le barb

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Thorsjö, Olof. "De bysantinska barbarerna : Den bysantinska konstruktionen av Barbaricum och dess följder för den bysantinska drömmen." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-45319.

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According to the orthodox priest John Meyendorff, the Byzantine dream consisted of the establishment of a universal Christian empire spiritually and politically governed by the emperor of Constantinople. This essay intends to shed light on the topic of Byzantine religious and political expansion in the context of Byzantine view on Barbaricum and the barbarians inhabiting it. The fundamental question asked is: how do the Byzantines view the barbarians outside the Byzantine Empire and in what sense, if any, does this view have implications for the Byzantine dream? To answer the question the essa

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Mbanda, Bakolosso Davy Gildas. "Ecriture et barbarie postmoderne. Lecture poétique de la disgrâce dans « Disgrace » et « Waiting for the Barbarians » de J.M. Coetzee, « Les Ecailles du ciel » et « L’Aîné des orphelins » de Tierno Monénembo et « L’Aube » et « Le cas Sonderberg » d’Elie Wiesel." Thesis, Paris Est, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PEST0033.

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Cette thèse porte sur l’impuissance de l’ambition littéraire à transcrire fidèlement la barbarie absolue. A partir de la poétique de la disgrâce, elle interroge d’abord le rapport entre écriture et expérience extrême puis, met en exergue les stratégies narratives régissant les récits qui tentent une littérarisation d’expériences jugées indicibles. Elle est ensuite une réflexion sur le statut même de la littérature contemporaine. L’analyse poétique conduit à affirmer dans une première partie que les récits de la catastrophe sont construits autour d’un dilemme : l’indicible, fondé sur l’impuissa

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Hall, Edith. "Inventing the barbarian : Greek self definition through tragedy /." Oxford : Clarendon Pr, 1989. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0637/89003369-d.html.

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Johnston, Peter. ""Presences of the infinite" : J.M. Coetzee and mathematics." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2013. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/644d413c-e536-f08c-f2a8-3b8e27f7dfe0/7/.

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This thesis articulates the resonances between J.M. Coetzee's lifelong engagement with mathematics and his practice as a novelist, critic, and poet. Though the critical discourse surrounding Coetzee's literary work continues to flourish, and though the basic details of his background in mathematics are now widely acknowledged, his inheritance from that background has not yet been the subject of a comprehensive and mathematically- literate account. In providing such an account, I propose that these two strands of his intellectual trajectory not only developed in parallel, but together engendere

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Afellous, Amine. "Etude comparative transdisciplinaire de la figure du cosaque, dans la littérature et le cinéma." Thesis, Paris 10, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA100066.

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Cette thèse fut l’occasion d’aborder la question du mythe cosaque au cinéma. Pour éclairer notre réflexion nous avons étudié l’histoire mouvementée des cosaques, ponctuée de rébellions et de soulèvements indépendantistes. Découlant de cette histoire, nous avons ensuite observé la dimension littéraire du mythe cosaque et son évolution à partir du XVIIème siècle jusqu’à l’époque romantique. Ainsi cette approche historique et littéraire nous permet d’établir les sources les sources de ce mythe au cinéma ainsi que sa lente évolution à travers le XXème siècle à travers l’analyse d’adaptations de ro

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Vesisenaho, L. (Lasse). "Humour and familiarisation in Terry Pratchett’s Cohen the Barbarian -sequence." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2013. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201308151617.

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The aims of this thesis were to look at and analyse three of Terry Pratchett’s novels — The Light Fantastic, Interesting Times, and The Last Hero — from the point of view of established literary theories, specifically those pertaining to humour and parody, and see how well the texts in question can be said to follow those theories. The three works were chosen because they comprise the story-arc of a particular set of characters. Of primary importance in this thesis are the concepts of incongruity, superiority and defamiliarisation, of which the first two have been widely considered to be the b

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Bravo, Christopher Delante. "Chirping Like the Swallows: Aristophanes' Portrayals of the Barbarian "Other"." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193343.

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In this thesis, I examine three specific characters from the extant plays of Aristophanes: the Scythian archer from Thesmophoriazusae, the Thracian god from Birds, and the Persian King's Eye from Acharnians. Through a close analysis of these three characters, I show that Aristophanes portrayed each one in a different manner and with varying degrees of hostility. Aristophanes' portrayals of these foreigners were likely informed by his fellow Athenians' attitudes toward non-Athenians. As I demonstrate, the interactions of foreigners with Greek characters in Aristophanes' plays reveal subtle g

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Swain, Brian Sidney. "Empire of Hope and Tragedy: Jordanes and the Invention of Roman-Gothic History." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1398957067.

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Thomson, Stuart Rowley. "The barbarian Sophist : Clement of Alexandria's Stromateis and the Second Sophistic." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:98aca742-1277-4635-9d33-73ca18cf9071.

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Clement of Alexandria, active in the second half of the second century AD, is one of the first Christian authors to explain and defend the nascent religion in the terms of Greek philosophy and in relation to Greek paideia. His major work, the Stromateis, is a lengthy commentary on the true gnosis of the Christian faith, with no apparent overarching structure or organisational principle, replete with quotations from biblical, Jewish, Greek 'gnostic' and Christian works of all genres. This thesis seeks to read this complex and erudite text in conversation with what has been termed the ‘Second So

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Ashley, Scott. "Representations of the barbarian in the early Medieval West c. 800-1100." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.287542.

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Sarantis, Alexander Constantine. "The Balkans during the reign of Justinian : barbarian invasions and imperial responses." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424717.

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Haywood, John. "Barbarian naval power in north-west Europe 12 BC to c. AD 850." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293106.

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Taylor, Christian James. "Barbarian masquerade : a reading of the poetry of Tony Harrison and Simon Armitage." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/12075/.

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This thesis investigates Simon Armitage’s claim that his poetry inherits from Tony Harrison’s work an interest in the politics of form and language, and argues that both poets, although rarely compared, produce work which is conceptually and ideologically interrelated: principally by their adoption of an ‘un-poetic’, deliberately antagonistic language which is used to invade historically validated and culturally prestigious lyric forms as part of a critique of canons of taste and normative concepts of poetic register which I call barbarian masquerade. Harrison’s first collection The Loiners is

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Mason, Kirsty. "Puppets of the Barbarian : how Persia controlled Greek relations with the Persian Empire." Thesis, University of Kent, 2016. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/56642/.

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The study of Graeco-Persian relations is not new to academia, however, as much of our information is found within Greek literary texts, we are largely at the mercy of Greek bias concerning these relations. This thesis will present a detailed re-examination of the relevant sources to gain further understanding of Graeco-Persian relations, with a view to looking beyond Greek literary bias. This thesis proposes that the influence of the Persian Empire upon the Greeks was greater than is initially implied by our sources and I argue that in the majority of the contacts between Greek and Persian, Pe

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Nurse, Donald Paul. "An amateur barbarian, the life and career of Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1821-1890." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0020/NQ45717.pdf.

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Flood, Biruta Livija. "Barbarian sources of imaging and use of northern mythology in twelfth century Burgundian sculpture." Master's thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150037.

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