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The Christ poems of the Exeter Book, Exeter Library Manuscript 3501, are three religious poems depicting three different episodes of Christ's time on earth. The Christian ideals regarding behavior expressed in the poems echo cultural...
In this thesis, I focus on the early from 1870 to 1940. I confirm that they did try to preserve their ethnic identity through language by applying Benedict Anderson's theory "imagined communities." In the first chapter, I explain the...
"That Inimitable Art": Magic in Early Modern English Culture examines representations of magical practitioners and their beliefs and practices as they appear in a variety of canonical and non-canonical early modern cultural productions....
The third quiet revolution to which my title refers is occurring now. In both literature and history, important changes are taking place, with more and more scholars seriously questioning the methods of each discipline, the validity...
In England in the autumn of 1678, a supposed Popish Plot to murder King Charles II and install his Catholic brother, James, the Duke of York, was uncovered. The country was immediately thrown into turmoil as fear of the Roman Catholic...
Because Milton wanted his readers to recognize the theological ideas depicted in Paradise Lost as opportunities to meditate and pray, I will focus on the dramatization, definition, and descriptions of prayer in Paradise Lost. The body of...
Sir Tristrem is the earliest English versions of the Tristan and Isolde story, and it is the only rendition that presents its protagonist as an English hero. The romance's many markers of Englishness become even more legible in the...
The nobility of the Renaissance era enjoyed an elaborate form of hunting, called par force, which involved many horses, dogs, and huntsmen and offered many opportunities for social display. Par force hunting came with a set of ritualized...
This thesis examines the ways that Augustinian and Petrarchan poetics and philosophy both influenced and frustrated the author of Paradise Lost, for John Milton's works in many ways represent a culmination of the linguistic and moral...
HIGH TEST: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES features five linked stories of lives in flux in the fast-changing landscape of contemporary China. From migrant workers in coastal factory towns to a nouveau-riche millionaire immigrating to the...
Twentieth-Century Western Scholarly, Artistic, and Journalistic Perspectives on the Middle East: Bernard Lewis, David Douglas Duncan, and Sandra MacKey
This dissertation examines twentieth century Western scholarly, artistic, and journalistic perspectives on the Middle East. The Middle East has been a constant topic of research in academia throughout the centuries, in which Orientalism...
ABSTRACT The poems in the dissertation, The Hurt Business, explore the often difficult and contentious sites of human contact. The poems explore what it is to bear witness to blighted urban landscapes, dysfunctional family and a world in...
Zaffron is the story of an illiterate, lower-class Muslim girl from south India sold into prostitution in Bombay. She and her friends attempt to start a small business to escape the flesh trade, but when they are not paid for their...
In this thesis, I explore the relationship between the silk industry and England's search for a national identity as seen through the theater of 1590-1630. I have decided to focus on these years because of the exponential growth in the...
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