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Northrop Frye And The Phenomenology Of Myth, Glen Robert Gill
Northrop Frye And The Phenomenology Of Myth, Glen Robert Gill
Department of Classics and General Humanities Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
In Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of Myth, Glen Robert Gill compares Frye's theories about myth to those of three other major twentieth-century mythologists: C.G. Jung, Joseph Campbell, and Mircea Eliade. Gill explores the theories of these respective thinkers as they relate to Frye's discussions of the phenomenological nature of myth, as well as its religious, literary, and psychological significance.
Gill substantiates Frye's work as both more radical and more tenable than that of his three contemporaries. Eliade's writings are shown to have a metaphysical basis that abrogates an understanding of myth as truly phenomenological, while Jung's theory of …
“A Tragic Farce: Revolutionary Women In Elizabeth Inchbald’S The Massacre And European Drama.” European Romantic Review 17.3 (Summer 2006): 275-88., Wendy Nielsen
Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
This essay examines Elizabeth Inchbald’s treatment of French Revolutionary women and relationship to European drama in order to appreciate the implications of tragic writing for British women playwrights. Focusing on Inchbald’s connections to French culture and English theater in late 1792 and early 1793 elucidates the self‐censoring and generic conventions of her only tragedy, The Massacre. Events in France like the September Massacres unsettled Burkean notions of femininity and raised the possibility of female violence. This mixing of traditional gender characteristics resembles discourse about Inchbald’s dramas as neither tragic, comic, nor tragicomic. The genre of tragic farce describes Inchbald’s revisions …
“’Prodigiousness Of Diction’: Marianne Moore And Sir Thomas Browne, Secret Sharers Of A Like Tradition.”, Laura Nicosia
“’Prodigiousness Of Diction’: Marianne Moore And Sir Thomas Browne, Secret Sharers Of A Like Tradition.”, Laura Nicosia
Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
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“Adolescent Literature Of Witness: Testimonies From The American Margins.”, Laura Nicosia
“Adolescent Literature Of Witness: Testimonies From The American Margins.”, Laura Nicosia
Department of English Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
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Rashid Ridā And Maqāsid Al-Sharī'A, Yasir Ibrahim
Rashid Ridā And Maqāsid Al-Sharī'A, Yasir Ibrahim
Department of Religion Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
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