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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Medea, Nihal Samir El Ganzoury
Medea, Nihal Samir El Ganzoury
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Spirit Of Place, Amal Sherif Abu El Fadl
The Spirit Of Place, Amal Sherif Abu El Fadl
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Loose Canon On The Deck, Paul Douglass
Loose Canon On The Deck, Paul Douglass
Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature
No abstract provided.
Loose Canon On The Deck, Paul Douglass
Inside Or Outside The Whale: George Orwell's Art And Polemic, Richard H. Walker
Inside Or Outside The Whale: George Orwell's Art And Polemic, Richard H. Walker
Masters Theses
This chronological study of the evolution of the works of George Orwell is helpful for the futurist, the citizen awash in groupthink, scholars of standpoint epistemology, of mind and nature, of radical humanism, and others. A former British officer and Spanish revolutionary, he became a Democratic Socialist who believed in intellectual freedom above all and was a champion of the common man. Described as the leading exemplar of the public intellectual, he focused on activism vs passivism (and pacifism), and transforming art and politics into cultural power with mind and nature as the foundation. Like few others, he understood cultural …
The Rebellion Against Family, Religion, And State In Modern Literature, Laila Tewfik Doss
The Rebellion Against Family, Religion, And State In Modern Literature, Laila Tewfik Doss
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Idea Of Homecoming In Post-Colonial African Literature, Maria Mildred Langley
The Idea Of Homecoming In Post-Colonial African Literature, Maria Mildred Langley
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Shored Ruins Of V. S. Naipaul: One Big Book, Ginan Raouf Mostafa
The Shored Ruins Of V. S. Naipaul: One Big Book, Ginan Raouf Mostafa
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Quest For Self, Ma Xuan
The Poetics Of Authorship In The Later Middle Ages: The Emergence Of The Modern Literary Persona, Burt Joseph Kimmelman
The Poetics Of Authorship In The Later Middle Ages: The Emergence Of The Modern Literary Persona, Burt Joseph Kimmelman
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Literary individualism manifested itself in the twelfth century both trivially and profoundly. Word puzzles and overt self-naming within a literary work, and discussions of the nature of poetry and the role of the poet in the world, increasingly considered the purpose and efficacy of writing and ultimately of language per se. Poets asserted themselves in their works not so much for the sake of self-promotion, in a modern sense, but to address and modulate contemporary intellectual and spiritual issues. Speculative grammar, nominalism and realism, often provided the material for poets such as Guillem IX, Marcabru, Dante, Chaucer and Langland. As …
Buchi Emecheta : A Novelist's Image Of Nigerian Women, Kirstin Lynne Ellsworth
Buchi Emecheta : A Novelist's Image Of Nigerian Women, Kirstin Lynne Ellsworth
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
Nigerian novelist Buchi Emecheta writes about the lives of twentieth century Nigerian women. Living during the post-World War II decades of British colonialism, and the subsequent move towards Nigerian Independence in the 1950s, Emecheta's women are affected by some of the most dramatic social and cultural changes in their country's history. Colonialism brings with it abrupt changes in the degree of political power held by Nigerians in their own country, and fosters the urbanization and expansion of market centers like Lagos, based on exploitative systems of raw material extraction for the colonial power. Imposing an increasingly western sensibility on Nigeria, …
The Arthurian Romances Of Chrétien De Troyes: Once And Future Fictions, Donald Maddox
The Arthurian Romances Of Chrétien De Troyes: Once And Future Fictions, Donald Maddox
Emeritus Faculty Author Gallery
No abstract provided.
Sir Clyomon And Sir Clamydes: A Revaluation, Peter T. Hadorn
Sir Clyomon And Sir Clamydes: A Revaluation, Peter T. Hadorn
Quidditas
Long dismissed as an immature play with no intrinsic merit, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes (ca. 1570-1583) quite thoroughly debates issues of contemporary political interest. This essay seeks to restore Clyomon from its undistinguished position in Renaissance studies by showing how it dramatically supports Queen Elizabeth's use of chivalry as an ideology of power and order and criticizes military adventurism. By reading this play as a political text, in this essay I employ the methodologies of New Historicism, which identifies literature as only one of many cultural discourses taking part in the negotiation of power. "Representations of the world in …
Review Essay: Robert Mcmahon, Augustine's Prayerful Ascent: An Essay On The Literary Form Of The Confessions, Wilson G. Baroody
Review Essay: Robert Mcmahon, Augustine's Prayerful Ascent: An Essay On The Literary Form Of The Confessions, Wilson G. Baroody
Quidditas
Robert McMahon, Augustine's Prayerful Ascent: An Essay on the Literary Form of the Confessions, University oof Georgia Preess, 1989, 200 pp., biblio., index, $27.50.
Review Essay: Dante Today, Theodore J. Cachey Jr.
Review Essay: Dante Today, Theodore J. Cachey Jr.
Quidditas
Dante Today, ed. Amilcare A. Iannucci, special spring and fall volume of Quaaderni d'italianistica, 10.1-2 (1989).
Review Essay: Luis Garcia-Ballester, Michael R. Mcvaugh, And Agustin Rubio-Vela, Medical Licensing And Learning In Fourteenth-Century Valencia, Kristine T. Utterback
Review Essay: Luis Garcia-Ballester, Michael R. Mcvaugh, And Agustin Rubio-Vela, Medical Licensing And Learning In Fourteenth-Century Valencia, Kristine T. Utterback
Quidditas
Luis Garcia-Ballester, Michael R. McVaugh, and Agustin Rubio-Vela, Medical Licensing and Learning in Fourteenth-Century Valencia, American Philosophical Society, 1989, 128 pp., facsim., maps, $15.00.
Review Essay: Paul Strohm, Social Chaucer, Charles R. Smith
Review Essay: Paul Strohm, Social Chaucer, Charles R. Smith
Quidditas
Paul Strohm, Social Chaucer, Harvard University Press, 1989, xiii, 236 pp., biblio., $29.95.
Review Essay: Karla Taylor, Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy", Sandy Feinstein
Review Essay: Karla Taylor, Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy", Sandy Feinstein
Quidditas
Karla Taylor, Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy," Stanford University Press, 1989, vi, 289 pp., biblio., index, $29.50.
Review Essay: Peter Nicholson, An Annotated Index To The Commentary On Gower's Confessio Amantis, Katherine S. Gittes
Review Essay: Peter Nicholson, An Annotated Index To The Commentary On Gower's Confessio Amantis, Katherine S. Gittes
Quidditas
Peter Nicholson, An Annotated Index to the Commentary on Gower's Confessio amantis, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 62, State University of New York, 1989, 593 pp., $35.00.
Review Essay: Leon Battista Alberti, Dinner Pieces: A Translation Of The Intercenales, W. Scott Blanchard
Review Essay: Leon Battista Alberti, Dinner Pieces: A Translation Of The Intercenales, W. Scott Blanchard
Quidditas
Leon Battista Alberti, Dinner Pieces: A Translation of the Intercenales, trans. and ed. David Marsh, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies and The Renaissance Society of America, 1987, ix, 268 pp., ill., biblio., index, $20.00.
Review Essay: Walter Liedtke, The Royal Horse And Rider: Painting, Sculpture, And Horsemanship, 1500-1800, John F. Moffitt
Review Essay: Walter Liedtke, The Royal Horse And Rider: Painting, Sculpture, And Horsemanship, 1500-1800, John F. Moffitt
Quidditas
Walter Liedtke, The Royal Horse and Rider: Painting, Sculpture, and Horsemanship, 1500-1800, Abaris, 1989, 336 pp., over 300 b & w and 34 color illus., biblioo., $65.00.
Review Essay: Philippa Berry, Of Chastity And Power: Elizabethan Literature And The Unmarried Queen, Jean R. Brink
Review Essay: Philippa Berry, Of Chastity And Power: Elizabethan Literature And The Unmarried Queen, Jean R. Brink
Quidditas
Philippa Berry, Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen, Routledge, 1989, 193 pp., xii, ill., biblio., index, $35.00.
Review Essay: Jean R. Brink, Michael Drayton Revisited, Wyman H. Herendeen
Review Essay: Jean R. Brink, Michael Drayton Revisited, Wyman H. Herendeen
Quidditas
Jean R. Brink, Michael Drayton Revisited, Twayne Publishers, 1990, xiv, 167 pp., ill., biblio., index, $29.95.
Review Essay: John D. Bernard, Ceremonies Of Innocence: Pastoralism In The Poetry Of Edmund Spenser, Steven Max Miller
Review Essay: John D. Bernard, Ceremonies Of Innocence: Pastoralism In The Poetry Of Edmund Spenser, Steven Max Miller
Quidditas
John D. Bernard, Ceremonies of Innocence: Pastoralism in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser, Cambridge University Press, 1989, ix, 242 pp., biblio., $42.50.
Review Essay: Richard Dutton, William Shakespeare: A Literary Life, William F. Gentrup
Review Essay: Richard Dutton, William Shakespeare: A Literary Life, William F. Gentrup
Quidditas
Richard Dutton, William Shakespeare: A Literary Life, St. Martin's Press, 1989, xii, 180 pp., biblio., index, $35.00.
Review Essay: John Ogilby, The Entertainment Of His Most Excellent Majestie Charles Ii In His Passage Through The City Of London To His Coronation, Retha M. Warnicke
Review Essay: John Ogilby, The Entertainment Of His Most Excellent Majestie Charles Ii In His Passage Through The City Of London To His Coronation, Retha M. Warnicke
Quidditas
John Ogilby, The Entertainment of His Most Excellent Majestie Charles II in His Passage through the City of London to His Coronation, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 43, 1988, 192 pp., ill., biblio., index, $30.00.
"A Strange Liking": Our Admiration For Criminals, Martha Grace Duncan
"A Strange Liking": Our Admiration For Criminals, Martha Grace Duncan
Faculty Articles
This article explores noncriminals' admiration for the lawbreaker. Drawing on literature, films, history, and psychoanalysis, the article seeks to delineate and explain this paradox. Each part of the article adopts a different approach to the subject of admiration for criminals. Part II, "Reluctant Admiration," sets the stage by presenting evidence that such admiration, and conflict over it, are pervasive. Parts III and IV present two quite different strategies that noncriminals employ to cope with their inner conflict over criminality. Thus, Part III, "Rationalized Admiration," depicts noncriminals who express undisguised enjoyment in, and reverence for, criminals. These noncriminals justify their attraction …
Aristotle's Critique Of Mimesis: The Romantic Prelude, Terryl Givens
Aristotle's Critique Of Mimesis: The Romantic Prelude, Terryl Givens
English Faculty Publications
The most notable element of Plato's theory of art, or at least the most memorable, is his censorship of poetry from the ideal state (Republic III: 398; X: 607). However Plato's argument is construed, it is enlightening to note the domestication to which it is invariably subjected. Since Aristotle's theory is eminently more amenable to our contemporary appreciation for art, and, in one form or another, is judged more central to the history of Western literature, Plato's attack is dispensed with after due characterization as ironic, unmanageably ambiguous, valid only in a most limited context, or excusable in the light …
Marginality As Women's Freedom: The Case Of Floripe, Marian Rothstein
Marginality As Women's Freedom: The Case Of Floripe, Marian Rothstein
Quidditas
When Jean Bagnyon chose to rewrite Fierabras for his contemporaries at the dawn of the printed book, strong fictional women who participated in their own name in the world, women not limited to domestic, advisory, or intercessory functions, were rare. Their scarcity did not end then. The interest of what follows must lie, at least in part, beyond Bagnyon's text and beyond Floripe herself. The purpose of subjecting the case of Floripe (sister of Fierabras) to close reading is in part to understand how this example of an active woman functions. My scrutiny of this text is also intended to …