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Wordsworth’S Romanticism, Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

In moving from the poetry of Thomas Gray to that of William Wordsworth, a shift in perception occurs and the age of Romantic poetry really begins. Gray emphasizes the ideas of loss and pessimism, while Wordsworth counters loss with recompense and an optimistic outlook instead of a pessimistic one. By looking at the poetic content of one of each of their works, the use that they both make of memory can be seen. However, the uses that they make contrast markedly against one another in the feelings they provoke. Gray’s utilization of memory in “An Ode on a Distant Prospect …

Self Gratification And Unity In The School For Scandal, Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

Behind Sheridan’s play, The School for Scandal, rests a history of convention and forms already accepted in the theatrical world. In the tradition of a Comedy of Manners, Sheridan is mocking the society that he is a part of. He takes the foibles of human beings and turns them into fictional characters in order to provide a mirror for the society that he sees as licentious and focused on scandal. The whole point of the Comedies of Manners is to put down accepted norms and build up new ones for the betterment of society. For Sheridan, the accepted form in …

Fated Sky: The Femina Furens In Shakespeare, M. Stapleton

M. L. Stapleton

Fated Sky reinvestigates the hypothesis of Senecan influence on Shakespeare's plays. It argues that the 1581 Elizabethan anthology, Seneca His Tenne Tragedies, Translated into Englyshe, was Shakespeare's primary sourcetext and medium for his reception, transmission, and imitation of this ancient author.

Spostare Il Centro Del Mondo: La Lotta Per Le Libertà Culturali, Carmen Nocentelli

Carmen Nocentelli

Italian translation of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom (1993)

Thomas Heywood’S “Art Of Love”: The First Complete English Translation Of Ovid’S “Ars Amatoria”; Edited, With Introduction, Notes, And Commentary, M. Stapleton

M. L. Stapleton

Thomas Heywood (ca 1573-1641) was a major Renaissance playwright who wrote or collaborated on over two hundred plays. Loues Schoole was one of his many nondramatic works that shows his fascination with antiquity. It was the standard English translation of the Ars in the seventeenth century, so popular that it was pirated almost as soon as he had written it--then printed, sold, reprinted, and resold in England and the Netherlands. It was not attributed to him during his lifetime, and he was not allowed to share in the profits that its (considerable) sales generated, two things that rankled him for …

“Aphra Behn, Libertine.”, M. Stapleton

M. L. Stapleton

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The Coventry Corpus Christi Plays, Clifford Davidson, Pamela King

Clifford Davidson

Robert Southwell: Lyric Poetry, The Restoration Of Images, And Martyrdom, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The Anxiety Of Power And Shakespeare’S Macbeth, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Institutions Of The English Novel's Canon: Review Of Institutions Of The English Novel By Homer Obed Brown, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

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Alexander And Anne: Adamantly Arguing Against Anarchy, Michele Gibney

Michele Gibney

Today I will turn my eye and yours to two “visions of order” by Alexander Pope and Anne Finch. In these “visions,” obviously meant to influence their audience into agreement, Pope and Finch present two widely differing ideals. On the one hand there is Finch who, in a solitary nighttime ramble, contemplates the harmony and order of nature without man or God. Then there is Pope, whose order is all centered on God and how God created Order for Man. The one thing they both have in common is that they view man as a being who constantly disrupts these …