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Stella, Elizabeth, And The Dark Lady: The Character Of The Beloved Mistress In Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences, Claire Dawkins
Stella, Elizabeth, And The Dark Lady: The Character Of The Beloved Mistress In Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences, Claire Dawkins
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Never Mind The Elephant: A Play In Three Dreams And One Prophecy, Ann Glaviano
Never Mind The Elephant: A Play In Three Dreams And One Prophecy, Ann Glaviano
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Expanding The Patriarchal Binary: The New Feminine In William Faulkner’S The Sound And The Fury And The Wild Palms, Melissa Harrigill
Expanding The Patriarchal Binary: The New Feminine In William Faulkner’S The Sound And The Fury And The Wild Palms, Melissa Harrigill
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Eclipse, Jennifer Hall
Stopping At The Half-Way House: The Theme Of Aging In Byron’S Don Juan, Melanie Parker
Stopping At The Half-Way House: The Theme Of Aging In Byron’S Don Juan, Melanie Parker
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Postcolonial Melodrama : The Satanic Verses, The Mimic Men, The Namesake, Jason Przybylski
Postcolonial Melodrama : The Satanic Verses, The Mimic Men, The Namesake, Jason Przybylski
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The goal of this project is to explain the appropriateness of the genre of melodrama for understanding postcolonial literature. Throughout this paper I examine how reading postcolonial fiction as melodrama may help us both to understand postcolonial issues in new ways and, at the same time, to grasp how postcolonial literature changes and enhances the notion of melodrama.
Treasuring Identity : Subject-Object Relations In Beowulf, Becky Workman
Treasuring Identity : Subject-Object Relations In Beowulf, Becky Workman
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Beowulfs introspection leads him to seek glory and wealth to preserve his memory after death. Unlike the battles against Grendel and Grendel's mother, Beowulfs actions against the dragon clearly prioritize the winning of treasure over the safety of the people. Beowulf seems to believe that revenge upon the dragon is a justification for risking not only his life, but the stability of the leadership of his nation. The hoard that he wins illustrates how material objects are not necessarily longer lasting or more stable than mortals. Treasure's intimate connection with the human body in the social structure of the community …