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The Byronic Hero, Maha Mohamed Hosny Moustafa
The Byronic Hero, Maha Mohamed Hosny Moustafa
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Three Motifs In Christina Rossetti's Poetry, Mona Mohamed Safwat Abd El-Magied Gado
Three Motifs In Christina Rossetti's Poetry, Mona Mohamed Safwat Abd El-Magied Gado
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The Quest In Lao Tzu And William Wordsworth For Original Creative Power, Yue Xing
The Quest In Lao Tzu And William Wordsworth For Original Creative Power, Yue Xing
Masters Theses
My thesis focuses on a comparative study of Lao Tzu and Wordsworth concerning their quest for original creative power. Lao Tzu advocates Tao and reveals it as a way to eternity. Wordsworth calls for a return to nature and intends to create ever-lasting poetry. Despite their entirely different cultural backgrounds and a time span of more than two thousand years between them, both figures adopt a similar way of reversion whose key lies in the effort to move away from artificial human learning.
Submissiveness embodies the whole application of Lao Tzu's philosophy in the human world. It forms a contrast …
The Romance Of Narrative: Design And Desire In The Odyssey, The Aithiopika, And Don Quixote, Susan Brockman
The Romance Of Narrative: Design And Desire In The Odyssey, The Aithiopika, And Don Quixote, Susan Brockman
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The Odyssey, Aithiopika, and Quixote have a surprising set of narrative structures in common: each work falls into two distinct "halves," and each includes a large number of interpolated narratives which appear largely, though not exclusively, in the first half of the text. Both of these features–the bi-partite frames and the large number of interpolated tales–have important implications, both for the narratives as a whole, and for their relationship to the literary mode of romance. This structure imbues each text with a quality of extreme narrative self-consciousness in which part of the subject of the work becomes the …
Salome Between Oscar Wilde And Mohamed Salmawy, Mounira Gamal Soliman
Salome Between Oscar Wilde And Mohamed Salmawy, Mounira Gamal Soliman
Archived Theses and Dissertations
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