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Autor:
Huebert, David B.
This thesis provides a detailed examination of Theodor W. Adorno’s claim that “after Auschwitz all poetry is barbaric” in light of the greater framework of Adorno’s thinking on post-Holocaust art. Because Adorno takes Samuel Beckett as the ex
Externí odkaz:
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2999
Autor:
Bernard Fournier, Anabelle
This thesis presents a text-image analysis of George Eliot‘s fourth novel, Romola (1862-63) based on the argument that the text and the illustrations by Sir Frederic Leighton introduce a discourse about the development of art from a Vasarian perspe
Externí odkaz:
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3009
Autor:
Van Orden, Meindert Nicholas
I argue that current descriptions of the ways that language and computer code effect change (are “performative”) oversimplify the effects that utterances made in and through virtual spaces have on the real world. Building on J.L. Austin’s speec
Externí odkaz:
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2672
Autor:
Bradley, Lynne
The temptation to meddle with Shakespeare has proven irresistible to playwrights since the Restoration and has inspired some of the most reviled and most respected works of theatre. Nahum Tate’s tragic-comic King Lear (1681) was described as an exe
Externí odkaz:
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1343
Autor:
Levin, Yisrael
This dissertation examines the place of Hellenism in nineteenth-century literature as a background to my discussion of Algernon Charles Swinburne’s poetic treatment of Apollo, the Greek god of poetry and of the sun. My point of departure is the com
Externí odkaz:
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1284
Autor:
Wilson, Susan Ruth
This dissertation, Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean: Modern Makars, Men of Letters, transcribes and annotates 76 letters (65 hitherto unpublished), between MacDiarmid and MacLean. Four additional letters written by MacDiarmid’s second wife, Valda
Externí odkaz:
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/306
Autor:
Jenkins, Brad
This study explores the intersection of Modernism and sexology. To date, most studies of sexology’s influence on literature have focused on the importance of inversion in the lesbian salons of interwar Paris and, specifically, on Radclyffe Hall and
Externí odkaz:
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/215
Autor:
Lane, Steven M.
This is a study of the emergence of William Wordsworth’s literary reputation during his lifetime. It is constructed as a variety of biography, organized chronologically in order to attempt a fuller sense of the negotiation of public image and reput
Externí odkaz:
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/183
Autor:
Wilson, Susan Ruth
This dissertation, Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean: Modern Makars, Men of Letters, transcribes and annotates 76 letters (65 hitherto unpublished), between MacDiarmid and MacLean. Four additional letters written by MacDiarmid’s second wife, Valda
Externí odkaz:
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/306