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King Lear (1604 to 1605) is widely regarded as one of the greatest works of world literature, but also as one of the most challenging. The challenge is not just in the complexity of the language and the need for notes explaining obsolete... more
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      British LiteratureCognitive ScienceGender StudiesEnglish Literature
En este artículo se ofrece un análisis de la época histórica en la que vivió Lady Ann Fanshawe -la Inglaterra del siglo XVII-, utilizando un enfoque neohistoricista y tomando como fuente primaria su autobiografía, escrita entre 1676 y... more
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      HistoryModern HistoryEnglish LiteratureWomen's Studies
Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus strongly incorporates a fundamental conflict between what we want really from this universe and what we search in the universe, defining a clash between existence and being as non-existence. Though the... more
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In The Body in Mystery, Jennifer R. Rust takes the political concept of the mystical body of the commonwealth, back to the corpus mysticum of the medieval church. Rust argues that the communitarian ideal of sacramental sociality had a far... more
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      Intellectual HistoryPolitical PhilosophyPhilosophy Of ReligionTheology
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Alberico Gentili (San Ginesio 1552 - Londra 1608) studia presso l’Università di Perugia dove si laurea in diritto civile il 23 settembre 1572. Nel 1580 è costretto a fuggire dall’Italia, per motivi religiosi, per giungere a Londra in... more
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      HistoryModern HistoryIntellectual HistoryCultural History
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      Jurgen HabermasCivil Society and the Public Sphere17th Century British (Literature)English Civil War
This paper illustrates a tradition of English renaissance stage characters that read or carry books on stage. Each of these characters exhibits a mental illness or mental deficiency of some sort. The paper argues that the book is... more
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      ShakespeareDramaRenaissance dramaShakespearean Drama
This dissertation seeks to analyse the dual nature of Satan in John Milton’s Paradise Lost. The Introduction will first establish the standpoint of the dissertation, which views Satan as the tragic hero-villain of the epic, and it will... more
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      John Milton17th Century British (Literature)English 16th and 17th century literature and dramaTragic Hero
Oroonoko’s failed revenge attempt against Byam in Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave is troubling. Oroonoko’s failure does not seem to fit his character. He is powerful, honorable, honest, intelligent and beautiful. Aphra Behn establishes... more
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      British Literature17th Century British (Literature)Aphra BehnOroonoko
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      Gender StudiesWomen's StudiesSexualityGender and Sexuality
The 17 th century is known as Restoration Period and is considered as the age of dualism. There are two major schools of poetry: Metaphysical and Cavalier Poetry. In the early 17 th century poetics, the style of the poets used has... more
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      English LiteraturePoetry17th Century British (Literature)Metaphysical poetry
Aphra Behn was not a non-conformist--she remained faithful to the Church of England--but her contribution to the articulation of women's literary authority can and should be understood through her figure of the poet-prophet, an identity... more
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      English Literature17th Century & Early Modern PhilosophyWomen's StudiesPoetry
I use Hamlet to test the proposition that evolutionary psychology can advance on the common understanding embodied in the best of traditional humanist criticism. I develop Bradley's insight into Hamlet's depression by assimilating recent... more
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      British LiteraturePersonality PsychologyEnglish LiteratureLiterature
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      Gender Studies17th century picaresque novelsRestoration and Eighteenth-Century English LiteratureEarly Modern Britain
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      British HistoryEnvironmental StudiesAnglicanism (Anglicanism)Ecocriticism
This research paper aims to explore some common examples of Seventeenth and Eighteenth century British satire as presented in John Wilmot’s poem “A Satire Against Reason and Mankind” (1679) and Jonathan Swift’s book Gulliver’s Travels... more
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      Poetry18th Century British LiteratureJohn Donne17th Century British (Literature)
With relative adherence to the Senecan model of the closet drama and close adaptation to Thomas Lodge's translation of Jewish history by Josephus, Elizabeth Cary, in constructing the plot of The Tragedy of Mariam, centres her version... more
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      Renaissance Studies17th Century British (Literature)Elizabeth CaryDrama Teaching
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      ShakespeareDramaRenaissance dramaLiterature And Science
This is my doctoral dissertation, which I completed in the Fall of 2016. It focuses on the allegorical form in late-17th-century and eighteenth-century England.
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      Allegory17th Century British (Literature)18th Century
I föreliggande PM kommer jag att göra en analys och tolkning av Carl Jonas Love Almqvists Drottningens juvelsmycke. Den inleds med en narrativanalys, fortsätter med en tolkning av romanen i allmänhet och Tintomara-gestalten i synnerhet.... more
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      TheologyLiteratureReligion and Litterature17th Century British (Literature)
The Odes of Casimire, an edition of translations of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski’s Latin lyrics with facing originals appeared in London in 1646, published by Humphrey Moseley. The little volume seems at first glance an exemplary case of a... more
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      English LiteratureTranslation StudiesTranslation and IdeologyTranslation theory
Pandu kills a deer. Kunti becomes a mother. Gods oblige Madri too. VII Blue blood occupies throne. The maid's son reads books. History is rewritten. VIII The toddler needs milk. The mother fools him. The teacher turns a tutor. IX The dog... more
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      American LiteratureAfrican LiteratureIndian English LiteratureContemporary Literature
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      British LiteratureHistory of ReligionReformation StudiesEnglish Reformation
The 17th-century University of Oxford was plagued by an extremely insulting Latin commencement speaker known as the terrae filius, or "son of the earth." The speakers were routinely expelled from the university, while manuscript copies... more
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      RhetoricSociology of Knowledge17th-Century StudiesHistory of Universities
For more than four centuries, cultural preferences, literary values, critical contexts, and personal tastes have governed readers’ responses to Shakespeare’s sonnets. Early private readers often considered these poems in light of the... more
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      Manuscripts and Early Printed BooksPoetryRare Books and ManuscriptsManuscript Studies
Reading Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688) as a creative intervention into philosophical debates about political obligation allows us to understand its critical contribution to the acute crisis confronting English subjects during the Glorious... more
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      Gender StudiesRace and EthnicityHistory of SlaveryBritish Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - )
The article presents English translations of the religious poetry of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski in the 17th and the 18th century.
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      Translation StudiesBritish Eighteenth-Century Literature and CultureNeo-latin literatureRestoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature
The original epistolary form of a significant letter in English published by the prolific author and autodidact Tho. Tryon in 1700, three years before his death, is here introduced, transformed, and editorially regularized into a... more
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      Social PsychologyPhilosophyPhilosophy of MindEnglish Literature
It would seem a commonsense and logical beginning to ask of any writer what he meant by the words he wrote, and yet today in university English courses that is no longer the dominant literary way of investigating fiction. What follows is... more
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      Early Christianity19th-Century American Literature17th Century British (Literature)17th century England
Author and publisher of the 'Poor Robin' almanacks, William Winstanley played an important part in the revival of the celebration of Christmas after the Restoration.
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      FolklorePrint CultureJournalismPublishing
This article examines the value that Burton not only attributes to study as a cure for melancholy but also induces by prescription. Burton’s seemingly superficial style of survey in The Anatomy of Melancholy models an alternative to those... more
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      History of MedicinePerformance StudiesRenaissance StudiesShakespeare
Anne Duprat, « Survivre au désastre. Récits personnels de peste et de naufrage (XIVe-XVIIe siècles). Preuve et stratégie du témoignage », paru dans F. Lavocat (dir.), "Ecrire le désastre. Pestes, incendies, naufrages (XVI-XVIIe siècles)"... more
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      Comparative LiteratureHistory of Plague17th Century French Literature (Literature)17th Century British (Literature)
Milton’s first commissioned treatise for the commonwealth, Articles of Peace ... Upon all which are added Observations (1649) has attracted relatively little critical comment and fewer kind words. His attack on the Irish has been seen as... more
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      Early Modern HistoryNationalism17th-Century StudiesNational Identity
English review about John Forsyth's biography of John Milton
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      Biography17th-Century StudiesJohn Milton17th Century British (Literature)
James Shirley's masque The Triumph of Peace is more than a celebration of Charles I's kingship, but rather balances flattery with criticism both as a result of Shirley's own political beliefs and those of his commissioners at the Inns of... more
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      English Literature17th Century British (Literature)Caroline DramaJames Shirley
Writing has historically proved to be an outlet for power. The assertion of authority holds more credibility in the written word than it does when spoken. Making thoughts tangible on a page rather than phonetically persuasive by word of... more
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      Political SociologyPhilosophyMetaphysicsPhilosophy of Mind
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      British LiteratureSociologyEnglish LiteratureFeminist Theory
Scholarship examining the significance of space in Richardson’s novels is comprehensive. Karen Lipsedge, for instance, examines “the relationship which Richardson establishes between domestic space, garden buildings and gender.” However,... more
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      PsychologySocial PsychologyGender StudiesVictorian Studies
A collection of existential poems with illustrations by Raoof Haghighi, a UK artist whose work is exhibited in the British National Portrait Gallery.
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      Buddhist Philosophy17th Century British (Literature)ExistentialismNative American spirituality
The present paper discusses issues resulting from religious differences between the author and the translator, and influence of such differences upon resulting literary translations which are not only the translation from one language... more
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      Translation StudiesTranslation and IdeologyTranslation theoryHistory of English Literature
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      17th Century British (Literature)17th century EnglandJohn Dryden
This study seeks to restore the causal role of religion to its proper place in the story of Oliver Cromwell s invasion and subsequent occupation of Scotland. Through analysis of the polemical tracts produced by both the Scots and the... more
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      Early Modern HistoryHistorical TheologyScottish HistoryPresbyterianism
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      British LiteratureEarly Modern HistorySeventeenth CenturyEarly Modern Women
TELJES SZÖVEG: http://uj.apertura.hu/2017/nyar/maczelka-kabbala-tudomany-es-utopia-margaret-cavendish-es-a-the-blazing-world-1666/ A jelen dolgozat Margaret Cavendish The Blazing World (1666/1668) című utópiáját értelmezi az utópikus... more
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      17th Century & Early Modern PhilosophyUtopian StudiesEarly Modern LiteratureUtopian Literature
This conference was held May 27–28, 2016 at Taipei Tech. Literary history is full of forgetting—both forced and natural. Manuscripts and books have been forgotten as a result of conquest, language changes, and politics. Other texts... more
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      New Zealand LiteratureComparative LiteratureClassicsMedieval Literature
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      17th Century & Early Modern PhilosophySocratic Method17th-Century StudiesFrancis Bacon
If the Apocalypse was a dream vision emanating from the ancient Near East, why not interpret it via a dream book also emanating from the ancient Near East? Such was the contention of the theologian Joseph Mede in 1632, and the dream book... more
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      17th Century & Early Modern PhilosophyOld Testament ProphecyEschatology and Apocalypticism17th Century British (Literature)