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    Affinities of forms: Chinese poets and Pope, Pound, Eliot and Williams 

    Liu, Wan (1988)
    Despite the tremendous linguistic particularities and cultural differences, Chinese poetry shares some formal and technical similarity with Anglo-American poetry. Through an effective use of the couplet-based verse form ...
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    The Hercules myth in Renaissance poetry and prose 

    Rees, Compton, Jr (1962)
    The Hercules myth has had a long and distinguished literary history, to which this study will add another footnote. In these pages following we shall pursue the figure of Hercules from Greece to Rome to the Middle Ages and ...
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    Made women: And then there was Eve...Isabel, Tess, Daisy, Brett, Caddy, and Sarah 

    Orr Montoya, Moragh Jean (1992)
    The myth of the disobedient woman, along with patriarchal myths of virginity, provide writers with what appears to be a natural alliance between womanhood and fiction. This alliance, not natural but artificial, is between ...
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    Heaven and hell on earth: Flux and stasis in literary utopianism and naturalism 

    Hunter, David Earl, III (1998)
    Literary utopianism and naturalism present apparently polar views regarding the possibilities and limitations of human agency: the former portrays humanity as having created a communal society based upon rationality, while ...
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    "No refuge": The woman within/beyond the borders of Henry Adams, Henry James, and others 

    van Oostrum, Duco C. (1994)
    The dissertation investigates whether there is a place of refuge for women characters within and/or beyond American literary texts written by men around the turn of the twentieth century. Besides major and minor texts of ...
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    Narratives of astonishment: Miscegenation in New World literature 

    Buaas, John Wesley (1994)
    Through readings of a variety of literary and historical narratives from throughout the Americas dating from the 16th century to the present, I show that miscegenation, its sudden and disrupting revelation in these narratives ...
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    "A THORN-CHOKED GARDEN PLOT": WOMEN'S PLACE IN EMILY DICKINSON AND CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (ENGLAND, UNITED STATES) 

    BEAMAN, DARLENE SUZETTE (1986)
    Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti, born just five days apart in 1830, wrote similarly on love, restriction, identity, and death. Their similarities arose not because one poet influenced the other, but because both ...
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    'You shall hear the nightingale sing on as if in pain': The Philomena myth as metaphor of transformation and resistance in the works of Susan Glaspell and Alice Walker 

    Michalos, Constantina (1996)
    The story of Philomela and Procne has long been a figure of violence in literature. However, male mythologizers write Philomela out of existence, whereas women writers use the myth as a metaphor for female oppression and ...
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    The bordering nation: Problems of American identity in selected novels from "Our Nig" to "George Washington Gomez" 

    Creighton, Jane Margaret (1997)
    The dynamics between "American" constructions of ethnicity and the aspiration for and resistance to "American" identity are central to this study of several novels marked by their subjects' diverse racial, ethnic, gendered, ...

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    AuthorBEAMAN, DARLENE SUZETTE (1)Buaas, John Wesley (1)Creighton, Jane Margaret (1)Hunter, David Earl, III (1)Liu, Wan (1)Michalos, Constantina (1)Orr Montoya, Moragh Jean (1)Rees, Compton, Jr (1)van Oostrum, Duco C. (1)AdvisorMinter, David L. (2)Morris, Wesley A. (2)Aranda, Jose F., Jr. (1)Doody, Terrence A. (1)Isle, Walter W. (1)Subject
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    American literature (7)English literature (3)Women's studies (3)Classical literature (2)Asian literature (1)Black studies (1)Canadian literature (1)Germanic literature (1)Latin American literature (1)... View MoreDate Issued1990 - 1998 (6)1980 - 1989 (2)1962 - 1969 (1)Department
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