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Un analisis linguistico del castellano antiguo del "Poema de Mio Cid" (Spanish text)
(1996)
El castellano antiguo que se encuentra en el Poema de Mio Cid es una variedad bastante distinta de la que existe hoy en dia. Ha habido cambios morfologicos, fonologicos y sintacticos en la evolucion de muchas palabras ...
John Quinn: Portrait of a collector
(1996)
In the period between 1902 and 1924, the American attorney John Quinn accumulated approximately 2,500 paintings, drawings, and sculptures which constituted a magnificent collection of works by twentieth-century avant-garde ...
Independent minds and shared community: Married women's wills in Amite County, Mississippi, 1840-1919
(1996)
The fifteen married women whose wills were probated in Amite County, Mississippi between 1840 and 1919 were linked by geographical proximity, church affiliation, and similar social status. Their estate papers indicate that ...
Jan van Eyck's "The Stigmatization of St. Francis": The visualization of Franciscan Christocentric meditations (Flanders)
(1996)
The imagery of Jan van Eyck's The Stigmatization of St. Francis, looked at in the context of contemporary illustrated manuscripts, devotional images, and prayer manuals, suggests that the artist was using the Agony in the ...
The Delafield Commission and the American military profession
(1996)
The American regular army gained permanence in the early nineteenth century after overcoming numerous social and political obstacles, most notably a strong militia tradition. The War of 1812 and its aftermath established ...
"A heightened degree of messiness": "J R", "Nashville", "The Dead Father", and the refusal of narrative
(1996)
If the late 1960s and early 1970s in America could be characterized as a period which disrupted the narratives that structured both public and private life, then William Gaddis's J R, Robert Altman's Nashville, and Donald ...
Professionalism, social attitudes, and civil-military accountability in the United States Army Officer Corps, 1815-1846
(1996)
This dissertation explores connections between occupation, class, and state formation, employing comparative and sociological perspectives previously neglected by historians of this topic in order to locate the officer ...
"The shape of uncles": Capitalism, affection, and the cultural construction of the Victorian family
(1996)
Although the father-centered family was a powerful instrument of social control in the Victorian period, and the father/child bond was presumed to be the natural prototype of all brands of civil interaction, I suggest that ...
The transformation of God: Religion and culture in the post-Darwinian novel
(1996)
The transformation of God as it develops in late-Victorian British literature comprehends a simultaneous double movement: first, it seeks to demonstrate and to discredit the transcendence of God assumed by pre-romantics, ...
Feeling and knowing: A study of the relationship between emotional response and literary competence
(1996)
The method proposed by David Bleich in Readings and Feelings has been studied in a small group to determine if emotional involvement with literary works may be increased and, if so, what effect such increase would have on ...