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• English Literature Dissertation - 5 Discussion / Conclusions In View Of The Received Data, It Is Obvious That - In view of the received data, it is obvious that John Keats appears as a proponent of youth, depicting youth as the symbol of innocence and life, passion and desires, while Geoffrey Chaucer acquires the neutral position, objectively describing both positive and negative sides of youth and death. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation - Geoffrey Chaucer's Works, Especially The Canterbury Tales, Are Also Mainly - Geoffrey Chaucer's works, especially The Canterbury Tales, are also mainly evaluated in terms of traditional interpretations with the exception of some researchers. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation - To A Large Extent, Rosalind's Gender Misalignment Cannot Be Considered A - To a large extent, Rosalind's gender misalignment cannot be considered a sexual transgression. Despite the obfuscation of power in her exchanges with Orlando and Celia, it cannot be denied that the setting of these exchanges is unique. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation - Switching The Gender Role Of Dominance And Rapier Intellect, Rosalind Is - Switching the gender role of dominance and rapier intellect, Rosalind is composed as Ganymede, able to manipulate Orlando's affections as she/he pretends to be Rosalind in exchanges with the exiled oldest son. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation - While None Of Shakespeare's Female Protagonists Were Intentionally - While none of Shakespeare's female protagonists were intentionally subversive or aware of their own homoerotic powers, there were established unruly women such as Olivia who played into the dangers of rebelling against the patriarchal system.Read more
  
  
• English Literature Dissertation - Applying To Such Portrayal, Chaucer Simultaneously Shows The Inability Of - Applying to such portrayal, Chaucer simultaneously shows the inability of youth and age to interact with each other. Although Alisoun marries John, she is not happy with him and, thus she initiates the sexual relations with Nicholas (Woods, 1994). Read more
  
  
• English Literature Dissertation - As Chaucer's Protagonist Loses Her Virginity, She Simultaneously Loses Her - As Chaucer's protagonist loses her virginity, she simultaneously loses her youth, gradually acquiring maturation and experience in her relations with men (Cook, 1978). Read more
  
  
• English Literature Dissertation - As A Woman, Viola Discovers That She Can Find No Work, A Situation - As a woman, Viola discovers that she can find no work, a situation Shakespeare fashions to coerce Viola's creation of Cesario. Read more
  
  
• English Literature Dissertation - A Study Of The Transgressive Nature Of Cross-dressing In Comedies Of William - This paper, through an examination of the Shakespearean comedies As You Like It (AYLI), The Merchant of Venice (MOV), and Twelfth Night (TN), will detail the transgressive nature of female cross-dressing. Read more
  
  
• English Literature Dissertation - Celia's Attraction To Rosalind Surfaces At Several Junctures, Appearing Again - Celia's attraction to Rosalind surfaces at several junctures, appearing again in Celia's attempts to dissuade Rosalind from a courtship with the estranged Orlando. Read more
  
  
• English Literature Dissertation - In Knight's Tale, Miller's Tale, And The Wife Of Bath Geoffrey Chaucer - In Knight's Tale, Miller's Tale, and The Wife of Bath Geoffrey Chaucer reveals different viewpoints as to youth and age, but this treatment of the opposites demonstrates the poet's romanticism and sentimentality. Read more
  

• English Literature Dissertation - In Ode To A Nightingale The Poet Opposes The Narrator's Life To Song's - In Ode to a Nightingale the poet opposes the narrator's life to song's immortality (Vandler, 1983), revealing that the real world can be diverted for a short period of time, but it can not be fully dismissed. Read more
  
  
• English Literature Dissertation - In Short, Female Characters That Pass For Men Pose More Of A Threat To - Shakespearean comedies, more frequently than tragedies or histories, made special use of the figure of the unruly woman for the fact that the context in which cross-dressing transpired was jovial, if not simply trivial. Read more
  
  
• English Literature Dissertation - Orsino Assures Who He Believes To Be Cesario That Olivia Can Surely Be - Orsino assures who he believes to be Cesario that Olivia can surely be persuaded through Cesario's charms and appearances. Read more
  

• English Literature Dissertation - Oxford Guides To Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales. Oxford, Oxford University - Dalarun, J. (1992). The Clerical Age. In: C. Klapisch-Zuber (ed.) A History of Women in the West: Silences of the Middle Ages. Vol.2. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press. pp. 15-42. Read more
  
  
• English Literature Dissertation - She Wistfully Wonders In An Aside How She Could So Quickly Catch The Plague; - She wistfully wonders in an aside how she could so quickly catch the plague; Olivia realizes she feels [Cesario's] perfections with an invisible and subtle stealth to creep in at [her] eyes (Act I, Scene V, lines 290-296). Read more
  
  
• English Literature Dissertation - The Difference Between The Two, However, Is Key; Orlando Is Excluded By - The difference between the two, however, is key; Orlando is excluded by outside forces, while Rosalind opts to break social boundaries. Shakespeare's very choice of Ganymedethe Hellenistic companion and boy lover of Zeusbelies Rosalind's exploits as a cross-dressing heroine. Read more
  

• English Literature Dissertation - The Issue Of Youth And Age In Geoffrey Chaucer And John Keats 2006 Table Of - The research compares and contrasts the use of youth and age in Geoffrey Chaucer's Knight's Tale, Miller's Tale, The Wife of Bath and John Keats' poems The Eve of St. Agnes and Ode to a Nightingale. Read more
  
  
• English Literature Dissertation - The Qualitative Method Investigates The Hypothesis Of The Research And - The qualitative method investigates the hypothesis of the research and interprets the issue of youth and age in the works of Chaucer and Keats. Contrary to the quantitative method that provides generalised information, the qualitative approach deals with individual aspects and provides more accurate findings. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation - Why Would She Concern Herself In These Affairs? A Significant Possibility Is - A significant possibility is that Portia was socially subversive before assuming the identity of Balthasar, choosing a lesser man so that she might retain some semblance of authority after marriage. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation As well as the fantastical, science fiction still informs notions of disassociation and loss, whilst still working within a science-fantasy remit - It always puzzles me how science-fiction can be so widely derided by those who do not like or appreciate it. The labeling of such a wide genre and of those who enjoy it strikes me. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation 'For maximum literary effect, sensation and violence have to be juxtaposed with female innocence and vulnerability' Discuss with reference to the 'Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens and 'Woman in White' by Wilkie Collins. The essay should be a close reading of at least one relevant passage from each text - The title quote is probably too fixed. Generally, there can be no such prescriptive methods for writing literature. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation To what extent it is the Life and Death of Harriet Frean an experimental novel? - Commenting on the nature of the emerging Modernist novel, Henry James said: The novel’s uncanny penetrativeness, its ability to arouse and resolve an array of anxieties and aspirations, made it the great ‘anodyne’ of the age. (...) the immediate aid given by the novel was a function, to some extent, of sheer presence, sheer visibility. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation Discuss the contention that the verbal essence of a Shakespeare play is essentially non-cinematic - In Roger Manvell’s Book Peter Hall is quoted as saying “Shakespeare is no screen writer. He is a verbal dramatist, relying on the associative and metaphorical power of words… Read more

• English Literature Dissertation Consider the significance of one or more of the following in the poems of Seamus Heaney's North: allusions, metonymy, synecdoche, irony, metre, rhythm and rhyme - The poet Seamus Heaney is internationally known and is one of the most popular Irish poets to this day. He has published over sixteen volumes of poetry in a number of languages, making him one of the most commonly read contemporary English-language poets. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation Discuss some of the difficulties in distinguishing tragedy from melodrama with reference to Thomas Kydd's Spanish Tragedy and Shakespeare's Macbeth - In order to understand the difficulties in distinguishing tragedy from melodrama with reference to these two plays, it is first necessary to come to an accepted definition of what these terms mean in dramatic theory. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation Explore some of the psychological, cultural and political aspects of the question of consciousness during the modern period with specific reference to material studied on the module - Modernism, as Malcolm Bradbury asserts in his book Modernism: A Guide to European Literature (1991) has its roots in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation Aristotelian notions of tragedy are irrelevant to non-shakespearean Renaissance tragedy. Discuss - The emphasis on moral instruction is clear, and informed the tragic form in the both Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean dramas. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation How can the insights of Freudian psychoanalysis be utilised to better our understanding of literature? Discuss in relation to Eugene O' Neil's "Long Day's Journey into Night" - There has always been a connection between Freudian psychoanalysis and literary criticism. Freud himself used his psychoanalytic notions on numerous occasions to explain and examine both works of literature Read more

• English Literature Dissertation Discuss the ways in which Christian concepts resonate in the writings of aestheticism and decadence - Typically, the notion of Victorian decadence has been twinned with the idea of sin and sinning; it was, after all, the ‘immoral’ content of Wilde’s Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation 'Studies in fractured masculinity.' Is this an apt description of the drama that you have studied on the module so far? - For two of the canonical works of American theatre, ‘Cat on a Hot Tine Roof’ and ‘Death of a Salesman’ are plays with a remarkably similar tone and sentiment. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation In Edna O'Brien's novel, In the Forest, Michen O'Kane is as much a victim as he is a victimizer.' Discuss - In the novel In The Forest by Edna O’Brien (2002), the main character, Michen O’Kane, is primarily a victimizer of others, yet he is also a victim. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation Discuss the effects of cubism on the modernist writers: William Carlos Williams and Gertrude Stein - The young writer William Carlos Williams once defined the poem as a ‘machine made out of words.’ The modernist painter Marchel Duchamp, also, sought to bring a mechanical quality to his art. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation 'Ideas of America and of American identity are tied almost exclusively to a sense of place'. Would you agree with this statement? - From its earliest days, the new nation of the United States committed itself to a lofty destiny when, in the Declaration of Independence Read more

• English Literature Dissertation How useful is the term 'Victorian'? - The era of Queen Victoria’s reign witnessed the passing of milestones in social, economic, and personal progress. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation "Jack Kerouac was called 'The King of the Beats' but how accurate is this title?" - Jack Kerouac was responsible for spawning the literary movement that became known as the Beat Generation, a movement not only significant to literature, but one which incorporated music and visual art to chart a personal progression. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation Miscegenation in James Fenimore Cooper's 'Last of the Mohicans' and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's 'Hope Leslie' - Racial issues occupy the principal place in American Literature due to the prolonged racial relations between Native Americans and European colonizers. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation Compare and contrast The Importance of Being Earnest and The Ballad of Reading Goal -Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin, on 16th October 1854. Wilde was educated in the Classics at Magdalen College, Oxford, via Trinity College Dublin, both of which he left summa cum laude. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation Samuel Taylor Coleridge 'Christabel'. What is Geraldine? - Many critics have pointed to the presence of ambiguity in Coleridge’s poem Christabel, (May, 1997; Taylor, 2002; Russett, 2003) and it is this facet, perhaps, that has ensured its enduring appeal to readers and critics since its composition. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation Consider the relationship between the civilian and warfare in the second world war - The phrase War is hell derived from General William Tecumseh Sherman’s speech of 1880 at the Ohio State Fair where he stated. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation How useful is postcolonial and/or feminist theory to our understanding of the themes of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - This essay will discuss the way in which Wide Sargasso Sea interacts with the ideas of postcolonial and feminist thinking. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation 'A novel that is both moving and terrifying'. How far does this description accord with your experience in reading 'The Handmaid's Tale'? The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood is a novel that perhaps surprisingly falls into the varying categories of science fiction, dystopian, feminist and political. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation Compare and Contrast the presentation of Stevens in 'The Remains of the Day' (Kazuo Ishiguro) and Lucy Honeychurch in 'Room with a View' (E M Forster) - The loss of self is central to the literary works of Kazuo Ishiguro, a Japan writer of Commonwealth literature, and E. M. Forster, an author of Edwardian England. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation Compare the ways in which horror is presented in birdsong and the poems of the first world war -The Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘horror’ as ‘an intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust.’ Both Owen and Faulks use the experiences of young soldiers to illustrate the horrors of the First World War. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation Compare how Bronte and Rhys treat the Theme of Alienation in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea reworks the nineteenth century novel Jane Eyre by focusing on the story of Bertha Mason’s character. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation What uses does Lodge make of intertextuality in Nice Work? - When answering this question, it should be pointed out that intertextuality as it is commonly understood as a critical theory is little thought as a device which a person can adopt to his or her advantage. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation Shakespeare's Coriolanus concentrating on the importance of acceptance and 'denial' (or rejection) that runs throughout the play and considering it as shaping the tragedy of Coriolanus - Coriolanus is a play that deals, to a very great extent, with issues of socio-political and psychological identity formation. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation Discuss the place of the 'secret', and/or of that which is hidden, in Bronte's Jane Eyre and Freud's Negation - Psychoanalysis has long been used as a basis with which to understand literary texts and vice versa; Freud himself used a number of texts to both explore and highlight his ideas. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation Examine the presentation of tragic dilemmas in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and 'Titus Andronicus' - The nature of dilemma dictates a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two alternatives, often bringing undesirable consequences regardless of which alternative is chosen. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation Discuss the ways in which a sense of place informs aesthetic and decadent writing - Decadent and Aesthetic writing was borne of a tumultous period at the end of the nineteenth cenury – a period often referred to as the fin de siecle. Read more

• English Literature Dissertation - 5 Discussion / Conclusions In View Of The Received Data, It Is Obvious That

• English Literature Dissertation - Geoffrey Chaucer's Works, Especially The Canterbury Tales, Are Also Mainly

• English Literature Dissertation - To A Large Extent, Rosalind's Gender Misalignment Cannot Be Considered A

• English Literature Dissertation - 40). Switching The Gender Role Of Dominance And Rapier Intellect, Rosalind Is

• English Literature Dissertation - 97). While None Of Shakespeare's Female Protagonists Were Intentionally

• English Literature Dissertation - Applying To Such Portrayal, Chaucer Simultaneously Shows The Inability Of

• English Literature Dissertation - As Chaucer's Protagonist Loses Her Virginity, She Simultaneously Loses Her

• English Literature Dissertation - As A Woman, Viola Discovers That She Can Find No Work, A Situation

• English Literature Dissertation - A Study Of The Transgressive Nature Of Cross-dressing In Comedies Of William

• English Literature Dissertation - Celia's Attraction To Rosalind Surfaces At Several Junctures, Appearing Again

• English Literature Dissertation - In Knight's Tale, Miller's Tale, And The Wife Of Bath Geoffrey Chaucer

• English Literature Dissertation - In Ode To A Nightingale The Poet Opposes The Narrator's Life To Song's

• English Literature Dissertation - In Short, Female Characters That Pass For Men Pose More Of A Threat To

• English Literature Dissertation - Orsino Assures Who He Believes To Be Cesario That Olivia Can Surely Be

• English Literature Dissertation - Oxford Guides To Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales. Oxford, Oxford University

• English Literature Dissertation - She Wistfully Wonders In An Aside How She Could So Quickly Catch The Plague;

• English Literature Dissertation - The Difference Between The Two, However, Is Key; Orlando Is Excluded By

• English Literature Dissertation - The Issue Of Youth And Age In Geoffrey Chaucer And John Keats 2006 Table Of