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A Comparative Analysis of "Guy of Warwick" and "Engelhard" in Light of Their History and Contemporary Mode of Thought (England, Germany).
(1984)
The dissertation analyzes the major narrative structure of two medieval verse romances, Guy of Warwick (author unknown) in Middle English (12,000 lines), a translation from Anglo-Norman of about 1240, but found in the ...
The 'Energeia-Kinesis' Distinction and Aristotle's Theory of Action.
(1981)
A basic feature of Aristotle's theory of action is a distinction between energeiai and kineseis. Roughly speaking, kineseis are goal-oriented processes such as learning something or building a house. Energeiai, on the other ...
Rational Creatures: the Process of Fictionalizing in Jane Austen's Novels.
(1982)
Jane Austen's novels are not novels of education in the traditionally limited sense, for her heroines become not only social creatures but rational "imaginists" who, by learning an active process of "reading" through ...
Conventions of Characterization in Samuel Richardson's Personal, Model, and Fictive Letters (England).
(1984)
The study of characterization in Richardson's letters has been traditionally confined to his epistolary novels. Such a restricted corpus, however, cannot show what changes Richardson had to make when moving from one kind ...
Dictionary of Spanish American Racial Terms.
(1984)
Dictionaries of New World Spanish dialects abound. Lexicographers have interested themselves with every aspect of life including flora, fauna, family relations, etc., in the various regions and countries. There exists, ...