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Balinese language: Historical background and contemporary state.
(1988)
The thesis deals with the historical background and synchronic state of Modern Balinese, with special attention to differences of discourse-syntactic organization between the "Low" (biasa/kasar) and "High" (alus) speech ...
England's "Best Birthright": Inheritance as Law and Theology in Early Modern English Literature.
(2010)
This dissertation studies Early Modern English representations of inheritance. Proceeding from the observation that law and theology are intertwined discourses in the period, it examines how legal and theological accounts ...
Hacia Una Caracterizacion De Las "Silvas" De Quevedo (Y Edicion Critica De Poemas Escogidos). (Spanish Text).
(1986)
This dissertation focuses on Quevedo'a Silvas, a series of thirty-four poems modelled after Statius' Silvae. Its purpose is twofold: to offer both an overall characterization of the collection and a detailed examination ...
Tennessee Williams' Late Style: the Aging Playwright and His Imagination.
(1984)
The later plays of the American playwright Tennessee Williams have received considerably less critical attention than his earlier, more popular plays, such as A Streetcar Named Desire. During his later period, from 1961 ...
The Crossroads of the Underworld and Intertextual Practices: Carnival, Discursive Formations, and the Archaeology of Domination in Nineteenth-Century Literature. (Volumes I and II) (Dickens, Nietzsche, Balzac; England , Germany, France).
(1987)
"The journey to the l and of the dead," "the evocation of the shades," and "the descent to the underworld" represent modalities of a single story whose emergence in literary texts of the modern era is best understood as a ...
Soviet Satire After the Thaw: Tvardovskij, Solzenicyn, Vojnovic and Iskander.
(1986)
Although the early part of the twentieth century produced a variety of inventive satirical works on themes peculiar to Soviet culture, the doctrine of socialist realism promulgated under Stalin effectively obviated genuine ...