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Framed: The Interior Woman Artist-Observer in Modernity.
(2009)
Beginning in fin-de-siécle London and closing with the aged modernism of New York in the 1930s, my project examines the spatial and social possibilities engendered through modernist versions of a pervasive figure in Western ...
Linguistic Analysis of Latvian Death and Burial Folk Songs.
(1981)
This dissertation is a descriptive analysis of Latvian folk song text-building strategies in general, and those of Latvian death and burial folk songs in particular. The chapter begins with an overall review of the creation, ...
Kairos: A Cultural History of Time in the Greek Polis.
(2009)
The history of Greek timekeeping, although it has often been viewed as an aspect of the history of science, has strong social aspects. This dissertation seeks to elucidate the social functions of timekeeping as conducted ...
The Lyrical Subject in the Poetry of Peter Huchel.
(1980)
Peter Huchel's poetry has been ignored in the DDR and overshadowed in the West by interest in other East German poets. Although his poems have been dealt with in a number of shorter articles, there are few extensive studies ...
Narrative Strategies and the "Heptameron" (Margaret of Navarre; France).
(1984)
This study, ostensibly an exercise in reader-response criticism, aims to identify the mode of reception which the text (of the Heptameron) projects as appropriate to itself. The work's self-conception and its situation of ...
The Abbreviated Version of Ayala's Translation of the "Moralia" of St. Gregory the Great: Edition and Study. (Volumes I and II).
(1984)
St. Gregory the Great's Morals on the Book of Job exists in two fourteenth century Spanish translations: one of these is anonymous and the other is known to be the work of Pero Lopez de Ayala. A unique manuscript presenting ...