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En este artículo se ofrece un análisis de la época histórica en la que vivió Lady Ann Fanshawe -la Inglaterra del siglo XVII-, utilizando un enfoque neohistoricista y tomando como fuente primaria su autobiografía, escrita entre 1676 y... more
Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus strongly incorporates a fundamental conflict between what we want really from this universe and what we search in the universe, defining a clash between existence and being as non-existence. Though the... more
In The Body in Mystery, Jennifer R. Rust takes the political concept of the mystical body of the commonwealth, back to the corpus mysticum of the medieval church. Rust argues that the communitarian ideal of sacramental sociality had a far... more
Alberico Gentili (San Ginesio 1552 - Londra 1608) studia presso l’Università di Perugia dove si laurea in diritto civile il 23 settembre 1572. Nel 1580 è costretto a fuggire dall’Italia, per motivi religiosi, per giungere a Londra in... more
This paper illustrates a tradition of English renaissance stage characters that read or carry books on stage. Each of these characters exhibits a mental illness or mental deficiency of some sort. The paper argues that the book is... more
This dissertation seeks to analyse the dual nature of Satan in John Milton’s Paradise Lost. The Introduction will first establish the standpoint of the dissertation, which views Satan as the tragic hero-villain of the epic, and it will... more
Oroonoko’s failed revenge attempt against Byam in Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave is troubling. Oroonoko’s failure does not seem to fit his character. He is powerful, honorable, honest, intelligent and beautiful. Aphra Behn establishes... more
Aphra Behn was not a non-conformist--she remained faithful to the Church of England--but her contribution to the articulation of women's literary authority can and should be understood through her figure of the poet-prophet, an identity... more
I use Hamlet to test the proposition that evolutionary psychology can advance on the common understanding embodied in the best of traditional humanist criticism. I develop Bradley's insight into Hamlet's depression by assimilating recent... more
This research paper aims to explore some common examples of Seventeenth and Eighteenth century British satire as presented in John Wilmot’s poem “A Satire Against Reason and Mankind” (1679) and Jonathan Swift’s book Gulliver’s Travels... more
This is my doctoral dissertation, which I completed in the Fall of 2016. It focuses on the allegorical form in late-17th-century and eighteenth-century England.
I föreliggande PM kommer jag att göra en analys och tolkning av Carl Jonas Love Almqvists Drottningens juvelsmycke. Den inleds med en narrativanalys, fortsätter med en tolkning av romanen i allmänhet och Tintomara-gestalten i synnerhet.... more
The Odes of Casimire, an edition of translations of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski’s Latin lyrics with facing originals appeared in London in 1646, published by Humphrey Moseley. The little volume seems at first glance an exemplary case of a... more
The 17th-century University of Oxford was plagued by an extremely insulting Latin commencement speaker known as the terrae filius, or "son of the earth." The speakers were routinely expelled from the university, while manuscript copies... more
For more than four centuries, cultural preferences, literary values, critical contexts, and personal tastes have governed readers’ responses to Shakespeare’s sonnets. Early private readers often considered these poems in light of the... more
Reading Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688) as a creative intervention into philosophical debates about political obligation allows us to understand its critical contribution to the acute crisis confronting English subjects during the Glorious... more
The original epistolary form of a significant letter in English published by the prolific author and autodidact Tho. Tryon in 1700, three years before his death, is here introduced, transformed, and editorially regularized into a... more
It would seem a commonsense and logical beginning to ask of any writer what he meant by the words he wrote, and yet today in university English courses that is no longer the dominant literary way of investigating fiction. What follows is... more
Author and publisher of the 'Poor Robin' almanacks, William Winstanley played an important part in the revival of the celebration of Christmas after the Restoration.
This article examines the value that Burton not only attributes to study as a cure for melancholy but also induces by prescription. Burton’s seemingly superficial style of survey in The Anatomy of Melancholy models an alternative to those... more
Anne Duprat, « Survivre au désastre. Récits personnels de peste et de naufrage (XIVe-XVIIe siècles). Preuve et stratégie du témoignage », paru dans F. Lavocat (dir.), "Ecrire le désastre. Pestes, incendies, naufrages (XVI-XVIIe siècles)"... more
Milton’s first commissioned treatise for the commonwealth, Articles of Peace ... Upon all which are added Observations (1649) has attracted relatively little critical comment and fewer kind words. His attack on the Irish has been seen as... more
James Shirley's masque The Triumph of Peace is more than a celebration of Charles I's kingship, but rather balances flattery with criticism both as a result of Shirley's own political beliefs and those of his commissioners at the Inns of... more
Writing has historically proved to be an outlet for power. The assertion of authority holds more credibility in the written word than it does when spoken. Making thoughts tangible on a page rather than phonetically persuasive by word of... more
Scholarship examining the significance of space in Richardson’s novels is comprehensive. Karen Lipsedge, for instance, examines “the relationship which Richardson establishes between domestic space, garden buildings and gender.” However,... more
A collection of existential poems with illustrations by Raoof Haghighi, a UK artist whose work is exhibited in the British National Portrait Gallery.
The present paper discusses issues resulting from religious differences between the author and the translator, and influence of such differences upon resulting literary translations which are not only the translation from one language... more
This study seeks to restore the causal role of religion to its proper place in the story of Oliver Cromwell s invasion and subsequent occupation of Scotland. Through analysis of the polemical tracts produced by both the Scots and the... more
TELJES SZÖVEG: http://uj.apertura.hu/2017/nyar/maczelka-kabbala-tudomany-es-utopia-margaret-cavendish-es-a-the-blazing-world-1666/ A jelen dolgozat Margaret Cavendish The Blazing World (1666/1668) című utópiáját értelmezi az utópikus... more
This conference was held May 27–28, 2016 at Taipei Tech. Literary history is full of forgetting—both forced and natural. Manuscripts and books have been forgotten as a result of conquest, language changes, and politics. Other texts... more
If the Apocalypse was a dream vision emanating from the ancient Near East, why not interpret it via a dream book also emanating from the ancient Near East? Such was the contention of the theologian Joseph Mede in 1632, and the dream book... more