Johnson's Quarrel with Swift

Johnson's Part in the Swiftian Tradition

by Jordan P. Richman

Samuel Johnson included in his Lives of the Poets a "Life of Jonathan Swift." His friends, including his biographer, believed he had formed a prejudice against Swift's life and works. They were relieved to find that Johnson's biography of Swift was fair and judicious, indeed. This dissertation shows the ...

The New Woman Novelist and the Redefinition of the Female

Marriage, Sexuality and Motherhood

by Adeline Carrie Koscher

The turn of the nineteenth century saw a change in the perception of woman's nature. Trying to salvage a female self-identity from the distorted version of the preceding Victorian era, New Woman novelists attempted to tease out of a morass of social dictates of femininity a genuine female nature. In their novels they ...

Postmodern Existentialism in Mervyn Peake's Titus Books

by Lauren R. Moss

Much of the discussion about Peake's Titus Books has been about how to place them in the lexicon of English literature. I am proposing that these books should be read as works of postmodern existentialism.

Both postmodern theory and existential theory are interested in the same issues, such as the loss of grand ...

Language and Gender

Analyzing Interaction in a Brazilian Portuguese and English Language Mixed-sex ...

by Fernando Cezar Melo de Oliveira

This dissertation attempts to investigate some interactional features in the conversation of women and men taking into account verbosity, turn-taking, use of standard forms, directness and assertiveness. To do so, an ethnographic method of natural conversation video-recording was utilized within a group of 2 female ...

A Tale of Two Cities in Arabic Translation

by Fatima Muhammad Muhaidat

This study investigates the problems translators encounter when rendering features of Dickens's style in A Tale of Two Cities into Arabic. Examples of these features are singled out and analyzed. Then, they are compared with their counterparts in published translations of the novel in Arabic. The comparisons ...

Telicity and the Syntax-Semantics of the Object and Subject

by Miren J. Hodgson

This dissertation presents a study on the acquisition of telicity by Spanish and English native speakers. In addition to the study of acquisition, it investigates the syntactic and semantic properties of locatum constructions (e.g., the water filled the bucket), which are sentences that contain two internal arguments ...

Dynamics and Transparency in Vowel Harmony

by Stefan Benus

This dissertation examines the phonological patterning as well as phonetic characteristics of transparent vowels in Hungarian palatal vowel harmony. Traditionally, these vowels are assumed to be excluded from participating in harmony alternations. The experimental data presented in this dissertation run contrary to ...

Certain Terms Relating to Islamic Observances

Their Meanings with Reference to Three Translations of the Qur’an and a Translation ...

by Bakri H. S. Al-Azzam

This study aims to discuss a number of terms dealing with ibadat, ‘religious observances’ in Islam as represented in the Five Pillars of Islam, and other related deeds, from a translational perspective. The study will also include some terms denoting the times, places and persons required to perform these deeds and ...