This thesis investigates the chemical composition of both silver and bronze coinage from the Ptolemaic Dynasty through the use of microwave plasma atomic emissions spectrometry (MP-AES). The aim of this examination is to broaden the understanding of Ptolemaic currency by using t…
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This dissertation examines the genre, narrativity and use of humor in Colonel José Cadalso's 1774 work Cartas marruecas (Moroccan Letters). The Moroccan Letters consists of a fictitious correspondence carried on between three people: Gazel Ben-Aly, a Moroccan youth traveling in …
This study examines the extant letters written by Christians and provenanced to Oxyrhynchus. Ranging in date from the third through seventh centuries and written primarily in Greek these letters collectively provide an invaluable database from which to consider a number of issue…
Children's ability to recognize letters and their corresponding sounds is of primary importance in early reading achievement (Ehri, Nunes, Willows, Schuster, Yaghoub-Zadeh & Shanahan, 2001). One useful strategy used in teaching pre-readers letter-sound relations is mnemonics (Eh…
This is a project in intertextuality. Intertextuality is basically a methodology whose goal is to find quotes, allusions, and echoes of a literary antecedent embedded in the writings of a particular author. In this case, those authors are Ben Sira and Paul who both echo the wisd…
Although Paul is sometimes depicted as anti-rational, he actually assumes in his letters that human reason, with the aid of the Spirit, can achieve genuine religious knowledge. The specific kind of reason which Paul assumes will be fruitful has a distinctly narrative shape. Paul…
The study is a response to an increasingly popular view that New Testament pseudonymity was an innocent literary device that was not intended to deceive. The plausibility of this theory is examined in relation to the disputed letters of Paul. The question to be answered is: "If …
Contemporary research and public discourse have recently drawn attention to the different perspectives of men and women on their social, political and cultural environment. However, when it comes to the topic of the identity and behavior of perpetrators in concentration and exte…
This dissertation examines the genre of the author-published familiar letter to consider the ways in which people come to understand themselves as part of a public, and as actors who might affect the shape of that public. Chapter 1, on Alexander Pope’s Mr. Pope’s Literary Corres…
Poet/Editor/Publisher is an annotated edition of the selected correspondence of Sylvia Beach, publisher and owner of the Shakespeare and Company bookstore, the writer and editor Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman), and her partner, the poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). The years covered…
Analysing a wide range of pre-modern women’s non-fictional life-writing – letters, memoirs, wills – from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, this thesis assesses the authors’ appropriation of mercantile discourse and practice to portray and vindicate various areas of their l…
Censorship has always been viewed by the American military as an essential weapon of warfare. The amounts, and types, of censorship deployed have varied from conflict to conflict. Censorship would reach a peak during America’s involvement in the First World War. The American mil…
In the second half of the sixteenth century, a group of physicians sought to uncover how communicable diseases formed and spread. This group used letters to share information, swap cures, and debate theories. It centered around the imperial physician, Johann Crato von Krafftheim…
This thesis aims to tell the story of James Austin Bowman as he navigated the Western Front during World War I. The thesis utilizes two main types of historical documents: the personal diary and the letters to his wife. During his time on the Western Front, Bowman wrote in a per…