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Eskinita and Other Poems Eskinita and Other Poems is a collection of poems and sequences with Manila as its context and the city walker as its key figure. An eskinita - a Tagalog diminution of the Spanish word esquina, which means "corner" - is a term used to refer to sidestreet…

Tradition is a modern idea, designating a cultural totality with which one presumably stands in an objective--if also engaging--relation; serving as a key term for many historical studies, it is especially indispensable to the study of religion which, in distinction from theolog…

This dissertation examines the purposeful limitations George Eliot places on her protagonist Dorothea Brooke’s ambition in Middlemarch. Though typical scholarly readings have taken Eliot to task for preventing her heroines from realizing the kind of freedom, mobility, and profes…