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This thesis examines three key anthologies by Bishop Thomas Percy as a means of discussing ideas of British identity. It is argued here that the imaginative construction of Britain in the century following the Union of 1707 is anthological in its nature, and therefore that antho…

This dissertation is an anthology of "earth-shattering" poetry for young adult readers--generally defined as people between the ages of twelve and twenty. The fifty-five poems collected here span thousands of years, many countries, languages and cultures. There are Sufi, Zen, Ch…

This dissertation examines the genre of literary anthology as a type of adab by focusing on two works, Yatimat al-dahr fi mah[dotbelow]asin ahl al-'as[dotbelow]r [The Unique Pearl Concerning the Merits of Contemporary People] and its sequel, Tatimmat al-Yatima [Completion of the…

This dissertation presents a reading of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that flourished in Beirut between 1955 and 1975. It explores how the poets and theorists of this group, centered around the magazine Shi'r, redefined the parameters of Arabic poetry through their mult…