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I
have studied English Language and Linguistics at the Eφtvφs Lσrαnd University
Faculty of Arts (ELTE BTK), Department of English Literature and Linguistics
(DELL) in Budapest. Due to my deep involvement in philosophy I was more
attracted to literature and especially mysticism and mystic poetry. Therefore
I have specialized on the British mystics, such as John Milton and William
Blake.
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In my thesis I carry out a close-reading of
William Blakes The Book of Urizen. My analysis observes the
accordance between Blakes work and the hermetic traditions, especially
on the philosophical side. In my analyses I draw immediate parallels
between Blakes visionary work and the teachings of various mystic and
hermetic traditions and outline the obvious correspondences of the two. My
aim is not to find immediate historical or referential links between the
poem and the mystic teachings, but to reveal the possible meaning
of the visionary epic. I wish to show the connections between Blake's
visionary poetry as art and formulated philosophies both depicting the
same universal truths. My point is to show the universality of the ideas
expressed. |
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Therefore I draw immediate analogies from
the traditions and teachings of Gnosticism, Neoplatonism and Greek
mythology, the Sumerian and Persian mythology, Hermetic philosophy,
Alchemy and Occultism, the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism, and some Eastern
examples from Hindu, Buddhist and Chinese philosophy. I also draw
parallels with the Bible and John Milton's Paradise Lost.
Furthermore, I don't only give a complex
analyses of Blake's The Book of Urizen, but also William Blake the
visionary mystic. That is why chapters I & II are included. Altogether
my work is a tribute to the great master of poetry, William Blake himself
the seer of universal truths. |
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The
Book of Urizen is
Blake's Genesis, and the core of his Bible of Hell, re-shaping the Fall
and the Creation of the physical universe. It is also the locus for his
mythology in 'A Song of Liberty', America, Europe, The
Song of Los, The Book of Ahania and The Book of Los, all
of which rest on the ideas presented in this poem. Urizen, like Milton's
Satan, was an angel enjoying the immoral life, though among democracy of
immortals. He is not cast out for rebellion against law, but separates
himself by demanding that Law be established. Los, the immortal artist,
emerges to define, clarify and make sense of the disaster, by the power of
imagination. Blake works in many more allusions. Los becomes Adam, and
Enitharmon his Eve. Orc is born to her, like Cain, but also the Serpent. |
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storyline of the poem is as follows: Urizen
a god of Reason who separates himself from other Eternals, demands
obedience to his self-proclaimed principles, and falls into Chaos is
an abstract, vain and punitive deity. A body is created for him by Los,
'the eternal prophet' or Divine Imagination. But Los, exhausted, divides
into male (Los) and female (Enitharmon).
Their child Orc
who represents Rebellious Energy is born but immediately chained
to a rock. Urizen then explores his deadly world, and mankind shrinks up
from Eternity. Finally, some of Urizen's children begin an exodus. |
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Here is the content of my thesis-paper:
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Table
of Contents |
| I.
Introducing
William Blake
.....4-25. |
| II.
Major Influences
.....26-42. |
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The
Romantic period
.......26-28. |
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·
The
Poets of Early-Romanticism
..............28-30. |
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Mysticism
and Romanticism
.....30-31. |
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·
Protestant
mysticism
..................31-33. |
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·
Political
radicalism
.
................33-36. |
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·
Neoplatonism
....................36-37. |
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·
Freemasonry
and Secret Societies
...............37-39. |
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·
The
New Church
.................39-42. |
| III.
The Book of Urizen
.....43-47. |
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The
Chapters
..........48-72. |
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·
Preludium
..................48-50. |
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·
Chapter
I. - Urizen
.
..............50-52. |
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·
Chapter
II. Prior to Existence
.
.............53-56. |
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·
Chapter
III. Grasping Subsistence
.
...........57-59. |
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·
Chapter
IV. Taking Form
.
............59-62. |
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·
Chapter
V. Foundations of Life
.
.............63-65. |
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·
Chapter
VI. Generation
.
..............65-67. |
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·
Chapter
VII. Chains of Being
.
..............67-78. |
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·
Chapter
VIII. The Material World
............69-71. |
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·
Chapter
IX. The Human Race
.
..............71-72. |
| Appendix:
William
Blake The Book of Urizen
.73-84. |
| Bibliography
.........85-88. |
| List
of Plates
.
.........89. |
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Course
Description
MA equivalent course in English Literature and Linguistics
(Autumn 1993 Autumn
1996 (Degree in 2000))
Introductory courses
(10 courses. 19 hours)
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Code
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Name
of Course
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Teacher
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Grade
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AN-102/c
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Language
Practice I.
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Mαrta Pellιrdi
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A level (5)
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AN-104/c
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Professional
Language Use I.
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Martin Baker
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A
level (5)
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AN-106/i
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Language
Practice II.
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Pellιrdi Mαrta
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A
level (5)
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AN-108/a
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Professional
Language Use II.
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Dr. Walanne Steele
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A
level (5)
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AN-111/a
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Introduction
to British-American Literature
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Prof. Aladαr Sarbu.
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C
level (3)
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AN-112/g
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Intro to
British-American Literature seminar
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Dσra Csikσs ts.
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A
level (5)
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AN-121
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Intro to
British-American Culture & History
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Tamαs
Magyarits.
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C
level (3)
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AN-141
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Introduction
to English Linguistics
|
Pιter Lαzαr
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B
level (4)
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AN-142/j
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Introduction
to English Linguistics seminar
|
Pιter Szigetvαri
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B
level (4)
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AN-199
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Intermediate
English Language Exam
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B
level (4)
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Main courses
(24 courses 38 hours)
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Code
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Name
of Course
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Teacher
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Grade
|
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AN-204/e
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Language
development 1. (Film
and Culture)
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Julie Gray
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A
level (5)
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AN-206/f
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Language
development 2. (Journalism)
|
Edit Kontra
|
B
level (4)
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AN-208/b
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Language
development 3. (Media Studies)
|
Antonia Burrow
|
A
level (5)
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AN-211
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English
poetry
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Dr. Gyυzυ Ferencz
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B
level (4)
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AN-212/i
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English
poetry seminar
|
Krisztina Szalay
|
A
level (5)
|
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AN-213
|
English
novel and fiction
|
Gizella Kocztur
|
D
level (2)
|
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AN-214/g
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English
novel and fiction seminar
|
Judit Friedrich
|
A
level (5)
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AN-215
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English
drama
|
Erzsιbet Zombory.
|
B
level (4)
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AN-216/c
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English
drama seminar
|
Dσra Csikσs
|
A
level (5)
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AN-221
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History
of England I.
|
Miklσs Lojkσ
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C
level (3)
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AN-223
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History
of England II.
|
Andrea Velich
|
C
level (3)
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AN-231
|
American
Literature
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Michael Blumenthal
|
A
level (5)
|
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AN-232/i
|
American
Literature seminar
|
Zsσfia Bαn
|
A
level (5)
|
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AN-233
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History
of the USA
|
Tamαs Magyarits.
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D
level (2)
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AN-241
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English
Phonetics and Phonology
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Tφrkenczy / Nαdasdy
|
D
level (2)
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AN-242/e
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English
Phonetics and Phonology seminar
|
Pιter Siptαr
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C
level (3)
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AN-243
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English
Phrasal Syntax
|
Lαszlσ Varga
|
D
level (2)
|
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AN-244/g
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English
Phrasal Syntax seminar
|
Lajos Marosαn
|
B
level (4)
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AN-245
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English
Clausal Syntax
|
Ιva Stephanides
|
D
level (2)
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AN-246/d
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English
Clausal Syntax seminar
|
Pιter Lαzαr
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C
level (3)
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AN-251
|
History
of the English Language and Dialects
|
Veronika Kniezsa
|
D
level (2)
|
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AN-252/g
|
History of
English Lang. and Dialects seminar
|
Αdαm Nαdasdy
|
D
level (2)
|
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AN- 261
|
English
Applied Linguistics
|
Judit Zerkowitz
|
D
level (2)
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AN-299
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English
Language Comprehensive Exam
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D
level (2)
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Specialized courses
(13 courses. 22 hours)
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Code
|
Name
of Course
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Teacher
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Grade
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AN-312.05
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Literature
spec. sem. (Guilt and Suffering
)
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Ildikσ Lαnyi
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A+
level (5)
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AN-322.03
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Literature
spec. sem. (Multicultural Mosaic)
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John Drew
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A
level (5)
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AN-332.14
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American spec.
sem. (The Vietnam Syndrome)
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Tamαs Magyarits
|
A
level (5)
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AN-351.01
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Linguistics
spec. sem. (History of Spelling.)
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Veronika Kniezsa
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A
level (5)
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AN-352.07
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Linguistics
spec. sem. (Middle English)
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Veronika Kniezsa.
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A
level (5)
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AN-366.12
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Spec.sem.1.
(19th century Australian Literature)
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Carl Whitehouse
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A
level (5)
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AN-374.13
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Spec.sem.2.
(Patrick White)
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Carl Whitehouse
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A
level (5)
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AN-322.09
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Spec.sem.3.
(Cambridge poetry loft)
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John Drew
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A
level (5)
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AN-322.14
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Spec.sem.4.
(Pre-Raphaelites English painting)
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Ιva Pιteri
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A
level (5)
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AN-312.23
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Spec.sem.5.
(William Blake)
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Αgnes Pιter
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A
level (5)
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AN-312.48
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Spec.sem.6.
(John Milton - Paradise Lost)
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Mark Thomas
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C
level (3)
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AN-322.19
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Spec.sem.7.
(The Death of Poetry)
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Drew & Ferencz
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A
level (5)
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AN-500
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Dissertation: "William
Blake The Book of Urizen" |
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A
level (5)
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AN-501
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Comprehensive
Final Exam
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B
level (4)
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Index
No.: XLVI-0884/93
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Essays
Literature
 | William
Blake The Book of Urizen (MA Thesis)
[March 2000] |
| Miltons Pradise Lost
- The Fall of Man [Autumn 1996]
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| The Psychology of Crime
in Edgar Alan Poes writings [Autumn 1995]
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| The new era of America :
Walt Whitman [Autumn 1994]
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| W.B. Yeats - Purgatory
[Spring 1994]
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| H.P. Lovecraft - The
Cthulhu Myth [Spring 1994]
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| William Shakespeare -
Sonnet XCIV [Spring 1994]
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Ode to the West Wind [Autumn 1993]
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Linguistics
| Text analyses of
Intended Lease for Life 1420 [Spring 1996]
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| The etymology of paradise,
dough, and fiction [Autumn 1994]
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| Heads (Linguistic
difficulties of Percolation) [Spring 1995]
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| Parts of Speech [Spring
1995]
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| Stress in the English
language [Autumn 1994]
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| English affixes [Autumn
1993]
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British-American
Culture
| Contemporary British
Mosaic (5 short essays) : Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day ; Timothy
Mo - Sour Sweet ; John Agard - English Girl Eats Her First Mango ; Stephen
Poliakoff - Coming into Land ; Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses [Autumn
1995]
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| Nam on the Net
[Spring 1996]
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| William Holman Hunt -
The Lady of Shalott [Spring 1996]
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| Bias in the Media
[Autumn 1994]
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| Personal Relationships
in the U.S. - based on the films Manhattan and
When
Harry met Sally [Autumn 1994]
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| 4 Short Essays : Bright
and Beautiful - Environmental Problems ; Freedom of Speech ; Religion or
Faith? ; Capital Punishment
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Nationalism
and National Minorities [Spring 1994]
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