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...Francis F. Steen Given her influential and decidedly liberal feminist social agenda, Aphra Behn's political convictions during the struggles of the 1680s between Parliament and Charles II have struck several critics as incongruously reactionary. This essay proposes a partial resolution...

...Alan Richardson; Francis F. Steen © 2002 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2002 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Behn, Aphra 1687 The Lucky Chance; or, An Alderman's Bargain (London...

... consideration of Aphra Behn’s Love-Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister It seems necessary that any cognitive literary study would be trying to reveal underlying, which is to say unconscious, reasons for some manifest element of the text. This is what will make cognitive literary study interest...

... Press . Tomasello Michael Carpenter Malinda Call Josep Behne Tanya Moll Henrike 2005 . “ Understanding and Sharing Intentions: The Origins of Cultural Cognition .” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 , no. 5 : 675 – 91 . Trehub Sandra E . 2003 . “ Musical...

..., singles out Aphra Behn — not Lafayette — as the pioneering figure, since Behn’s novelistic strategy was to internalize the dramatic monologue, a long-standing conventional technique for displaying a character’s hidden intentions onstage. Yet if we wish to trace emergent modern narrative modes...

... focalization. Here, too, Stanzel’s analysis comes quite close to iden- tifying IFA but without taking the final step of actually declaring the reports to be internally focalized.46 Fludernik (1996: 153–55) discusses a passage from Aphra Behn’s ‘‘The History of the Nun’’ (1689), written in the past tense...

... [1984] Flaubert's Parrot (London: Picador). Behn, Aphra 1998 [1688] Oroonoko and Other Writings (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Bell, David F. 1993 Circumstances: Chance in the Literary Text (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press). Biard, J. D. 1988 “Chance Encounters...

...,” with chapters on works by Geoffrey Chaucer (The Miller’s Tale) and Aphra Behn (Oroonoko); “Eighteenth Century,” with chapters on novels by Daniel Defoe (Moll Flanders), Samuel Richardson (Pamela), and Henry Fielding (Tom Jones); “Premodern and Modernist,” with chapters on narrative works by Charles Dickens...

... Medieval and Early Modern,” with chapters on works by Geoffrey Chaucer (The Miller’s Tale) and Aphra Behn (Oroonoko); “Eighteenth Century,” with chapters on novels by Daniel Defoe (Moll Flanders), Samuel Richardson (Pamela), and Henry Fielding (Tom Jones); “Premodern and Modernist,” with chapters...

.... The book’s main subdivision is chrono- logical, yielding four sections: “Late Medieval and Early Modern,” with chapters on works by Geoffrey Chaucer (The Miller’s Tale) and Aphra Behn (Oroonoko); “Eighteenth Century,” with chapters on novels by Daniel Defoe (Moll Flanders), Samuel Richardson (Pamela...

...: “Late Medieval and Early Modern,” with chapters on works by Geoffrey Chaucer (The Miller’s Tale) and Aphra Behn (Oroonoko); “Eighteenth Century,” with chapters on novels by Daniel Defoe (Moll Flanders), Samuel Richardson (Pamela), and Henry Fielding (Tom Jones); “Premodern and Modernist...

... subdivision is chrono- logical, yielding four sections: “Late Medieval and Early Modern,” with chapters on works by Geoffrey Chaucer (The Miller’s Tale) and Aphra Behn (Oroonoko); “Eighteenth Century,” with chapters on novels by Daniel Defoe (Moll Flanders), Samuel Richardson (Pamela), and Henry Fielding...

... subdivision is chrono- logical, yielding four sections: “Late Medieval and Early Modern,” with chapters on works by Geoffrey Chaucer (The Miller’s Tale) and Aphra Behn (Oroonoko); “Eighteenth Century,” with chapters on novels by Daniel Defoe (Moll Flanders), Samuel Richardson (Pamela), and Henry Fielding...

..., yielding four sections: “Late Medieval and Early Modern,” with chapters on works by Geoffrey Chaucer (The Miller’s Tale) and Aphra Behn (Oroonoko); “Eighteenth Century,” with chapters on novels by Daniel Defoe (Moll Flanders), Samuel Richardson (Pamela), and Henry Fielding (Tom Jones); “Premodern...

..., yielding four sections: “Late Medieval and Early Modern,” with chapters on works by Geoffrey Chaucer (The Miller’s Tale) and Aphra Behn (Oroonoko); “Eighteenth Century,” with chapters on novels by Daniel Defoe (Moll Flanders), Samuel Richardson (Pamela), and Henry Fielding (Tom Jones); “Premodern...

... provides historical back- ground as needed and not only offers a sophisticated argument about the structure of Aphra Behn’s Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister but also uses her text as a test case for the problem of how writers and works mediate between rulers and their subjects—a question...