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The letters of Cassiodorus, chief minister and literary adviser of Amalasuntha, and the histories of Procopius and Jordanes, give us our chief information as to the character of Amalasuntha.
The story of Ratoncito Pérez has been adapted into further literary works and movies since then, with the character of Alfonso XIII appearing in some.
In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (; ) or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood ( coming of age ), and in which character change is thus extremely important.
" Before this, he had published several works on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and its consequences, but his literary capacity was mediocre, his style stiff and cold, and it was his personal character rather than his reputation as a writer that earned him the confidence of the elector.
An interesting literary interpretation of this period of Christianity and the character of Paul can be found in Rudyard Kipling's short story " The Church that was at Antioch ".
Their literary character is not quite clear ; while most of them are adapted for public delivery, not a few bear the character of ecclesiastical pronouncements.
More concerned with the literary nature of Orwell ’ s work, he sought explanations for Orwell's character and treated his first-person writings as autobiographical.
These developments represented a fundamental change in literary criticism, which came to focus more on character and less on plot.
Due to his literary style and the thoroughness of his research — which seemingly included studying Roman imperial archives and heavily relying on Thucydides — and his apparent rigor — for he tended not to support any character or subject, taking an impartial point of view — he was by far the most read and admired historian during the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the early Modern Era.
The first work Jacob Grimm published, Über den altdeutschen Meistergesang ( 1811 ), was of a purely literary character.
However, while the creators of the literary character of Morgan may have been somewhat inspired by the much older tales of the goddess, the relationship ends there.
Structuralistic literary criticism argues that the " literary banter of a text " can lie only in new structure, rather than in the specifics of character development and voice in which that structure is expressed.
* The Picture of Dorian Gray study guide, themes, quotes, literary devices, character analyses, teacher resources
** The first literary character licensing agreement is signed by A.
The term noble savage ( French, bon sauvage ), expresses the concept of an idealized indigene, outsider ( or " other "), and refers to the literary stock character of the same.
Osborne took literary revenge by creating a fictionalised and pseudonymous Richardson — a domineering and arrogant character who everyone hated — in his play Hotel in Amsterdam.
The principal surviving literary sources are Dio Cassius ( a contemporary and sometimes first-hand observer, but for this reign, only transmitted in fragments and abbreviations ), Herodian and the Historia Augusta ( untrustworthy for its character as a work of literature rather than history, with elements of fiction embedded within its biographies ; in the case of Commodus, it may well be embroidering upon what the author found in reasonably good contemporary sources ).
This natural disliking of clowns makes them effective to use in a literary or fictional context, as the antagonistic threat perceived in clowns is desirable in a villainous character.
The character is also a common literary allusion, particularly to refer to a person in an insecure position, something that, once broken, would be difficult to reconstruct, or a short and fat person.
In addition to his appearance in Through the Looking-Glass, as a character Humpty Dumpty has been used in a large range of literary works, including L. Frank Baum's Mother Goose in Prose ( 1901 ), where the rhyming riddle is devised by the daughter of the king, having witnessed Humpty's " death " and her father's soldiers ' efforts to save him.
Today with most of Savonarola ’ s treatises and sermons and many of the contemporary sources – chronicles, diaries, government documents and literary works – available in critical editions, scholars can provide fresh, better informed assessments of his character and his place in the Renaissance, the Reformation and modern European history.

character and allusion
Buckler's character dealt with rebellion and loyalty, with allusion to Frankenstein's monster, in a twelve-issue run.
His line " I'm a doctor, not a door stop ", is an allusion to the Star Trek original series character Dr. Leonard McCoy.
Various objects and places have been named after Sigyn in modern times, including the Norwegian stiff-straw winter wheat varieties Sigyn I and Sigyn II, a Marvel Comics character ( 1978 ) of the same name the Swedish vessel MS Sigyn, which transports spent nuclear fuel in an allusion to Sigyn holding a bowl beneath the venom to spare Loki, and the arctic Sigyn Glacier.
One such specimen, IGM 100 / 980, was nicknamed " Ichabodcraniosaurus " by Norell's team because the fairly complete specimen was found without its skull ( an allusion to the Washington Irving character Ichabod Crane ).
Her nickname, Murasaki, was most probably given at a court dinner in an incident she recorded in her diary: in c. 1008 the well-known court poet Fujiwara no Kintō inquired after the " Young Murasaki "— an allusion to the character named Murasaki in Genji — which would have been considered a compliment from a male court poet to a female author.
But, given the flexibility of allusion in Finnegans Wake HCE assumes the character of Pigott as well, for just as HCE betrays himself to the cad, Pigott betrayed himself at the inquiry into admitting the forgery by his spelling of the word " hesitancy " as " hesitency "; and this misspelling appears frequently in the Wake.
In many versions, even the stroking of his white cat has been retained as a parodic allusion to Blofeld's character, as seen in the Austin Powers film series with the character of Dr.
Murasaki Shikibu's own diary includes a reference to the tale, and indeed the application to herself of the name ' Murasaki ' in an allusion to the main female character.
( whose pilot aired in 2007 and series began in 2008 ), the character of Gary, who always appears with a small yellow bird on his shoulder, is an allusion to Robert Stroud.
While Asher was praised for bringing cases of factitious disorder to light, critics objected variously that a literary allusion was inappropriate given the seriousness of the disease ; that its use of the Anglicized form " Munchausen " showed poor form ; that the name linked the disease with Münchhausen himself, who did not have it ; and that the name's connection to works of humor and fantasy, and to the essentially ridiculous character of the fictionalized Baron, was disrespectful to patients suffering from the disorder.
* The comic strip The Wizard of Id by Johnny Hart and Brant Parker features an attorney called " Larsen E. Pettifogger ", an obvious parody of Fields, named in allusion to Fields's character Larson E. Whipsnade from You Can't Cheat an Honest Man.
He also brings to attention the fact that " Seneca avoids any direct allusion to Cordus's alleged Republican sympathies, whatever their true character may have been.
The character is an AI, and its name is an allusion to John Henry's fight against the machine ; thus the AI was built to destroy Skynet.
It is speculation that Borges adapted the last name from Twain ; and as Twain did not have a first name for the bandit, Borges used Lazarus, many believe as an allusion to the Bible character of the same first name who was raised from the dead by Jesus, symbolizing a second life ( which, in a purely ironic way, Borges ' Lazarus Morrell provided for the slaves he freed ).
It is also known in Brazil as " Vermelhinho " (" Little Red ") and " Polegar Vermelho " (" Red Thumb ") in allusion to the famous fairy tale character Tom Thumb.
Ieyasu Tokugawa, the fictional shogun of Japoness, derives his name and appearance from Tokugawa Ieyasu, while Gerhardt von Faust, führer of Galtland, is an allusion of Adolf Hitler whose name may be derived from Faust, a character of German folklore.
It was also Trissino who gave him the name by which he became known, Palladio, an allusion to the Greek goddess of wisdom Pallas Athene and to a character of a play by Trissino.
Connor said the character needed a wilder, stranger last name, and offered " Godot " -- an allusion to Waiting for Godot, the famous existential play by Samuel Beckett.
* The name of the lead character, Brian Slade, is an allusion to the 1970s glam band, Slade.
The character of Prince Vladimir refers to a generalized “ epic Vladimir ” rather than an allusion to a specific historical Vladimir.
:* Clarissa Dalloway is an allusion to a character of the same name in Virginia Woolf's novel, Mrs. Dalloway.
In the novel A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, the character Omprakash makes and allusion to fighting " like the Naxalites " ( 195 ).

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