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... The love theme and its specific treatment , which plays a central role as a generic characteristic in ancient and Byzantine romance writing , will serve as a linking element between the more conventional and the innovative texts .
... The love theme and its specific treatment , which plays a central role as a generic characteristic in ancient and Byzantine romance writing , will serve as a linking element between the more conventional and the innovative texts .
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For within the group of the “ biographical ” texts , the love theme plays an important part , but it is not as central as ... The scene of the initiation of the hero is a proleptic indicator as to the role love will play in the plot.37 ...
For within the group of the “ biographical ” texts , the love theme plays an important part , but it is not as central as ... The scene of the initiation of the hero is a proleptic indicator as to the role love will play in the plot.37 ...
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But if their beauty plays a role at all it is a negative one because it makes them attractive and thus vulnerable to male desires , and to attacks on their virtue . Beauty is definitely not the heroines ' only asset and does not ...
But if their beauty plays a role at all it is a negative one because it makes them attractive and thus vulnerable to male desires , and to attacks on their virtue . Beauty is definitely not the heroines ' only asset and does not ...
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problems of defining | 1 |
Women and gender roles in Modern Greek folktales | 21 |
a question of | 43 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Kampos: Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek, Issue 7 |
| Contributor | University of Cambridge. Modern Greek Section |
| Publisher | Modern Greek Section, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge, 1999 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Apr 2008 |
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