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Claims to Universal Possessiveness through Exclusive Discourses Medieval and Early-Modern Narratives of Othering

Creator:

Abu Aiada, Eman

Abstract:

This thesis examines the discursive seeds of the European endeavor to supremacy and dominance by tracing the germination of Eurocentrism and European exceptionalism in two different eras. Through close attention to textuality, I suggest a rhetorical continuity between the medieval and the early modern eras by focusing not directly on...

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Masters Thesis

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, and nations was shaped explicitly through a strong motive to shape English identity and hegemony