The Earth, the Pillar and the Stone: Does Testing the Female Mean Empowering the Female in Valmiki’s Ramayana, Shakespeare’s the Winter’s Tale and the Turkish Tale Sitti Nusret?
By: Adriana Raducanu
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|Dec 2012
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Language: English
Page range: 35 - 54
Published on: Dec 28, 2012
Published by: West University of Timisoara
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