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Showing 1 to 20 of 3885 for “""The House of Mirth""”.
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Artistic (mis)representation and commodity culture in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The House of Mirth
… (Mis)representation and Commodity Culture in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The House of Mirth" attempts to establish a trans-Atlantic connection between authors Oscar Wilde and Edith Wharton by considering the manner in which each author's respective protagonist relates to art, commodities, …
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The Effect of Mentorship: A Test of Strength and Survival in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie & Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth
<p>In this thesis, I will compare the role of Mentorship in the lives of protagonists Lily Bart of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, and Carrie Meeber of Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie. Both Lily and Carrie experience life altering events that force them into unfamiliar roles amidst the …
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The Disillusion of Marriage: The Failing Quest for Happiness in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, Summer, and The Custom of the Country
Within most narratives involving women, they start with the pursuit of marriage and end with a happily married woman. Within her novels, Edith Wharton works to demonstrate the flaws of this understanding and present a question on the possibility of female happiness. By specifically looking at The …
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A New Man: Masculine Confusion and Struggle in the Works of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton’s male characters offer an important commentary on the evolving situation of the man in American society. Wharton did not wish for women to usurp all social positions from men but rather to claim their rightful position alongside them. Characters such as Lawrence Selden in <i>The …
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The secret smile: Mirth and humor in the tales and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne
… for literary criticism has assigned to him the role of a melancholy, reclusive descendant of Puritans who explores and expounds the evil that lurks in the heart of man. In spite of this grave characterization, initiated by Melville in the critical essay "Hawthorne and his Mosses" and …
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Suburban House (The Language of a House)
Houses convey meaning and invoke architectural as well as social responses in people. While a traditional-appearing home may invoke social nostalgia, the impression one has is soon infected by the material deception that holds up a confused linguistical display. The typical house is not …
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Mirth Matters: Creating the role of Beatrice In William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
This thesis serves as documentation of my efforts to explore and define my creative process as an actor in creating the role of Beatrice in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. This includes research, character analysis, rehearsal journal and an evaluation of my performance. Much Ado About …
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House loops: Upcycling the single-family house
The thesis takes the position that the single-family house will soon move into a consumer cycle of disposability similar to that of products like single-use cameras. This analogy suggests a new house type that uses such material and acquisition cycles to its advantage, creating a service loop …
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Old House, New Future: The Quiet Revival of the Shotgun House
Shotgun houses (“shotguns”) are the most widely acknowledged expressions of African-American architectural design in the United States. They are New World constructions, rooted in indigenous African architectural and spatial traditions and influenced by American Indian and European building …
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Lily Bart and Isabel Archer: Women Free to Choose Lifestyles or Victims of Fate?
<p> <p>This thesis argues that Isabel Archer of Henry James’s novel The Portrait of a Lady and Lily Bart of Edith Wharton’s novel The House of Mirth were nineteenth-century characters struggling to assert their social and sexual independence in a male dominated society. Although Isabel inherits a …
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The garden house
The Garden House is a collection of poems on love, loss, and toads. Three main sections explore the primary speaker’s journey through “The Real World,” “Frog Fortunes + Toad Tellings,” and “Garden House.” “The Real World” acts as an introduction to the speaker’s family and experiences. It …
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The small house
The dissertation is in the form of a novel. It is the story about Tina Moyo, a 31-year old middle-class woman living in contemporary Zimbabwe in the year 2006. She is happily married to a successful financial director, Andile Moyo, and she enjoys a life of privilege in a country where the economic …
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The Half House
The Half House is a study in architectural form. The ideal Form is necessarily cubic. The program is the vital form of the house. The means of formal study is subtractive, geometric, and symbolic.
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The Cube House
My thesis is about how to solve the social problem of lack of family communication. This problem happens to me, and I believe happens to some others as well. To solve the problem, I used architectural methods to build a residence for my family that encourages communication. These methods can help …
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The House Dreams
A collection of stories and novella which explore religion, the female psyche, and female/male relationships.
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The dwelling house
Why she returned she did not know
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