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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"20th Century Literature"”.
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Gothic heroines and cultural trauma in 20th Century literature and film
Analyzes how 20th Century British writers and Hollywood filmmakers have adapted common features of the Gothic literary tradition - the imperiled but investigative heroine, the attractive but coercive villain, and the portrait of a female predecessor - to address massive traumas that have been …
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Changes in the status and distribution of mammals of the order Carnivora in Yorkshire from 1600. County history of the fox, badger, otter, pine marten, stoat, weasel, polecat, American mink, wildcat and domestic cat.
… local scientific society records and 19th and 20th century literature sources from a wide range of published material, have provided detailed evidence of the status and changes in distribution over the past four centuries in Yorkshire for fox (Vulpes vulpes), badger (Meles meles), otter (Lutra …
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"The worry that you are yourself": Darl's unforgivable neurodiversity in As I lay dying
… of mental illness. The goal of conflating 21st - century social psychology with 20th-century literature is to condemn the atrocities committed against the character of Darl without condemning the character with a diagnosis. Any diagnosis that can be generalized as "madness" is in line with the …
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“THE HOODOO YOU KNEW”: AN AFROCENTRIC (RE)LOCATION OF CONJURE AND HOODOO COSMOLOGY
… Moving beyond the sensationalism of 19th and 20th-century literature and folklorist analyses, this project critically examines the terminology applied to Hoodoo, such as syncretism and creolization, and situates Hoodoo as an extension of African traditional religions and magico-spiritual …
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Domestic faiths, global missions: post-secular science fiction at the millennium
In the late twentieth century, new “post-secular” modes of literary representation emerged that challenged the implicitly Protestant epistemologies of dominant twentieth century American secularism. My dissertation, Domestic Faiths, Global Missions: Post-secular Science Fiction at the Millennium, …
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Post-45 modernism and the problem of author/ity: Experimental anglophone fiction 1945-1975
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Ethical entanglements: human-animal relationships in modern and contemporary Spain
… throughout the twentieth and twenty-first century Spanish literature suggest more inclusive visions of multispecies community? Second, what can these representations of animal protagonists tell us about the ways in which authors might resist hegemonic practices of socially-sanctioned …
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The invention of the graphic novel: underground comix and corporate aesthetics
… in fits and starts throughout the twentieth century, and I argue throughout this dissertation that only by examining the nuances of the publishing history of twentieth-century comics can we fully understand the process by which the graphic novel emerged. In particular, I show that previous …