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Showing 1 to 20 of 1737 for “"20th century"”.
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20th century lipogrammatic novels and their translations
… in translation.The corpus of lipograms since the 20th century in the languages English, French and German includes two French originals and their German and English translations, one untranslated German novel and two English works, one of which has been translated into German. Although extensive …
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Queer-Diva Collaboration in 20th Century Pop Music
This thesis explores the practice of “Queer-Diva collaboration” as it pertains to the work of pop music icons Grace Jones and Annie Lennox. Queer-Diva collaborations are a surprisingly common yet undertheorized artistic phenomena wherein female pop singers co-create music and art with members of …
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A Quest for Spirituality in 20th Century America
… States, in the second part of the twentieth century, is characterized to a great extent by the existence of many new spiritual movements, particularly those of non- western origins. This thesis looks at the relationship between wealth and spirituality in the United States. It argues that the …
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Concealment and revelation: Surrealism's contribution to 20th century portraiture
The aim of the thesis is to consider the surrealist portrait and whether it has added to an understanding of portraiture as a genre. It uses Richard Brilliant's Portraiture (1991) and Shearer West's Portraiture (2004) as points of reference, using the limited examples of surrealist portraiture …
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Universalism and Its Discontents: Konrad Wachsmann's 20th Century Architecture
In 1941, German architect Konrad Wachsmann (1901–1980) emigrated to the U.S. to escape the Second World War. Erstwhile a trained cabinetmaker, the chief architect of one of the largest prefabricated construction companies in Europe, and a private practitioner, Wachsmann brought a particular line of …
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Picturing the peasant : nation and modernity in 20th century Bulgaria
… as a survey of displays of folk culture in the 20th century, but instead focuses each chapter on an important person, movement or organization which best seems to articulate Bulgaria's evolving sense of itself and its place on the edge of Europe. Beginning with a background chapter on the …
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Hélio Oiticica: Politics and Ambivalence in 20th Century Brazilian Art
This study investigates the presence of ambivalence as a strategy of cultural politics from modern to contemporary art in Brazil. It focuses on the development of modern art leading to the work of Hélio Oiticica, whose approach to avant-garde practice in Brazil was concurrent with intense …
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Structural performance of early 20th century masonry high rise buildings
… stock constructed in the early twentieth century. Two pertinent issues have emerged with these structures as they age. The first is the deterioration of the exterior masonry facade, which is largely a result of deficiencies in the construction method of these structures. The second issue …
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Legacies of Early 20th Century Logging in Southern Appalachian Streams
I examined streams in the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock wilderness to determine if streams responded to logging following 75 y of recovery. Joyce Kilmer was never logged and the Slickrock wilderness was logged from 1917 until 1922. Wood was common in unlogged streams and averaged 417 m³ of wood/ha of …
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Confronting the West: Social Movement Frames in 20th Century Iran
… by Iranian groups from the late 19th through the 20th century. Snow and Benford (1992) have proposed that cycles of protest are associated with the development of a movement master frame. This frame is a broad collective orientation that enables people to interpret an event in a more or less …
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A Biological Distance Analysis of 19th -20th -Century Individuals From Myanmar
… military dictatorship for the last half-century, Myanmar is a relatively underrepresented country in the international sphere in many aspects, including anthropological research that explores the biological diversity of the country's human population. As such, the current dissertation …
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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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Phenology in Germany in the 20th century : methods, analyses and models
Die Länge der Vegetationsperiode (VP) spielt eine zentrale Rolle für die interannuelle Variation der Kohlenstoffspeicherung terrestrischer Ökosysteme. Die Analyse von Beobachtungsdaten hat gezeigt, dass sich die VP in den letzten Jahrzehnten in den nördlichen Breiten verlängert hat. Dieses Phänomen …
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Merging 20th Century Art Music and Pre-recorded Sound: 17 Pieces
… and instrumental music, using developments in 20th century western art music to define its context including the compositional practices of Arnold Schoenberg (d.1951), Claude Debussy (d.1918), Nikolai Roslavets (d.1944), Luigi Nono (d.1990), Iannis Xenakis (d.2001) and Natasha Barrett (1972-). …
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Capitalizing on literacy: federal adult education policy in the 20th century
This dissertation argues that federal adult education policy adheres to a human capital discourse that reinforces the flawed perception that literacy acquisition alone begets individual and, by extension, national economic progress. To illuminate the lasting influence of this discourse and the …
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Flags of convenience: legal responses to a 20th century shipping phenomenon
… flags of convenience. For the second half of the 20th century this phenomenon has been subject both to constant public debate and to legal scrutiny. Generally, public opinion associates flags of convenience with ships owned by unscrupulous individuals from rich countries which are flagged out to …
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The collapse of the heroic tradition in 20th century war poetry
In the last two decades there has been a growing interest in the English poetry of the First World War. One of the products of this interest has been a great deal of literary criticism culminating in three major studies: by John H. Johnston in 1964; Bernard Bergonzi in 1965; and John Silkin in …
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Spatial layering : an effect of Cubist concepts on 20th century architecture
… introduced by the rise of Cubism earlier in this century. Cubism had an impact on all the arts; there was a particular affinity between the ideas of construction in Cubism and those of architecture resulting in a closer relationship between art and architecture in this century than in preceding …
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