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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"20th century history"”.
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Between The Wars: An Activist Novel
… is a challenge to the familiar narratives of 20th century history. Yet the closer to her activism the novel gets, the less certain it becomes, the more it casts itself into question.
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Iraqi Shi'ites and Identity Conflict: A Study in the Developments of their Religious-Political Identities From 1920-2003
… of Shi'ites at different historical eras in the 20th century (to be specific, from the 1920s to 2003). In this study, my aim is to evaluate, based on the collected evidence, the Shi'ites' sense of identity during these historical eras, how they viewed themselves, and with whom they affiliated? …
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A correlative study of the anti-literal in modern art, music, and literature
<p>This study is concerned with the understanding as a way to enjoyment of the anti-literal in modern art.<sup>1</sup> The work of art is regarded as the locus of various cultural factors--a live product of the vital energies of its age and itself a source as well as a reflection. The analysis of …
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Portrayal of women in SiSwati drama
This study looks at the portrayal of women in siSwati drama. The main aim is to reveal how women are portrayed in siSwati drama. In real life women are usually portrayed negatively. This is due to cultural directives that reveal woman as inferior beings. This affects our young children who read …
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"Men made out of words": reading men writing masculinities in Australian literature
This study of some Australian literary texts covers Rod Jones ("Julia Paradise"), David Brooks ("The book of Sei"), Robert Drewe ("A cry in the jungle bar"), George Johnston ("My brother Jack") and Patrick White ("The Twyborn affair")
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She "Too much of water hast": Drownings and Near-Drownings in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Women
… analyze drowning scenes in several pre-twentieth century works to establish the tradition which twentieth-century women writers begin to transcend. In Chapter 2, I discuss three of Kate Chopin's works which include drownings, demonstrating her transition from traditional drowning themes in At …
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The Hollywood Novel : An American Literary Genre
The Hollywood Novel is an American regional fiction genre that treats characters working in the film industry either in Hollywood or with a Hollywood production company on location. Although pre-Hollywood film novels set in the eastern filmmaking capitals flourished as early as 1912, the Hollywood …
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Edino Krieger's solo piano works from the 1950s : a dialectical synthesis in Brazilian musical modernism
… one of the highest achievements in twentieth-century Brazil. Modal elements in the varied Brazilian folk traditions are a consequence of Gregorian chant used by the Jesuits during the colonization of Brazil. The modal language used by Krieger connects us therefore not only with Brazilian folk …
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Uncivilized women and erotic strategies of border zones or demythologizing the romance of conquest
… women, one who lived through the early twentieth century movement for Irish independence and the other who is her great niece, that have both been silenced and sexually controlled by colonialism and Irish Catholicism. The fifth and final chapter examines Lucha Corpi's Delia's Song about a young …
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New Resources in Twentieth-Century Piano Music and Richard Wilson's Eclogue (1974)
This dissertation draws some of the innovative composers from the early 1900's to the 1960's into the spotlight to highlight their new musical and pianistic ideas. These composers, including Debussy, Schoenberg, Webern, Bartók, Cowell and others, brought new creative forces into piano music, …
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Working Whiteness: Performing And Transgressing Cultural Identity Through Work
… looking at novels written in the early Twentieth century, I am able to analyze characters at a historical moment in which work was of great import. With the labor movement at its peak, these novels, particularly those which specifically address socialism, participate in an understanding of work as …
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