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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Aldous"”.
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Aldous Huxley : a study in a changing philosophy
… besides being art, "is also philosophy," Aldous Huxley says in Vulgarity in Literature. Throughout the years in which he has been writing, Huxley has never lost sight of this dictum. His philosophy has ever formed an integral part of all that he has produced, and especially has it been …
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An evaluation of the Aldous browse measurement system and its application to the mountainous areas of Virginia
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"In that New World which is the Old": New World/Old World inversion in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"
… Is The Old': New World/Old World Inversion In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World" examines the inversion of the concepts Old World, specifically associated with England, and New World, specifically associated with America, in the novel Brave New World. After examining and denotatively defining the …
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Euthanasia : a study of the age long controversial issue in Thomas More’s Utopia, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Brian Clark’s Whose Life is it Anyway?
Dissertação de Mestrado em Estudos Ingleses apresentada à Universidade Aberta
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The Dystopian Impulse and Media Consumption: Redefining Utopia Via the Narrative Economics of the New Media Age
… in situating the visions of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley within the context of the new media age. In <em>Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business</em> Neil Postman draws a dichotomy between the prophecies of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. He claims that …
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"The Architecture of Anti-Utopias: Critiques of Modern Public Housing from London to Orwell"
… I analyze how Jack London, Robert Hugh Benson, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell adopt anti-utopian perspectives to show the inherent flaws of supposed utopian belief systems. Building off of Gregory Claeys and Lyman Sargent’s definition of the anti-utopian genre, I attest that London, Benson, …
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Universality of Cutoff for Random Walks on Random Cayley Graphs
… all degree-k Cayley graphs of G. A conjecture of Aldous and Diaconis (1985) from the '80s asserts, for k ≫ log |G|, the following: • the random walk on this (random) graph exhibits cutoff with high probability (whp); • the cutoff time depends only on k and |G| asymptotically (up to smaller order …
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Negotiating Hope and Honesty: A Rhetorical Criticism of Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
… such as George Orwell's <em>1984</em> and Aldous Huxley's <em>Brave New World</em>, but not completely. Young adult dystopias tend to end happily, a departure from the nightmarish ends of Winston Smith and John Savage. Young adult authors resist hopelessness, even if the fictional world …
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The stories of parents whose children have been referred for an assessment for Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A narrative analysis
There is an increasing emphasis on the importance of parental voice in education, and specifically within the realm of Special Educational Needs (SEN). For parents whose children have been identified as potentially having Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), their story may have begun long before …
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Feeling Better: The Therapeutic Drug in Modernism
… the first-person accounts of Jean Cocteau, Aldous Huxley, and Walter Benjamin, I argue that representations of drug intoxication reveal the extent to which European modernists draw upon similar qualitative structures when giving form to their experiences. More specifically, I argue that it …
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Fiction-criticism in interwar England: Judgment, gender, and the pluralist public sphere
… examines the popular essays of Rose Macaulay, Aldous Huxley, and Virginia Woolf, all intellectually respected novelists in their day, to argue that their journalism crossed contentious lines in the period’s “battle of the ’brows,” or the battle between high, middle, and lowbrows for cultural …
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Play for Mortal Stakes: Funerals as Modernist Acts of Fiction
… and later writers such as Katherine Mansfield, Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf, W. H. Auden, Ivy Compton-Bumett, and James Joyce. Using the methodology of ritual studies, an interdisciplinary approach combining the perspectives of religion, anthropology, and literary criticism, I examine how these …
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William H. Sheldon and the culture of the somatotype
… for Anthony Ludovici, William Sheldon, and Aldous Huxley (polemics against "promiscuous breeding", overpopulation, medical and psychological holism, "aristocracy", nobility) was another means of defending conservative values against the onslaught of modernism. The German romantic, holistic, …
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The future is Gothic: elements of Gothic in dystopian novels
… in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915), Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange (1962), Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Michel Houellebecq’s Atomised (1999). The key concerns are those of the …
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The Green World of Dystopian Fiction
… of dystopian fiction: George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and Yevgeny Zamyatin's We. In these three novels, the protagonists take flight from the repressive dystopia and journey into nature. In the green world, the protagonists attain individual freedom and identity and …
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Tales of (Dis)connection: Moving Through an Interconnected Europe in the Short Story, 1880–1930
… stories by Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Jean Rhys, Aldous Huxley and D. H. Lawrence, this dissertation argues that the short story form is ideally suited to expressing concerns about precisely the opposite occurring. Writing between 1880 and 1930, Hardy, Joyce, Rhys, Huxley and Lawrence all posited …
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Literature of utopia and dystopia. Technological influences shaping the form and content of utopian visions.
… science, while the work of William Morris, Aldous Huxley and Kurt Vonnegut rejected science in preference for a different social order. More's Utopia and Bacon's New Atlantis were written at a time when feudal, agricultural society was being transformed by new discoveries and techniques. In …
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Future tense : an analysis of science fiction as secular apocalyptic literature
… Wars on a complacent world, using the works of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. 3. Apocalypses of Destruction and Redemption. The nineteen fifties to the present; the crisis of nuclear power and thinking machines, using the works of Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov. Also examined are the …
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