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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"American Frontier"”.
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Hypothetical geography : constituting limits on a new American frontier
Two hundred fifty-nine obelisk monuments mark the United States-Mexico boundary line west of the Rio Grande. Constructed in three distinct phases (1848-1857, 189 1- 1896, and 1964-1968) the monuments were the product of territorial negotiations; disputes settled ranging from the violent expansion …
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The Postapocalyptic American Frontier: Uncanny Historicism in the Nineteenth Century
… underlying nineteenth-century accounts of the American frontier. Many critics have exposed the latent imperialism behind popular myths of primeval wilderness and virgin land; bringing together fictional tales, travel writings, and scientific texts, I show that U.S. authors who enthusiastically …
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Henry Knox: The American Frontier as a Foreign Policy Arena, 1785-1794
… periods, was charged with the creation of the American Indian policy. He, and by extension the American government, viewed the Indian tribes as sovereign nations. With this in mind, historians should view early Indian policy in a framework that focuses on the young nation's fears of collapse …
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Disrupted Conventions: Gender Roles in Mildred Walker's The Curlew's Cry and Winter Wheat
… supporting my argument that literature of the American West remains a productive area for examining gender roles. The Curlew’s Cry is set at the closing of the American frontier in the early 20th century, while Winter Wheat is set during the settled agricultural era of the 1940s. I argue that …
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Disrupted Conventions: Gender Roles in Mildred Walker's The Curlew's Cry and Winter Wheat
… supporting my argument that literature of the American West remains a productive area for examining gender roles. The Curlew’s Cry is set at the closing of the American frontier in the early 20th century, while Winter Wheat is set during the settled agricultural era of the 1940s. I argue that …
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Middle Men: Establishing Non-Anglo Masculinity in Southwestern Literature
… separate lenses of cultural experience, Mexican American, Native American and female, this thesis aims to acknowledge the blending of masculinities that is taking place in both the fictitious and factual southwest. Long gone are the days when the cowboys chased down the savage Indians or the …
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Undressing an American icon: Addressing the representation of Calamity Jane through a critical study of her costume
… because it was so seminal to her emergence as an American frontier icon. Unlike one-off costumes such as Dorothy’s ruby slippers or Marilyn Monroe’s JFK birthday dress, Calamity Jane’s costume re-occurred and was the determining factor in her rise to fame. What is innovative in this research is …
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Journey and destination : the process of creating Jacyln Backhaus's Men on Boats.
… Richard Slotkin's notion of the mythology of the American frontier. In addition, this thesis will explore the collaboration between the designers and myself to realize the world of the play onstage. The rehearsal process with its successes and setbacks is also discussed. The culmination of this …
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Holding the line: the changing policies of the British Army with respect to Native Americans, 1759-1774
… by the British Army with respect to Native Americans between 1759 and 1774, when the British Army was in occupation of the colonial American frontier and how and why those policies changed. During this time the army’s policy on Native Americans altered greatly; prior to Pontiac’s War Native …
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Re-Framing the American West: Contemporary Artists Engage History
… and otherwise engage directly with art of the American Frontier from 1820-1920. The revision of the historic images calls attention to the myth and ideologies imbedded in the imagery. Likewise, these contemporary images are essentially a framing of western imagery informed by a system of values …
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An Exploration of Nature and Human Development in Young Adult Historical Fantasy
… points in history such as industrialisation, the American frontier, European imperialism, and World War I. They share the theme of retrieving and subverting anthropocentric discourses in the history of human development and thereby creating space for nature's presence and agency. My study finds …
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This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Two of Us: Western Genre Cinema Rhetoric of the Twentieth Century and the Modern Alt-Right Movement
… view of our modern understandings of the American frontier, this work aims to build on the tradition of understanding how certain mechanisms and historical moments have allowed for the survival and growth of hotbeds of hegemony on the modern online frontier, and the corporeal ramifications …
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"STILL DREAMING OF PARADISE": RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN ' S OKLAHOMA!, SOUTH PACIFIC , AND POSTWAR AMERICA
… Specifically, the two musicals provided Americans with a prescription for a postwar Paradise. This was a Paradise based upon the American Dream of rebirth and renewal acted out in a landscape of second chances. The components of this Paradise are examined in topical essays that consider …
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"Narrativa di frontiera". Fenomenologia di una forma aperta.
«Fiction of frontier». Phenomenology of an open form/voice. Francesco Giustini’s PhD dissertation fits into a genre of research usually neglected by the literary criticism which nevertheless is arousing much interest in recent years: the relationship between Literature and Space. In this context, …
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Captured Image: Creating Textual Images of First Peoples
Who are American "Indians"? They are not "Indians" at all but in their ancient languages, "People." If European and Euro-American writers have not been accurate about the names of the People, how accurate is the bulk of what we know about them? This thesis aims to critically examine how …
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A Specific Elsewhere: Locating Masculinity in Jack Kerouac's On The Road
… to experience the more marginalised aspects of American society. This dissertation offers an interpretative exploration of the ways in which Kerouac’s chronicling of his travels in On the Road: The Original Scroll presents images of, and the search for, a subjectively authentic experience of …
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"The Most Previous Refuge of Hope": Herbert Marcuse, Alienation and the Space of Possibility in European and American Contexts
… examines the difference between European and American forms of alienation. My thesis is that while European forms of alienation tend to arise out of an ideology (that of bourgeois culture) that disparages the material world, encouraging an attitude of resignation toward the established order, …
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Stranged marriages : unconventional matrimony in western American fiction.
… especially those writing on or about the American frontier, recognized in the institution potential to challenge reified social norms and eastern literary conventions. Through their treatment of nontraditional marriages, Mark Twain, Sui Sin Far, and Willa Cather denounce or reveal racism, …
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