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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"American authors"”.
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Contemporary American Authors' Questioning of Religion
The problem. In contemporary American fiction it was noted that religion frequently appeared as a topic of debate. In some novels a major theme was a debate over whether to accept, change, or reject organized religion. Procedure. Several contemporary novels relating to this theme were read. Then …
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Female slave portrayals in child and young adult historical fiction by African American authors
… slavery in the United States written by African-Americans for middle-level children. This exploration juxtaposed portrayals of female slaves developed by African-American female authors with portrayals created by African-American male authors. Historical fiction for children and young adults was …
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Prose for art's sake: creating and documenting an American aesthetic, 1810 - 1860
… for Art’s Sake: Creating and Documenting an American Aesthetic, 1810 – 1860, assembles an archive of early American writings on the visual arts to query how American authors defined literary practice with respect to developing dialogues on visual aesthetics. I argue that when American authors …
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La construcción y el papel de la identidad vasca en la literatura vasco americana
… literary production we associate with the Basque American Diaspora. The present study aims to shed light on a contemporary shift in Basque Diaspora writings by viewing them through a comparative lens that juxtaposes the literary discourses of the second generation of Basque American authors with …
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Komentovaný překlad kapitoly 8 nazvané "Work-life balance matters most" z knihy BUCKINGHAM, Marcus, GOODALL, Ashley, Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business Review Press, 2019.
… Leader's Guide to the Real World by two American authors Marcus Buckingham a Ashley Goodall, published in 2019 by Harvard Business Review Press. The second part of the thesis contains translation analysis of the original text, description of the method, the main translation problems and …
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(What is not written on) The Wall : a choreographic exploration of censorship and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
… about Chinese culture by Chinese and Chinese American authors living outside of China, as well as books by American authors about political dance such as Ann Cooper Albright’s book, Choreographing Difference: The Body in Identity in Contemporary Dance (1997) and Susan Foster’s Choreographing …
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Versions of America: Reading American Literature for Identity and Difference
My paper examines how American authors of the South Asian Diaspora (Indian-American or South Asian American) can be read 1) as simply American and 2) without regard to ethnicity. I develop this argument using American authors Jhumpa Lahiri, a first generation American of Bengali-Indian descent, and …
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Based on True Stories: Representing the Self and the Other in Latin American Documentary Narratives
… and testimonial novels published by Latin American authors in Spanish, from the 1950s to the 2000s. I propose the concept ‘documentary narratives’ to refer to all literary modes of discourse which are related, in diverse degrees, to a journalistic representation of reality. My corpus covers …
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Selling Out: The American Literary Market Place and the Modernist Novel
"""Selling Out: The American Literary Marketplace and the Modernist Novel"" re­examines the ""modernist author"" we think we know by rereading how four American authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Kay Boyle, and William Faulkner deliberately tried to create a literary reputation …
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Talking Back To History: Leanne Howe, Linda Hogan, And Louis Owens's Rewriting Of The Southeastern Native Past Through Fiction
… to unravel the inner-workings of Native American culture through close examinations of archeological evidence, Euro-American historical record, and oral histories. Consequently, in an attempt to reclaim and re-appropriate these pasts are the stories written by Native American authors and …
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MOBOCRACY: THE MOB AND AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1782-1851
… examines the role of the mob in Early American literature, and how the mob continues to be an essential part of American society. Chapter one uses Linebaugh's and Rediker's The Many-Headed Hydra to argue that early American authors acted as demagogues attempting to control the mob. …
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Vignettes for educating the non-Arab non-Muslim reader : subversion and survival of Hakawati figures
This study highlights the strategies Arab American authors use to forge empathetic bonds and create community among Arab American and non-Arab and non-Muslim readers. These diverse texts—ranging from memoirs and novels to comic books and ethnographic studies—illustrate Arab Americans’ struggles and …
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Imagining sittee : constructions of homelands and grandmother narratives in Arab American literature
… the construction of imagined communities in Arab American literature. Through the lens of diaspora studies, it argues that grandmother figures become integral in the creation of an Arab American imagined community based on two main tropes: a theoretical collapse between notions of patriotism and …
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The Art of Self-Making: American Modernist Fiction and the Performances of Identity and Authorship
… self-representation visible in many works of American modernist fiction and the modern myth of the self-made man. I contend that the historical and cultural forces which shaped both phenomena in the latter half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries are not incidental but …
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Sacroiliac joint assessment within the Australian osteopathic profession
… model proposed by Mitchell and advocated by most American authors. The use of these tests declined with increasing experience, whereas the use of a wide range of "other" tests increased. It appeared that the majority of osteopaths use some form of pain provocation tests, that are not advocated by …
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Momentary Magic: Magical Realism as Literary Activism in the Post-Cold War US Ethnic Novel
… – a genre typically associated with Latin American authors of the 1960s – to criticize social injustice through the use of magic. Magical realism interrogates historical and social conditions through supernatural, mythical, or other non-realist characters and events. In many otherwise …
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The Sublime and the Dutiful: Ethics and Excess From Edwards to Melville
… and evaluated within the work of such early American authors as Jonathan Edwards, Charles Brockden Brown, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville. Each, in his own way, shows how the sublime can be dutiful---how it can constitute not one self's recovered and isolated sense …
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The constitutive relationship between race and disability in African American literature: a Black critical disabilities studies approach
… does disability studies engage with African American literature. I formulate a theory of reading race and disability as it pertains to the fiction, authors, and the larger African American and disability communities and strive to reconcile the overlooked, yet imperative, relationship between …
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Survivor’s Guilt and the Ethics of Remembering in Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Slave and Cynthia Ozick’s “The Shawl”
… thesis is an analysis of post-Holocaust Jewish-American literature with a specific emphasis on texts set in Europe. In particular, I examine how Jewish-American authors who lived in the United States during the Holocaust address issues of trauma and survivor’s guilt through fiction. Informed …
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The Black Gum Well
… writing of the novel as a creative thesis in American literature was a special project approved by the English department of Eastern Kentucky University. Beyond the university's departmental requirements in the course of study for a a Master of English in American literature, I did an …
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