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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Canon formation"”.
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Cultural critique and canon formation, 1910-1937. A study in modernism and cultural memory
… come to be forgotten and excluded from the canon. I investigate the work and cultural milieu of three such writers: Douglas Goldring, John Rodker and Mary Butts. The first chapter sets the terms of the argument, and presents the grounds for a reconfiguration of the conventional historical …
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Any Bodies' Protest Novel: Challenging the Politics of Canon Formation in the works of Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and James Baldwin
James Baldwin, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston are three authors who are very often read alongside one another in classrooms, book groups, and history. This grouping is often based on a system of seemingly arbitrary but identity-based categorical structures . Facets of the author' s assigned …
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The Piano Works of Stefans Grové (1922-2014): A Study of Stylistic Influences, Technical Elements and Canon Formation in South African Art Music
… Africa and his position within the national canon of art music is considered and contextualised.
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La Nacion Encuadernada: La Antologia Y La Construccion De Los Imaginarios Nacionales en Argentina, Uruguay Y Chile en El Siglo XIX (1824--1910)
… aforementioned issues related to questions of canon formation, nation-building, gender, and the economic market of symbolic goods. It highlights how literary works and cultural artifacts dialogue and negotiate with the political and intellectual processes of nation-building throughout the …
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Nomads of the Body, Exiles of the Mind: Twentieth Century Transnational African American Mexican Art and Literature
… migrations offer an opportunity to reevaluate canon formation, Border studies discourse, and also serve as a platform to engage with twenty-first century conversations of globalism, border enforcement, and African American-Latinx solidarity.</p>
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Pirates of Romanticism: Intellectual Property Ideology and the Birth of British Romanticism
… of foreign reprints to copyright ideology and canon formation, and the relationship between unauthorized publication and the culture of appropriation apparent in radical periodicals and graphic satire. This study thus contributes to the history of the book and print culture in the early …
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Old borders, new technologies : visual culture and social change in contemporary Northern Ireland
… the conflict? Do such works effectively disrupt canon formation within the context of contemporary Northern Irish film and visual art?<br/><br/>In addressing such questions, the thesis has been structured around four conflict-related themes, and examines works by practitioners such as Sandra …
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String chamber music performance in New York City, 1842-1852: The social and cultural context of representative works by George Frederick Bristow
… German immigration upon repertoire selection and canon formation. More common in the earlier years of this study, string chamber music frequently appeared on “miscellaneous” performances, featuring a variety of instrumentation and genres, wherein string chamber works would often serve in a …
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Mediating Histories: an exploration of audiences and exhibitions in London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts (1949-1986)
… are continually at play between art historical canon formation and the contemporary contingencies that resist any fixed point of interpretation. My approach to Mediating Histories has been shaped by the ICA programmes themselves; as well as the ways in which they remain, and are accessed in a …
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What did the national curriculum do for poetry? Pattern, prescription and contestation in the poetry selected for GCSE English Literature 1988-2018.
… I show the dynamics by which the pedagogical canon was reshaped. Through close reading of the most salient poems I demonstrate how this process operated within a longer historical stewardship of the pedagogical canon rooted in the poetry of Victorian mass schooling. Quantitative analysis …
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Listening at the Edges: Aural Experience and Affect in a New York Jazz Scene
… parallel, and sometimes intersecting canons, I locate the work of canon formation in the everyday lives of listeners and reveal its political and ideological implications. Finally, building on the previous two arguments, I propose that listening, though often experienced as subjective …
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Making the Past: The Concepts of Literary History and Literary Tradition in the Works of Thomas Gray
… aesthetic, cultural, and political dimensions of canonicity in the course of examining the ideological motivation behind Gray’s literary history. Though much of Gray’s poetry is private and written for a narrow literary circle, his literary history seems engaged with issues of public concerns. …
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The Hidden History of Women Editing Shakespeare, 1800-1950
… and offers insights into the process of textual canon formation and the evolution of the editorial role. The Introduction begins by interrogating the role of editor and considering how the issues surrounding both the editor and textual labour in general contribute to the absence of women from …
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‘Poeta che mi guidi’: Dantean afterlives in the poetry of Giorgio Caproni, Antonia Pozzi, Vittorio Sereni and Mario Luzi
… questions address matters of poetic influence, canon formation and literary monumentality. Rather than focusing on the poets individually, the project works on and further develops existing lines of contact between one another to explore transversal evolutionary trajectories that manifested …