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Showing 1 to 20 of 373 for “"Comparative Literature"”.
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The role of PET/CT in the differential diagnosis of thymic tumors: a retrospective case series and comparative literature review with other imaging modalities
Ο ακριβής προεγχειρητικός χαρακτηρισμός των θυμικών επιθηλιακών όγκων διαδραματίζει καθοριστικό ρόλο στη λήψη θεραπευτικών αποφάσεων, καθώς τόσο ο ιστολογικός υπότυπος όσο και η ανατομική έκταση της νόσου καθορίζουν τον χειρουργικό σχεδιασμό και τις επιλογές της συστηματικής θεραπείας. Ωστόσο, τα …
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Writing the Indigenous: Contemporary Mayan Literature in Chiapas, Mexico and Palestinian Literature in Israel
This dissertation examines contemporary Mayan literature in Chiapas, Mexico (1983-2010) and Palestinian literature in Israel (1976-2010). It performs an understudied comparison between the literary traditions of two indigenous minorities emerging from the Global South and the Fourth World. This …
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AN ASSESSMENT OF CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN DECENTRALIZED SERVICE DELIVERY: THE CASE OF VIETNAM
… of public governance in Asia and the broader comparative literature on decentralization.
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Partying Like It's 1925: A Comparison and Contrast of Fitzgerald's <em>The Great Gatsby</em> and Azuela's <em>The Underdogs</em>
… understanding and renewing interest in comparative literature, I believe it is essential to examine the literature from ‘other’ and outside sources and compare them to what is already well-known or even unknown.</p>
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Repression and reduction: the apparatchik's discourse in the works of Ammianus Marcellinus, Denis Diderot, Victor Serge and George Orwell
In monopolizing political power, the state claims to possess the best idea towards leading a society and solving its problems. While these claims may vary according to regime, all face the eventual failure of expectation on the part of its subjects. No regime can master all the variables in running …
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Hear (no) evil, see (no) evil, speak (no) evil: artistic representations of Argentina's "Dirty War"
… the Other is the key to not repeating the past. Literature has long been accepted as a resource for understanding culture; this dissertation moves beyond literature, and includes photography, art, and film to demonstrate how artists have represented and responded to this period of political …
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More than Words, More than Wounds: (Re)Writing 'Wounded' Women and Healing Pedagogies
This project reconceptualizes how women and their personal stories of trauma have been read and represented in literary, feminist, and pedagogical studies, asserting that these authors and their texts should be recognized respectively as wounded healers and healing narratives. By situating my study …
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Displacement and the text: exploring otherness in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, Maryse Condé's La migration des coeurs, Rosario Ferré's The House on the Lagoon, and Tina De Rosa's Paper Fish
… identity they were previously denied. In Western literature, there has been little authentic representation of characters considered "Other." In authoring her own text, however, the "Other" writes for herself. The appropriation and revision of the Western canonical text, the usurpation of power …
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Force and Counterforce: The Rural-Urban Encounter in The Novels of Thomas Hardy and Premcand
… twentieth, it is significant to the student of comparative literature that Hardy and Premcand share such a strikingly similar attitude. The comparison places an important modern phenomenon into a broad trans-cultural context, and the shared reaction of Hardy and Premcand becomes another manifest …
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Partisan identification in Africa : an exploratory study in Mozambique
… the kinds of factors usually identified in the comparative literature on partisan identification and voting behaviour. These factors include social cleavages (such as ethnicity or region), cultural values (such as individualism versus collectivism, democratic versus authoritarian values), …
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Beyond English : translating modernism in the global south
… I explore the dimensions and definitions of comparative Anglophone and world literature, comparative poetics, and a comparative study of novels – in the global postcolonial world. I focus on moments of translatability and untranslatability to question traditional models for studies in English …
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Strategic Logistics Outsourcing:Integrated Models for Evaluating and Selecting Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) Upstream/Downstream Supply Chain Comparison
… Decision-Making (MCDM) approaches. A comparative literature review was used in order to identify crucial factors and methods that are used in logistics literature in fragmented ways and therefore, to establish and design a conceptual framework and models for logistics outsourcing. …
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Battle of the Bains: Tactical Bathing in Two Expository Texts, One Film and a Novella
… and texts published within the arenas of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, much has been written on the trope of the shared bath-and even more specifically the hammam-as a space of orientalism. Although researchers such as Magreban sociologist Fatima Mernissi, Algerian writer …
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The Concept of Self-reflexive Intertextuality in the Works of Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco’s novels are complex texts that work, that can be read and thus interpreted on several levels, including but not limited to the literary, semiotic, linguistic, philosophic, and historical. Notwithstanding the postmodern ideology of the irrelevance of the author (in terms of identity and …
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Chinese eco-films and their pastoral myth
<p>This dissertation is a cross-cultural study of Chinese ecocinema after 1978. It begins by introducing the Hollywood practice in simplifying the conflicts between garden and machine, anthropocentrism and ecocentrism, and Tityrus and Meliboeus in American pastoralism, then explains why such …
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Superman's Ancestors - Beowulf, Odysseus and Roy Hobbs: Application and Analysis of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth Theory
<p>Heroes have been with us since the beginning of time with some becoming more well known than others. Each and every culture seems to have their own type of hero that embodies their ideals, values and beliefs. It is this truth that Joseph Campbell, author of the 1949 book <em>The Hero with a …
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Eustache Deschamps' <i>"L'art de dictier"</i>
<p><em>L'Art de dictier</em>, written in 1392 by the prolific courtier-poet Eustache Deschamps, is the first ars poetica ever written in French. It provides invaluable insights into medieval poetics as perceived by a respected medieval poet.</p> <p><em>L'Art de dictier</em> is composed of two …
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