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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Coterie"”.
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Henry James and "Coterie-Literature"
Henry James is often regarded as an author of ‘coterie-literature’: someone who wrote only for and about elites. This dissertation argues that such interpretations neglect some of the complexities and ambivalences within his attitudes towards exclusion and exclusivity. My first chapter analyses the …
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Laurie Brooks: a coterie of plays and concepts
Laurie Brooks: A Coterie of Plays and Concepts aims to give a detailed look at the style, content, and contributions of the plays of Laurie Brooks to theatre and Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA). The thesis also focuses on the relationship between Brooks, Jeff Church, and the Coterie Theatre, in …
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Coterie : a visualization of the conversational dynamics within IRC
… the textual interactions. This thesis presents Coterie, a visualization of the conversational dynamics of an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel. Through Coterie, viewers can see the social patterns that underlie the text interactions between conversants. Using the chat messages posted to an IRC …
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The modern coterie: Fan fiction writers as a community of practice
Female coterie writing groups have had certain characteristics in common across centuries that can be seen today in fan fiction writing groups online. This dissertation focuses on one group of such writers who are active at the LiveJournal blog site. Through the use of virtual ethnography, data has …
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A Poetic Poioumenon: Coterie and Ekphrasis in David Lehman's "The Breeders' Cup"
… poem “The Breeders’ Cup” uses cross-generational coterie and ekphrasis to create a poetic poioumenon. When read in terms of art criticism, Lehman’s “The Breeders’ Cup” models creative processes from the past and calls for a rehabilitative ethic in postmodern poetics. Lehman follows the ekphrastic …
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Modernism En Vogue: Popular Periodicals and Their Engagement with Modernist Culture
… the assumption that modernists only spoke to a coterie audience. Furthermore, by investigating the similarities present in discourse on modernism and developments in popular culture such as jazz and film in a commercial context, I expand and complicate constructions of modernist and popular …
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Resurrecting the Anonymous: An Introduction To Mary Steele, the Author of Danebury and The Power of Friendship, A Tale with Two Odes by a Young Lady
… who was an active participant in a literary coterie that included other published authors such as Mary Scott, Anne Steele, and Hannah More. Drawing upon the work of Marjorie Reeves as well as the original manuscripts contained in the Reeves and Steele collections, this thesis provides the …
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Urban rage in Bronzeville: Social commentary in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, 1945-1960
… her own Black community, while a critical coterie viewed her work as unduly obscure and complex because of her use of inverted syntax, extreme wordplay, and highly allusive images. In the midst of the tensions created by such controversial analyses of Brooks' early work, little attention …
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Libertas Reborn: A Legend of Florence and Leigh Hunt's Literary Revival
… these ideals, Hunt hoped to gather a new coterie following reminiscent of the Cockney School. Responses to the play from Hunt's younger Victorian contemporaries, however, demonstrate how Hunt's once radical "Cockney" ideals had now become relatively safe. The nostalgic fondness with which …
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Plagiarism and Proprietary Authorship in Early Modern England, 1590-1640
… inchoate conception of literary property among a coterie of writers in early modern England. It argues that the recognition of literary misappropriation emerged as a result of the instrumental reading habits of early humanist scholars and that the subsequent distinction between authors and …
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The Letters of Ronald Johnson and Jonathan Williams: Edited, with a biographical and critical introduction by Devin King
… tradition is passed on through reading lists and coterie traditions shared in the letters. In Chapter Two I explore how the men’s poetry brings autobiography into contact with the poetics of Charles Olson and William Carlos Williams. This allows me, in Chapter Three, to attend to the men’s display …
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The organizational operations and impact of the PAN Africanist Congress on the struggle for liberation in South Africa, 1959 -1990
… to 1990. Having been formed in 1959 by a coterie of renegade African National Congress (ANC) members, the PAC masqueraded as the Africanist movement. ‘Africanist’ is a 19th century ideology that says that black people should determine their own future - Africa for the Africans. The …
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For the Liberation of Black People Everywhere: The African Blood Brotherhood, Black Radicalism, and Pan -African Liberation in the New Negro Movement, 1917--1936
… scale, and in the process joined with a coterie of colonial radicals in challenging a narrow conception of internationalism as merely international working class solidarity. They argued for a political program that recognized the centrality of anti-racist and national liberation movements …
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Not Just a Pretty Voice: Cathy Berberian as Collaborator, Composer and Creator
… life, both in relation to the composers in her coterie and as an independent musician. The first chapter questions the nature of authorship by looking at the ways Berberian collaborated with composers on electronic compositions. Two subsequent chapters extend this idea to works meant for live …
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Daughters of Ruth : enterprising black women in insurance in the New South, 1890s to 1930s
… black economy. Negro Captains of Industry, a coterie of successful, influential, self-made men, stood at the forefront; they represented the keystone of black economic, social, and political progress. The term invoked a decidedly masculinist image of “legitimate” leadership of black business. …
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A Forgotten Bestselling Author: Laura Terracina in Early Modern Naples
… status, and her own construction of an urban coterie of supporters. The second chapter considers the mechanics of the journey into print, assessing Terracina’s own input and her close collaboration with male editors and publishers. It proposes a greater attribution of agency to Terracina than …
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Looking for Mary Webb: Part one - Creating a lost diary; Part two - A single violet: the lost diaries of Mary Webb
… and Hilary Mantel, as well as Webb’s own coterie of biographers including Dr. Gladys Mary Coles and Dorothy Wrenn. The process of finding Webb’s writing voice is appraised alongside examination of the practicalities of writing nature in twenty-first century London.
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The Scottish literary renaissance reborn: a re-evaluation of the cultural directives of King James VI, as defined in his 'Essayes of a Prentise in the Divine Art of Poesie' (1584)
… (1969), through which the appraisal of physical coterie dynamics is valued above the evaluation of the demonstrable thematic and aesthetic concerns of each distinct author, provides modern criticism with a nuanced, yet ultimately misleading, critical lexicon with which to analyse James VI’s …
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Structures, Functions, and Druggability of the SARS-CoV-2 Replication–Transcription Complex
… RNA polymerase (RdRp) which requires a coterie of viral nucleic acid-metabolizing enzymes to maintain the integrity of the genome. The RdRp and other viral replication enzymes are postulated to interact as part of a large assembly known as the replication-transcription complex (RTC). In …
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Public sector corporate governance revisited: the ROI's non-commercial semi-state sector
… the sector’s board members emerge from a select coterie of Irish society and that board training and orientation uptake is at odds with participants reported governance awareness levels. The findings indicate that as only certain of the attributes of board effectiveness are manifest in the sample …
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