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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Critical biography"”.
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Little Egypt: A Critical Biography
<p>Structured as a biography, this thesis investigates the origins of Little Egypt—a stage name assumed by multiple women performing either the <em>danse du ventre</em> or the hoochie-coochie—and considers the character’s cultural legacy. The work draws on nineteenth and twentieth century …
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Lucia Berlin: A Critical Biography
… Lucia Berlin (1936–2004). It is also her first biography. Although she was not well known during her lifetime, Berlin became an unexpected bestseller in 2015, with the publication of *A Manual for Cleaning Women*. The thesis charts the evolution of Berlin’s style, tracing her wide-ranging …
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Amos Cooper Dayton: A Critical Biography
Scanned copy of Taulman's dissertation as part of our digitization on demand service.
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William Maxwell: A selected critical biography
This authorized critical biography provides the first book-length scholarship on William Maxwell's sixty-year career as a fiction writer, and reveals his literary life through research including his personal correspondence and interviews conducted specifically for this project. The study--which …
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Jean Passerat (1534 - 1602): a critical biography, and study of selected works
This thesis is concerned with critical appreciations of the life and works of Jean Passerat (1534- 1602). This approach has been made necessary by the failure of most earlier biographers to portray Passerat as anything more than a moderately talented French poet with Pleiade connections, whilst …
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A critical biography of Rosalie van der Gucht : investigating her contribution to education in South Africa with special reference to speech and drama
… skills as a communicator. The chosen form is a critical biography, which makes it possible to investigate the impact of Van der Gucht's initiatives within the contemporary context. Given that there are only a handful of books which deal with the theatre of this period in the Cape, and they …
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Nineteenth-Century Perceptions of Robert Browning: The Poet Through His Own Eyes and Those of His Victorian Critics and Devoted Readers
… such as The Life of Robert Browning: A Critical Biography (1996) by Clyde De L. Ryals, and it was studied in a 1969 book by William S. Peterson titled Interrogating The Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. However, this thesis goes further by approaching the Society as the …
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The No.5 terminal grain elevator in the Port of Montreal : monument in a shifting landscape
… obsolete industrial structure. This thesis is a "critical biography" of this building. It traces its built and iconographic history, examines its role in the changing landscape of the port, and delves into the issues of perception, preservation and interpretation of elevator No. 5.