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Showing 1 to 20 of 578 for “"Cynthia"”.
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Accessibility and Authenticity in Julia Smith's Cynthia Parker
In 1939, composer Julia Smith's first opera Cynthia Parker dramatized the story of a Texas legend. Smith manipulated music, text, and visual images to make the opera accessible for the audience in accordance with compositional and institutional practices in American opera of the 1930s. Transparent …
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Characters of Love: Propertius and Cynthia in 'Elegies' 1
In the Monobiblos, the characterizations of Cynthia and Propertius develop in traceable trajectories. The goal of this thesis is to provide a close analysis of specific poems in Propertius’ Elegies that contribute to and shape the development of characterization in the first book, as well as to …
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Hidden Economies in the Novels of Mildred Taylor and Cynthia Voigt
… study of the work of Mildred Taylor and Cynthia Voigt, two of the most important and critically-acclaimed authors of American children’s literature of the past fifty years. My corpus of texts consists of Taylor’s Logan family novels and Voigt’s Tillerman family novels. The primary aim of …
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Monstrous mothers and founding fathers: Kristevan maternality in Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman cycle
… written for children and young adults and Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman cycle published between 1981 and 1987 is an extended study of the existential and urgent issues of maternal abandonment and the issues it presents for her child protagonists. This thesis is a study of the maternal issues …
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Becoming a modern hero: the search for identity in Cynthia Voigt's novels
… that is standard in many school libraries. Cynthia Voigt's novels are both popular with teachers and students and well-acclaimed by literary critics and scholars of young adult literature. The first chapter outlines Voigt's professional career and the events in her life that affected her …
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The Return of Cynthia and The Structure of Propertius Book Iv (Latin, Elegy)
This dissertation argues that Propertius in Book IV of his elegies may have deliberately scuttled an elegantly symmetrical book-structure to meet the demands of context.
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Empire, nation, gender and romance : the novels of Cynthia Stockley (1872-1936) and Gertrude Page (1873-1922)
… of the Southern Rhodesian romantic. novels of Cynthia Stockley (Lilian Julia Webb) and Gertrude Page (Gertrude Dobbin), this dissertation presents biographical information about the two writers as well as an analysis of the historical reception and discursive context of the novels - focusing …
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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”
… American community. In Chapter Two, I focus on Cynthia Ozick’s short story “The Shawl,” which is a brief but powerful fictional Holocaust narrative. Ozick’s text examines the ways in which the Holocaust destroys the bonds of family and community, and it grapples with the question of …
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A Girl's Best Friend? Implications of Friendship on Female Self-identity in Young Adult Literature
… authors, Ann Brashares, Meg Cabot, E. Lockhart, Cynthia Voigt, and Cecily von Ziegesar, evidence suggests that friends and peers influence a girl’s self-understanding and subjectivity through ritual, shared environment, language, objectification and acceptance or denial of change in the …
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Unmasked and Unprotected: An Autistic Poet's Journey of Imperfect Confession
<p>Cynthia Short’s thesis analyzes the consumption and contortion of neurodivergent experience across the clinical, personal, and artistic stages. Combining intersectional memoir with clinical research, traditional poetics, and spoken word experience, she weaves a first-person narrative of …
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Women Artistic Directors in Kansas City and Their Processes
… form the recent Kansas City theatre landscape. Cynthia Levin, Jeanne Beechwood, Sidonie Garrett, Karen Paisley, and Heidi Van are pivotal artistic directors with unique perspectives. These women have opened doors to allow other women to flourish in arts leadership roles. This document is …
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Decorator or narrator: A contextualisation of Slavic and Australian pattern making and its relationship to my painting practice
… Faith Ringgold, Joan Snyder, Miriam Schapiro and Cynthia Carlson. My final conclusion will be drawn from my personal visual practice that uses pattern
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Fulke Greville's Caelica: The Work of an Elizabethan
… to the woman of the title as well as to "Myra," "Cynthia," and "Gala." The names of these women were used, it seems, quite arbitrarily, and may possibly have been interchangeable with one another. Because the sonnet tradition was at its zenith during Greville's lifetime Caelica should naturally be …
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Family and Nation in Crises: Female characters in Selected Recent South African Novels
… Angela Makholwa's Blessed Girl (2017) and Cynthia Jele’s The Ones with Purpose (2018).
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The Unicorn Theatre: A Brief History 1974-2020
… Actors’ Equity Association in 1984 shortly after Cynthia Levin was named Producing Artistic Director. The company has operated out of four different locations over the past 45+ years, but it has been in its current location at 3828 Main Street, Kansas City, MO since 1986. Many expansions and …
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The Huggable : a socially assistive robot for pediatric care
… the Huggable project created by Dan Stiehl and Cynthia Breazeal, which features a new mechanical design, a revamped electronics structure, and a polished control system based off of its sister project, DragonBot (developed by Adam Setapen). This thesis describes the process of how this new …
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Writing the Young Adult Novel: Analysis and Process
… Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary; Missing Maxj by Cynthia Rylant; A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle; and The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. The plots of the five books differed greatly, and the genres ranged from fantasy (The High King and A Wrinkle in Time) to mystery (The Westing Game) to …
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Escritas de um "Eu" em trânsito: deslocamentos e identidades na Literatura Contemporânea
… empezaba a arder: último regresso a Siria, de Cynthia Edul, e Tornar-se Palestina, de Lina Meruane. Nossa hipótese é que a condição de deslocado produz uma tensão no sujeito, numa tentativa de integração na cultura de chegada, assim como uma hibridização e fragmentação em suas identidades. Por …
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"So what's the joke?" : locating Jewish-American female authorship
… Jewish-American female writers, Grace Paley, Cynthia Ozick and Erica Jong, and locates their writing in the context of their quasi-double-marginalization--the yoking of their Jewishness and femaleness. Their texts illustrate their reaction to a history of patriarchal Judaism that relegates …
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