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La Donna E La Condizione Maniacale -Voci Al Femminile
Questo e uno studio sulla condizione della donna all'interno dell'istituzione maniacale italiana. In questo studio vengono presi in esame gli scritti autobiografici di quattro donne italiane: Adalgisa Conti, Augusta F., Lia Traverso e Alda Merini. Parallelamente viene preso in esame il disagio …
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“Light shining from a dead star”: Narratology and Perspective in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
… students, Richard Papen, the narrator of Donna Tartt’s 1992 novel The Secret History, states, “The chronological sorting of memories is an interesting business” (Tartt 79). From the start of the story, Richard orients his reader toward a specific view of his time at Hampden College, the …
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Beyond Prima Donna: Pauline Viardot’s Collaboration on Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète, Gounod’s Sapho, and Berlioz’s Arrangement of Orphée
Prima donnas of the nineteenth century enjoyed celebrity status and were the wealthiest women of their time. Mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot’s (1821–1910) diva status provided her with a platform from which to share the full extent of her musical abilities. Viardot’s capabilities as a performer are …
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Le figure femminili all'ombra di Cosa Nostra: la rappresentazione della donna mafiosa siciliana sulla stampa italiana del secondo dopoguerra
This thesis investigates the representation of Sicilian mafia women on the Italian press after the second postwar, in particular by examining three Italian newspapers, Il Corriere della Sera, L’Ora and Il Giornale di Sicilia. The focus is on the 1963 – 1983 twenty-year period, after which there has …
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The roommate
<p>THE ROOMMATE is about Donna, a restless 25-year-old stuck in a passionless relationship with her too-nice boyfriend in the Midwest. When she inherits a bungalow on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the home of her recently-deceased grandmother, she's thrilled to seek the sunshine of the West Coast …
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"Mothers, Daughters, and Motherhood in ""Una Donna"" by Sibilla Aleramo, ""Lettera a Un Bambino Mai Nato"" by Oriana Fallaci, and ""La Cattiva Figlia"" by Carla Cerati"
… of motherhood as reflected in the novels Una donna by Sibilla Aleramo, Lettera a un bambino mai nato by Oriana Fallaci, and La cattiva figlia by Carla Cerati. Motherhood, an aspect of women's life traditionally considered ""private"" is also used, through the narration of these stories, to …
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Threads of influence: Greek tragedy and its relevance to the contemporary novel, with specific reference to Donna Tartt's 'The secret history', and my novel, 'The first seven years'
This MPhil concerns the contemporary literary novel and how it has been influenced by the Golden Age of Greek tragedy. It comprises of three parts: the thesis and the novel, hereby presented, and the journal of creative experiences, which was observed at viva. My thesis examines the historical …
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A minimal aesthetic: the relationships between fashion and art in New York and Paris, from 1964 to the present day
… Calvin Klein (1968), Zoran Ladricorbic (1976), Donna Karan (1984), Helmut Lang (1986) and Narciso Rodriguez (1997), among others. The study identifies the origins of the principles of a minimal aesthetic and examines them through two distinct case studies that consider the practice of designers …
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Allegories of Repair
… communities, focusing on West Dallas. Embracing Donna Haraway's "situated knowledges," the thesis proposes a resilient methodology to understand the intertwined context. Utilizing storytelling tools, the narrative unfolds, depicting the challenges faced by West Dallas, from industrial proximity …
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Objectivity in Feminist Philosophy of Science
… work of such feminist philosophers of science as Donna Haraway, Lynn Hankinson Nelson, and Sandra Harding, reveals that feminist philosophers of science are not members of some fringe movement of philosophy of science, but rather are doing philosophical work which is both crucial and connected to …
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String Theory and Our Relationship with Nature: The Convergence of Science, Curriculum Theory, and the Environment
… from Deleuze and Guattari, Michel Serres, and Donna Haraway, our approach to environmental issues and environmental education allow us to include alternative ways of looking at the world.
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The Real and the Digital: Female Agency and Resisting the Male Gaze in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Works
… path in defining female roles, engaging with Donna Haraway’s concept of the cyborg.</p>
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Species Panic: Interspecies Erotics in Post-1900 American Literature
… project yokes animal studies and posthumanism (Donna Haraway, Dominic Pettman, Kathy Rudy) with queer theory and critical race studies (Mel Y. Chen, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Alexander Weheliye) as its central driving forces. This theoretical backdrop informs my reading of American authors Jack …
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Living entanglements and the ecological thought in the works of Paul Kingsnorth, Tom McCarthy, and Ali Smith
In my thesis, I use the work of Donna Haraway, Timothy Morton, Karen Barad, and Anna Tsing to explore how three contemporary British novelists—Paul Kingsnorth, Tom McCarthy, and Ali Smith—deal with the representational and ethical challenges of writing about nature and climate change within the …
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