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An interpretative analysis of John Dos Passos' U.S.A.
This thesis makes a literary analysis of John Dos Passos' U.S.A. from the viewpoint of oral interpretation. The study is intended to determine if Dos Passos' prose style is adaptable to oral presentation. The study begins with an account of the author's biography as related to his works and of his …
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An analytical study of John Dos Passos' Manhattan transfer
… wrapt in the ecstatic warblings of the muse.Dos Passos believed that he had to find a form that would capture the hum and throb, the agony and the ecstasy of the modern metropolis. He wanted to represent its kaleidoscopic variety, its noise and confusion, and, above all, he wanted to show how …
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Text and Context: Rethinking John Dos Passos, Post-Revolutionary Soviet Filmmakers, and the Modern Novel
… have written about American modernist John Dos Passos and the ways he adapted and adopted modernist philosophies and techniques, including those of Soviet filmmakers Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein, in fashioning his own narrative methods. In discussing U.S.A., most critics point to the …
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Ariadne's threads of identity : foreshadowing of social and individual identity theories in John Dos Passos' U.S.A.
… curiosity about life. American Modernist John Dos Passos is one artist who writes in a period full of new ideas and theories such as Existentialism and psychology. Centered on the mimetic ability for the author to capture concerns that define the human condition in order to bring forth some …
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"We Only Have Words Against/ POWER SUPERPOWER": Literary Politics and the Subversion of Imperialism in Dos Passos' U.S.A.
… such tendencies for historical revisionism, Dos Passos' U.S.A. portrays an America where both classical and neoteric imperialisms pervade American political, media, and economic systems during the first three decades of the twentieth century. While various foreign entanglements provide …
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The Great War and the American Novel: Mimesis and Craft in Selected Fiction of Dos Passos, Boyd, March, and Hemingway
… or volunteers. These works include John Dos Passos' One Man's Initiation--1917 and Three Soldiers, Thomas Boyd's Through the Wheat, William March's Company K, and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.</p><p>The dissertation explores a development within the sub-genre of war novels from …
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A study of the interrelations between Dos Passos' personal philosophy, objectives, and techniques and the influence of the zeitgeist on them
<p>For several reasons Dos Passos is important to the development of American literature. His novels, with their integrity, breadth, and architectonic form, are painted on a larger canvas than any other American writers. In Manhattan Transfer, his fourth novel, he attempted to portray the greatest …
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The Rhetoric and Role of Hunter S. Thompson
… literary figures such as Cervantes, Chaucer, Dos Passos, and Swift.
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DADA / USA: connections between the Dada movement and eight American fiction writers
… William Carlos Williams, Laurence Vail, John Dos Passos, E. E. Cummings, and Nathanael West, and was affected by Gertrude Stein, are examined in chapters 4 to 11. DADÁ / EEUU: CONEXIONES ENTRE EL MOVIMIENTO DADAÍSTA Y OCHO NARRADORES NORTEAMERICANOS El propósito de esta tesis es investigar, …
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Métodos para caracterização de desempenho de CPUs industriais
… um conjunto de parâmetros que devem ser avaliados em um equipamento de controle utilizado em processos industriais. Para tentar suprir esta carência, este trabalho apresenta uma proposta de métricas e workloads para serem utilizados na avaliação de desempenho de sistemas de controle baseados em …
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Queratinofilia e perfil histoquímico de fungos isolados do solo de áreas de lazer da cidade do Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil.
… o perfil de carboidratos da parede celular dos fungos. Neste estudo, nós avaliamos a expressão de N-acetil- D-glucosamina, L-fucose, D-galactose e glucose/manose na parede celular de fungos filamentosos queratinofílicos, isolados de solos de áreas de lazer, através de um simples protocolo de …
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The Visual Novel: Fictional Space and Print After 1900
… British and American writers—A. S. Byatt, John Dos Passos, Steven Hall, and James Joyce, as well as contemporary small press editions of works by Laurence Sterne and Oscar Wilde. At times when screen culture advances print’s obsolescence, both historically and more recently, visual writing makes …
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Microvascular free tissue transfer for the head and neck reconstructive in a resource-limited setting
Background: Free tissue transfer has become the standard of care for the reconstruction of head and neck oncological defects. The Groote Schuur Hospital provides a microsurgical reconstructive service in a resource-limited setting, without access to venous couplers, invasive monitoring devices, …
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Ears Taut to Hear: Sound Recording and Twentieth-Century American Literature
… an analysis of texts by Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, Alan Lomax, Sidney Bechet, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and August Wilson, I explore how literature across a number of genres and modes extended formal techniques in response to the advent of the …
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Sex, Labor, And The American Way: Detroit Aesthetic In Mid-Twentieth-Century Literature
… short fiction in If I Were Boss, U.S.A. by John Dos Passos, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans, and Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr. The primary literature is juxtaposed with a study of visual texts and historic research with a locational and thematic basis in …
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The Soviet pilgrimage : American writers in Russia, 1922-1947.
… significant literary figures such as John Dos Passos, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Malcolm Muggeridge, Paul Robeson, John Steinbeck, E.E. Cummings, Mike Gold, Elmer Rice, Lillian Hellman, Theodore Dreiser, Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Edmund Wilson, Erskine Caldwell, Waldo Frank, Josephine …
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A análise de trajetórias : uma aplicação à modelação da satisfação de um paciente com o seu médico
Nos estudos da área da Psicologia muitas das investigações realizadas têm como objetivo estudar as relações existentes entre as variáveis psicológicas em observação e procurar variáveis que sejam determinantes de outras. Investigam-se, então, modelos que tentam traduzir os modelos conceptuais que …
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A dimensão europeia da cidadania : identidade, formas de participação, representações
… 1993 pelo Tratado de Maastricht, representa um dos passos mais marcantes na história da Europa, mas permanece como um dos grandes desafios da União Europeia. Os cidadãos dos Estados-Membros têm, hoje, um estatuto singular de dupla cidadania, porque pertencem a duas comunidades politicamente …
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Spontaneous and Leaderless: The Anarchist Impulse in Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Fiction
… and the authors of The Egoist circle and among Dos Passos and his contemporaries at New Masses, I reconstruct an anarchist aesthetics at work in some of the most historically noted texts of Anglophone modernism. Much as Old Left political organizations repressed their members' anarchist …
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Re(f)use: The Aesthetics of Waste In American Fiction
… thematically and stylistically, in the work of Dos Passos. From there, I examine garbage's proliferation in postmodern literature, an interest accompanied by alternative stylistic paradigms--metafictional gestures, descriptive amplitude, encyclopedic prolixity, manipulation of the paratext--that …
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