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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Ennui"”.
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Out of Chaos
… southern upbringing, and interaction with daily ennui. It also presents a range of different poetic techniques, from collage and pastiche to more traditional lyric formats.
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Close to home.
… themes common to the sub-genre, specifically the ennui of university students from a wealthy background. The story's characters have an excess of money, privilege and leisure time, which leads to boredom and ultimate tragedy. The protagonist, Faye, epitomises the stereotype of a spoiled Cape Town …
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The Art of Feeling Sorry for Yourself
… accurately and fairly portray the generational ennui of the Millennial twenty-something. By use of first-person narration and realistic portrayal of the American urban hipster lifestyle, this project attempts to convey the reality of the perceived apathy among this generation. Much has been …
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Thèmes, structure et signification dans Le jour est noir de Marie-Claire Blais
… de plus près les éléments constitutifs de l'ennui. Nous analyserons ensuite les effets de ce désarroi chez les victimes. Dans une deuxième partie, nous tenterons de dégager les trois mouvements binaires qui caractérisent l'existence des personnages, le va-et-vient continuel entre la mort et …
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Wallace Stevens: the determining personality
… the black moods that came over him in periods of ennui. Such passages provide a personal context for the "dejection odes" which occur throughout Stevens' career, from "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad" to the "The Course of a Particular."The remaining four chapters deal with the major phases of …
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Boudica & field notes towards a dynamic film-poem form
… in four parts, the poem explores her adolescent ennui, her ambivalence towards place and her small acts of existential rebellion against this condition. The verse itself is constructed of images from cinema and after cinema, images bound to the physicality of cinema. Poet and narrator are allowed …
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Identity Is A Laughing Matter: Humor and British National Identity In the Nineteenth Century
… <italic>Castle Rackrent</italic> and <italic> Ennui</italic>, Austen's <italic>Pride and Prejudice</italic>, Thackeray's <italic>Vanity Fair</italic>, and comic strips in <italic>Funny Folks, Comic Cuts</italic>, and<italic> Ally Sloper's Half Holiday</italic>, my project traces how writers and …
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Daikon Summer
… atmosphere of longing and existential ennui, the characters, at first too scared to be alone they can’t even let go of their sadness, learn to hold onto something else—the security of their own company and their growing conviction that they’ll run into something or someone exciting …
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Eudora Welty : From "The Wanderers" to THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER
… for coping with contemporary alienation and ennui. Such a forthright statement is unusual for Miss Welty who usually specializes in merely describing very well the contemporary human situation.</p> <p>It seems that in <em>The Optimist's Daughter </em>has taken the framework of "The …
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The Cranberry Club
<p>This novel is about an adolescent artist with undiagnosed depressive tendencies and a penchant for the grotesque. The main action takes place in Brooklyn, New York, during the calendar year of 1999. The central characters in this book are coping with anxiety, loss, and lethargy as they wander a …