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Not Leading Lady Material
Title of Document: NOT LEADING LADY MATERIAL Megan Morse Jans, Master of Fine Arts Dance, 2015 Directed By: Professor Karen Bradley, Head of MFA Dance Program; Head of Dance Performance and Scholarship, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies This thesis is a reflection on the creation, …
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: the Trapped 'Other'
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters have been widely read and recognized for their early contribution to feminist literature; however, critics have also defined her masculine persona as contradictory to her overall feminist leanings. Using Mikhail Bahktin's theories on the relationship between …
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Lady Macbeth and Gertrude: A Study in Gender
… of two of Shakespeare's female leads, Lady Macbeth and Gertrude, is designed to determine whether or not these particular characters were free from the confines of their society, or if they were content within its oppressive grasp. A combination of Feminist Criticism and New Historicism …
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Marguerite Inman Davis: first progressive first lady of Virginia
… as an equestrienne and gardener. As first lady of Virginia during World War I, Marguerite Davis consciously set an example for women·of the state and nation to enter war work. She volunteered, as president of the Woman's Munition Reserve, to sew silk bags and fill them with smokeless gun …
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"Lady Windermere's Fan": Modernist aesthetics meets the aesthetics of fashion.
"Lady Windermere's Fan": Modernist aesthetics meets the aesthetics of fashion.
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The Documentary History and Repertory of the Lady Elizabeth's Men
… amalgamation of the documents pertaining to the Lady Elizabeth’s Men playing company that flourished in England from 1611 to 1625. It provides a chronological history based upon empirical evidence gathered from a range of sources such as Records of Early English Drama (REED); Henslowe’s Papers …
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Translating Peking opera for the London stage: Lady Precious Stream
… for performance in the English-speaking world. Lady Precious Stream, the first English-language production of Peking Opera on the London stage (1934) by a Chinese translator (S.I. Hsiung), serves as an extended case study in this regard. Through it, we analyse Hsiung’s strategies for negotiating …
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Radical restructuring : the conversion of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
This thesis studies the restructuring of a vacant parochial school in East Boston, Massachusetts, to 17 residential units of varying sizes. It formulates a process for dismantling the authoritarian imagery of the existing institutional structure and develops in its place a residential syntax …
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Attachment to place: Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish and the Guadalupe neighborhood
No abstract prepared.
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Medications in Lady Audley's Secret: Medicine as Historical Symbol and Literary Device
<p>As an archetypal sensation novel, <em>Lady Audley’s Secret</em> by Mary Elizabeth Braddon explores the boundaries of both crime and insanity. As the main character, Robert Audley, investigates the mysterious disappearance of his close friend, he begins to suspect that his uncle’s new wife, Lucy …
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Lady, If You Go Into Politics: North Dakota's Women Legislators, 1923-1989
<p>Little is known about the seventy-two women who served in the North Dakota legislature between 1923, when women first took seats, and 1989, the state's Centennial year. Their collective story has been absent from major scholarly works about the history of North Dakota, a state which prizes its …
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Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus : private space, public performance and torture
This thesis examines Lady Mary Wroth's revision of the Petrarchan sonnet form in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus . It examines Wroth's construction of a private textual space through the absence of social and political referents and her emphasis on Pamphilia's inner thoughts and emotion. This …
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Politics and Hermeneutics in the Meditations of Anne, Lady Halkett, 1651-1699
Anne, Lady Halkett (née Murray; 1623-1699), has long been familiar as a Civil War autobiographer, but she also wrote more than 5,000 pages of select and occasional meditations. The salient feature of these devotional compositions is an intensely biblical diction, making Halkett’s use of scripture …
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