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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Literary representation"”.
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Neoplatonic identities : literary representation and the politics of Queen Henrietta Maria's court circle
My thesis investigates Queen Henrietta Maria's cultural activities at the Caroline court, paying particular attention to her connections with France and with French politics. In contrast to previous studies of her life, I am concerned not only with her position as a Catholic in a Protestant …
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The Media as an Image Maker/Breaker: The Case of Tina Modotti and Its Literary Representation
… public image during the 1920s in Mexico and the representation of this image in the novel <U>Tinísima</U> by Elena Poniatowska. In Chapter I, the present study tackles also the issues behind the press attitude in relation to the Mexican political situation and the communist influence during the …
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Literary representation of spanish immigration in the United States of America (1900-1950): transculturation, hybridization, and the third space
El objetivo de esta tesis es analizar las representaciones literarias del siglo XX sobre la inmigración española en los Estados Unidos de América ambientadas entre 1900 y 1950, tal y como se reflejan en los siguientes libros: Chromos (1948), de Felipe Alfau; Windmills in Brooklyn (1953) y Fiesta: A …
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'God Does Not Regard Your Forms': Gender and Literary Representation in the Works of Farīd al-Dīn 'Aṭṭār Nīshāpūrī
… range of the evidence, as we find many positive representations of women, and indeed female saints, alongside brutal anti-woman declarations. This study attempts to nuance these prevailing characterisations of medieval depictions of gender by providing further evidence of Sufi attitudes towards …
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An analysis of the literary representation of the causes and effects of family disintegration in memory Chirere' selected short stories from the antrology Somewhere in this country
The thesis explores the literary representation of the causes and effects of family disintegration in Memory Chirere’s selected short stories namely “Keresenzia”, “Beautiful children”, “An Old Man, Eyes of a Buck”, “Plastic and Cardboards” and “When Passions Gather” from the anthology Somewhere in …
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"The Land of the Fine Triremes:" Naval Identity and Polis Imaginary in 5th Century Athens
… focuses on the artistic, archaeological, and literary representation and commemoration of the Classical Athenian navy. While the project stresses the various and often contradictory ways in which the Athenians perceived and represented their navy, its larger purpose is to argue that the …
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Steiner's Shoah : a conversation in silence
… George Steiner's approach to the historical and literary representation of the Shoah. Steiner's conception of human language as a vibrant living organism, the prime carrier of both civilization and its opposite--nihilism, is foundational to his thought on Holocaust representation and, therefore, …
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Direito ao grito (explosão): Representações da violência de gênero em contos de Clarice Lispector
This research aims to understand how the literary representation of gender violence is configured in Clarice Lispector's work, based on the relationship between literature and gender, considering the structural nature of gender violence in patriarchal society and its elements highlighted in the …
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Memoria y nostalgia del Ochocientos: Il Gattopardo y Bearn. La transformación de la clase aristocrática italiana y española y su retrato en la literatura del siglo XX
… Italian and Spanish aristocracy through its literary representation in Il Gattopardo by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and Bearn o la sala de las muñecas by Llorenç Villalonga. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that integrates history, literature, and the history of emotions, this research …
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Masculinity and Politics in Daniel Casper von Lohenstein's Dramatic Works
… my dissertation I examine to what degree the representation of masculinity in Daniel Casper von Lohenstein's dramas--in its multiple forms--serves as commentary on the historical-political realities facing seventeenth-century Silesia. Silesia's population was predominantly Protestant, which …
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As lively mock’d as ever: Plasticity and the aesthetic image of life
… contends with the treatment of the biological in literary representation, arguing that the biological lacunae particularly visible in critical practice are best redressed by a formal exploration of aesthetic images of life. Biology, as I will show, admits of contingency, spontaneity, and novelty …
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Fossil Capitalist Realism: Petrofiction, Climate Change and the Endless Twentieth Century
… environmental politics relate to the realism of literary representation, which has largely ceded the task of depicting environmental crisis to non-realist genres like science fiction and apocalypse? What exactly is the “reality” named by these political and literary realisms, and why does it …
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Be Our Guest - International Students in Contemporary Multiethnic Literature
This thesis looks at the literary representation of the international student in two different novels to uncover the true nature of the US’s “hospitality” from the Cold War Era until now. To demonstrate this, I use Derrida’s framework of hospitality, close readings of Susan Choi’s novel The Foreign …
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Mourning men : the elegiac in James Merrill and Richard Howard
… has become part of contemporary society. That literary representation of AIDS are now surfacing is thus not unexpected. And, given the homosexual community's early encounter with AIDS, it is equally unsurprising that an extraordinary amount of what is known as AIDS Literature originates in that …
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Woolf and Freud: A dialogue between Woolf's fiction and psychanalytic theory
… in the field of psychoanalysis, but that the literary representation of these ideas retains many of the socio-political concerns specific to the time of her writing. I have selected 'Mrs Dalloway', To the 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando', as a combination of texts that can be shown to offer a …
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Traces de terre, traces d'encre... La rappresentazione dello spazio nella letteratura caraibica. (Francofona e Anglofona)
This study concerns the representation of space in Caribbean literature, both francophone and Anglophone and, in particular, but not only, in the martinican literature, in the works of the authors born in the island. The analysis focus on the second half of the last century, a period in which the …
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The café in modernist literature: Wyndham Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Rhys
This study explores the representation of the café in literary modernism. As its primary works range from the early 1900s to 1939, I have restricted my choice of exemplary writers in an effort to pay attention to issues of subject, style, and technique in greater detail than a survey would allow. …
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Domestic faiths, global missions: post-secular science fiction at the millennium
… twentieth century, new “post-secular” modes of literary representation emerged that challenged the implicitly Protestant epistemologies of dominant twentieth century American secularism. My dissertation, Domestic Faiths, Global Missions: Post-secular Science Fiction at the Millennium, examines …
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Sweetie and the invisible malady: writing and reading type 2 diabetes
… with three academic chapters that explore literary representations (and the absence thereof) of type 2 diabetes. The thesis finishes with a creative work – a novel that seeks to address the representational gap. All parts are grounded in the conviction that literary representation matters, …
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