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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Literature and society"”.
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Angelic airs/subversive songs: Music as cultural discourse in Victorian literature and society
… as a transcendent corrective to social ills and feared it as a subversive context for these ills. In Chapter One, I examine Victorian constructions of music to promote patriotism, Christianity, culture, and domestic harmony, and suggest how often these goals were undermined by political …
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William Beer: An Englishman's Role in Libraries, Literature and Society in New Orleans, 1891-1927
… Beer quickly gained a reputation as a competent and knowledgeable librarian by bolstering the Louisiana collection at the Howard Library with maps, rare books and Louisiana historical documents. In 1896, Beer played a central role in the organization and opening of the first free and public …
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Novela juvenil de ficción prospectiva española en el siglo XXI: entre el miedo y la esperanza
… we have witnessed the emergence of a dystopian and apocalyptic phenomenon which significantly has impacted young readers. The aim of this dissertation is to trace the connections between the Spanish prospective young adult novels and the crises of the 21st century. From a selection of Spanish …
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Effects of Pseudo-Positive Ageism: A Systematized Critical Review
… of ageism are more subtle than the negative and is often overlooked in literature and society. The aim of this systematized critical review is to synthesize the current knowledge of these ‘positive’ forms of ageism. A comprehensive literature search was performed on 8 databases to identify …
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O desencanto da história em A insustentável leveza do ser (1984) - sobre literatura e sociedade
… the multiple relationships established between literature and society. In the artistic-literary context, the kundera´s work appears as an aesthetic solution to the contradictions of the postwar world, especially with regard to the crisis of Soviet experience and ideological aspects referred to …
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Planned suicide: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of individuals’ lived experiences of planning to end their own lives
… overarching aim is to provide an in-depth understanding of their subjective perspectives to end their lives by suicide. Three key objectives guide the research: firstly, to comprehend participants' relationships with death and its influence on suicide planning; secondly, to unveil the significance …
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California Elected City Council Women of Color: Building a Collaborative Vision With Inclusive Voice
… office for the first time at both the national and local levels. It is imperative that these women’s campaigns and victories are studied as a means to resist essentialism and honor the unique perspectives and histories of the voices of women of color in these political roles—roles highly …
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Ilustrado.
The novel, Ilustrado, and this exegesis Autoplagiarist, seek to create a clear understanding of the development, challenges and limitations of Philippine literature, with a focus on its fiction in English, and its relationship with Philippine society. They seek to demonstrate: that Philippine …
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Chaucer's use of folk material in the Canterbury Tales
… cannot remain incubated within his own period and zeitgeist. He assimilates the whole cultural background of the past as it survives in the present. Just as, in the individual, the adult is the product of his youth and infancy, so also a writer's works are conditioned by the past achievements …
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UNA REPUBBLICA LETTERARIA DIGITALE
… literary sphere, affecting both the production and consumption of content. While numerous studies have examined these changes descriptively, this work seeks to provide a more nuanced theoretical understanding of the interactions between technology, literature, and society. By focusing on digital …
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Decoupling of Corporate Social Investment in South Africa: Optics over Impact
… investigates the validity of criticisms found in literature and society of the practice of CSI in the country. Using a two-phase explanatory sequential research design, an initial quantitative study of archival data provides insights into the current state of CSI in South Africa. Regression and …
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Men who 'made it': men's stories of ageing well
Dominant discourses in much academic literature and society more widely tend to depict men as destructive, both towards themselves and others (Mac an Ghail, 2012). Men are commonly presented as valorising hegemonic constructions of masculinity that are in turn understood as negatively impacting on …
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Journeys towards well-being: men, meditation and mental health
There is a prominent discourse in academic literature, and society at large, that presents men as ‘damaged and damage doing’ (Mac an Ghaill and Haywood, 2012: 483). Incorporated within this idea is the notion that ‘masculinity’ itself is problematic and represents a ‘risk factor’ for health (Gough, …
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Knowledge Mobilization: Local Community Engagement, Sustainability, and Adaptive Governance
… communities, as well as the role of communities and ecomuseums in gathering and preserving knowledge about local heritage. The value proposition of the research is to recognize the ecomuseums’ social, cultural, and economic potential in Saskatchewan, as well as propose policy recommendations to …
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Will the "fight" ever end? : a critical reading of the metaphors and discourses that construct HIV/AIDS in an African context
… - Stephanie Nolen's 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa and Jonathan Morgan and the Bambanani Women's Group's Long Life ... Positive HIV Stories - as well as two literary texts - John Le Carre's popular fiction novel The Constant Gardener and an anthology of stories and poems from Southern Africa titled …
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La justicia y el absurdo en el cuento latinoamericano contemporáneo.
… de la segunda parte del siglo veinte considerando como caso de estudio los cuentos "Luvina" de Juan Rulfo, "La siesta del martes" de Gabriel García Márquez y "El regalo" de Rosario Ferré. Mediante la perspectiva de la crítica cultural, se propone que estos autores emplean la estrategia …
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Nuove intersezioni: crimine e storia nella narrativa Italiana al cambio di millennio
… investigates a recent tendency in Italian literature, characterized by elements of renewal within the novel-writing tradition and of discontinuity with postmodern culture. It proposes an interpretation of the genres of the historical novel and crime fiction in the last fifteen years, in …
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Uma leitura do romance “Rio de sombras" de António Arnaut
… No plano castrense percebemos como foi ganhando forma, através de capitães insubmissos, o Movimento das Forças Armadas e a Revolução do 25 de Abril. E percebemos ainda como os cravos vermelhos, signos da Revolução, foram algumas vezes mantendo a cor viçosa e, outras vezes, desbotando, tal …