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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"Literature history"”.
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A ninth grade resource unit in literature, history, and music
Thesis (M.M.)--Boston University
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Medievalism in the French Renaissance: Literature, History, and Nation in Claude Fauchet's Veilles ou Observations (1555)
This thesis explores the place of medieval French literature in the formation of national identity in sixteenth-century France. It focuses on an unpublished and little-studied manuscript miscellany, the Veilles ou Observations de plusieurs choses dinnes de mémoire en la lecture d’aucuns autheurs …
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Willa Cather and the Classics
… Cather incorporated references to classical literature, history, and especially myth as a means of confronting personal and societal crises and of expressing the universality of human experience. In turning to the Classics, Cather reinforced her belief that only two or three human stories go …
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Illuminating the Eighteenth-Century British Stage: Perfecting Performance through Education
… field” that “intersect[s] with art, music, literature, history, economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, and fashion” (Engel 752). While much scholarship has been conducted on the actress’ life, interaction with material culture, public spectacle, authority, femininity, and writings, …
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Voices from the Killing Jar
… as its subject seven female characters from literature, history, and myth. In the paper, a musical analysis of each of the work's seven movements is accompanied by brief literary analyses of the characters and their sources. This is followed by relevant details of my history as a performer, …
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Black Biracial Crossings: Mixed-Race Identity in Modern American Literature and Culture
… and ""white"" are defined by investigating how literature, history, and culture inform changing identity politics. My dissertation argues that America's obsession with mixed race, traced through representations, imaginings and theorization of mulattos or black/white mixed race people, intimates …
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`SHE WILL NOT SUBMIT TO BE IGNORED': KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND PERFORMING AMERICAN FEMININITY AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
… for scholars in theatre, performance studies, literature, history, and gender studies to re-interrogate and renegotiate previously held conceptions of women's roles in society in general and within the theatrical sphere in particular.
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The King and His Court: The Culture of Royal Power and the Creation of the Angevin Empire Under Henry II
<p>Legal codes, literature, history, and violence were necessary aspects of royal power that in conjunction with resources gained from familial inheritance and a fortunate marriage allowed King Henry II to build, govern, and legitimize his rule over the Angevin Empire, as well as attempt to create …
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A survey of the information seeking behaviour of the dental faculty lecturers and students at the University of the Western Cape's Oral Health Centre Library, in Mitchell's Plain
… gives a brief archaeological and anthropological history of medicine and dentistry collections from the ancient times and supplies South Africa’s medical literature history. The thesis also looks at the current status and collection of the Oral Health Centre library at the University of the …
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At the Conflux
… of Martin Bresnick is filled with allusions to literature, history, politics, and music of the past. These extramusical references are often combined with complex musical structures. Symmetries and serial operations are staples of his craft. These two aspects of his work often exist in different …
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The context, purpose, and dissemination of legendary genealogies in northern England and Iceland c. 1120 – c. 1241
… impact on English culture, language and literature and changed attitudes to their own legendary past. The Danish conquest of England in the early eleventh-century also brought the insular and Scandinavian worlds closer together, and even after the Norman Conquest in 1066, England and …
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Resilient routing for MANETs
… experiments that is informed by analysis of the literature, history, and properties of these networks. Ultimately, my work contributes to the field in three fronts: Firstly, motivated by the multiple challenges that research in this area presents, I designed and built MeshSim, a real-time network …
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Performing texts; playing with jazz aesthetics
… in recent years from scholars in other fields---literature, history, political science, cultural studies---very little headway has been made in understanding what jazz aesthetics are and how they might inform other forms of cultural and artistic expression. Part of the difficulty lies in the …
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A history of the comedy of manners
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
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The historical novels of Jessie Joyce Gwayi
… the classroom because there had been no Zulu literature except the Holy Bible. This was so chiefly because, for a long time, schools belonged to missionaries whose primary aim was to bring the Christian Gospel to the Black people. Moses Ngcobo, Gwayi's husband, inspired her because, as a …
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Are there classics in American literature?
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Emphasizing cultural connections in American literature using systems theory.
… proposes that academics should approach American literature using a systems approach – viewing the whole instead of parts. America is a unique society in which each culture contributes to the American culture as a whole. When looking at the literature of that combined culture, it is important to …
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Traditions and Transformations in the Work of Adál: Surrealism, <i>El sainete</i>, and Spanglish
… continuous explorations into culture/politics/literature/history focused on his Nuyorican and Puerto Rican identity or roots are manifested in his work since his early practices.</p>
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