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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Losing Battles."”.
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Eudora Welty: Family, Place, and Human Identity in Losing Battles
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Women in community : the influence of sorority on Eudora Welty and Zelda Fitzgerald.
… Save Me the Waltz together with Eudora Welty's Losing Battles a pattern of identity and community emerges. This project examines the effect of feminine community in four different contexts. First, I look at the presence of feminine community in Losing Battles and explore its effects on …
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Discovering the heart's truth : female initiation in the novels of Eudora Welty
… Robber Bridegroom (1942), Delta Wedding (1946), Losing Battles (1970), and The Optimist's Daughter (1972), undergo initiation experiences which are significant elements in the content and structure of the novels. Only in The Ponder, Heart (1954) is female initiation notably missing. This study …
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Fighting for frames or prospects for peace? : building a prospect theory model of ethnic civil war termination
… in which combatants elect to continue fighting losing battles when a normatively "rational" settlement is available, and that they do not seem to accurately describe the decision-making behavior of ethnic combatants. In this thesis, I draw upon the principles of prospect theory, a descriptive …