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Showing 1 to 20 of 109 for “"Maggie"”.
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The Embodiment of Theory in Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts
<p>The purpose of this research is to explore how Maggie Nelson, in her groundbreaking memoir <em>The Argonauts</em> <em></em>(2015), works to bring critical theory (primarily queer and feminist theory) out of the academy and into the realm of the personal, rendering theory as tangible and embodied …
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Notes towards & Maggie Nelson’s Rhetorical Fictions: a study of Bluets
… (6,641 words) and a study of American poet Maggie Nelson’s book Bluets (2009) titled ‘Maggie Nelson’s Rhetorical Fictions: A Study of Bluets’ (24,599 words excl. bibliography). <br/><br/>The central theme, that of the exploration of narrative long-form poetry and the space between poetry, …
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Maggie and her students: Talking and reasoning in a reform-based mathematics classroom
1 PDF file (xvii, 364 pages)
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Nobody Inside: Toni Morrison's "Recitatif": An Analysis on Whole/Incomplete Bodies, "The Maggie Thing"and Sick and Dancing Mothers
… and Roberta remain fixated on the question of Maggie, a disabled character, and their mothers. Drawing on the work of disability studies specialist Lennard J. Davis, this thesis explores how the binary “normal/abnormal” functions in the story and shapes Twyla’s and Roberta’s understandings of …
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Underneath
Underneath is a full-length novel that follows Maggie Lawrence, a twelve-year-old girl growing up in the late 1970s, through the first eight months of her parents' divorce. To escape their fighting, Maggie crawls under her bed. There, she is transported to the Forest, a place where all the animals …
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Rethinking Tennessee Williams' "Desperate" Women
Although Amanda Wingfield, Blanche DuBois, and Maggie Pollitt are examined frequently in scholarship on Tennessee Williams's plays, many critics assume that the three women's Southern femininity translates to fragility and that their nostalgia for the Confederate past constitutes delusion. …
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Evolution of a Smart Girl
… "Some Things Can't Be Unbroken" centers on Maggie and Charlie Copper's marriage after Maggie is diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the age of twenty-five; and "Of Apples and Broken Scabs" presents four stories about four very different women who experience heartbreak in love, friendship, and …
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Gender tragedy in George Eliot's "Mill on the Floss"
… did so through her representations of Tom and Maggie Tulliver and by examining how each of these characters deal with the respective roles for his or her gender while living during the Victorian age. Tom strictly follows the imposed roles for his gender, while Maggie refuses to live within the …
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Female characters in Jack Kerouac's Fiction
… his fiction. His three female-centered novels, Maggie Cassidy, The Subterraneans, and Tristessa show the male protagonists following a pattern of departure from home, experience in a foreign world, and return to home. Maggie Cassidy is Jacky Dulouoz's sexual initiation although the relationship …
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Stephen Crane and the Cinematic Spectacle of the New York Slums
… attempts to examine Stephen Crane's novella, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (Story of New York) as well as a sampling of his New York slum fiction known as his Bowery Tales and Midnight Sketches in light of the burgeoning technological revolution of cinema as popular art form. By my estimation, …
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Dark Consciousness: Theory of Mind and Henry James’s The Golden Bowl
… <em>The Golden Bowl</em>, and its protagonist, Maggie Verver. Although the majority of critics view her as a positive character, James takes great effort to subvert her thoughts and mislead the reader. Despite lacking a modern technical vocabulary, James remains acutely aware of how human …
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Moral Training for Nature's Egotists: Mentoring Relationships in George Eliot's Fiction
… with nature. In Chapter 6 I focus on Maggie Tulliver, a mentee with three failed mentors and two antimentors. Maggie chooses regression over growth as symbolized by her drowning death in her brother's arms. In Chapter 7 I examine Middlemarch, whose lack of a successful standard …
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'As a Lover' & 'Exploring the Wreck': (Re)creating the lesbian past through historical fiction
… The story is told from the perspectives of Maggie Dillon, an invented character, and Radclyffe Hall, a real historical figure. Maggie is a young firefighter, originally from Belfast, whose life is influenced by The Well, and Radclyffe Hall is The Well’s author. Through these different …
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TOWNIES: MATRIARCHS AND MAYHEM
… speculative authorial influences include writers Maggie Stiefvater, Kelly Link, and Quan Barry.</p>
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Who Is It For? Personal Writing and Antagonistic Readers
… genres of criticism and narrative memoir – Maggie Nelson’s <em>The Argonauts</em> and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s <em>Between the World and Me</em> – this paper considers how personal writing is shaped not by readers it wants to connect to, but by anxious, even dreadful, anticipation of being read by …
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A trajetória decolonial da companhia de teatro Os Satyros: uma experiência latinoamericana
… (Michel Thiollent) e da autoteoria (Maggie Nelson), esta pesquisa buscou compreender os principais vetores das transformações ocorridas no seio da produção teatral da companhia. A partir da revisão bibliográfica baseada em pensadores do teatro como Rustom Bharucha, Aleksandar …
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Not the Whole Story: Narrative Responses to Contemporary Globalization
… on their work and the narrative theory of Maggie Dunn and Ann Morris, I explore how literary narratives employ newly prominent composite narrative structures to represent and enact key methods of managing overwhelming globalized connectivity in our lives and narratives. Narrative …
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A Gentlemen's Benevolence: Symptoms of Class, Gender, and Social Change in Emma, Nicholas Nickleby, and The Mill on the Floss
… and self-interest allows him to truly help Maggie Tulliver when no one else can. These authors' depictions of benevolence all illuminate ways that nineteenth-century literary authors sought to navigate the “Adam Smith Problem" of sympathy vs. self-interest. Benevolence, in these novels, is …
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In Ordinary Trauma: Notes on Time
… in response to trauma memoirists like Maggie Nelson, Sinéad Gleeson, Olivia Laing and Helen Mc Donald. These writers highlight the role of time in relation to trauma and self. I built on some of the ideas they introduced, and time became the organizing principle around which discussions …
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The metamorphosis of the drunkard in selected fiction of Stephen Crane
… parents' Methodism. Crane's studies of society, Maggie and George's Mother, are works of a writer who expresses a viewpoint through a concentrated moral vision. In these works Crane's major target was the drunkard, and particularly, the hypocrisy, the moral weakness, and the capacity for …
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