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Showing 1 to 20 of 134 for “"Marjorie"”.
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Sandcastles in the Sand: Liminality at the Seashore in Carolyn Wells's Marjorie at Seacote
… unknown today, Carolyn Wells's 1912 novel <em>Marjorie at Seacote</em> depicts how the beach as a liminal space destabilizes the traditional adult and child roles and creates discomfon and ambivalence over these new roles. I first discuss Carolyn Wells and <em>Marjorie at Seacote</em> in terms …
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Narratives Of Southern Contact Zones: Mobility And The Literary Imagination Of Zora Neale Hurston And Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
… Southern women writers, Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, based on the cultural contexts of the 1930s and the 1940s. It discusses how the two writers' works are in dialogue with each other, and with the particular historical period in which the South had gone through many social, …
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El desierto y el duelo: una poética de resistencia a la violencia y al olvido en Lluvia en el desierto de Marjorie Agosín
… the Desert (1999) by the Chilean-American poet Marjorie Agosín is to explore the problem of mourning, memory and identity in the context of the dictatorship and post dictatorship in Chile through the poetics of the desert. In this first in-depth analysis ever done on this collection of poems, I …
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Wildlife: Stories
… Monsters</em> and <em>The Condition of Marjorie’s Feet</em>. The first project is a novella written from the perspective of a child, London Jeffries, who is possessed by the ghost of his dead brother. The second project attempts to document a mythos of Marjorie—as rampaging mutant, demon …
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Essays in Law and Economics
… first chapter, a joint work with my advisor - Marjorie McElroy, examines the longly debated effect of the liberalized divorce laws in the United States on the divorce rates during 1956-1989. The first and the second chapter are a theoretical and an empirical paper on a cooperative game of …
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Illuminating a way towards asking new questions of home economics pedagogy
… to the text What is home economics education? (Marjorie Brown 1980), with the intention to translate into teacher-talk the messages conveyed in the text. For it was with an initial uneasiness about the way the topic was talked about in Brown's text, that raised the question of the …
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Cracker Gothic: A Memoir
… and redemption. The works of Flannery O'Conner, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Harry Crews, and William Bartram were examined for both style and content. The essays illuminate both the physical spaces and the inhabitants of the town, the metaphorical elements of the grotesque and the sacred, and how …
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Resurrecting the Anonymous: An Introduction To Mary Steele, the Author of Danebury and The Power of Friendship, A Tale with Two Odes by a Young Lady
… and Hannah More. Drawing upon the work of Marjorie Reeves as well as the original manuscripts contained in the Reeves and Steele collections, this thesis provides the first in depth discussion of Mary Steeles published work and the role her literary circle of friends and acquaintances and …
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An analysis of persuasive techniques in russia-ukraine war propaganda /
… by two congresswomen – Nancy Pelosi and Marjorie Taylor Greene, the study aims to investigate what ideas and narratives these congresswomen wanted to convey to their readers and what techniques were employed to achieve this goal. The analysis has revealed that the attitudes of the …
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Imaginary Friends: Engaging the Unconscious Mind through Picture Books
… book storytelling. By combining the research of Marjorie Taylor on ‘imaginary companions’ and Lois Rostow Kuznets on ‘toy animals’ in literature, I seek to give form to the concept of the imaginary friend, to then explore the phenomenon further by delving into the intellectual heritage of the …
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Arranging Stories: The Implications of Narrative Decision in Short Story Collections by Southern Women Writers, 1894-1944
… story collections by Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Katherine Anne Porter. Publishing a collection enabled authors to revise their stories outside of magazines’ requirements and provided the agency to arrange individual stories into a collective narrative. In “Arranging …
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Nothing Less Than an Activist: Marge Baroni, Catholicism, and the Natchez, Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
… life of Natchez, Mississippi Catholic activist Marjorie R. Baroni (1924-1986). The study examines Baroni's Catholic faith-driven activism as a counter-narrative to the dominant Protestant narratives of religious motivations in the greater civil rights movement. In analyzing Baroni's story as a …
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One Time, One Place? Richard Wright and Eudora Welty's Shared Visual Politics in the Depression Era
… and Welty's "Moon Lake" (1949) and "Flowers for Marjorie" (1941). In chapter one, I write Welty's and Wright's documentary work more firmly into the Depression-era documentary context that included Farm Security Administration photographers and popular documentaries to demonstrate how the authors …
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Organização social e representação gráfica : crianças da escola itinerante do MST
… como um ser simbólico e social. Luquet, Marjorie e Brendt Wilson, com seus estudos sobre o desenho da criança trazem contribuições na área do grafismo infantil e uma visão iconoclasta, fundamentais para compreendermos melhor as representações das crianças e podermos estabelecer um diálogo …
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Imaginario mediático en la literatura argentina del siglo XXI (Alejandro Rubio, Sergio Bizzio, Alejandro López, Daniel Link y otras experimentaciones en literatura electrónica y net.art)
… con la escuela de Frankfurt, y por el otro, Marjorie Perloff (2009) (2010), Kenneth Goldsmith (2011), David Joselit (2013), Jerome McGann (2001), entre otros, como emergentes de una crítica más cercana en el tiempo. La delimitación de los dispositivos teóricos está en función de analizar cómo …
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The Indeterminacy of Longform Poetics in John Cage and Charles Olson
… emerged through Roman Ingarden, Wolfgang Iser, Marjorie Perloff and Charles Altieri, and how that discourse increasingly configures the question of indeterminacy less around meaning and more around reading as an activity in itself. Chapter One provides a critical redescription of Olson’s hugely …
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