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Showing 1 to 20 of 279 for “"Modern Literature"”.
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The Hydra of Modern Literature
<p>Modernist Literature</p>
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Bored As Hell: Reading Boredom in Modern Literature
… dissertation examines depictions of boredom in modern literature. It aims to understand boredom outside of scientific explanatory models, which often produce a list of causes and effects in a diagnostic language. I ask, what can literary depictions of boredom tell us about boredom in a way that …
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Your Change Is Still Behind: Futurity in Early Modern Literature
<p>A study of Renaissance literature's engagement with temporality, my project is a critical evaluation of the concept of early modern futurity, of which I propose three categories: "Material futurity"; "Biological futurity"; and "Political futurity." In the moments that I identify in texts …
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The Materialism Of The Encounter: Queer Sociality And Capital In Modern Literature
… the broader experiences of twentieth century modernity. To do so, I draw together a series of transnational texts--Henry James's nonfiction travel narrative <i>The American Scene</i>, Djuna Barnes's canonical <i>Nightwood</i>, and two neglected novels, Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler's …
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Bartleby's Descendants: The Theme of The White-Collar Worker in Modern Literature
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T13:49:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8004300.pdf: 13083990 bytes, checksum: 364bfdc9d7f80615e76696f598e120bd (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Madmen and mad money: psychological disability and economics in medieval and early modern literature
In medieval and early modern literature, people with psychological disabilities are commonly represented as nuisances, monsters, and pitiable wretches. This ableist paradigm is partly attributable to the fact that ‘mad’ characters evoke economic anxieties rooted in the socioeconomic climate of the …
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The genre of suffering in the 'ancient near eastern literature, the Hebrew bible, and in some examples of modern literature.
… of the human being in the context of life and literature and in relation to the issue of justice, which revolves around the impact of Justice, Humanity and God. My aim is to look at the development of the genre of suffering starting with the Ancient Near Eastern Literature, to define the genre …
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The genre of suffering in the ancient Near Eastern literature, the Hebrew Bible, and in some examples of modern literature
… of the human being in the context of life and literature and in relation to the issue of justice, which revolves around the impact of Justice, Humanity and God. My aim is to look at the development of the genre of suffering starting with the Ancient Near Eastern Literature, to define the genre …
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Teaching for Thinking: an action research inquiry into the Pedagogical potential of modern literature to foster critical thinking and facilitate critical consciousness in third level students.
This thesis explores the pedagogical use of modern literature in fostering critical thinking and facilitating critical consciousness in adulthood. This thesis will make a small but significant contribution to knowledge in the field. My original contribution to knowledge lies in releasing the …
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Perception and Its Implication for the “Perceptually Handicapped Child” with Emphasis on Auditory Modality
… purpose of this study to present a review of the modern literature on perception, with an emphasis on the auditory modality, in an effort to summarize what research says concerning: 1. the neurological makeup of the perceiving organism; 2. the linguistic makeup of the perceiving organism; 3. the …
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This Prison Where I Live: Authority and Incarceration in Early Modern Drama
The image of the prison looms large in early modern literature. By the sixteenth century, the prison was as much a part of everyday life as the public theatre. Although scholars have recently focused on the prison as a cite of cultural production, the depictions of fictionalized prison have not …
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The Pharmacist's Role in Consulting Patients with Joint Diseases // Роля на магистър-фармацевта при консултиране на болни със ставни заболявания
… pharmaceutical care. Analyzing the available modern literature on the provision of pharmaceutical care, the features of pharmaceutical care in patients with chronic degenerative and inflammatory joint diseases are highlighted. An algorithm for providing individualized pharmaceutical care to …
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Constraining the QSO luminosity function using gravitational lensing statistics
… function and compare them to results in the literature. Our results confirm the suspected fall off in the high-end QSO luminosity function slope at high redshift and agree with modern literature results. We conclude with a brief discussion of improvements that can be made to our analysis …
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