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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Mythologizing"”.
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Vernacular in Curves: The Mythologizing of the Great Lakes Whaleback
The "whaleback" type of bulk commodity freighter, indigenous to the Great Lakes of North America at the end of the nineteenth century, has engendered much notice for its novel appearance; however, this appearance masks the essential vernacularity of the vessel. Comparative disposition analysis …
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Mythologizing the transition : a comparative study of Bahram Beyzaee and Wolfe Soyinka
Bahram Beyzaee, the Iranian playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, and Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian poet, playwright, and novelist have produced artistic works that transcend the limitations of time and locality to become powerful comments on human life and socio-political and cultural institutions. …
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Master of the house: de-mythologizing the father in Turkish-German film
The thesis sets out to answer a question: why the Turkish-German films of the last decade have without exception presented the father as impaired or absent? The parameters of the inquiry are set out in an introductory chapter, which also outlines the establishes the theoretical framework for the …
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Whitman And The Elegy: Mythologizing Lincoln And The Poetic Reconstruction Of Mourning
<p>In Walt Whitman's mind, Abraham Lincoln represented the very essence of America and, because of this, Lincoln and his assassination were the ideal subject through which Whitman could explore the art of mourning on both individual and collective scales. The regimented order of lament, adoration, …
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Touching home : baseball and the liberal-republican tradition in America.
… for understanding the purpose of much of the mythologizing of baseball that has existed since its post-Civil War professionalization. In particular, this dissertation examines the mythologizing of baseball's pastoralism, its desegregation, and its inculcation of manliness as a civic virtue. …
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The Personal Is Political: Promoting Empathy Through the Exchange of Personal Narratives About Gender Towards Social Change
… and limiting hegemonic norms as well as mythologizing the perceived innate differences that separate us by gender. This paper explores the potential of story exchange to blur or dismantle the gender binary towards realizing a common humanity. Reflecting on the collective evidence …
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Austen and Woolf Revisited: Muddy Petticoats, Sally's Kiss, and the Neoliberal Now
This project examines the implications of mythologizing women writers, specifically Woolf and Austen, and transforming them into their own famous characters. Using various writings that theorize women's voices, sense of agency, and political autonomy in relationship with the public/private …
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The Golden Country
… immersion in a grief which takes the form of mythologizing her dead husband. In this context, Ava's journey evolves into a series of complex revelations regarding the other characters. Ava discovers that some interpretation of the truth about her family, and thus about herself, can only be …
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Rewriting the Future: The Construction of Masculine Subjectivity Within Articulations of Russia's Post-Soviet National Idea
… conceptualization of Russia's national Idea by mythologizing nostalgic signifiers of the past and orienting them toward a future ideal in a way that finalizes the meanings of such signifiers and makes them appear to be eternal and authentically Russian. Combined, such discourses constitute a …
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The mythical speech of Janine Antoni
… historicizes the work of art, semiologically mythologizing the myth. In order to fully examine Antoni's approach, a comparative analysis is necessary to determine the nature of myth and its relationship to visual art. Therefore, this paper begins by discussing three postmodern female artists: …
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Foreign bodies in the river of sound : seeking identity and Irish traditional music
… pub sessions linked to the tourism industry's mythologizing of an 'Ireland of the Welcomes'. Extended fieldwork among Australians and other foreign musicians who had re-located to Ireland found current theorizations of musical community inadequate to account for difference and disharmony in …
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Against Infinite Grief: Mourning and Speculative Invention in Postbellum American Literature
… Gilded Age, Bierce’s war stories countered the mythologizing revisionism of the Civil War battles in which he himself took part through a novel approach to fictionalized testimony and retroactive memorialization. William James struggled with the personal dimension and implications of infinite …
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No Gods, Only Suffering
… into young adulthood, it is also a project in mythologizing environment. Both a representation of and departure from long-standing ideologies about the land in rural Kansas, this collection juxtaposes sardonic references to Christianity with earnest proclamations about the land’s power. No …
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Estetyczne myślenie w twórczości Andrzeja Stasiuka : w kontekście mityzacji Europy Wschodniej
W pracy został przedstawiony innowacyjny sposób patrzenia na Europę Wschodnią, widoczny w twórczości Andrzeja Stasiuka odbiegający od klasycznego, czyli “równoleżnikowego” widzenia tej części kontynentu w odwiecznej konfrontacji i nieustannych porównań z Zachodem. Twórczość tego artysty skupia się …