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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"National body"”.
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Reading, Travel, and the Pedagogy of Growing Up in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany
… adult reading with the foreign world of international travel that informed German experience at the end of the nineteenth century. By uniting these two ostensibly disparate realms under one interpretive frame, I offer a new perspective on the theory and practice of young-adult reading at the …
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Yeats and water imagery
… people (his subject, as he was trying to build a national body of symbols) with water. Water--sea, lake, ice, well--and its related imagery--moon, water birds, fish and dolphins, blood and alcohol as related liquids--pervades the poetical and dramatical work of Yeats. Water imagery is one half of …
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Between Two Motherlands: Struggles for Nationhood Among the Greeks in Bulgaria, 1906--1949
… Its history illustrates the tension between nationality as a form of cultural affinity and national ideology as a political doctrine in the twentieth century: the Bulgarian Greeks considered themselves heirs of the ancient Greek colonists and identified with the Greek nation, yet they had an …
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Experiencing smallpox in eighteenth-century England
… and adult smallpox deaths. Drawing from a national body of life-writings the roles of smallpox carers are also scrutinised, revealing their high levels of stress but also their resilience thanks to integrated and reciprocal support. Spousal, parental and kinship networks were vital …
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Artist/Citizen: Choreographing the Nation Brand
… proposed as a valuable resource for imagining, embodying and reflecting on alternative corporealities that make spaces for diverse and contested experiences within and beyond Ireland’s borders. As an art form concerned with the organisation of movement in space, dance provides a framework for …
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Performing Ero Guro: Erotic-Grotesque Bodies and Normativity in Post-WWII Japanese and Korean Theatre
… responded to each nation’s image of the ideal body. Those ideal bodily images were the product of haunting modernity as well as of the following historical circumstances after Japan’s loss in WWII—the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the U.S. and Japan and the attendant<em> …
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"You'll Get Used to It!": The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940-43
… order to be seen as valuable contributors to the national body. Consequently, their collective memory of internment as a continuation of that project and, finally, as evidence of its fulfillment constitutes a critical part of internment history. By broadening the framework of Jewish internment …
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The Antecedents of Work-School Conflict and Work-School Enrichment
… aims to address this gap by contributing to the national body of knowledge in this area. The measures used were secondary self-report survey data completed by post-graduate university students who are simultaneously engaged in paid work (N=330). Multiple regression analyses indicated that time …
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Health, individuality, and nationalism: Female images in Chinese gynecological medicine advertisements (1900s-1920s)
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Playing soldiers: martial subjects in early modern English drama, 1590-1660
… seventy-year period in the development of national consciousness in Britain. Analyzing works composed, performed or printed between 1590 and 1660, I argue for the soldier’s centrality in an ongoing cultural discussion about the rights and responsibilities of the individual subject in state …
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Determined to Be American: Regulating Immigration and Citizenship in the Early American Republic, 1783–1815
… Republic, 1783–1815</em> argues that international and domestic circumstances led to fierce debates about migration regulations that partitioned the populace of the early Republic into parties which battled over the United States’ racial, socioeconomic and ideological composition. The newly …
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An aesthetic cartography of fast
… may become the embodiment or representation of a national body-politic. The last chapter of the cartography explores the autopoetic-feedback loop between Gandhi and the people and finishes with a comparison of the mise en scène of the hunger artists with the fasts of the Indian the politician, …
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"""When in doubt, deport!"": U.S. deportation and the local policing of global migration during the 1920s"
… arguing for the necessity of looking beyond the national policy frame to reveal the full significance of deportation in American society. The project highlights the intersecting ideas about race, political ideologies, civil liberties, criminology and pathology, and gender and sexual …