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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"New Yorker"”.
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The Mirror Project: A Portrait of Urban Inequality
… work of Jacob Riis documenting late 19th-century New York City. Today, amidst ongoing gentrification, traditional mapping methods often fall short in capturing the lived experiences of communities. To address this, my thesis proposes using photography to document contemporary urban inequality in …
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Influence of hormonal chemicals and genotypes on fruit growth of Lycopersicon esculentum Mill
… for 'Fireball', 'Michigan/Ohio Hybrid', and 'New Yorker'. The remaining genotypes showed no significant correlations between ovary diameter at anthesis and final fruit diameter. The average ovary diameter at anthesis (of all the genotypes) was significantly correlated with final fruit …
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Sweet Spring: The Development and Meaning of Maple Syrup Production at Fort Drum, New York
… dynamics of maple syrup making at Fort Drum, New York, in the period between 1880 and 1940. This project combines a processual approach with an interpretive assessment, covering the social, economic and cultural contexts in which maple syrup was made at Fort Drum during the project research …
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"Like Their Lives Depended On It": The Role of Comics in Subverting Anti-Arab and Islamophobic Discourse
… not only the issues he grappled with as a New Yorker during and after 9/11, but the complex relations of representation that arose from the event. Chapter 5 I examine how subversion works when a hypermedium is further remediated by analyzing Didier LeFevre's The Photographer: Into War-Torn …
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Lucky's : a novel ; and, Changing voices : a study of narration and arrangement
… her marriage ends and she loses her newspaper job. But Emily’s luck changes when a friend (with an ulterior motive) commissions her to write for The New Yorker about the tragic history of Lucky’s empire. Now broke, Lucky is determined to revive his franchise in Sydney, and to keep a …
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James Thurber's Little Man and the Battle of the Sexes: The Humor of Gender and Conflict
… Thurber, along with others who wrote for The New Yorker magazine, developed the 'little man' comic figure. The little man as a central character was a shift from earlier nineteenth-century traditions in humor. This twentieth-century protagonist was a comic antihero whose function was to create …
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Middlebrow Modernism: Professional Writing, Genre, and the Circulation of Cultural Authority in U.S. Mass Culture, 1913--1932
… including their prestige in the academy from the New Critics forward. The institutions and writers I discuss consider modernism as only one of a number of literary options in the early twentieth-century, but in doing so they also show readers the way to imagining themselves as the audience for …
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Dan Flavins installations in fluorescent light im Kontext der Minimal Art und der Kunstlicht-Kunst
… sind die installations in fluorescent light des New Yorker Künstlers Dan Flavin (1933 bis 1996), die in drei Hauptkapiteln unter verschiedenen Gesichtspunkten analysiert werden. Das erste Kapitel widmet sich Dan Flavins Kunst allgemein. Unterschiedliche Zugangsweisen führen an die Kunst heran: …
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Ethical Vision and Bifocal Writing in the Twentieth Century: Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin
… that draw on biblical imagery and grant it new significance, and how existing moral concepts may, or may not, do justice to our experience. What emerges is a vision of ethics that is tied to the history of the twentieth century, and has become both contested and consecrated in the …
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MASS FOR A TIME OF WAR: A REQUIEM HONORING THE VICTIMS OF THE IRAQI CONFLICT
… of structural importance in the work. Several new compositional methods developed for the Credo include the use of a matrix multiplier on rhythmic and tone rows to produce a new row--albeit a tonal one--and a procedure the author calls "rhythmic resonances." In Mass for a Time of War, texts and …
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Konzept der Collage
… er früh die mitteleuropäischen Kontakte zu New Yorker Sammlern (Kathrine Dreier und Alfred Barr für das MoMA) her. Inbesondere aber Schwitters umfassender, medienumgreifender und im weitesten Sinne demokratischer Bildbegriff galt als integre Inspirationsquelle für die mannigfaltigsten …
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Lilian Westcott Hale and Nancy Hale: From Victorian to Modern in Art and Text
… in America, as Victorian mores were replaced by new modern freedoms. Greater independence for women had evolved during the preceding century, before the influential cultural factors which occurred during the early twentieth century like urbanization and world war. This interdisciplinary analysis …