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Showing 1 to 20 of 161 for “"Nostalgic"”.
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Nostalgic Neighbors: Engaging the Single-Story of Wholesomeness
<p>In exploring our pasts, memories aren’t made real until they’re articulated out loud. This critical essay offers a meditation on meaning-finding activities of the twentieth century. I offer a definition of the word wholesome, as it exists as both an aesthetic, and as a way to find personal …
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Dreams and the Maternal Imaginary: From Nostalgic Intersubjectivity to Mourning
<p>This dissertation concerns the history of psychoanalytic thinking about dreams. It is about both the psychic function of dreams and their theoretical function, or the function that they have served within psychoanalytic discourse. It begins with a consideration of the significance of the dream …
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W.M. Thackeray : nostalgic satirist : a reappraisal of some aspects of his style
… "Cynicism and Distance". I hope that the title: "Nostalgic Satirist" will be seen to have some meaning in view of the comments made in these chapters. The first of these concentrates predominantly on Thackeray's habit of commenting in asides, a habit much criticised and which I have attempted to …
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What We Are Nostalgic For: Place-Making and Social Capital in Local Museums
What We Are Nostalgic For:Place-Making and Social Capital in Local Museums Megan Kathleen Hull Doctor of Philosophy Faculty of Information University of Toronto 2025 Abstract What roles do local museums play in their communities? This dissertation addresses this question through a case study of the …
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Informative vs nostalgic advertising and their impact on brand’s attitude and purchase intention
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Following The Black Square: The Cosmic, The Nostalgic & The Transformative In Russian Avant-Garde Museology
… of this thesis - the cosmic (future focus), the nostalgic (for a lost past or an imagined, potential future), and the transformative (social and political through education). Differences include post-Soviet Russian museology’s less cohesive ideological underpinnings. The current generation of …
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Reappraising an American Jewish Nostalgic Image: The Old World as Mid-20th Century Visual Experience
… mainstream and their simultaneous turn to nostalgic history. However, the direction of the current conversation firmly attends to either historical or literary dimensions of nostalgia for the OldWorld.What is overlooked is the manner in which many of these media – particularly photobooks, …
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The External Conflict of Modern War Correspondents: Technology's Inevitable Impact on the Extinction of Nostalgic Combat Reporting
… that have caused a disappearance of the nostalgic war coverage that American correspondents once prospered from. The possibility of returning to journalists' vision of unrestricted press access is all but lost due to such advancements.
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The Jaded Garden:a cross-cultural comparison of nostalgic female characters by Pai Hsien-yung and Tennessee Williams
… study consist of a comparative analysis of the nostalgic female characters in Pai Hsien-yung's two short stories: "Wandering in a Garden, Waking from a Dream," and "A Celestial in Mundane Exile," and Tennessee Williams's two plays: The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. Beginning with …
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The ghostly body of the future. Nostalgic objects and modernization from post-unification to post-war reconstruction
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY BRAND? THE MODERATING EFFECT OF BRAND NOSTALGIA ON CONSUMER RESPONSES TO CHANGED BRANDS
… examine the differences between schemas for nostalgic brands and non-nostalgic brands, and show that consumers’ affective and attitudinal responses to changes in a brand are moderated by brand nostalgia.Nostalgia has been defined as “a positively toned evocation of a lived past” (Davis 1979), …
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Post-Truth Gaming: Fictional Pasts and Constitutive Rhetoric in Video Game Nostalgia
… happens when we become nostalgic for experiences we never had? How do video game companies impact what we are nostalgic for? What might a fictional nostalgia look like, and how can it help us better understand the role of nostalgia in Western culture? These are the …
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The relationship between nostalgia, social exclusion, and empathy
… participants were instructed to recall either a nostalgic or ordinary autobiographical experience and then read an essay ostensibly written by another participant describing a physically painful ordeal. Afterwards, the participants were asked to report the level of empathy that they felt for the …
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Audiovisual Afterlives: The Soundtrack of Liberal Nostalgia
… in 2010, can be tracked conceptually from the nostalgic inclinations of twenty-first century popular culture to the ideological sphere, where nostalgic, essentialized constructions of community, identity, and progress have coalesced into a political platform. Through the Democratic Party’s …
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Lonely Consumers: When, How, and Why Does Loneliness Influence Consumer Behavior?
… behaviors in two different marketing contexts, nostalgic product consumption and charitable giving by focusing on how consumers cope with loneliness through consumption. In Experiments 4-5, I demonstrate that consumers who lack cognitive resources tend to form positive attitudes toward nostalgic …
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Home and away: British women's narratives of community in Spain
… theme of loss and recovery which has utopian and nostalgic overtones and this permeates contemporary understandings of what community represents. This is also reflected by the Labour Government's appropriation of community as a panacea for social problems. Since the 1 9 m70igs, ration to Spanish …
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Author and Authorship in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman: Willy Loman's Attempts to Author a Nostalgic, Fictitious Past Lead to His Downfall, While Linda Loman’s Miller-Authored Warnings Fall on Willy’s Ever-Deaf Ears
… </em>by Arthur Miller,<em> </em>Willy Loman nostalgically fantasizes about a bygone era, the pre-war days of glory and greatness, but as he attempts to recreate his presumed former prestige in a post-war world, the fantasy unravels, with not only death and destruction in his dream’s widening, …
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Saudades de Arcoverde: nostalgia and the performance of origin
… to the production of the Northeast region as a nostalgic space within the Brazilian nation. It chronicles how musical performances of cultural roots are framed as cultural survivals—remnants of earlier days that have endured intact into the present. To detail the consequences of this framing, it …
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Adventures on Windswept Islands: Children's Literature, Adolescence, and the Possibilities of Irish Culture in the Work of Eilís Dillon.
… ideas to a young audience. Eilís Dillon uses the nostalgic realism of her west coast island stories to preserve, while at the same time critique, her native Ireland. This will be analyzed through examination of the interrelationship between the fictional children that provide the narrative voice, …
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Translingual nostalgias in modern Sanskrit and Indian poetry in English
… to language and translation as crucial sites of nostalgic work. This focus leads me away from the novel genre—postcolonial scholarship’s usual focus—towards South Asian poetry, which maintains a more active multilingualism and a greater continuity with local tradition. My dissertation begins by …
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