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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Perversity"”.
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Perimeters, Performances and Perversity: The Creation and Success of a Gay Community in Madrid, Spain
This dissertation utilizes the gay neighborhood of Chueca as the foci for understanding the rise of public gay identity in Madrid and Spain. By "reading" the urban space and coupling that reading with information gathered from ethnographic and historical methodologies, my work sheds light on the …
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Proof: A Collection
… non-living things, particularly an old building, perversity, the return of the repressed, the creation of an overall mood, and an overall questioning of reason. "Proof' explores a more dialogue-driven narrative, and while it does contain perversity and repression, it is slightly more influenced by …
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Wordsworth's Gothic Poetics
… the mind in reaction to moments of sublimity and perversity. These gothic aspects appear not just in Wordsworth's early experiments with the genre (The Borderers, The Vale of Esthwaite, Fragment of a Gothic Tale), but they also manifest throughout his later works, including The Prelude. This …
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Buried Alive: Gothic Oppression in the Novels of Edith Wharton'
… incestuous relationship questions the idea of perversity, maintaining a complicated perspective on sexuality and showing the entrapment from following gender roles. The Age of Innocence, Wharton's most celebrated novel and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, shows the haunting effects of following …
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Remembering the 1998 Nairobi terror attack: cultural and trauma memory and the reconciliation of a nation
… Kenya. An examination of ethnicity reveals its perversity and its threat to Kenya’s tenuous nationalism and identity. The recent attack on Westgate Shopping Mall, on 21st September, 2013, and the ongoing Islamic radicalisation of youth in Kenya, means that the narrative of this study has …
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Seeing the Spell: Baroque, Decadence, and a Cinema of Digital-Animated Liberation
… well as narratives ordered around principles of perversity, self-consciousness, and interconnectedness. The ultimate intervention which this dissertation seeks to make, however, is to demonstrate the centrality rather than marginality of animation to cinema, insofar as cel animation has always …
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Resgatar bons valores, ideias e sentimentos no coração dos brasileiros: o Brasil Paralelo e seu projeto de contrarrevolução cultural
… Albert O. Hirschman’s “The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy.” Both authors provide the theoretical framework to deconstruct the documentary series, focusing on the use of moral panic and adherence to conventionalism as central elements in Brasil Paralelo's rhetoric. We also …
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Diva Voce : reimagining the diva in contemporary feminist performance
… (in all her fury and glory and wretchedness and perversity and mastery and mortality) usefully inform a feminist theatre praxis? Early investigations give rise to a subsequent social query: How do (some) women collude in their own oppression; participate in their voice and voicelessness? …
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A Gendered Faust : the portrayal of gender in the opera Faust (1859) by Gounod (1818-1893)
… masculine and feminine personalities and perversity, follows. Hereafter, gender in the context of artistic performances, and gender constructs in Christianity are investigated. These general, performance-based and theological theories and ideas are then compared to the gendered characters …
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Black Boston: Negro life in Garrison's Boston, 1800-1860
… sociology is not to be charged simply to the perversity of contemporary sociologists: in many instances, these have simply lacked the solid historical monographs to fall back on when conducting their own investigations.</p> <p>Expectedly, the history of the Negro in America has been largely …