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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Political Criticism"”.
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A "nihilistic dreamboat to negation"? : the cultural study of death metal and the limits of political criticism.
… apparent lack of commitment to progressive political values. In the cultural study of popular music, pleasures not easily understood in terms of ‘politics’ have been viewed with suspicion by a discipline seeking wider political agendas in all musical and subcultural practices. This thesis …
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Homecoming Festivals: The Re-accentuated Image of Don Quixote in Western Novel
… This novel opens a wide platform for socio-political criticism, religious and cultural discussions, and literary analyses. For these reasons, critics read and study, and writers mention and imitate Cervantes’ novel up until today. A multitude of significant novels written by a variety of …
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Robert Henryson's development of the didactic role of the fable form in "The moral fables of Aesop"
… topics as Henryson's expansion of the originals, political criticism, the introduction of Aesop as a character, the use of humour and the operation of the "Fables" as a single work. CONCLUSION: It is concluded that Henryson does indeed incorporate both the original moral messages, and a full range …
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Poet/censor/reader: Shelley's struggle for a popular reading audience
… writing. Since it worked to excise any direct political criticism from public discourse, this baldly ideological censorship had a far-reaching (and often overlooked) influence on the forms of romantic literature. In fact, censorship is one of the key social forces which furthered the …
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"Hazme un guagüis" : the politics of relajo, humor, gender and sexuality in teatro de revista, teatro de carpa, and cabaret político in Mexico City
… City, created the foundation and tools for political and social criticism which were later appropriated and redefined by political cabaret theater artists in the 1980s and 1990s. Through close-readings and analysis of various performances and the work of Tito Vasconcelos and Jesusa …
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Comfort factors, moral fantasy and social criticism in formulaic fiction : a study of literary formulas with particular reference to the 'hard-boiled' detective story
… unconventional, often in the form of social and political criticism encapsulated within the safe formulas of the text. This adds the necessary spice to the life of the construct.
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The Politics of the Grotesque: Goya's 'Caprichos' and French Literature and Graphic Art in the Nineteenth Century (c.1799-1868).
… the other hand, Goya's influence on social and political criticism is analysed through satirical prints in La Caricature and Le Charivari, among others by Daumier and Grandville. In these works, Goya is interpreted as a caricaturist, embodying the politically engaged artist who targets the …
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"And if Men Might also Imitate her Virtues" An Examination of Goscelin of Saint-Bertin's Hagiographies of the Female Saints of Ely and Their Role in the Creation of Historic Memory
… were used to engage in memory creation and political criticism by examining them as postcolonial discourse.In it, I study the hagiographies written about the royal female saints of Ely by the Flemish monk Goscelin of Saint-Bertin in the late eleventh century as a form of postcolonial …
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Chivalry and Crisis at the Court of Juan II of Castile: The Chivalric Writing of Alonso de Cartagena and his Contemporaries
… of Castilian history. My thesis argues that political crisis in Castile led to a corresponding crisis in Castilian chivalry as commentators at the royal court tried to correct the failings of the Castilian nobility. The study is based around the work of Alonso de Cartagena, an esteemed …
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Memories of Rapid Transformation: Retrospection and Nostalgia in Contemporary South Korean Cinema
… main trends. Some films refer to historical and political moments, and suggest a relationship between such moments and Korean destiny. Other films deal with personal stories from the 1960s to 1990s. Both trends provide not only retrospection of the rapid transformation but also nostalgia for the …