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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Popular Literature"”.
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Cabalas and Cabals in Restoration Popular Literature
… and Behn expand the ways the words are used in popular literature. Few authors use "cabala" and "cabal" in their popular works during this period but Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn stand out for their repeated and extended use of these terms in their popular writings. Margaret Cavendish, …
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Beyond the Abyss: American Gaslight and Popular Literature
… women to share and discuss their experiences. Popular fiction can bring a wide variety of voices into conversation, including those of women and color and marginalized women, and help women learn to empathize and better support each other in the face of societal oppression. This work provides …
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Health spectacle in American popular literature, 1790-1870
… in the 1860s and 70s. Through a study of popular literature of the period and other circulating medical thought in journals and newspapers, I investigate how instances of health spectacle shaped the development of professionalized health and medicine. Ultimately, I argue that reading for …
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WE SUBDUED THE BODY BUT NOT THE COURAGE': POPULAR LITERATURE, SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY, AND CEREMONIAL RITES OF POWER DURING THE DUTCH REVOLT, 1550-1598'
By engaging with the vast body of pamphlet literature, rarely seen engravings and images, personal and official correspondence between leading figures, edicts and proclamations, visual renderings and written accounts of public ceremonials, and songs, poems, and placards published between 1550 and …
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The contribution of scientists to popular literature, their role as expert witnesses and their influence among peers: A case study in the field of acid rain
… study examined scientists' contribution to the popular literature published during 1972 to 1987 in the field of acid rain and found that 4.7% (102) of the total population (2,177) of scientists engaged in acid rain research contributed 8.7% (59 items) to the total 677 items in popular magazines, …
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Reconstructing whiteness in Ambrose Bierce
… studies. It compares Bierce's work to the popular literature. Its primary investigation is into the ideological project of white-identity and national reunion as it is played out in sentimentalist war memoirs and plantation romances that flooded the market at the end of the 19th century. …
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Science fiction and the theatre
… science fiction has won widespread acceptance in popular literature and motion pictures, the theatre has produced few science-fiction plays of merit. This study offers two possible reasons: the stigma of pulp literature which the genre has borne since its formative period in the 1930s, and the …
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A szervezeti tudás feltérképezése = Mapping organisational knowledge
… and knowledge management in general, have become popular topics for the pursuers of a number of scientific disciplines. Researchers investigating management, organisational theory, psychology, sociology, information systems and cognitive sciences are among those affected. There are at least three …
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Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Adaptations of Nineteenth-Century Literature
… century was a source of entertainment similar in popularity to today's film culture, but critics, of both that age and today, often look down on nineteenth-century theatre as lacking in aesthetic merit. Just as many of the films now being produced in Hollywood are adapted from popular or classic …
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Does HR add value? : diverse perspectives on human capital management
… I explore these issues in the academic and popular literature, survey managers and experts in the field, and present an intra-industry study across several biotechnology firms.
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The Cultural Memory Of German Victimhood In Post-1990 Popular German Literature And Television
… central as evidenced by the vast number of popular literature, commercial cinema and television programs of this subject. I argue with Wulf Kansteiner (2006) that to understand collective memory, we should explore mass media representations. As the majority of highbrow artifacts do not reach …
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The office of stadhouder and the preservation of unity in the Dutch Republic, 1559 - 1672
… Dutch politics or of its representation in popular culture. The present study addresses this lacuna in the scholarship by presenting a detailed overview of how the office of stadhouder developed from the beginning of the Dutch Revolt into the state’s Republican period. It argues that the …
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Portrait of a Popular American Badman : Jesse James
… but it can be explained. Jesse James' popular public image and appeal was established as the result of the massive exposure his exploits were given in the various popular forms that arose in the last fourth of the nineteenth century--popular histories, dime novels, thick book novels, …
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Metaphorically speaking: Putting Las Vegas on the cultural map
… to analyze language that has been published in popular literature over the last year and a half. The study results in a theory that describes how metaphorical links, between negative and positive stereotypes, may be helping to change Las Vegas from being a "cultural wasteland" to a "cultural …
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Poisoners, larcenists, and the mad chambermaid: Villainy in late Victorian detective fiction
… category and the reinforcement of that “type” in popular literature functions to establish order and to support beliefs crucial to Victorian middle class identity and authority. Yet as each story attempts to validate and reproduce this identity, each criminal simultaneously expresses anxiety about …
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Modern Yoginis: How Western Women Have Fundamentally Changed the Practice of Yoga
… previously overlooked in academic and popular literature. For millennia, yoga was an esoteric practice taught by and for select Indian men and was little known outside India. In the late nineteenth century, interest in Eastern religions and practices grew in the West and a modern form …
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Talking and Not Talking: Sexual Education and Ethics for Young Women within the Evangelical Movement in America
… gender. I will spend most of my time with the popular literature aimed at young women, analyzing the underlying theology and theory at work. I will extrapolate, through the use of the (admittedly limited) data regarding sexual activity among young Evangelicals, including but not limited to the …
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Poetisas de cordel: temáticas abordadas em sua produção literária
The popular literature reflects the life of the northeastern people, told in verse and prose, depicting historical and current events of their daily lives in a simple and popular language, and is a rich source of information, covering topics. This study aims to identify the topics covered by …
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The immediate psychological effects of written solution-focused questions in female secondary school students.
The popular literature assumes that solution-focused (SF) questions have positive effects on variables such as expectancy and commitment, which are crucial for goal attainment. Typically contrasted with problem-focused (PF) alternatives, SF questions/techniques were originally developed in family …
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Development of the McLaren-Alton spirituality scale
… a construct of spiritual formation proposed in popular literature that is focused on the individual—rather than a specific religious context—in order to frame new pedagogical methods concentrated first on the individual’s experience. To that end, a new scale which builds on McLaren’s (2011) …
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