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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Posthumous"”.
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Immigrant Views of Hospice and Posthumous Repatriation
… on their final resting place after death, posthumous repatriation, whether there is a need for repatriation, and if a lack of such need is preventing immigrant groups from remaining in the United States and benefiting from end-of-life services such as hospice. A quantitative research method …
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Posthumous Semen Retrieval and Reproduction: An Ethical, Legal, and Religious Analysis
Posthumous reproduction and procurement of semen has been a hot topic in the bioethics community due to its issues concerning possible violation of the interests of the deceased, welfare of the potential child, and possible moral conflicts experienced by physicians. The issue of consent is …
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Death by Design: Giving Life to Mark Twain’s Posthumous Success, Is He Dead?
<p><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p> <p>The following thesis documents the costume design process and execution for the staged production of Mark Twain’s <em>Is He Dead? </em>as adapted by David Ives. It was produced at the University of New Orleans as part of the Film, Theatre, and Communication Arts …
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The Ordering of Schumann's Symphonic Etudes, Op.13: Incorporating the Posthumous Variations
… not dealt with the issue of incorporating the posthumous variations in performance. This essay first surveys the compositional history of the Symphonic Etudes and compares the various orderings that Schumann arranged, placing the posthumous variations back into their original context. Next, it …
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Parenting To Posthumous: A Grounded Theory Of Aging And Parenting An Adult Who Is Mentally Ill
… substantive grounded theory titled, Parenting to Posthumous. Strategies to address this basic social process include complicated caring, shifting, examining, transitioning and messaging. Nursing implications include increased understanding of the dimensions of parenting as a process within …
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Against death: the American novel after the end of the author
Posthumous novels ask us to re-imagine both authors and novels. In this re-imagination, we not only arrive at a new understanding of the author’s and novel’s conception, but we also infer from the posthumous novel’s entire situation a new understanding of the individual’s conception in culture. The …
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Huddled Masses: Death and Citizenship in New York City
… been excluded from the realm of ordinary posthumous citizenship expected by their fellow New Yorkers. However, activists, relatives, and politicians are currently attempting to pull the Hart Island dead back into that realm. Their efforts have been complicated by multiple processes, …
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The afterlife of Michael Collins: commemoration, biography and historiography, 1922-1973
… and influences that shaped and contested the posthumous reputation, or afterlife, of Michael Collins between the years 1922 and 1973, a key period in the consolidation of the Irish State. This era was characterised by war, reconciliation, peace, and the continuation of a range of political …
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John Dewey in American Thought and Culture, 1950-2000
… philosophy, they have neglected to examine his posthumous influence on American thought and culture. This represents a major oversight, since Dewey’s thought continued to resonate with multiple and varied groups of Americans, orienting their participation in movements for social change in …
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Anthony Trollope the Art of Illusion in His Fiction
… on the wane, and it was eclipsed totally by the posthumous publication of his Autobiography, in 1882.
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New England Slave Trader: The Case of Charles Tyng
… has been heralded as an American hero after the posthumous publication of his memoir, <em>Before the Wind: The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833</em>, in 1999. Recent research involving British Treasury report books from the nineteenth century suggest otherwise – that Tyng actively …
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"Ostracized as we are with God": Mina Loy's Anti-career and the Search for Originality
… one of the most complex and allusive. Recent posthumous exposure of Loy's life and work adds to this precarity. A significant piece of Loy's life that is especially complex to contemporaries is her time spent writing. By establishing Loy's subjective relationship with her Victorian upbringing, …
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Cusco después de Los zorros : the legacy of Arguedas in contemporary Andean narrative
… Cusqueñan literature after José María Arguedas’s posthumous publication of El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo (1971). In this text, fragmented language reconstructs itself in the form of a new community for the future that can be seen as the symbolic “body” of a possible nation, a “utopia …
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Party of the Century: Juárez, Díaz, and the End of the "Unifying Liberal Myth" in 1906 Oaxaca
<p>I will analyze the posthumous one-hundredth birthday celebration of former Mexican president and national hero, Benito Juárez, in 1906 Oaxaca City, Mexico. The Juárez celebration took place during the lengthy presidency of fellow Oaxaca native and former political rival Pofirio Díaz (1876-1911). …
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Grievous Angel: Gram Parsons and the country rock movement
… movement’s most influential artist. Much of this posthumous recognition is rooted in idealizations of Parsons’s Southernness, experiences of familial tragedy, fusions of country, rock, blues, and soul, or what he famously called, “cosmic American music,” and the bizarre details of his death. …
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In reality meager: eluding death anxiety in Walt Whitman and Federico Garcia Lorca's poetics of the body
… adjective “Whitman-esque.” Indeed, the poet’s posthumous collection lambasts the rampant materialism and putrid urbanization of New York through extensive divergent shifts in style and tone from Lorca’s earlier work that point toward the influence of Walt Whitman: radical line lengths, …
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Thomas Hardy's Concept of Woman as One of the Destructive Forces of the Universe
… on the literary scene, finding it "a growing posthumous irony that this writer Hard who was so patronisingly received by the earlier reviewers, should become the centre of so much high- minded debate, so much intellectual marching and counter-marching, so often misinterpreted, so often …
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The Law and Ethics of Using the Dead in Research
… of the dead in research with an emphasis on the posthumous treatment of physical remains. Chapter III provides a brief assessment of the existing law of the dead in the United States. Chapter IV concludes this thesis with a call for change in the law and ethics of cadaveric research.
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Pirates of Romanticism: Intellectual Property Ideology and the Birth of British Romanticism
… the role of unauthorized publication in the posthumous construction of British Romanticism as a literary movement. It argues that Romantic ideology emerged from conflicting claims about the nature of intellectual property and the circulation of political and artistic ideas, apparent in the …
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Early Darwinian Commemoration in Britain, 1882-1914
… which organised it. Further to this first posthumous elevation, and appropriation, of Darwin, subsequent presentations were informed by contemporary literary developments, and particularly the sudden decline in the posthumous reputation of Thomas Carlyle, which reflected changing attitudes …
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