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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Propagandist"”.
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Dickens: Primitive Propagandist
… Age. However, his talents as an accomplished propagandist have received far less acclaim, and it will be the purpose of this thesis to present evidence that will lead to the conclusion that Dickens was an important propagandist whose message led to improvement in social conditions. | In order …
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“The Formation of a Personality”: Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony and the Politics of Its Hermeneutic Reception
… the Western symphonic tradition to meet national propagandist needs. With music analysis, I show how Shostakovich’s Fifth fits into Boris Asafyev’s conception of Soviet symphonism with its Beethovenian structure and its representation of the composer’s personal maturation through a musical …
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The U.S. Government's Investigation of E.B. Stahlman as an Enemy Alien: A Case Study of Nativism in Nashville
… Tennessean also accused him of being a German propagandist. This thesis serves as an example of the scrutiny German-Americans underwent during the war. Organizations such as the American Protective League harassed him, too. Based primarily on Department of Justice files and newspaper accounts, …
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Late Ottoman Perspectives on the South African War (1899-1902): the Work of Ismail Kemal Vlora
… Kemal Bey’s pamphlet on the war is a crucial propagandist instrument and legitimiser of British imperialism in South Africa and in other British colonies. This work aims to grasp the understanding of imperialism and civilisation by the pro-British Ottoman intelligentsia, by looking at their …
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The Bully Pulpit on Display: How Presidential Libraries Present Presidential History
… libraries and museums as either whitewashed and propagandist temples to presidents or highly valuable institutions of American democracy. However, the literature lacks a discussion of the curatorial process for creating the contested exhibits and the choices that were made in that process, …
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Analysis of propaganda structure: Developing the interpersonal paradigm of war propaganda
… during which there is interaction between propagandist and audience. The result of this research provides a new foundation for future research in war propaganda message construction. War propaganda is an ever evolving medium and must consistently be examined through new methods.</p>
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"Mood-Stuff" and "Metaphoric Utterance": Norman Corwin's radio art
… been done on him as a radio dramatist, patriotic propagandist, and innovative journalist yet there are areas of his radio art career that have had little or no research. His development as a radio artist before he became a nationally discussed figure has had little scholarship as well as his …
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The times and life of Rose Smith in Britain and China, 1891-1985 : an interplay between community, class and gender
… Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), and a propagandist journalist working for the Daily Worker in London and Xinhua in Beijing. The factors that might have influenced her in her choice of activities are discussed. The socio-political environments in which she operated are described. The …
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More than a river: using nature for reform in the progressive era
… for their cause. William Smythe became the chief propagandist for the western irrigation cause. He formulated resilient and emotionally powerful rhetoric that motivated irrigationists. Both the river improvement and irrigation causes, however, proved fractious and parochial. Newlands was a …
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The Ontology of the Venetian Halo in its Italian Context
… An adjunct to this function is the halo’s propagandist role presented by artists. It will be demonstrated how all these different strands of interpretation are imbricated in the changing theological, political and societal landscape, encapsulated within the halo.
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'Of his breast noble poets shall eat; of his blood shall men be drunk': nationalism, literature, and Arthurian 'things' in medieval and Early Modern Britain
… much of British history his cultural and propagandist value has been immeasurable both to the ruling class and those who would rebel against it. The end result is that Arthurian objects such as his alleged body, the Round Table, and seals and maps were constantly being produced. Because of …
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Hauntological Warfare: Explorations in Propaganda, Influence Campaigns, and Online Affect
… Drawing from personal experience as a former propagandist for the U.S. Army, my work locates propaganda not only in public messaging but in material culture, digital environments, and domestic space. </p> <p>Alongside theorists like Mark Fisher, Günseli Yalcinkaya, and Trevor Paglen, I argue …
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From Protest Song to Social Song: Music and Politics in Colombia, 1966-2016
… away from what they viewed as the crudely propagandist song texts of the prior decade. To make sense of protest song’s shifting guises, I situate them in broader discourses of and about resistance, emphasizing the ways in which the resistant dimensions of oppositional music have been …
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The scholar advocate: Rudolf Schlesinger's writings on Marxism and Soviet historiography
… of the Russian party. He was not a polemicist or propagandist but instead sought to stay loyal to wider Marxist ideals and methodology. For Schlesinger, his pragmatism ensured that he did not judge events in Russia from the rose-tinted spectacles of utopianism; his attitude was not swayed by …
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From hostage to historian: Josephus, the emperors, and the city of Rome
… be characterized as a 'Flavian lackey' or propagandist, a view that has not yet been fully accepted by non-Josephan scholars. Having established the possible parameters of his relationships with the imperial family, the study also explores the contact between Josephus and other inhabitants …
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Fiction based on fact : subversions of power and propriety in Charles Reade's matter-of-fact romances.
… relegated to sensation, novel-with-a-purpose, or propagandist fiction without exploring the five matter-of-fact romances together as a whole. This dissertation provides an analysis of all five matter-of-fact romances, treating them as a new genre with its own set of criteria rather than trying to …
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The Martyr as Model in John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
… itself. Foxe and his work have been described as propagandist, nationalist, royalist, or any number of other monikers. These do not adequately describe, and some even distort, the true context and intent of Foxe and his work. Striking by their absence are modern scholarly assessments of Foxe’s …
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Jacques Rohault and the natural sciences
… homage to Rohault's work as a synthesiser and propagandist of Descartes' natural philosophy. A few enthusiasts, however, have recognised that the Traité de Physique and the different versions of Samuel Clarke's notes to its Latin and English translations were the arena of a Descartes-Newton …
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British businessmen and the 'scientific' tariff : a study of Joseph Chamberlain's Tariff Commission, 1903-1921, with special reference to the period 1903-1913
… interests between different industries. Propagandist activity, never absent from Commission business, increased as Hewins ventured directly into politics himself. The chapter concludes with a survey of the Commission's activities during the First World War, by which time its original …
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Exchanging faces: Dubbing foreign films in China, 1949-1994
… At times, dubbed films could even betray their propagandist purpose and constitute a legitimate space of mild dissent against mainstream aesthetics and ideology. I also examine the impact that decades of foreign film dubbing as opposed to subtitling had on the Chinese audience. The Chinese …
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