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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Rebecca West"”.
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The Lost Country: Seeing Yugoslavia through the eyes of the displaced
… Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (1941) by Rebecca West, a vast inventory of the lost country, provided me with the itinerary to almost the hour. Initially intended as "a snap book" it spiralled into half a million words, a portrait, not just of Yugoslavia, but also of Europe on the brink of …
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Activist Modernisms: Human Rights and Anti-Totalitarianism in Mid-Twentieth Century Literature
… study - from the work of wartime journalists Rebecca West and Martha Gellhorn, to the anti-fascist spy novels of Eric Ambler, and the writing of communist dissidents like Arthur Koestler – respond to the rise of fascism and totalitarianism and the mass displacements and genocide that occur as …
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It Girls and Old Maids: Satiric Wit and the Single Woman in the Anglo-American Novel (1918-1958)
… This dissertation offers readings of novels by Rebecca West, Anita Loos, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Winnifred Watson, Barbara Pym and Elaine Dundy and argues that humor is key to their negotiation with their audience, allowing these novelists to challenge normative conventions while still …
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Signifying nothing: intelligence and intellectual disability in modern British literature and culture, 1919 – 1969
… communities. Examining literary works by H.D., Rebecca West, Olive Moore, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Peter Nichols, I show that scientific and political concerns about intelligence and intellectual disability animated literary approaches to the relationships …
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Automatic Modernism: Habit, Embodiment, and the Politics of Literary Form
… work of D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Rebecca West, and Samuel Beckett, this dissertation attempts to understand the recurrent equation of automatic behavior and twentieth-century modernity. Even as modernists vigorously rejected habitual behavior as the very element of twentieth …
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The Burdens of History: Problems Invoked by Occidental Travel Writing on the Balkans
… must also maintain a poignant awareness of how Western imperialism has constructed and reconstructed the region by journalism, memoir, artificial borders, ethnography, classification, historical absolutism, and financial exploitation. If this work simplifies or answers "What is Balkan?" then it …
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Pulling oneself together: power and character in British literature, 1914-1939
… and political legitimation, even though Westminster acknowledged the threat in unprecedented legislative interventions. Through readings of familiar and unfamiliar interwar literature, my dissertation analyzes how Britons constituted themselves as objects of state power during a …