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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Reflective nostalgia"”.
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A Littoral Place: Loss and Environment in Contemporary Newfoundland Fiction
… Boym’s distinction between “restorative” and “reflective” nostalgia to suggest that reflective nostalgia might play a key role in re-placing Newfoundland. Chapter 4 focuses on Lisa Moore’s February (2009), which portrays the grief of a family following the loss of their father in the Ocean …
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La comunità ebraica di Istanbul sospesa tra nostalgia neo-ottomana e memoria repubblicana
… to the Ottoman Empire have generated a wave of nostalgia for the Ottoman governance and society. At the same time, a political culture has spread which, inspired by reflective nostalgia, places the past, present and future in close relationship since, as Esra Özyürek states, “nostalgia is far …
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Zimbabwe Ruins: Claims of responsibility within speculations on psycho-social experiences of exile and diaspora
… loss, temporality, mourning, melancholia and nostalgia, community, and responsibility from a position of personal interpretation, while accepting that those interpretations are fractured, partial and biased. The study proposes responsibility as one possible response to 'the Crisis' and …
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The role of nostalgia in reality television’s representation of rural lives
This dissertation examines the role of nostalgia in reality television’s representation of rural lives. My study merges a theoretical and critical investigation. I take Alaska: The Last Frontier as my case study and argue that the programme responds to social change and urban living conditions in …
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Mapping Istanbul’s Istiklal Avenue: Uncovering the traces of female ethnicity in Turkish film, architecture and sound through fine art practice
… are usually hidden within the details of ‘reflective nostalgia’films is an important concept which is referred to throughout the thesis. The term ‘shock effect’, which Suner (2010) employs for Turkish reflective nostalgia films, is used in the thesis to describe moments of rupture in the …
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A polyphony of the mind: intertextuality in the music of Salvatore Sciarrino
"This dissertation examines the work of the Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino (b. 1947), attempting to find a pathway for analysis that can address both its apparent structural simplicity, and its equally apparent intertextual nature. The first chapter demonstrates that typical methods of …